Brompton boosts virtual production in IEA with Led processing

This Australian film school, games and visual effects has chosen the Tessera SX40 Led processor Brompton Technology, as well as its data distribution units, To feed the videowall of your study, designed with Led panels of Liantronics.

Created as a not-for-profit organisation to boost the creative digital sector in Australia, Academy of Interactive Entertainment (IEA) is the school specialized in games, The most awarded cinema and visual effects in the country, and pioneer in this type of teaching.

Your Canberra campus, in the center of the Australian capital, hosts the Film School, which has a large set of virtual production, equipped with a large videowall, from 18,5×3,5 metre, composed of Liantronics Led panels and fed with the Tessera SX40 processor of Brompton Technology and its data distribution units Tessera XD 10G.

During the present 2023, AIE plans to build a new permanent film studio –AIE Film Studios-, which will have a larger soundstage (from 30x30x15 meters), with an enlarged visual volume of 24×6 M; which is a surface area of 770 m² of Led panels, which will also feature Brompton Led processing.

In the beginning, This new studio will be used for the development of feature films and, later, for television production, as well as for students to perform Integrated practices with IEA industrial partners.

"We have been exploring the features of different Led processing options to make the right choice in this Commercial and training project, here in Australia and in other countries in the future, he explains. Lei Guo, President of Strategic Partnerships and Investments of AIE-. We chose Brompton because its Tessera interface is much easier to use; offers extensive functions to manage how color is represented in our Led screens, as well as a host of camera-centric features, how ShuttterSync".

In this process, Guo claims that they even contacted their supplier of Led panels to make sure that all the screens were configured with Brompton's Led processing..

In addition, in IEA the only Technodolly permanently available in Australia for motion control, that is used in all filming with Led volume, while the visualization software is Unreal Engine.

The AIE Film School offers the world's first full-time two-year course that integrates Virtual Production Technologies for Film Learning, that include preview, Virtual exploration techniques and virtual production shoot, in which real-time environments are used that provide graduates with the necessary knowledge demanded by the industry.

"To start in virtual production you have to learn new techniques, and there's no better way to acquire them than on a real virtual production set," Guo says., In addition to working with state-of-the-art technology, as with Liantronics Led panels and Brompton processing".

“It's great that world-class educational organizations, as AIE Film School, Integrate virtual production technologies into your film courses. This shows students that there is nothing to fear from this new technology.. In fact, It can become a new way of access to film production, and we are delighted that they have chosen our Led processing", Concludes Luke Hurford, Technical Director for Asia-Pacific, Brompton Technology.

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