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What Is a Virtual Art Department?

A Virtual Art Department builds the digital worlds used in virtual production, from LED volume backgrounds to virtual scouting environments. Its real impact is less about shiny screens and more about moving creative decisions, budget and risk earlier in the production process.

VADs matter because they move major creative and technical decisions earlier. That can make production more visual and predictable, but it also asks producers, directors, designers, cinematographers and…

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TechnologyPost & FinishingProduction & Set

What, exactly, are Gaussian splats?

Gaussian splatting sounds faintly ridiculous, which is unfortunate, because it is becoming genuinely useful in virtual production, shot planning and VFX. The short version: it can…

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TechnologyProduction & Set

Volumetric Capture

A production technique that uses an array of synchronized cameras to record a subject in three dimensions, creating a true 3D model in motion.

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Digital Twin

A mathematically accurate, photorealistic 3D replica of a physical object, location, or environment.

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