virtual production

How McDonald’s is lovin’ virtual production

How virtual production helped create McDonald's interior and exterior assets - from digital coffee cups on the counter to specific featured items on the...

Business

Watch: TVBEurope’s Story of 2021

TVBEurope takes a look back at some of the highs and lows experienced by the media technology industry in 2021

Production & Post

American Society of Cinematographers releases short film on testing and calibration

Project tested how HDR, diverse skin tones, high resolution detail, in-camera VFX, fast moving action, and visuals tax compression algorithms and image processing software

Production & Post

Final Pixel achieves live facial and body mo-cap streamed to Unreal Engine

Content used cluster rendering to create a high-quality bespoke 3D character using a traditional CG pipeline

Media Consumption

Sony previews latest technological developments

Tech giant previews developments in virtual production, VR and sport video

Production & Post

Star Trek: Discovery beams up virtual production for new series

Show filmed season four at Pixomondo's virtual production stage in Toronto

Business

TVBEurope November/December 2021 issue released

The final issue of 2021 takes a look at everything from deepfake to film and TV restoration and the metaverse

Production & Post

ARRI, Plazamedia partner to test new standards for virtual TV production

Companies are working together on optimising mixed reality for TV applications using ARRI’s camera and lighting systems

Production & Post

World’s largest fully-encapsulated virtual production volume to open in the UK

Winnersh Film Studios expects to begin welcoming production in 2022

Production & Post

Epic Games invests in SMPTE’s virtual production initiative

The virtual production initiative aims to bring together technology and thought leaders to quickly assess challenges relating to virtual production

Production & Post

Final Pixel launches international training courses to fill virtual production skills gap

The Final Pixel Academy will run courses at all levels across the virtual production workflow

Production & Post

Mo-Sys spotlights LED virtual production solutions

Upgrades StarTracker camera tracking system and NearTime workflow for shooting in an LED volume

Production & Post

Report: UK facing a virtual production skills gap

Skills shortage needs to be tackled urgently if the UK is to leverage its reputation for innovation and creative excellence across film and TV,...

Production & Post

Garden Studios installs Mo-Sys tech for virtual production studio

Facility is employing the VP Pro XR, a purpose-built scalable XR server that enables traditional shooting techniques within LED volumes

Production & Post

Vizrt announces ‘world’s first’ fully-equipped virtual studio-in-a-box

Solution includes a Panasonic PTZ camera which can be controlled using NDI

Production & Post

Digital Imaging company Mission opens Garden Studios office

Company intends to test digital cameras and lenses as well as explore what can be achieved right through the post production pipeline

Production & Post

Vicon, Dimension partner on virtual production

Dimension will use Vicon's solutions to support DNEG as it works on both a major film and TV series

Production & Post

Zero Density releases plug-and-play graphics for virtual sets

RE AMPERE features latest-generation NVIDIA RTX A6000 GPU and AMD Ryzen Threadripper Pro CPU, and is configured to optimise both rendering performance as well...

Production & Post

The star of BBC Sport’s Olympics virtual studio production

Mo-Sys Engineering and MOOV have been discussing their roles in bringing BBC Sport's Tokyo Olympics coverage to life from a virtual production studio in...

Production & Post

Digital Catapult, Target3D open UK’s first virtual production test stage

Facility, based in Guilford, will enable media companies to develop new tools and applications as well as boost hands-on experimentation

Production & Post

Germany’s Studio Babelsberg to expand, invest in new technologies

Studio Babelsberg is one of Europe's biggest studio facilities, with 21 sound stages

Production & Post

Pixomondo to open London studio for VFX and virtual production

Studio will be closely integrated with the company's existing German operations, located in Frankfurt and Stuttgart

Production & Post

Ncam opens new European virtual production studio

New location will operate as both fully-fledged studio and training site

Media Management

Television Academy launches Science and Technology Group

Group will look at newer areas of production technologies such as virtual production, cloud collaboration and immersive audio

IP Migration

ASG adds Viz Vectar Plus to virtual production control room ecosystem

Switcher uses Vizrt's NDI video-over IP protocol

Audio

dock10 installs Calrec Artemis in £1 million remote gallery

Dedicated multipurpose remote gallery works with outside broadcasts and connects to the dock10 network

Production & Post

Wakefield to host new £1 million virtual production studio

Centre for Virtual Production is set to be the first of its kind in Yorkshire

Production & Post

Garden Studios collaborates on UK’s first carbon neutral virtual production film

Film emitted less than one tonne of carbon. If it had been shot as a traditional multi-location film, it would have emitted over 120...

Production & Post

NEP launches virtual production business

NEP Virtual Studios plans to offer ICVFX/visualisation solutions, permanent virtual stages, and virtual art department services

Production & Post

UK’s largest independent virtual production facility opens its doors

Films and high-end TV productions can head to MARS for virtual production

Production & Post

Samsung partners with Parasite producer on virtual production studio

The modular screens include precise colour expression, HDR10+ and cinema LED picture quality technology, as well as optimised frame rates for production houses

Production & Post

How virtual production is making the film industry more sustainable

Virtual production is here to stay and has the potential to massively decrease the carbon footprints of productions, writes Andy Ray, sales director at Vicon

Production & Post

Warner Bros opens new virtual production stage at Leavesden

First production to shoot on the virtual stage is HBO's Game of Thrones prequel, House of the Dragon

Production & Post

BFI launches UK skills review

Review will focus on the commonality of job roles across both film and high-end TV, whilst also taking into consideration the skills needs of...

Production & Post

dock10 invests £1 million in new remote gallery solution

Remote gallery works with outside broadcasts and connects to the dock10 network, which has more than 20 dedicated service provider

Production & Post

ARRI opens new mixed reality UK studio

New Uxbridge-based studio includes an LED volume comprising 343 square meters of LED wall

Production & Post

Report: 40 per cent of UK production workforce see virtual production as a key disruptor

Almost three quarters (72 per cent) of the survey's respondents said they expect remote working to have a significant impact on the screen industries...