Polygon Labs developed a virtual set based on Unreal and Vizrt for TUDN (Televisa-Univision) at Tokyo 2020

Coinciding with the Olympic Games, the sports channel TUDN (owned by Televisa and Univision) launched a virtual set developed by Polygon Labs powered by Unreal Engine (Epic Games) y Vizrt.

The set allowed the presenters of the program Tokyo Unites Us and appear in four different settings, all of them with a Japanese theme.

The sets were built by Polygon Labs using Epic Games' powerful real-time 3D creation platform, Unreal Engine 4. The technical setup uses a Vizrt workflow, including Polygon's Porta solution, providing a gateway between television content production workflows and the Unreal engine. Polygon Porta allows the operator to access the Viz Trio control interface to control the Unreal engine at the same time, and with the same playlist, used to control the Viz engines.

The production uses Viz Engines for lower thirds and full screen content and Unreal Engine for everything else, all from a single playlist thanks to the Porta teams. Unreal Engine's four-camera virtual set uses Support Follower tracking, the plugin Stypeland UE y Green Killer as an internal keyer.

Marco Antonio Abad, director de Televisa y TUDN, comenta que “esta tecnología tan innovadora nos permite ser creativos y eficientes. Significa que mientras nuestros presentadores están conduciendo el programa en México, todos parecen estar en Tokio llevando gráficos sofisticados a nuestros espectadores sin salir de los estudios de Televisa en Chapultepec. El equipo de Polygon entendió rápidamente nuestras ideas y fue capaz de dar vida a nuestra visión creativa con estos cuatro mundos virtuales que se mezclan con la programación de la vida real de una manera espectacular. Cuando se produce un contenido en vivo tan sofisticado como éste, no se puede recurrir a cualquier empresa y esperar estos resultados perfectos”.

“We are really proud of this project for TUDN, which turned out to be a highly creative collaborative process with everyone involved,” he acknowledges. Miguel Yabrudes, creative director of Polygon Labs. "TUDN came to us with the concept of four worlds of Tokyo and we all worked tirelessly for four months to create this exciting Japanese virtual world. The finished designs look incredible and we couldn't be happier with the results," he adds.

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