Introduction
To Virtual
Production

INTRODUCTION TO VIRTUAL PRODUCTION (4 credits)
Professor David Poyner

Course Description (Open to Tisch Majors Only):
Lab Fee: $1089.00

Introduction to Virtual Production is a graduate level course open to undergraduate students, composed of lectures, discussions, screenings, collaborative exercises, group critiques, and presentations. The course is designed to expose students to the fundamental principles of storytelling and collaboration through virtual production techniques from virtual art department. Students complete a 2-minute previsualization film in Epic Games Unreal Engine.

How can students apply what is learned collaboratively to their own creative process through previsualization and concepting? What is KitBash'ing? Unreal Engine? Previz?

History and theory of virtual production will be studied and used to inspire weekly exercise based assignments culminating in a group project where students develop a 2 minute previsualization proof of concept, filming 4 shots on the virtual production stage.

This is a graduate level course open to undergraduate students in NYU | Tisch School of the Arts. There is a lab fee associated with the course. For Undergraduate Film & Television students, this counts as a 4 credit CRAFT course, and IMA counts as 4 credit Major Elegible ELECTIVE.