A new media company, blinx, has signed a deal for Vizrt to provide storytelling tools that target Gen Z and millennials. Blinx will use tools such as Viz Virtual Studio, Viz Engine and Viz Pilot Edge to create high-quality virtual sets, augmented reality and interactive graphics for an audience that…
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UK’s first network of advanced 5G media studios launched
Digital Catapult has teamed up with Target3D to democratise access to cutting-edge screen production technologies in the UK. The launch of the network of two media-studio locations in London and the north east of England will facilitate large-scale production of high-calibre media content. The network will leverage technologies such as…
Absen screen brings business in at Silvertown Studios
Silvertown Studios is a film studio specialising in Virtual Production (VP). Founded during the pandemic, the original company London Audio Visual undertook a change of course as the events industry was closed, resulting in a need to diversify. Being left with LED technology and unable to use it, the team…
AV and broadcast: the great convergence
For over a century the pinnacle of achievement in motion picture entertainment has been theatrical presentation in the cinema. For over half a century the pinnacle of global live events has been TV broadcasts – from the moon landing, to FIFA World Cups and the Olympic Games. Innovations like colour…
disguise servers deployed in Top Gun: Maverick VP scenes
disguise vx 4 servers have been deployed by Lux Machina Consulting to provide virtual production (VP) services for the Top Gun: Maverick movie. The film's production team turned to the Los Angeles-based company to create realistic visuals for the introduction sequence in the sky and classroom scenes. The original plan…
XR studio in Finland fitted out with AOTO’s LED screens
AOTO Electronics has teamed up with Finnish provider of broadcast solutions Mediatrade to install an extended reality (XR) TV studio equipped with CV1.5 series LED screens. The XR studio – which was commissioned by broadcast services and event presentation specialist Grassmark – aims to reimagine the way in which content…
Ledman leads the way in integrating technology and culture
Malanshan, in the province of Hunan, has been dubbed 'China's V Valley' and is at the forefront of the development of the country's digital video industry. At its heart is the Malanshan Video Cultural and Creative Industrial Park – a 16 sq km creativity hub that is home to many…
Lux Machina provides virtual production services for Barbie
Lux Machina Consulting has provided virtual production services for the new Warner Bos film Barbie. The results of the firm's work can be seen in Barbie Land sequences and in a prologue that parodies. 2001: A Space Odyssey. The film was shot on Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden’s V Stage in…
Solid State Logic audio production platform supports NASA TV
A Solid State Logic System T broadcast audio production platform has been installed to support TV operations at Nasa’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. The System T S500 large-format modular mixing console and TE2 Tempest Engine provide routeing, mixing and processing of all broadcast audio sources for Nasa TV’s…
China’s largest LED volume launched at ‘Chinawood Studios’
Wuxi Studios, China's most important national digital film park, has launched the largest LED volume for film in China. Nicknamed "Chinawood Studios", the facility now boasts a 44m wide by 10m high by 23m diameter LED volume which is the subject of two case studies released today by ROE Visual…