At Adobe Max 2023, real-time collaboration enablers LucidLink joined forces with mobile virtual production studio company Magicbox to showcase the production flexibility afforded by combining cloud-based infrastructure with a virtual production studio in a big truck. The innovative Magicbox Mobile Superstudio™ is “a fully functioning LED volume and computer control centre packed inside a transforming semi-trailer”. […]
In the sequence below from Antoine Fuqua’s Emancipation, the character Peter, a runaway slave played by Will Smith, is escaping through a swamp when he is snatched by an alligator and has to fight for his life. Working with Legacy Effects and Wētā FX, VFX supervisor Rob Legato shot elements for the underwater scene in a […]
Building work has begun on a new £70m+ studio complex in North Belfast. Studio Ulster, a partnership involving Belfast Harbour, Ulster University and NI Screen, with funding from the Belfast Region City Deal, is due to open on a site in the city’s Grant’s Park by 2024, The studios will offer facilities for the creation of film, […]
Just over a year ago, American Cinematographer’s virtual production editor Noah Kadner offered relative newcomers to the field some words of advice, reproduced here in an edited form 1 – fix it in pre-production, not in post However unfamiliar and unappealing this inversion of workflows might at first seem, make as many of your creative […]
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 […]
Virtual production and real-time rendering are changing the way commercials and promos are made. In a new demo film for Volvo’s EV arm, a Polestar 2 is driven in the pre-dawn light of an urban setting, across a bridge and out into a wintry countryside. The camera captures the light, the reflections, the angles and […]