Virtual production studios for film and TV in Europe

Virtual production technology has made waves in the European film and TV sector. New studios are opening in the UK and on the Continent every year, so our handy directory will help you keep track of what is available, whatever the size of your project.

Is your European virtual production studio missing from the list? Please let us know by emailing us at helen@britishcinematographer.co.uk.

UNITED KINGDOM

London and South-East England

80six
Unit 1, Slough Interchange Industrial Estate, Whittenham Close, Slough, Berkshire, SL2 5EP
Tel: +44 (0) 333 577 7899
Web: https://www.virtualproductionstudios.com/
80six’s revamped 11,743 sq. ft (1091 sq. m) facility has reopened in May 2022 following a planned expansion.

ARRI X CT virtual production stage
3 Highbridge Industrial Estate, Oxford Rd, Uxbridge, UB8 1LX
Tel: +44 (0) 1895 457100
Web: https://www.arrirental.com/en
Based at ARRI’s UK headquarters, this hub offers 708 sq. m of studio space with 343 sq. m LED wall. Equipment package deals are available from ARRI Rental, just next door.

Broadley Studio
48 Broadley Terrace, London NW1 6LG
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7725 5858
Web: https://www.broadley.tv/
Located in Zone 1 Marylebone, NW1, Broadley Studio has two fully-equipped studio spaces which can be used for virtual production projects. With over 20 years of experience, its professional crews can offer a full production service, or clients can opt for dry hire

CUBE Studio
CUBE Studio, Unit 6 Priors Way, Maidenhead, SL6 2GQ
Tel: +44 (0)1628 321450
Web: https://cube.studio/ 
CUBE Studio is a 6,500 sq. ft. virtual production studio, located just outside of London, providing a full-service solution for advertising agencies, production houses, enterprise businesses and film and TV.

FoSho Studios
3rd Floor, 4 North Ct, Glasgow G1 2DP
Web: https://foshostudios.com/
FoSho’s ‘Mini Virtual Production Studio’ (MVPS) aims to make virtual production technology available to a wider audience. It will offer full-service virtual productions using their in-house Mini VPS from their studio in central Glasgow from early 2024.

Garden Studios
21 Waxlow Road, London, NW10 7NU
Tel: +44 (0) 20 3034 0377
Web: https://www.gardenstudios.io/  
Garden Studios’ 445 sq. m virtual production space, with its 12m x 4m curved main LED wall with 2.6mm pitch, is the jewel in the crown of its film production complex. 

ILM StageCraft Stage 
Pinewood Studios, Pinewood Road, Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire SL0 0NH
Tel: +44 (0) 1753 651700
Web: https://pinewoodgroup.com/
Hot on the heels of ILM’s existing StageCraft set-up at Manhattan Beach Studios came its UK sibling at Pinewood Studios. Its LED volume is roughly 75ft wide x 90ft long x 23ft tall (23m x 27m x 7m).

The Imaginarium Studios
N Stage, Pinewood Road, Iver, SL0 0NH
Web: https://www.imaginariumstudios.co.uk/
Imaginarium Studios specialises in applying and developing performance capture and virtual production tools to create emotionally engaging and believable digital characters for storytelling in film, television, games, AR, VR and mixed reality.

MARS Volume by Bild 
Unit 1 Hawkers Yard, Stonefield Close, Ruislip, London, HA4 0XT
Tel: +44 (0) 203 287 2853
Web: https://www.marsvolume.com/
Opened in summer 2021, Bild Studios’ 1,400 sq. m facility has the option to create a 270-degree in-camera LED screen up to 38.5m x 5.5m, and a 176 m2 out-of-camera ceiling LED screen.

MVXR by MOOV
22 Uxbridge Rd, London W5 2RJ
Tel: +44 (0)20 4549 7255
Web: https://www.moov.tv/
A new LED virtual production and XR virtual studio at Ealing Broadcast Centre, with a 7.5 x 3.5m ROE LED display (2.83mm pixel pitch).

PROTO
Abbott’s Hill, Baltic Business Quarter, Gateshead, NE8 3DF
Email: sophie.craggs@sunderlandsoftwarecity.com (studio manager Sophie Craggs)
Web: https://www.proto.co.uk/
Opened in March 2023, AMP at PROTO offers filmmakers and other creatives a cutting-edge virtual production stage with an 8×3.5m curved LED screen.

