Move over green screens, LED walls are here.
When the pandemic hit, productions scrambled to figure out logistics in the new normal. That’s when studios turned to an emerging aspect of virtual production: digital immersive environments capturing real-world settings (including lighting) rendered in real time using game engines such as Unreal. They are then projected onto LED walls made up of hundreds of high-def displays that serve as interactive backdrops for actors — like a green screen, but much more sophisticated.
It’s said that necessity is the mother of invention, but in truth, VFX shops have been dabbling in different aspects of virtual production for years — with techniques being notably applied on pics such as Steven Spielberg’s “A.I. Artificial Intelligence” in 2001.
Given the restrictions on travel and social distancing regulations at many locations, however, the pandemic inadvertently sped up, specifically, the utilization of LED walls — given that only small crews,...
When the pandemic hit, productions scrambled to figure out logistics in the new normal. That’s when studios turned to an emerging aspect of virtual production: digital immersive environments capturing real-world settings (including lighting) rendered in real time using game engines such as Unreal. They are then projected onto LED walls made up of hundreds of high-def displays that serve as interactive backdrops for actors — like a green screen, but much more sophisticated.
It’s said that necessity is the mother of invention, but in truth, VFX shops have been dabbling in different aspects of virtual production for years — with techniques being notably applied on pics such as Steven Spielberg’s “A.I. Artificial Intelligence” in 2001.
Given the restrictions on travel and social distancing regulations at many locations, however, the pandemic inadvertently sped up, specifically, the utilization of LED walls — given that only small crews,...
- 9/10/2021
- by Katherine Brodsky
- Variety Film + TV
Steven Spielberg had just wrapped six weeks of motion-capture work on his passion project "The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn." Offering a toast to the production crew hired for the highly specialized shoots, the director raised a champagne glass and noted they had helped him squeeze in the most setups in the fewest days of any production in which he had been involved.
"So maybe that tells you how I feel about the experience of working with you all," a beaming Spielberg told the assembled employees of Giant Studios.
The little-known company is tucked away in a commercial patch of West Los Angeles, just north of the Playa Vista campus where Spielberg once aimed to build his own mammoth studio.
Giant is one of a select few stand-alone motion-capture houses working on movies, and it's been singular in the scope of its involvement with some landmark productions. Besides "Tintin,...
"So maybe that tells you how I feel about the experience of working with you all," a beaming Spielberg told the assembled employees of Giant Studios.
The little-known company is tucked away in a commercial patch of West Los Angeles, just north of the Playa Vista campus where Spielberg once aimed to build his own mammoth studio.
Giant is one of a select few stand-alone motion-capture houses working on movies, and it's been singular in the scope of its involvement with some landmark productions. Besides "Tintin,...
- 7/15/2009
- by By Carl DiOrio
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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