Starring Emma Stone, Mark Ruffalo and Willem Dafoe, Poor Things is the latest high profile production to take advantage of virtual production and in-camera visual effects to achieve its desired look. Synposis “Brought back to life by an unorthodox scientist, a young woman runs off with a lawyer on a whirlwind adventure across the continents. […]
Bryan Hinckley and Rich Brown of 7th Sense Technology explain how uncompressed 16K video is piped to the enormous curved screen inside and outside the MSG Sphere using powerful and essentially robust networked processing technology and new protocols such as SMPTE 2110.
A new, post-IBC, report from Futuresource Consulting shows that (on-set) virtual production (OSVP or VP), in-camera visual effects (ICVFX) and extended reality (XR) have passed through the “hype phase” and are about to enter the second stage of their development as more of the technology begins to reach a level of maturity; getting more refined […]
The MSG Sphere‘s first multi-week advertising campaign, with YouTube, was for the NFL Sunday Ticket, which gives fans access to all out-of-market Sunday afternoon games on a subscription basis. In the weeks running up to the season launch on Thursday 7 September, an animation showing all 32 NFL team helmets was available for all to see on […]
At Infocomm 2023 in Orlando, Florida, Samsung has shown the latest addition to The Wall range of LED displays, designed to make virtual production for TV, film and other creative industries faster and easier. They’re offering pixel pitch options of P1.68 and P2.1, dedicated studio frame rates (23.976, 29.97 and 59.94Hz) and genlocking (sync’ing the screen with […]
Pathway in Manchester recently shot a sequence using 65mm film – specifically Kodak VISION3 65mm 200T Colour Negative Film stock with an ARRIFLEX 765, as used on Gravity and Tenet, and ARRI Rental Vintage 765 lenses – on their virtual production stage. For this first-of-its-kind test, they worked closely with Kodak, Panavision, and Arri Rental […]