AI in
Virtual
Production.

Christopher Jorna

Hi, I'm Christopher Jorna

Virtual production operator
Film director
Creative technologist

Christopher Jorna
Visual AI

Some ways to use gen AI.

01

Fully gen AI

prompt → videoe.g. Sora, Veo source: OpenAI
02

Start → end frame

2 frames, AI fills betweene.g. Kling, Runway source: Rourke Sefton-Minns
03
Runway Act-One modify existing video

Modify video

feed video, restyle / re-lighte.g. Runway, Luma source: Runway
Visual AI

Gen AI.

great... but humans feel off. → good for backdrops
Virtual Production

That's where VP comes in.

Keep the human performance. Replace the backgrounds.

Virtual production LED stage

image: PLAZAMEDIA Virtual Production Studio · CC BY-SA 4.0

Visual AI

AI in the pipeline.

Unreal stays the render engine. AI fills the gaps.

Riyadh workflow — problem + steps 1-2 Riyadh workflow — steps 3-4 + result
Visual AI

AI after the pipeline.

Add texture. Make it more real.

Unreal untextured spaceship AI processed spaceship
↔

christopherjorna.github.io/HighVis-R-D

Visual AI

White wall technique.

Real people on set. AI backgrounds. Best of both worlds.

Behind the Code

Vibe coding.

Behind the Code

Corridor Key.
+ open source.

AI keying, no green screen

reconstructs foreground colour, clean alphafree · GitHub

worth a look.

Enabling
flow state.

What is
the future
film industry
you want?

Questions?

christopher.jorna@gmail.com

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