When Pinewood Studios opened its production facility just outside Atlanta in 2014 it wasn’t originally envisaged as a fully integrated community where film industry people could work, live and socialise. Pinewood’s partners did see the opportunity to build a town whose residents would collaborate on film projects from start to finish, and that’s how we got […]
In this, the second episode of The Pulse, host Mike Seymour, Co-Founder of fxguide is joined by Sam Nicholson, ASC, CEO and Founder of Stargate Studios; Felix Jorge, CEO and Creative Director at Happy Mushroom; and Matt Madden, currently Director of Virtual Production at Epic Games. Together, they look at how real-time filmmaking and virtual […]
If you have never seen it before, this incredibly detailed, engrossing and seductive award-winning 16-minute animated film is based on scientific observation data from the Japan Meteorological Agency Himawai-8 satellite, which is situated 35786 km above Earth. The film was a winner of the Vimeo Staff Pick Award at the 2019 Annecy International Animation Film Festival, […]
ExCel London in the Royal Docks near City Airport, which was most recently the home of the Nightingale hospital during thee height of the COVID-19 outbreak, is making around 1 million sq ft of space available to film and TV studio production companies until April 2021 ExCel’s halls, which are 33ft in height to their […]
Pinewood Atlanta Studios is one of the companies showing the way forward in virtual production with the launch of a new LED-equipped virtual set. The initiative is a partnership involving MBSi, Fuse Technical Group and SGPS/ShowRig. They’re using similar LED wall technology to that used on The Mandalorian. At the moment, the set-up can be […]
Universal Filmed Entertainment and Microsoft are jointly developing a new range of live-action and animation production processes in the Azure cloud, taking advantage of and expanding on DreamWorks’ existing remote collaborative workflow processes. The DreamWorks system sits on a local, private network and is being used to continue production on upcoming projects, including 2021 release […]