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 […]
Virtual production supervisor and VFX specialist Gareth Repton has turned to crowdfunding to raise the money needed to launch a new, privately-owned film studio near Oxford. His ambition is to make virtual production more affordable and accessible to producers shooting movies, TV shows, commercials and promos on lower budgets. LUXA Film is looking to buy […]
New-York-based creative production agency Taylor James is another that has been pushing on-set virtual production technology and in-camera VFX to see how far they can practically take it in pursuit of high-end goals. For the Rain-X automotive brand, they recently made a single commercial in which a vehicle was driven through every type of weather […]
Boasting the same LED screen technology John Favreau pioneered on The Mandalorian, Orca Studios has opened in Spain with the support of Epic Games and in collaboration with production company Kinolux. Using this state-of-the-art system, exterior or interior images powered by video game PC engines and that adjust in sync with camera movement are shown […]