Gamma XRS Showreel V4

Drawn panels for our shoot. The amber line under a panel is the host line that plays over it. “Watch the moment” opens the reference film at the exact second.

Time / shot	Picture	Host and talkback	On-screen caption
0 · WELCOME0:00 · An empty room wakes up. The host introduces the stage and makes the promise: everything you see was shot here, in camera.
0:00 01 · 5s	STAGE 04 · DAY 1 · 07:58 Opens on black: the Gamma XRS Aperture build (620 ms, hold 1.2 s) over the dark stage. Then the extreme wide from the back of the stage. The wall is dark, work lights only, haze hanging, crew small in silhouette.	HOST: This is Stage 04 at Gamma XRS. Right now, it’s dark.
0:05 02 · 5s	STAGE 04 · DAY 1 · 07:59 Same locked-off wide. The wall fades up section by section to white and floods the crew with light.	HOST: Everything you see next, we shot here. Final pixel, on the day. STAGE: “Wall coming up.”
0:10 03 · 9s	STAGE 04 · DAY 1 · 08:05 HOST (Gamma XRS VP supervisor) walks into frame in front of the glowing wall, turns to camera, gestures back at the screen. Medium wide, slow push in to a mid shot.	HOST: Gamma XRS runs nine LED volumes across two countries, on one colour pipeline. Here’s what that means for your shot.	[NAME] VIRTUAL PRODUCTION SUPERVISOR · GAMMA XRS
1 · IN-CAMERA VFX0:19 · A finished image first, held long enough to believe, then the reveal of how it was made.
0:19 04 · 6s	EXT. EUROPA — ICE PLAIN — DAY Wide, slow push. Three astronauts walk out of a white glare across an ice plain.	HOST: This is a final image. It came straight out of the camera.	IN-CAMERA VFX STAGE 04 · VOLUME ONE · FINAL PIXEL · NO COMP
0:25 05 · 6s	EXT. EUROPA — ICE PLAIN — DAY Low wide. The astronauts are small under the giant planet. Hold the frame long enough to take it in.	HOST: No green screen. No comp. The planet is in the lens.
0:31 06 · 7s	STAGE 04 · DAY 1 · 08:40 Same angle, pulled back past our camera and a softbox. The planet is on the wall; practical ice rocks melt into the LED at the floor line.	HOST: This is a virtual set extension. The rocks are real; the ice plain behind them is on the wall. STAGE: “That’s a print.”	VIRTUAL SET EXTENSIONS THAT LOOK REAL SCENIC ROCKS IN FRONT · VIRTUAL ICE PLAIN BEHIND · ONE FLOOR LINE
0:38 07 · 5.5s	EXT. EUROPA — ICE PLAIN — DAY Close on a helmet visor. The ice world and the planet curve across the glass.	HOST: The world is really there, so it reflects. Visors, glass, water.	REAL REFLECTIONS VISOR · GLASS · WATER · NO ROTO
2 · TRACKING AND PARALLAX0:43 · Why a wall reads as a place: the camera is tracked, perspective moves, and the inner frustum follows the lens.
0:43 08 · 5s	STAGE 04 · DAY 1 · 10:02 Close on the tracking crown on top of the camera. Rack focus from the markers to the wall behind.	HOST: The camera is tracked. The wall follows the lens in 4.2 milliseconds.	CAMERA TRACKING CAMERA TO WALL 4.2 MS · MEASURED AT [CONFIRM]
0:48 09 · 6s	STAGE 04 · DAY 1 · 10:20 Dolly track leads to a lone actor in a teal machine hall. As the dolly moves, the wall’s perspective moves with it.	HOST: Move the camera, and the world moves with true perspective.	PARALLAX TRACKED DOLLY · PERSPECTIVE SOLVED EVERY FRAME
0:54 10 · 6s	EXT. PINE RIDGE — DUSK A man in silhouette walks a forest ridge at dusk. The camera tracks alongside; near trunks slide past faster than the far treeline.	HOST: Track alongside an actor, and every tree shifts as it would on location.	WALK AND TRACK TRACKED DOLLY · 6 M WALK · FOREST IN ENGINE
1:00 11 · 7s	STAGE 04 · DAY 1 · 10:45 An actor in silhouette against the inner frustum, switched to green, while the rest of the wall keeps lighting the set.	HOST: The sharpest pixels follow the lens. Need VFX later? We key just that patch green.	INNER FRUSTUM FULL RESOLUTION WHERE THE LENS LOOKS · GREEN ON CUE
3 · REAL-TIME CHARACTERS1:07 · A CG giant performed live, so the actor has something real to react to.
1:07 12 · 4s	STAGE 04 · DAY 1 · 11:15 Extreme wide in silhouette. Actor on a rock riser, misty stone spires on the wall. No dialogue; let the music breathe.	STAGE: “Loading the pinnacles. Fog in.”