Ramaz Studios
Unit 2, Lyndean Industrial Estate, 137 Felixstowe Rd, Abbey Wood, London SE2 9SG
Tel: +44 (0)20 3196 2882
Web: https://ramazstudios.com/
At Ramaz Studios you’ll find a 5.8 x 3.2m central LED screen, with 1.5 mm pixel pitch total and 3840 x 2160 resolution, along with a Vive tracking system.

Silvertown Studios

Unit 3E, Standard Industrial Estate, London, E16 2ES
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7701 9444
Web: https://www.silvertownstudios.co.uk/
The sound-treated studio at Silvertown’s 6,000 sq. ft (557 sq. m) Royal Docks site has a 12m x 5m LED screen. There is also a studio at Elephant and Castle with a 5.5m x 3m screen.

Warner Bros V Stage
Warner Drive, Leavesden, Hertfordshire, WD25 7LP
Tel: +44 (0) 20 3427 7777
Web: https://www.wbsl.com/
At the Warner Bros Studios near Watford, this virtual production studio features a 7,100 sq. ft (660 sq. m) wraparound virtual production stage with a matrix of more than 2,600 LED panels.

V-Studios by Film Soho (not yet open)
Portland Mews, Soho
Tel: +44 (0)203 9297993 
Web: https://filmsoho.co.uk/v-studios/
Soho’s first virtual production stage, with a 10m x 5m LED wall, is set to open later this year.

South-West England

Distortion
Unit 1 Whitby Rd, Brislington, Bristol, BS4 3QF
Tel: +44 (0)117 972 0081
Web: https://distortion.studio/ 
Distortion Studios are decked out with state-of-the art equipment including 11x4m curved LED Volume, ROE Black Pearl 2 V2 LED panels, 2x2x3m wild wall mobile led panels, 2x Stype RedSpy tracking system, Stage Precision, Pixera Media Servers and Brompton processing.

VERO
1 Whitby Rd, Brislington, Bristol BS4 3QF
Tel: +44 (0) 117 422 0494
Web: https://www.madewithvero.co.uk/
Rather than there being a permanent virtual studio set-up at their Bristol hub, the VERO team builds screens on a per-job basis.

North-West England

Dock10
Media City, White Tower, Manchester, M50 2NT
Tel: +44 (0) 161 886 5321
Web: https://www.dock10.co.uk/
Virtual production technology is offered across all 10 of Dock10’s state-of-the-art studios, with spaces from 1,000 to 12,500 sq. ft (93 to 1161 sq. m).

Pathway
Unit 40 Stretford Motorway Estate, Caledonia Way, Manchester, M32 0ZH
Tel: +44 (0) 161 533 1210
Web: https://www.pathwayxr.studio
Pathway’s 554 sq. m virtual production studio hosts a 10.5m x 4m curved main LED wall with a 2.3 mm pitch and a Mo-Sys StarTracker camera tracking system.

Prox & Reverie
Units B9-12, Church View, Doncaster, South Yorkshire, DN1 1AF
Tel: +44 (0) 1302 768912
Web: https://proxandreverie.com/
Prox & Reverie is based at experimental studio The Forge, featuring a 2,000 sq. ft (186 sq. m) free-roam stage.

Recode XR, Manchester
Unit 2, BEC Arena, Longbridge Rd, Trafford Park, Stretford, Manchester, M17 1SN
Tel: +44 (0) 161 394 0771
Web: https://recode-xr-studio.com/
Not far from Greater Manchester’s Media City, this studio features a 150-degree curved 16m x 4m LED wall with 100 sq. m of LED volume.

XPLOR Centre for Virtual Production
Production Park, Langthwaite Grange Ind. Est., South Kirkby, West Yorkshire, WF9 3NR
Tel: +44 (0) 1977 659 880
Web: https://www.xplor.one/

AUSTRIA

Take 2 Studios
Samergasse 34, 5020 Salzburg
Web: https://take2studios.at/
Founded by sibling team Viktoria and Felix Brandstetter, creative XR studio Take 2 Studios strives to provide clients with an agile, cost-effective, reliable and sustainable virtual production environment.

BELGIUM

Magic Loom
Tel: +32 486 33 13 55
Web: https://magicloom.studio/  
Belgium’s first virtual production studios for cinema offers custom LED volumes with surface on demand and pixel pitch adjusted according to project.

FRANCE

La Planète Rouge
27 Pl. aux Huiles, 13001 Marseille
Tel: +33 (0) 6 99 30 76 63
Web: https://www.laplaneterouge.fr/en/home/
Based inside Provence Studios, The Next Stage has a 60-million pixel LED wall and 12 real-time 3D rendering services.

