How ViewScreen brought ‘pro-vis’ to the making of the Seth MacFarlane series.
This week on the befores & afters podcast, Ted visual effects supervisor Blair Clark and ViewScreen supervisor Brandon Fayette discuss the making of the new Peacock television series and how the real-time tech ViewScreen was used to allow live-action actors to interact with a digital character during filming.
ViewScreen comes from Fuzzy Door Tech, the technology division of Seth MacFarlane’s production company Fuzzy Door. It allowed production to visualize the Ted CG asset in real-time on the set, and incorporated an iPhone-driven live capture of MacFarlane’s performance, some pre-animation, and custom real-time animation via joystick during filming, too. Later, visual effects studios Framestore and Tippett Studio were responsible for crafting the final Ted performances.
During our chat, Fayette had the system running in real-time, which you can see in the capture below.
There’s a great featurette here which also showcases the process with ViewScreen.
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Listen in to the podcast, below, and check out a gallery of images from the shoot.
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