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If you’ve ever wondered how exactly car commercials get made — like how footage is captured of brand new, seemingly expensive vehicles driving dangerously fast — then visual effects studio The Mill would like to introduce you to the Cyclops. That’s the Grecian code name for a multi-purpose rig that combines a decked out off-roading dune buggy called the Blackbird with some cutting-edge camera, editing, and graphics rendering technology. The end result is a vehicle on the road that can be transformed through effects into any model of any car.

Here at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, The Mill and Epic Games, which makes the Unreal Engine 4 rendering software the Cyclops relies on, are showing off a new version of the rig....

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