This week, we welcome Matt Workman, producer and host of the Cinematography Database channel on YouTube.com, and moderator of the Virtual Production Facebook group, a popular group frequented by top professionals in the field.

Matt is also the developer of Cinetracer, a real-time cinematography simulator made with Unreal Engine. Cinetracer is a hybrid game/app that gives the user control of real world-based cameras and lights to visualize realistic scenes and capture them to storyboards and Virtual Production-like experiences.

During the stream, we discuss a variety of processes that Matt went through as he immersed himself into the world Virtual Production as an independent developer with limited means, all the while documenting his findings and sharing it with the learning community.

Transcript
https://epicgames.box.com/s/41nr69z5r8d2atq2h7z5snhpu6i3do52

Rendering in Unreal Engine 4.25 continues to push the boundaries of photorealism in real-time environments. We’ve added a new physically based Thin Transparency shading model and improved the Clear Coat shading model so that it now exhibits a physically accurate response to punctual lights. Additionally, we've added a new rendering pipeline with a streamlined workflow for high-quality rendering of movies and stills with accumulated anti-aliasing and motion blur, as well as tiled rendering for extremely high-resolution output, overcoming GPU memory limits and device timeout limitations.
Find out more about what's new in Unreal Engine 4.25: https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/release-notes