Plateau Virtuel
Studio du Lendit L3 16, Rue André Campra, 93210 Saint Denis
Tel: +33 (0) 7 69 06 43 67
Web: https://www.plateauvirtuel.com/
In a 700m² set in the Studios de Lendit near Paris stands a 90m² Sony Crystal LED screen intended for quality virtual production on an international scale. 

Virtual Display Services
9 Rue de l’Encyclopédie, 93210 La Plaine-Saint-Denis
Web: https://www.vds.live/
A 915 sq. m virtual production studio in the Paris suburbs.

FINLAND

Fireframe Studios
Helsinki
Web: https://fireframe.fi/
This studio’s curved wall is 18.5m x 5m and is built from 370 ROE Visual Ruby panels, bringing the total pixel count to over 17 million.

GERMANY

DARK BAY Stage
August-Bebel-Str. 26-53, 14482 Potsdam
Tel: +49 331 28127876
Web: https://www.dark-bay.com/
Part of Studio Babelsberg, this virtual production studio is home to a unique revolving stage with a diameter of 69ft (21m).

HYPERBOWL
Kauferinger Strasse 48 Fliegerhorst Landsberg (Lech), 86929 Penzing
Tel: +49 69 999993610
Web: https://www.hyperbowl.de/
Based in a former air force base in Bavaria since January 2022.

STUDIO-xR by PRG
Cinegate – Studio 4, Schimmelmannstraße 123a-125d, 22043 Hamburg
Tel: +44 (0) 345 470 6400
Web: https://studios.prg.com/
A 400 sq. m set-up complete with an LED ceiling, floor and back wall.

ITALY

T6 Green Virtual Studio
Via Tuscolana, 1055, 00173 Roma
Tel: +39 (0) 6 722 861
Web: https://cinecittastudios.it/
Cinecittà film studios is the first virtual production studios in Europe to have a 360-degree green screen.

LATVIA

LEDunit
Ramulu street 29, Riga, LV-1005
Tel: +37 1-221-168-68
Web: https://ledunit.net/
32m x 5m curved 180-degree wall with 100 sq. m trapezoid ceiling in a 1,500 sq. m studio.

THE NETHERLANDS

HeadQ
Binderij 3B, 1185 ZH Amstelveen
Tel: +31 20 889 44 91
Web: https://www.headq.nl/
In Amsterdam’s suburbs you’ll find this 130 sq. m in-house stage with 180-degree soft-lit green infinity wall.

Lukkien
Copernicuslaan 15, 6716 BM Ede
Tel: +31 318 698 000
Web: Lukkien.com
Home to the Netherlands’ largest VP studios, Lukkien’s setup includes a 22m x 5m curved screen with ROE Diamond panels and a Megapixel VR Helios 8K Led processor.

ReadySet Studios
H.J.E. Wenckebachweg 175, 1096 AM Amsterdam
Tel: +31 85 060 85 56
Web: https://readysetstudios.nl/
ReadySet Studios is equipped with a 14m x 5.5m ROE screen with a large LED ceiling and additional mobile LED screen.

NORWAY

Xvision
Myrens Verksted 3C, Bygg D – Inngang D7, 0473 Oslo, Norway
Web: https://www.xvision.no/virtual-production
At Xvision’s 430 sqm studio is a virtual production setup comprising an LED Backwall (14m x 5m, 2.6mm); LED ceiling (6m x 3m, 3.9mm, moveable); and LED reflection wall (4m x 3m, 3.9mm, moveable). The facility also features A6000 based render nodes, brain bar pilot computers and an Optitrack Prime 41 tracking system.

SPAIN

Orca Studios
C. Alfredo L Jones, 5, 35008 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas
Web: https://orcastudios.es
Headquartered in Las Palmas in the Canary Islands, Orca’s 600 sq. m soundstage in Madrid has a hi-res 100sq. m curved LED wall.

SWEDEN

Virtual Star Studios
Vitsavagen 9, 137 91 Vasterhaninge
Tel: +46 (0) 8-505 367 24
Web: https://www.virtualstarstudios.se/virtual-production/
Some of the brands this Swedish virtual production studio has worked with include Warner Bros, Dell and Lindex.

Don’t forget – if your European virtual production studio is missing from the list, please email us at helen@britishcinematographer.co.uk.