Impossible Objects Taps Unreal Engine to Deliver Real-Time Results for New Toyota Campaign

 Impossible Objects Taps Unreal Engine to Deliver Real-Time Results for New Toyota Campaign

(October 27 , 2022) —Virtual production specialists Impossible Objects recently completed "The Chase" and “ Something Real ,” two spots in a new campaign for the Toyota Supra via Intertrend / Saatchi & Saatchi, leveraging game development technology for real-time photoreal CG. The campaign was produced by Lockt Editorial, in partnership with Impossible Objects, and was directed by Impossible Objects Director, Miles Cable.

“Once we convinced the agency to take the leap into virtual production, they were amazed at how fast we could visualize the spot. Working virtually with our cityscape environment, when the car was lit and its textures were roughly in place in Unreal Engine, we were able to share cuts and make edits in real time,” said Cable. “Then with the animation and camera moves in place, the client was able to iterate on the spots as they were very close to final. This is worlds away from the grayscale and wireframes that they’re used to reviewing in conventional CG and heavy VFX productions.”

Credits

Virtual Production Company: Impossible Objects 

Executive Producers: Joe Sill, Jerad Anderson

Director: Miles Cable

Producer: Nick Erickson

Virtual Production + CG Supervisor: Luc Delamare

Lead Cinematic Animator: Miles Cable 

Lighting TD: Kevin Stewart

Vehicle TD: Jonathan Yomayuza

Environments Lead: Javi Flick

Environments Artist: Rodrigo Castro

Produced by: Lockt Editorial in partnership with Impossible Objects

Both spots are almost entirely CG, featuring high performance street racing and chase scenes that would have been impossible to shoot on busy city streets and highways given the commercial budget and timeline. The live action elements of the spots include car interiors and shots of the drivers. The Impossible Objects team used Epic Games’ Unreal Engine to generate background plates for live action composites of the driver. Using virtual production allowed the team to work on pre-visualization, production and editorial simultaneously, giving the client a clear vision of how the spot was progressing and what the finals would look like. Check out the behind-the-scenes video for a breakdown of the process.

All iterations of the spots including the lighting pass were done in Unreal Engine; Maya was used to prep and rig the cars that originated as high-fidelity CAD files from Toyota. For the final render, the team used Path Tracing to render out of Unreal powered by NVIDIA RTX A6000 and A4500 graphics cards, delivering much higher quality and a huge workflow advantage. The Unreal renders were handed off to Lockt who added particle effects including smoke, lens flares and rain in Nuke and Houdini.

About Impossible Objects

Impossible Objects was founded in 2019 by Joe Sill and Jerad Anderson. A self-described world-building lab, the company is made up of a team of artists and engineers who specialize in building projects that marry the physical and digital worlds to build commercial projects and original IP. Combining expertise in CG visualization and animation, real-time performance capture and navigation of green screen and LED volumes, the company is uniquely positioned to fill a burgeoning demand for virtual production.

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