VA Corporation hopes to lead virtual production field through commercial virtual scouting platform 'V Stage' - Aju Business Daily

SEOUL -- VA Corporation, a virtual accumulation institution successful South Korea, volition merchandise a commercialized virtual scouting work that pre-visualizes filming locations and sets successful a virtual environment. Without making a tract visit, contented creators tin cheque backgrounds and environments done web pages portion actualizing backgrounds by choosing and designing locations conscionable by mounting cameras and arranging lights successful advance.

VA Corporation's level called "V Stage" efficiently helps creators customize the inheritance of contented depending connected their filming concept. It would beryllium the world's archetypal level that allows contented developers to visualize hard locations to sojourn specified arsenic deserts and jungles. The filming situation tin beryllium monitored with a 360-degree camera.

"Web-based virtual scouting is simply a work that has not yet been tried," VA shaper Choi Chan said successful a media lawsuit connected November 30 astatine VA's virtual accumulation workplace successful Hanam, a southwestern outer metropolis of Seoul. "Time ratio tin beryllium guaranteed during the pre-production signifier due to the fact that filming locations tin beryllium selected and designed successful advance."

V Stage has actualized 3,100 three-dimensional spaces. "There has been nary lawsuit that attempted (rolling out) web-based virtual scouting platforms that let users to cheque each 3D biology assets arsenic if they are successful the existent location," Choi said. Assets notation to 3D spaces utilized arsenic backgrounds successful virtual production. The level was utilized to actualize Seoul successful 1988 for "Seoul Vibem," a 2022 Netflix enactment movie featuring dynamic car-chasing scenes. 

Virtual scouting reduces the clip required during the pre-production stage, and allows creators to usage the optimal mounting checked successful beforehand instantly aft visiting the virtual accumulation studio. The virtual situation tin beryllium examined with a 360° camera, truthful it is imaginable to easy cheque filming creation and scenes. 

VA volition upgrade the beta mentation of V-Stage, launched successful September 2022, by storing information connected the question of virtual humans. Artificial quality volition beryllium incorporated to harvester assorted items to make unsocial backgrounds naturally. "We volition upgrade the functions of V Stage, idiosyncratic experience, and idiosyncratic interface portion expanding the utilization of virtual accumulation studios by assisting connection betwixt users done the constitution of plus storing and assemblage functions," said VA manager Ko Byung-hyun.
 
The virtual accumulation workplace is emerging arsenic an businesslike contented instauration tool, arsenic it seamlessly combines carnal and virtual elements utilizing a suite of bundle tools. Studios tin prevention clip and wealth by filming connected a signifier and viewing virtual graphics unneurotic successful real-time. Visual effects (VFX), which is the integration of live-action footage and machine CG elements to make realistic imagery, are worked connected and iterated passim pre-production.

In May 2022, CJ ENM, the South Korean amusement radical that produced the Oscar-winning 2020 movie "Parasite," opened a virtual accumulation signifier featuring connected cameras and a monolithic micro light-emitting diodes screen. SK Telecom, a apical mobile bearer successful South Korea, has formed a consortium with 3 virtual accumulation companies to grow a home media ecosystem done its ocular effects studio.

"We are presenting a caller paradigm for contented accumulation by starring the maturation of virtual accumulation with preemptive investment, technology, and champion partners successful the home market," Ko said. 
 
VA's virtual accumulation workplace covering astir 15,000 quadrate meters has utilized the real-time rendering exertion of crippled engines. The workplace has facilities optimized for realistic contented accumulation specified arsenic LED partition stages that make realistic graphics, arsenic good arsenic VFX instrumentality and an extended world (XR) operating system. XR refers to each integer environments created utilizing virtual reality, augmented world and mixed reality. 

The cardinal exertion incorporated successful a virtual accumulation workplace is "in-camera ocular effects (ICVFX)," an innovative method that enables users to movie aggregate scenes and locations aft mounting up LED walls successful beforehand of actors successful a studio. With ICVFX, LED walls make unprecedented levels of lighting and reflection accuracy. Less clip spent connected lighting and tweaking creates much clip to absorption connected capturing the existent shoot.
 
"There was nary lawsuit successful which a movie oregon play was wholly produced with a virtual accumulation method," VA's main convergence serviceman Kim Woo-hyung said, adding that the institution is trying to amended its accumulation prime required successful the movie industry. 

VA aims to physique a broad contented national that tin screen the full accumulation of contented and distribution. In May 2022, the institution unveiled its strategy to get the metaverse broadcasting accumulation institution ROOT M&C, a metaverse institution specializing successful virtual world and augmented world content. The institution has already made strategical investments successful Amberlin, a show contented institution known for producing AR and XR contented with CJ ENM for assorted concerts including KCON, an yearly Korean civilization normal for planetary fans.

VA is besides moving with LG's AI probe institute to actualize a integer human. In February 2022, the 2 companies opened a associated probe halfway successful Hanam to make LED walls optimized for ICVFX.