Brian Pohl's guest appearances

Brian Pohl

The Allan McKay Podcast

CG Pro Podcast

Eran Dinur

Chris Nichols

Brian Dixon

Ava Duvernay

Tom Ross

Josh Hayes

Hugo Martin

Doug Roble

Bob Scott

Michael Janda

Chris Keller

Tim Miller

James Bennett

Allyson Grey

Linus Tech

OwlTail

Epic Games

For the past 17 years, Brian J. Pohl has experience being a visual effects artist, layout artist, and previs supervisor. A veteran of George Lucas’ pre-vis team and Industrial Light and Magic's art department, he is credited for creating or supervising previs on over twenty-seven feature films. Pohl has also served six years within the software development industry; designing new tools that assist the digital artist's workflow. He can provide creative and managerial skills capable of directing small to large sized teams in either film or commercial production environments. Currently, he works at Epic Games as a Technical Program Manager for the Media and Entertainment industry in order to provide artists and clients the training they need to integrate the Unreal Engine into their creative pipelines. He also acts as the academic Dean for the Unreal Engine Fellowship Program.   Highlights of the Episode:  00:00 - Introduction 01:23 - Introduction of the guest 02:11 - Background of the Brian Pohl 10:51 - Working at EPIC Games 13:03 - How EPIC took care of their employees through COVID 13:48 - The Fellowship: How EPIC made the company better 16:37- Creating opportunities through the fellowship 19:10 - Zero to Competent: 5 week fellowship 22:17 - Problems that the fellowship has conquered and their 2022 plans 26:57 - How Real-Time affected the Pre-visual workflow 33:42 - How animation studios get the value of Real-Time 35:25 - Why you should invest in a virtual production department 38:16 - Virtual Production in the Work-From-Home set-up 39:25 - Innovation as it happens 40:44 - The barrier to start Visual production is getting lower 44:15 - The surprising uses of Unreal Engine 48:21 - The rebirth of Virtual production with Unreal Engine  49:42 - How Virtual production departments will evolve in the future 53:55 - How green screen works in Unreal Engine 56:01 - How Unreal Engine Is affecting screen-writing 59:47 - Brian’s thoughts on the Meta-Verse 1:03:26 - Ability to have a multi-user session in the Meta-Verse 1:06:20 - Brian’s knowledge about audio in Unreal Engine 5 1:07:34 - Advice for those entering and re-entering virtual production  1:15:00 - Outro Quotes: “If you’re reskilling, feel encouraged. I don’t think the industry is leaving you behind if you are willing to take another step out. Right now, we are experiencing a drought of talent, so there’s huge opportunities for you if you want to learn this technology.”“Choose an area of interest that excites you most. There’s nothing wrong with specializing.”“You can make anything you want, you just have to detach yourself from your perfectionistic nature.” Connecting with the Guest: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pohlbrian/   Connecting with CG Pro: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/becomecgpro Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/becomecgpro/ Website: https://www.becomecgpro.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/edgevisualCG

