NEWS Recent Articles Deakin University: Click Here Deakin and Dreamscreen Sign Landmark Virtual Film Production Deal The deal will advance Victoria’s film production capabilities, provide fantastic learning opportunities for Deakin students, enhance Victoria’s creative industries, and enable new research in virtual production.The university has purchased 683 ROE Black Pearl LED panels and associated equipment for $3m in readiness for a new ‘state-of-the-art’ virtual film production studio in Geelong.Under the agreement, Dreamscreen, a world-class film production company based in Melbourne, will have exclusive access to the panels for television and film projects. The Stable: SPORTSBET: BET WITH MATES’ LARRIKIN HUMOUR GETS EVEN MORE APPEALING The cinematic fun continues in this year’s edition of Sportsbet’s Bet With Mates campaign, created in-house for the NRL and AFL seasons.The humour is just as sharp. The twists on classic scenarios just as entertaining, and this time Palomina’s production is enhanced with virtual production technology from Dreamscreen making Ancient Egypt, deserted islands and the Middle Ages even more realistic…….. Sydney Morning Herald: ABC bushfire drama is near perfect – but is it too soon?Landmark ABC drama Fires is a story of loss and heroism But the Dreamscreen is the star of the show. Towering over the truck, the images on its screens are being fed from the “Brain Bar”, rows of desks housing more than a dozen computers controlling the panels. The Coburg warehouse weirdly resembles mission control during a rocket launch…….. Sydney Morning Herald: ABC bushfire drama is near perfect – but is it too soon? Soon they’re caught in a burnover, and no amount of training can prepare them for its terror. Filmed using the Dreamscreen LED rear-projection system developed by Clayton Jacobson, the episode takes us right inside the belly of the beast. What it finds there is panic, confusion, helplessness – and a desperation to survive…….. TV Tonight: Virtual production brings Fires to life “Virtual production was the ideal way for us to create this experience, especially mixed with real special effects,” said Tony Ayres.“We had a screen projecting the fires onto the three curved walls of interlocking LED panels. We had real embers and real smoke and real fire in the frame, and so we created as close as we could a similitude of being in the fire,” he said…….
