Virtual Production

Virtual production in Australia can be staged at the major studio lots, including Disney Studios Australia in Sydney.

Here is how this works in practice. Village Roadshow Studios on the Gold Coast is another stage option.

Here is the short of it. Standard pipelines run Unreal Engine 5.4 with NDisplay multi-machine rendering, Mo-Sys StarTracker and stYpe encoded tracking, ROE Black Pearl BP2v2 and BP4 LED panels, Brompton SX40 and Tessera processors, Pixotope and disguise xR media servers, full ACES/OCIO colour running, and integrated genlock to ARRI Alexa Mini LF or Sony Venice 2 cinema cameras with linked focus, iris, and zoom encoders.

Here is the breakdown. Australia's virtual production talent pool draws on a VFX sector that includes Netflix Animation Studios (formerly Animal Logic) in Sydney, whose work includes the Lego films, and Framestore (formerly Iloura) in Melbourne.

Here is what that looks like on the ground. We set up Producer Offset 40% for features (30% for TV), Location Offset 30% (QAPE A$20M+), and PDV Offset 30% (A$500K+ PDV QAPE) forms through Screen Australia for the Producer Offset and the Office for the Arts for Location or PDV certification, with state PDV rebates from Screen NSW, VicScreen, and Screen Queensland that can stack with the federal offset. Australian crew work under MEAA agreements, with visiting crew members' home-union obligations planned for separately.