Star Wars Digital Camera Kit w/ 3 Changing Face Plates

Narrator: While filming this scene from Disney's "The Mandalorian," the actors could see their surroundings, but the surroundings weren't actually there. All of this is just LED screens displaying backgrounds pre-made in a video game engine. Compare that with this fight scene from "Avengers: Endgame." Where actors jumped around in a sea of green, imagining how VFX artists would make this planet look once filming had ended. "The Mandalorian" is one of the first major productions to choose LED walls over green screens. And the benefits for the actors are just the tip of the iceberg. LED walls make the lighting better, filming smoother, and in certain cases, cost a lot less than using green screens. But to understand why the team behind "The Mandalorian" chose these LED screens, we have to understand just how they work. "Mandalorian" showrunner Jon Favreau revolutionized virtual production