Today it's about virtual production, car plates and those silly foreign movie tariffs (00:00 ).

Alex Pearce returns to discuss the evolution and challenges of filming car plates, including his venture, SIM Plates, which innovates with high-quality CG customizable car plates (01:00 ).

Then, they dive into the technical advancements, workflows, and the potential for future developments in virtual production (21:18 ).

Finally, Peter rants on the impracticality of tariffs on foreign productions and encourages us to seize emerging opportunities while the industry changes (52:30 ).

Alex Pearce is the CEO and Founder of Sim-Plates.

You can learn more about Alex Pearce and connect on LinkedIn.

You can explore the Sim-Plates Library here.

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Here's the 20% you need to know about this episode:

1. Traditional car filming is risky, costly, and inconsistent.
2. Stabilized captured plates often retained unnatural, baked-in motion blur.
3. Alex Pearce's Sim Plates shifted from captured 360 video to full CG plates, overcoming live capture limits.
4. Sim Plates uses proprietary Blender tools for rapid, custom CG plate generation (e.g., new city in an hour).
5. Sim Plates' CG plates are 12K EXR, loopable, highly customizable (details, period settings), and often cost-effective.
6. Sim Plates is building a large online library of rentable CG plates for fast production needs.
7. Sim Plates provides car process expertise and on-set supervision, even for others' plates.

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