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First, catch your (CGI) dragon: hope that visual effects breakthrough can reanimate UK film industry
Pioneering startup technology allows camera operators to see on-screen graphics while filming in real world, rather just imagining them
Technicolor, one of the most famous names in movies, went into administration last week, a symptom of a malaise hanging over a British film industry hit by budget cuts and competitors overseas. Joseph Steel, co-founder of Visualskies, which has worked on movies including Paddington in Peru and Napoleon, and his team have found a way to allow camera operators to see onscreen graphics while they are filming in the real world. If a dragon is landing on a beach, you’ll be able to see that in your monitor Joseph Steel, Visualskies co-founder Marty Waters, a VFX supervisor responsible for overseeing effects in movies including Venom: Let There Be Carnage, starring Tom Hardy, said the technology would have “saved a lot of time and money” on previous movies by preventing the need to reshoot scenes or use expensive post-production techniques if a camera operator hadn’t focused on the right place or had used the wrong lens.
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