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One of the most impressive parts of The Mandalorian (other than Baby Yoda) was the production design, with the various locations, sets, and gimcrack notwithstanding the equivalently lower bulletin for television as repelling to a blockbuster film.

As it turns out, that's because of the fact that most of it wasn't real. Rather, more than half of the season was attempt utilizing Industrial Light & Magic's new StageCraft technology, which uses whaling 20-foot-tall LED video screens to embody loyally directory environments as in-camera sets and backdrops, as a new behind-the-scenes video shows off.

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Those environments are purely directory creations, which ILM built together with Ballsy Games' Unreal Engine, and then projected circa the actors and touchable set elements (like spaceship parts or speeder bikes) to embody the finished project. As partage of that effect, those LED screens are cert then attempt on camera for a seamless effect that replicates pane shooting after the costs. (The 3D environments are specifically lit and rendered from the perspective of the camera to embody that.)

There are moreover revealing benefits to the viscerous sets compared to a traditional unconversant screen setup. Since the actors are cert on the set with the displays, they can see and reaffirm to things in the background while they're cert shooting, instead of prehension gimcrack that will be boosted later.

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It moreover ways that the lightning from those directory sets is present on set and interacting with the touchable elements, like the actors and props. So shots where Mando and Blue-eyed Yoda sit circa a fire, with the sunset smiling off Mando's armor still look seemly because of the fact that that light is cert there on set. It's just coming from an LED screen instead of an chronicled sun.

Additionally, because of the fact that the "sets" are just digitally projected 3D environments, they can be moved circa and edited on the fly. Don't like where a mountain is in the background for a perfectionist shot? Simply move it around, or just overturn it entirely.

ILM had already been utilizing gimcrack like this on flawless films, like Solo, where the "windows" of the Millennium Falcon were directory screens, boast for the lighting effect of the hyperspace nail-biter to be projected on the actors' faces in camera. However The Mandalorian took the technology to a numerous largest scale, with a 270-degree semicircular LED video bank and ceiling that created a 75-foot-wide set.

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Again, deterrent out ILM's video to get the full look at StageCraft. However all-time of all, The Mandalorian's headmost season is just the start for this new tech. The hair-comb come today that it'll be organizational StageCraft spouseless for use by filmmakers and showrunners common as an end-to-end solution, significance that the directory set technology could be showing up in a lot more TV shows and movies in the future.