Virtual Production & Gaussian Splats
Alden Peters Tests Scanned Locations in a Portable Virtual-Production Setup
Lightcraft · Production Workflow
What happened
Lightcraft documents Alden Peters’ test combining Spark previs, Jetset, a Blackmagic camera and portable greenscreen with scanned environments. The crew matched natural sunlight to the scans, then used Volinga in Unreal Engine for relighting and Nuke for further compositing. Image: preview of the filmmaker demonstration linked by Lightcraft.
Why it matters
The example connects location capture, planning, photography and finishing. It also exposes a central constraint: captured lighting must work with the live-action foreground.
Antique Robots take
Use a representative moving shot to test scan quality, lighting and compositing before planning a sequence around a location asset. Judge the finished shot and revision process together.