Regina Soundstage searches for crew as virtual studio nears completion

The John Hopkins Regina Soundstage is set to receive some state of the art technology, as components for its new virtual studio have now arrived.

The John Hopkins Regina Soundstage is set to receive some state of the art technology, as components for its new virtual studio have now arrived.

Hundreds of LED panels will be snapped together to create a virtual studio.

“There’s hundreds and hundreds of these. They’re LED panels and they make up the wall that gets utilized as part of the background for virtual production,” Stephen Hall, a Regina film director, told CTV News.

The panels will create a wraparound wall 28 feet tall. It will fill half of the massive Regina studio.

“So when the camera moves, the background can move in 3D so it mimics something called parallax,” Hall explained.

It will allow filmmakers to project different locations onto the screen, eliminating the need for actors and large crews to travel.

“So we have locations in Brazil, we have Paris, we have London, Montreal so a lot of that stuff does get scanned via photogrammetry so we actually go out there, we scan it and then we start stitching it together,” Dante Yore of Volume Global explained.