This is a sponsored article, created in partnership with Brompton Technology. In-camera visual effects using LED screens has rapidly moved from a pioneering specialty to a mainstream technique being widely used across film and television production. The fundamental idea is to do your visual effects “in camera” by filming the action against a display showing … Read more
Brompton Technology, the industry leader in LED video processors for virtual production, broadcast, and live events, recently helped the VFX team at Pixomondo bring Star Trek: Discovery into a new era using virtual production. The new season (4) of the Paramount+ streaming hit leveraged virtual production for the first time, filming on Pixomondo’s large volume LED … Read more
Season 4 of Star Trek: Discovery will bring viewers further into the story than previous seasons, as lead DP Philip Lanyon adds shooting in full frame to his creative look with Cooke Optics (1.8x) Anamorphic/i Full Frame Plus SF (Special Flare) prime lenses, to supplement the (2x) Anamorphic/i SF lenses that have been used since Season 2. Although each lens range has … Read more
Ghost VFX artists received a 2021 Emmy for Outstanding Visual Effects in a Single Episode for the Star Trek: Discovery installment ‘Su’Kal’. Led by supervising producer and lead VFX supervisor Jason Michael Zimmerman, the Emmy-winning Ghost team included VFX supervisor Ivan Kondrup Jensen and VFX producer Kristen Prahl. Also taking home Emmys were VFX supervisor Ante … Read more