Scanning the Strange New Worlds of 'Star Trek'
summary
Pixomondo’s team uses FARO Focus 3D LiDAR, Canon R5 photography and RealityCapture photogrammetry to make digital twins: props (an illuminated probe scanned twice to produce a one-to-one emission mask), Iceland terrain scanned by drone plus ground photogrammetry for a glacier crash, and a full studio point cloud turned into a playable level in two to three days. Typical source clouds hit ~50M polys and are decimated to ~100k for Matchmove; same‑day scan processing (1pm → 5pm) enables blend-day fixes, and the final blends read so well talent nearly walk into the virtual walls. Nanite/Unreal Engine 5 is now in production use.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Introduction
- 3:09Virtual production workflow
- 5:45Scanning equipment
- 8:04Capture techniques
- 10:52Location scanning
- 12:11Budget scanning solutions
- 13:48Case study: Moonlit Mausoleum
- 17:05Set integration
- 20:39Matchmove and optimization
- 24:12Set alignment
- 27:08Digital doubles and crowds
- 30:05Miniatures in VP
- 33:41Handling reflections
- 35:34Post-production asset augmentation
- 38:35Future of scanning
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