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Made in Scotland With a set-up designed and built by Scan’s 3XS Systems, Scottish virtual production specialist Nightsky Studios is on the rise V irtual production (VP) is the fastest-growing area in filmmaking, but establishing ZEISS lenses, ASUS ProArt monitors and ARRI SkyPanel lights. For the pitchvis and previs stages of film projects, the Nightsky content creation team rely on powerful NVIDIA RTX Studio PCs, designed and built by 3XS Systems.
a cutting-edge studio requires expert knowledge and specialist hardware. Nightsky Studios was founded in January 2022 as Scotland’s first dedicated VP studio, turning to Scan to help them realise their ambitions. Ben Bentley, studio executive, says: “It’s been really nice to have Scan as a partner to give us that insight into what technology is available and how we can best use it to our needs. Basically everything we’ve got in the studio came from Scan, as being able to have their pro video and pro audio experts to lean on has made our lives so much easier.” Following months of research, development and proofs of concept, the final studio configuration comprises a scalable LED video wall, powered by five dual NVIDIA RTX A6000 GPU servers, custom designed and built by Scan’s 3XS Systems division, along with other specialist equipment including cameras from the Sony Cinema range,
Lewis Simister, director at Nightsky, adds: “Having used them in the past, when we decided to go down the route of building our Unreal Engine nDisplay servers and content creation systems, our immediate choice was Scan.” As well as providing bleeding-edge VP facilities for the Scottish film industry, Nightsky is part of the Virtual Production Fellowship. This partnership includes Screen Scotland, Final Pixel and Blazing Griffin, an award-winning global creative works with expertise in tech development and education. The Fellowship has been created with the aim of developing a world-class talent pool for the VP industry in Scotland. The studio is now being used by multiple TV and film companies driving VP in Scotland. Contact Scan to see how it can help you with every aspect of VP.
Nightsky Studios and Final Pixel Academy will be on the Scan stand at MPTS on 15 and 16 May in London, where you can learn more about 3XS Systems virtual production, experience an LED wall and join educational sessions delivered by the Final Pixel team.
To discuss your bespoke end-to-end virtual production solution, contact Scan on 01204 474747 or email at scanprovideo@scan.co.uk scan.co.uk/virtualproduction
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