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Live the life of a famous Hollywood director. Add your face to the actors from a selfie. Create custom sets with lighting for a romance, Wild West, sci-fi, horror or fantasy adventure. Cast, animate the actors, add VFX like fog, rain, blizzards, lasers, tsunamis and magic spells. Add surround sound.
HOLLYWOOD DIRECTOR THE SIMULATION
SteamWould you like to live the life of a famous Hollywood director and create your own blockbuster movie? How about acting in your own Jurassic Park, Star Wars, Avengers or Terminator? Now you can. Hollywood Director The Simulation® is the complete Hollywood movie production simulator. SET DESIGN
• Start by selecting your ideal movie location from dozens of pre-built virtual sets such as apartments, offices, warehouses, bars, restaurants Wild West saloons space stations or cyberpunk cities CUSTOM SETS
• Customise these sets by deleting or adding objects from hundreds of high-quality 3D models in the library • Repaint every model using your own chosen colour, texture or material • Build lanscapes with sprawling cities, canyons, deserts, flowing rivers, trees, bushes and fauna CAMERA MOVEMENT
• Take complete control of the camera using Hollywood standard techniques such as pan, track, tilt, zoom and Steadicam • Add camera effects such as camera shake and soft focus LENSES AND ASPECT RATIOS
• Select the correct lenses for each shot such as Hollywood standard Cooke Prime lenses (12mm to 180mm) • Choose the right aspect ratio for your blockbuster such as 4:3, 1.66:1, 16:9, 1.85:1, 2.39:1 or 2:75:1 • Select your aperture (F-Stop) settings from f1.4 to f/22.0 LIGHTING
• Choose from dozens of lighting prefabs suitable for any movie genre such as a romantic comedy, a superhero action adventure, a Wild West epic, a musical or a horror movie • Create your own custom lighting prefab by tweaking the advanced lighting features such as intensity, fade off distance, gamma and colour POST-PROCESSING EFFECTS
• Bring your scenes to life by adding effects such as bloom, chromatic aberration, lens distortion, motion blur and depth of field CASTING

• Choose from hundreds of pre-built character models, male, female, transgender, demons, space marines or zombies • Create your own custom actors by tweaking skin, eye colour, height, body shape and hair style • Act in your own blockbuster by adding your face to the virtual actor from a single selfie COSTUMES

• Choose your characters’ attire from hundreds of costume prefabs such as shoes, skirts, bikins, frocks, trousers, blouses, kimonos or saris ANIMATIONS
• Get your virtual actors walking, jumping, somersaulting or flying like a superhero using the thousands of animations in the library CHARACTER LIPSYNC • Record your own audio and lipsync your characters SURROUND SOUND • Create a full surround soundscape by adding dozens of sound effects to each shot • Add a sound effect to any object or animation • Tweak the volume, pitch and reverb of each sound effect VISUAL EFFECTS
• Bring your blockbuster to life by adding visual effects such as explosions, lasers or superhero-style magic spells • Add dynamic physics-based effects such as destruction, fragmentation WEATHER EFFECTS
• Captivate your audience using environmental effects such as fog, rain, snow, tsunamis and blizzards TOON SHADING

• Turn your photoreal scenes into stylized 2D toon or anime-style ones EDITING • Render each shot of your movie in multiple resolutions for any format from mobile phones to IMAX screens • Create Hollywood-style opening and closing title sequences MODDING

• Create your own mods with customised sets, characters, lighting, audio and visual effects • Share it with the community directly from within the game
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