In Felix Brady’s promotional video for Greentea Peng’s new song Look To Him, as Aria Wells narrates her own story, the camera circles two men dancing – or is it fighting? – on top of a speeding car. Creating this 360 degree shot involved spinning the car on a platform inside Europe’s largest virtual production […]
Out of adversity and to nobody’s surprise, two of the areas of content creation that have come on in leaps and bounds during the last twelve months are real-time 3D animation and virtual production. These developments have had a big impact on the way VFX artists, animators, graphic artists, film directors and producers work and […]
Satore Studio and MBS Equipment have got together to show how virtual production can be made to look so real that “even a trained professional wouldn’t know it was fake until the very end”. In the 90-second film for agency Quite Brilliant, we see an actor in a wide range of settings, from a living […]
In a particularly busy week at Epic Games, the company has invested in SideFX, makers of VFX simulation software Houdini, and acquired Hyprsense whose real-time facial motion capture software will be used to progress Epic’s move into creating digital characters. Meanwhile, over at Digital Domain, the company’s own digital human, Douglas, is busy getting his […]
Director Peter Hyoguchi’s new film Gods Of Mars, which is currently in production, is the latest to take full advantage of the power and flexibility of virtual production technology,. Unreal Engine and virtual set technology have enabled the production team to develop what was intended as a small-scale adventure story into something much more ambitious. […]
Epic Games has enlisted Brompton Technology, ARRI and creative technical production company 80six to help refurbish its London Innovation Lab with a new curved LED Volume. The set-up includes an ARRI Amira camera, 144 ROE Black Pearl 2 LED panels, 38 CB3 Carbon 3 full-size and eight half-size panels, all of which are driven by […]