How we made a Comedy Series for the BBC using Virtual Production 

It’s incredibly helpful seeing companies starting at square 1 and seeing them take each step. Congratulations on getting your series made, looking forward to seeing more!

Thanks dear god, I struck gold today ! Huge love and respect to you guys for Sharing this !

This is really incredible, i'd love to hear more about the education behind pairing virtual production and small budget filming, it's pretty amazing

I used to be in this field then I quit for 4 years from my mental health. I was too scared to back to this field again. Now after your inspiration which you made things so possible... thanks dude

Brilliant video, you perfectly captured the frustations a lot of people had at the beggining of the lockdown and trying to learn virtual production on the fly, failing a lot on the way.

The RU-vid gods sent me here. This is freakin amazing. I've been looking for alternatives to on-set filming for forever. I can't animate or draw, but I can definitely act like an idiot in front of a greenscreen.

Perhaps the next step would be to invest in some hue-controllable lights, to make compositing easier!

Love it! Thanks for the shout-out!

This video just changed my life

This is incredible Phillip thanks

It all came together with the last gritty shot with the blue cast on the talents face - brilliant!

Small and clever productions is an extremely accurate name 😂

Absolutely love this - fantastic work and it's great to see how you learned and improved your techniques as you went along. Can't wait to see more from you :)

I love this showing of the process!

Incredible achievement. I'm sure you've got lots of other things to do (that help you pay the bills), but a tutorial on how you did it would be fantastic. Or even a list of the links you found most hopeful.

I don't know how I came across this but you guys are amazing for having made such a detailed, comprehensive BTS on this process. I shot my first VP commercial last year and enjoyed it.

And Jim Henson was revolutionizing the virtual production studio way back in 1987 for The Storyteller, and in 1989 for The Jim Henson Hour. Kind of amazing how far we've come in making the tech smaller-better-faster-cheaper, but the results from using chroma screen look exactly the same today, but in 4K. Volumetric studios are the best virtual ones, as rear projection work has always been better than chroma screens, and now we're taking it further with video walls and tech that tracks the camera in near real-time. Very exciting stuff! Thanks for this generous BTS video!

Really nice overview! Congrats on the BBC show. Thanks for the mention in the description. :-) Looking forward to seeing what you do next!

This is simply Great! Thank you for sharing your journey!!!

Thanks for posting. Really generous of you 💗

So much problem solving. Wonderful storytelling. Thank you for inspiring and showing what’s possible

That's way more impressive than I initially thought before clicking on the video. Going to learn more about this stuff !!

Wonderful insight! Thanks for sharing!!!

This was amazing and so insightful!! Thank you so much for sharing! I'm based up in the North East of England and love watching and seeing content like this. Hope to one day do EPK in film and TV and so seeing all of your BTS is really awesome and inspiring. Keep up the great work and will definitely check out your series on iplayer! :D

Woa… ok I just clicked into it and was Shazaming the intro music and noticed only on the green fade over that this was already VP. Crazy feeling.

Thanks for sharing your journey!

The jittering is absolutely not a limitation of the VR system. I don't know what caused this in your case, but you can definitely get a smooth image with the Vive tracker on your camera. Anyway, this was terrific! Virtual Production evolves so quickly, it's astounding! Last year we had to manually calibrate the camera, now we have a simple, almost automatic calibration system. Here's a few advice : - Virtual Production is even more interesting when you move the camera. For that, you need to make sure, in the UE scene, that the virtual screen (the rectangle on which you project the actor) keeps facing the camera. That way you can shoot scenes with a moving camera, instead of just fixed shots. - You can get shadows automatically with the proper material settings on the virtual screen. No need to put it on each frame manually! The limitation to that though is the shadow is projecting a 2D surface, so there's an angle at which point it doesn't feel like the natural shadow anymore ; but that's just a limitation to keep in mind when working on the lights! Aside from that, you get real-time accurate shadows.

this is soo cool. Hats off to you gents. Love this

Many thanks for the explanations …

Excellent stuff, was very interesting to see the BTS and see a step by step process. Cheers for sharing

This is amazing! Must be a lot of fun once you got it all worked out.

I jump on my side to the terrific but exciting VR world in France. Great job guys

Really cool and inspiring! Thanks for sharing!

Awesome video and I loved seeing how you worked things out on a small budget with a great result, thanks for sharing!

This is truly amazing!

VERY informative. Thanks for the insight ❤

Thank you very much for sharing!!!

Loved everything about this video, very informative and entertaining. Cheers.

Very well done, and very useful information. Thanks for sharing

Very very inspiring. Thanks for sharing

Great work guys!!!

Very inspiring stuff! Always great to see piers at the BBC pushing modern practises. I hope to shake your hand one day

This is great, thanks for sharing.

Thanks for sharing! Really inspiring.

Thanks for also sharing some timings, which gives a better feeling for how long a start in virtual production really takes.

Well done guys. Fun to watch and the tracker hint is nice too. Cheers

Wow. Incredible growth

Really fascinating. They say you should never let daylight in on magic, but I'm grateful! We use straight CSO / chromakey for our training programs but this is truly astonishing! Congratulations!

So awesome!! And inspiring. Bravo!! Hello from Melbourne, Australia 🤙

Great video, thanks for sharing and congratulations on the results!

thank you very much for sharing this. good luck with your show.

Thanks for this video, this is really cool to see how you progressed!

Amazing.. Thanks for sharing this video

Congrats guys!

Thanks a bunch for the video, really amazing! I want to dabble in such productions myself, but it'll still be a while until I can do so

A brilliant overview of Virtual Production…. and interesting real world example.

awesome overview, thanks so much for this :)

Very nice job. Thank you for sharing.

Awesome you have a team like this

Very interested to see more of this kind of content

This is incredible !!

Amazing 👏. Just wow

Very cool video, thank you!

Thanks sooo much for this!

NICE! Love it! Good work!

This was great guys! I want to do this myself (in Canada). Thanks for sharing your process.

Brilliant video, excellent work, really interesting!

Great work guys

Great work guys 👍

Marvellous! ✨

Inspiring and cool!

Thanks for the video. Very informative

Excellent. I love seeing problems solved on a budget.

Incredible!

Amazing!

A really good and useful video, thank you

This is an amazing use of virtual reality!

Amazing work. And you’re only going to get better from here!!!

That's really cool! Makes me want to play around with some stuff!

Brilliant!

that is pretty cool - thanks for sharing! Super interesting

This is very nice! Its incredible

Really cool!

Amazing....👍

Really impressive!

Love this! I stream VR games in mixed reality, and do sketches too. The fact the tech is colliding in so many people's minds is brilliant. Glad production tools are catching up. Realising the 3080 Ti graphics card in my machine was powerful enough to do something like Mando, and in real time, was a game changer.

That is amazing!

Nice work!

Very cool!

amazing

What a time to be alive! Can't wait to be talking to some friends about a Tv show in 10 years, and i'm just like " Oh ya Them? I saw how they started " :D

Super cool stuff

This is fantastic! I'm about to make the jump back into live action and am really eager to get my head around Unreal 5 in an FX context. It would be great to be able to have comedy sketches having access to real-time FX in their scenes, hell even if it's as cheesy as South Park using live action explosions in the scenes there could be great comedy in it.

Great video!! We are exactly in the same process... and this was a great help to keep up the positive thoughts! : )

Superb video! Thanks for sharing! Have been doing lots of VR and would love to dive into this area for some productions later on

Inspiring 🙏

it's really useful thank you , will have a lot to ask later

this video explained omse concepts abot virtual production much better than others.

Amazing! , this is really inspiring :)

Underrated