LED Wall Virtual Production

Here is how this works in practice. Our LED wall virtual production network across Australia routes through the country's most advanced stages. Disney Studios Australia in Sydney runs the LED Volume that lensed Thor Ragnarok (Waititi 2017) and Thor Love and Thunder (Waititi 2022) — the country's flagship Stagecraft-aligned site.

Here is the short of it. Village Roadshow Studios on the Gold Coast carries many virtual production stages supporting Aquaman, Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, Pirates of the Caribbean Dead Men Tell No Tales, Elvis (Luhrmann 2022), and Furiosa (Miller 2024).

Here is the breakdown. Standard LED pipelines run Unreal Engine 5.4 with NDisplay multi-machine rendering, Mo-Sys StarTracker and stYpe encoded tracking, ROE Black Pearl BP2v2 and BP4 panels, full Brompton SX40 and Tessera processors, and Pixotope or disguise xR media servers, with colour-managed ACES/OCIO pipelines for matched on-set DI and final post.

Here is what that looks like on the ground. Australia's LED Volume pipeline is in tech mature: Animal Logic (Sydney — the Lego franchise pipeline), Iloura Melbourne (Mad Max Fury Road VFX Oscar nomination), and cross-border partners ILM Stagecraft Los Angeles and Weta FX Wellington (3-hour Sydney-Auckland flight — adjacent to Avatar Way of Water 2022 Manukau performance-capture) feed talent and pipeline into Australian LED Volume work.

Here is how the picture comes together. We set up Producer Offset 30%, Location Offset 30% (QAPE 30M+ AUD), and PDV Offset 30% (5M+ AUD QAPE) forms through Screen Australia, with state PDV rebates stackable up to 40%+ good via Screen NSW, VicScreen, and Screen Queensland. MEAA crew agreements give reciprocal IATSE/DGA/SAG-AFTRA recognition for visiting global shoots. The 12-hour direct LA-Sydney flight on Qantas, United, and American keeps US-based VFX and virtual production talent within reach.