The BBC did not have to find the lost city of Atlantis to finance more CGI on their recently shot drama, they just had to call in Kontrol Freax. The revolutionary new real-time 3D visualisation service KFX Aurora Vision is having a dramatic impact on VFX budgets as BBC Northern Ireland discovered when filming Atlantis in South Africa.
"For every pound that we spent on KFX Aurora Vision we saved more than two pounds of VFX post-production costs,"
- Sue Land, VFX Supervisor, Red Vision.
KFX Aurora Vision bridges the real on set and virtual post-production worlds of CGI to substantially save time and money. It includes sophisticated data logging that enables the powerful manipulation of camera positional Meta data. Real-time green screen visualisation allows Directors and actors to quickly and accurately see how real and virtual worlds interact. Seamless translation of data directly into finished Maya scene format heightens on set and post-production efficiency. Aurora Vision is leading the way toward a cheaper, faster and more interactive merging of the on set and post production worlds of CGI.
"This new camera tracking technology actually allows us to afford far more CGI than we could have afforded in the past,"
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Detlef Siebert BBC Producer
KFX Aurora Vision’s suite of powerful features saves time in post-production as well as on set. Simple presentation of camera positional data makes tracking markers unnecessary, allowing actors to confidently perform against a virtual backdrop, and directors to see the shot in realtime. Flexible presentation of information in finished Maya scene format simplifies post-production workflows providing options for the Director and VFX team.
"It is hugely beneficial and saved us an awful lot of time,"
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Tony 'Mitch' Mitchell Director on Atlantis.
Check out how KFX Aurora Vision made such a difference on Atlantis, and if you want to find out more please contact us on info@kontrolfreax.com or call us on +44 (0) 208 992 8222.