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”. […]
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. […]
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 […]
This video from day 3 of SIGGRAPH 2023 by the team at the ETC (Entertainment Technology Centre) at the University of Southern California, AKA ETC@USC, shows a demo by Fernando Rivas-Manzaneque and Orlando Avila-Garcia, co-founders of Volinga of real-time rendering of a NeRF in a real virtual production environment, which they claim was a world’s […]
To improve the lives of those working on the content synchronisation side of in virtual production, the latest version of Unreal Engine, now comes bundled with NVIDIA Rivermax SDK (software development kit). Rivermax is a unique internet protocol (IP)-based solution for media and data streaming. With the Rivermax plug-in for Unreal Engine, users can now deliver synchronized video […]
Image-based lighting (IBL) is changing and improving the way that creative teams use LED stages for virtual production shoots In virtual production, IBL involves displaying image sequences on separate lower resolution indirect view LED screens that provide incidental light and reflections to create a more dynamic, colour-accurate scene. Conventional lighting fixtures will remain important tools […]