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Panoramic perfection CineArray’s multicamera
rigs create the perfect slates for virtual production and VFX
© TIMO HAAPASAARI
V P is here to stay, as evidenced by the proportion of high-end film and television tapping into this transformative sector. But while getting your headline talent into a volume might be easier than shipping an entire film crew out to whatever remote location is the setting for your movie, VP isn’t simply a magic phrase that, once uttered, takes all the hard work out of filming. As with any aspect of filmmaking, quality and planning need to be present at every stage of the process if the final product is to reach the high standards audiences have come to expect. Long before the cast sets foot on that virtual set, a virtual environment has to be made either digitally or, for the utmost realism, by filming multiangle plates on location and stitching them together. One company that’s proving to be a driving force when it comes to the latter
method is CineArray, whose multicamera rigs have seen use on recent high-profile productions including Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning , Fast X , Heart of Stone and Apple’s Constellation . Blockbuster quality CineArray designs and builds bespoke solutions using top-of-the-line cinema cameras and glass. These rigs can be used to shoot extremely high-quality footage for use in virtual sets – or indeed for broader VFX applications. Clients can choose from options for three, six, eight, nine, 12 or more cameras in an array, depending on their requirements for field of view and size and weight of the build, with the most complete options offering high-resolution capture of 360° horizontally, an upright camera with fish-eye lens for light reference or an
CINEARRAY’S LiveStitch ENABLES INSTANT LIVE PREVIEWS OF multicamera VFX arrays ”
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