My guest is Kiryl Drazdovich, a video expert with more than 20 years of experience in computer graphics, animation, video production and R&D. Kiryl spent significant part of his career leading technical video production teams at Wargaming and most recently founded his own studio Mroya that creates outstanding video content for global brands.

The main idea that Kiryl stands for with R&D is that creators should struggle with generating emotions and not with production tools that should be smooth and convenient.

Together with Kiryl back at Wargaming Special Projects we experimented a lot at an intersection of emerging tech, gaming and video production. It resulted in multiple award-winning projects including immersive, spatial computing, 360-degree documentaries, live event and virtual production studios and many other exciting R&D explorations.

In this episode we discuss how AI and Unreal Engine 5 advancements help to automate production pipelines, what it is like to work with celebrities like The Offspring, Dolph Lundgren, Gianluigi Buffon and Arnold Schwarzenegger, we talk about lessons learnt from creating immersive video storytelling and of course envision what’s next.

This is a personal podcast. The views and opinions expressed here are only those of the author and do not represent those of any organization or any individual with whom the author may be associated, professionally or personally.

Kiryl Drazdovich: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kiryldrazdovich 

Alex Babko: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexanderbabko