Unite 2015 - Filming Giant Virtual Vehicles: Procedural Cinematography in Homeworld Shipbreakers

Homeworld: Shipbreakers is a real-time strategy game in which hundreds of massive vehicles battle it out over the surface of a vast desert planet, harvesting resources from crashed spaceships as they struggle for survival in a harsh environment. This talk discusses the cinematic tools and procedural camera systems used to create beautiful cut-scenes of actors with varying performances. Developing an NIS, or cut-scene, generally begins with hand-keying cameras. This is great when your actors perform exactly