disguise is taking steps to promote the use of 2.5D workflows in virtual production, but what does that actually mean? Unlike 2D plates, 2.5D offers a hint of dimensionality without the full complexity of real-time 3D environments. A 2.5D workflow, often regarded as the bridge between 2D and 3D, involves layering multiple 2D images with […]
Below, VFX Supervisors Laura Pedro and Felix Berges, writer/director Juan Antonio Bayona and production designer Alain Bainee show us the multi-faceted and layered production of VFX Academy Award-nominated Netflix survival thriller Society of the Snow, which hits UK screens this Thursday, 3 January.. The film tells the true story of the Uruguayan charter flight that […]
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. […]
We read and hear a lot about Hollywood films and high-end TV being shot on LED stages with sophisticated in-camera visual effects, but what’s happening in adland? Driven by ESG (Environmental, social and corporate governance) ambitions as well as economics – productions “cost less if you know what you are doing, and … emit less […]
The UK’s National Film & Television School in Beaconsfield, Bucks has announced the creation of a brand-new 24 week part-time blended learning Virtual Production course that will begin in January 2023. The course synopsis Virtual Production (VP) is a rapidly growing area of content production. By combining CGI, game-engines, and virtual reality technologies, VP enables […]