Knowledge base

Open notes on CG cosplay virtual production: putting a real cosplayer, filmed on a phone or camera, inside an Unreal Engine world with anime-style effects. Recorded shots and live event booths are both covered.

Each page says what is established practice and what is still a hypothesis. Pages marked Hypothesis have not been benchmarked yet; results from real tests are the most useful contribution you can make.

Page	What it covers	Status
01 Pipeline overview	The whole chain, from shot plan to delivery	Established
02 Shooting the plate	Phone and camera settings, lighting, screens, markers	Established
03 Matting and keying	Chroma key vs AI matting, edges, spill, hair, props	Established
04 Camera tracking	COLMAP and Blender solves, getting them into Unreal	Established
05 Unreal compositing	Media plates, Composure, light matching, shadows, render	Established
06 Anime FX language	Cut-ins, on twos, impact frames, hit stop, title slams	Established
07 Live booth architectures	Local, cloud Pixel Streaming, Aximmetry hybrid	Partly hypothesis
08 Rights, consent and disclosure	Character IP, minors, visitor footage, ad labels	Guidance, not legal advice
09 Open questions and benchmarks	What we still need to measure, and how	Open
10 Tools and licences	Every tool mentioned, what it does, its licence	Reference
Techniques A–Z	Wiki-style index of every technique, with links	Reference
Prompt library	Project rulebook, shot brief, and direct → check → fix prompts for each stage	Working
Showcase	Work made with the pipeline, and how to submit yours	Open
How we built this	What was tested, bugs found, decisions made	Record

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