In partnership with HP, who will provide powerful new Z-series workstations and its Engineering Emmy award-winning HP Anywhere technology,, Pathway in Manchester has opened a new £1 million, 6,000 square foot production facility and Innovation Lab dedicated to the development of real-time virtual production and in-camera visual effects (ICVFX). The facility in Trafford Park includes […]
Our friend Nathan Bazley in Brisbane, Australia has been at it again with the infographics. This time he’s produced this excellent key skills ‘heatmap’ for anybody wishing to get into virtual production and ICVFX. Image source: Frame.io Insider
The latest version of Megapixel’s HELIOS LED processing platform, v 22.11, is the first in the industry to support the SMPTE ST 2110 standard. Up to four simultaneous inputs can be used on ultra-large LED walls beyond 8K, using stitching for traditional 2×2, super-tall 1×4, or ultra-wide 4×1 applications. A complete IP workflow offers flexible […]
At a recent presentation, DP Baz Idoine and Industrial Light & Magic Production Designers Andrew Jones and Todd Cherniawsky discussed their thought processes for deciding which scenes to shoot in an LED volume and which not. It prompted Brisbane-based Nathan Bazley of virtualisation technology firm Enablo to create the flowchart shown below based on their […]
This 36-second ICVFX virtual production test conducted at Drexel University and led by Catalyst’s Ian Fursa and Steve Chandler and Drexel’s own Nick Jushchyshyn with the support of Colorspace Labs and Lightbulb Rentals and using VP Toolkit shows how rear-projection can replace an expensive LED stage and still produce industry-standard level results for those shooting […]
Reality Heist is a five-minute original story of a scientist who can skip dimensions at the flick of a switch. The short, which was made by a team of students at the National Film & Television School in Beaconsfield, blends traditionally rendered photorealistic CGI with in-camera visual effects and was shot on the NFTS’s new […]