For the past 17 years, Brian J. Pohl has experience being a visual effects artist, layout artist, and previs supervisor. A veteran of George Lucas’ pre-vis team and Industrial Light and Magic's art department, he is credited for creating or supervising previs on over twenty-seven feature films. Pohl has also served six years within the software development industry; designing new tools that assist the digital artist's workflow. He can provide creative and managerial skills capable of directing small to large sized teams in either film or commercial production environments. Currently, he works at Epic Games as a Technical Program Manager for the Media and Entertainment industry in order to provide artists and clients the training they need to integrate the Unreal Engine into their creative pipelines. He also acts as the academic Dean for the Unreal Engine Fellowship Program. Highlights of the Episode: 00:00 - Introduction 01:23 - Introduction of the guest 02:11 - Background of the Brian Pohl 10:51 - Working at EPIC Games 13:03 - How EPIC took care of their employees through COVID 13:48 - The Fellowship: How EPIC made the company better 16:37- Creating opportunities through the fellowship 19:10 - Zero to Competent: 5 week fellowship 22:17 - Problems that the fellowship has conquered and their 2022 plans 26:57 - How Real-Time affected the Pre-visual workflow 33:42 - How animation studios get the value of Real-Time 35:25 - Why you should invest in a virtual production department 38:16 - Virtual Production in the Work-From-Home set-up 39:25 - Innovation as it happens 40:44 - The barrier to start Visual production is getting lower 44:15 - The surprising uses of Unreal Engine 48:21 - The rebirth of Virtual production with Unreal Engine  49:42 - How Virtual production departments will evolve in the future 53:55 - How green screen works in Unreal Engine 56:01 - How Unreal Engine Is affecting screen-writing 59:47 - Brian’s thoughts on the Meta-Verse 1:03:26 - Ability to have a multi-user session in the Meta-Verse 1:06:20 - Brian’s knowledge about audio in Unreal Engine 5 1:07:34 - Advice for those entering and re-entering virtual production  1:15:00 - Outro Quotes: “If you’re reskilling, feel encouraged. I don’t think the industry is leaving you behind if you are willing to take another step out. Right now, we are experiencing a drought of talent, so there’s huge opportunities for you if you want to learn this technology.” “Choose an area of interest that excites you most. There’s nothing wrong with specializing.” “You can make anything you want, you just have to detach yourself from your perfectionistic nature.” Connecting with the Guest: LinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/pohlbrian/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/pohlbrian/</a> Connecting with CG Pro: Facebook:<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/becomecgpro" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> https://www.facebook.com/groups/becomecgpro</a> Instagram:<a href="https://www.instagram.com/becomecgpro/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> https://www.instagram.com/becomecgpro/</a> Website:<a href="https://www.becomecgpro.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> https://www.becomecgpro.com/</a> Twitter:<a href="https://twitter.com/edgevisualCG" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> https://twitter.com/edgevisualCG</a>

The Unreal Fellowship with Brian Pohl from Epic Games Ep 17

The Unreal Fellowship is a 30-day intensive blended learning experience designed to help experienced industry professionals in film, animation, and VFX learn Unreal Engine, develop a strong command of state-of-the-art virtual production tools, and foster the next generation of teams in the emerging field of real-time production.  During the program, Fellows learn Unreal Engine fundamentals, model ingestion, animation and mocap integration, lookdev, lighting setups, and cinematic storytelling. Brian Pohl is a Technical Program Manager at Epic Games. He helps artists and clients get the training they need to integrate the Unreal Engine into their creative pipelines. Pohl also acts as the academic Dean for the Unreal Engine Fellowship Program. In this Podcast, Allan McKay interviews Brian about virtual productions and the tool Unreal Engine provides, as well as the Unreal Fellowship, a training program that teaches artists the fundamentals. For more show notes, visit www.allanmckay.com/293/.

The Unreal Fellowship is a 30-day intensive blended learning experience designed to help experienced industry professionals in film, animation, and VFX learn Unreal Engine, develop a strong command of state-of-the-art virtual production tools, and foster the next generation of teams in the emerging field of real-time production.  During the program, Fellows learn Unreal Engine fundamentals, model ingestion, animation and mocap integration, lookdev, lighting setups, and cinematic storytelling. Brian Pohl is a Technical Program Manager at Epic Games. He helps artists and clients get the training they need to integrate the Unreal Engine into their creative pipelines. Pohl also acts as the academic Dean for the Unreal Engine Fellowship Program. In this Podcast, Allan McKay interviews Brian about virtual productions and the tool Unreal Engine provides, as well as the Unreal Fellowship, a training program that teaches artists the fundamentals. For more show notes, visit <a href="http://www.allanmckay.com/293/." rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">www.allanmckay.com/293/.</a>

293 -- Unreal Fellowship -- Brian Pohl