Black Mirror

Union VFX go intergalactic for Black Mirror: USS Callister

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London and Montréal-based VFX studio Union has announced its role as lead VFX vendor for the finale of Black Mirror’s seventh series, USS Callister: Into Infinity. This feature-length episode is a sequel to the acclaimed series four opener, USS Callister, first released in 2017.  Written by Black Mirror creator Charlie Brooker and directed by Toby … Read more

Stephan Pehrsson BSC / Black Mirror “USS Callister: Into Infinity”

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TO INFINITY AND BEYOND Following the success of the award-winning “USS Callister” episode of Black Mirror season four, Stephan Pehrsson BSC was thrilled to embark on a return voyage to the videogame space world for a feature-length sequel in series seven. He explains how he expanded the visual approach for sequences on board the spaceship … Read more

Vintage lenses

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A FINE VINTAGE By the late noughties, older lenses were considered by many to be too soft and generally obsolete. Then came digital cinema cameras, and suddenly so-called “vintage” lenses with their distinctive analogue characteristics were back in fashion.  “We all go through the same journey and that journey takes place through glass,” believes Jake … Read more

UNIT Studios launches full picture post for the scripted television market

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London’s largest independently owned and multi-award-winning creative studio, UNIT, launches a brand new division, offering full picture-post production for high-end episodic TV drama & comedy. UNIT Scripted provides end-to-end craft-led services for the episodic market, including colour grading, online and online VFX, complementing UNIT’s existing high-end VFX & CGI offering, all unified under one roof. … Read more

Autodesk acquires Moxion cloud solution for digital dailies

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Autodesk announced the acquisition of Moxion, the New Zealand-based developer of a powerful, cloud-based platform for digital dailies used by leading filmmakers on some of the world’s most complex and challenging productions, including The Midnight Sky, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, and The Matrix Resurrections. The acquisition of Moxion’s talent and technology will expand Autodesk’s own … Read more