1:11 13 · 5s	EXT. THE PINNACLES — DAWN MCU. The heroine looks up. A giant shape moves in the fog behind her.	HOST: Your actors react to something real.
1:16 14 · 7s	STAGE 04 · DAY 1 · 11:52 Wide. A mocap performer in the corner of the stage raises an arm; on the wall the stone giant raises its arm with them, in real time.	HOST: The giant is played live, by a performer in a motion-capture suit on the floor. STAGE: “Giant’s live. Go ahead and move.”	LIVE PERFORMANCE CAPTURE MOCAP SUIT → UNREAL LIVE LINK → CHARACTER ON THE WALL
4 · LIGHT1:23 · The wall is the key light. Time of day on a fader, sunrise on demand, stage lights cued by the engine.
1:23 15 · 8s	STAGE 04 · DAY 3 · 08:10 HOST in the wasteland set, half-lit by the wall. Points up at the sky on the wall, then at the actor’s face.	HOST: The wall is also your biggest light. Change the sky, and every face changes with it.	THE WALL IS THE LIGHT LED SKY LIGHTS ACTORS AND SET
1:31 16 · 6s	STAGE 04 · DAY 3 · 08:20 Locked extreme wide of the wasteland set. The wall shifts from red dusk to bright amber and the whole set relights with it.	STAGE: “Take us to golden hour.”	TIME OF DAY DUSK → GOLDEN HOUR · ONE FADER
1:37 17 · 5.5s	EXT. RIVIERA TERRACE — DUSK Close on a woman at a candlelit terrace table. The sea and mountains sit behind her at dusk.	HOST: Golden hour lasts twenty minutes on location. Here, it lasts all afternoon.
1:43 18 · 5s	EXT. LAKE PAVILION — SUNRISE Two robed figures in silhouette between pavilion pillars. Golden mist over the lake.
1:48 19 · 5s	STAGE 04 · DAY 3 · 11:20 The brain bar: operators at screens, the wall glowing beyond them. Slow track left along the desk.	HOST: One desk runs the wall, the engine and the stage lights.	THE BRAIN BAR WALL · ENGINE · LIGHTING DESK
1:53 20 · 6s	STAGE 04 · DAY 3 · 11:30 Night campfire set. A cyan beam drops from an overhead fixture onto an actor as a ship appears on the wall.	HOST: So a light cue lands on a story beat. STAGE: “Beam on my cue… now.”	LIGHTING CUED BY THE ENGINE UNREAL → DMX · FIXTURE FIRES ON THE SHIP CUE
5 · LOCATIONS WITHOUT TRAVEL1:59 · Paris to New York between takes, night driving with a parked car, and a motorbike on a stand with the road moving past. No vehicle rig.
1:59 21 · 4.5s	EXT. PARIS — DAY Front-on medium wide. A parked car, headlights on, a Paris avenue and landmark behind it.	HOST: Paris.
2:03 22 · 5s	STAGE 04 · DAY 2 · 12:10 Extreme wide of the volume, car centred. The wall cuts from the sunny avenue to a neon night square and the crew changes colour with it.	HOST: New York. Between takes. STAGE: “Swap to New York.”	LOCATION CHANGE PARIS → NEW YORK · BETWEEN TAKES
2:08 23 · 6s	EXT. CITY — NIGHT — DRIVING Through the windscreen. The driver is lit by city bokeh streaming past. The car is parked.	HOST: For driving scenes, the car stays parked. The plates do the moving.	DRIVING, NO RIG PARKED CAR · PLATES ON WALL AND CEILING
2:14 24 · 3s	EXT. CITY — NIGHT — DRIVING ECU on glossy paint. Neon city slides across the bodywork.
2:17 25 · 5.5s	EXT. BURNT ROAD — DUSK — MOVING A rider on a motorbike tears down a burnt-out road, dead trees streaming past. The bike sits on a stand; only the road moves.	HOST: Bikes work the same way. The bike stays on a stand. The road comes to you.	MOVING BACKGROUND BIKE ON A STAND · ROAD PLATE ON THE WALL · FANS FOR WIND
2:23 26 · 4s	STAGE 04 · DAY 2 · 15:20 Wide on the stage. The rider sits on the bike in front of the moving wall; fans blow, the camera crane hangs overhead.	STAGE: “Fans up. Roll the road.”
6 · SCALE AND EFFECTS2:27 · Set extension, digital crowds, a climber on a rope, a run through smoke, sparks and rain, all live in the volume.
2:27 27 · 5s	STAGE 04 · DAY 3 · 15:00 A practical pavement with bikes and a kerb flows into an LED city street. Slow push toward the seam.	HOST: Real pavement, real bikes, then pixels. Find the seam.	FLOOR-TO-WALL BLEND PRACTICAL PAVEMENT → LED STREET
2:32 28 · 5s	EXT. ARENA — DAY Extreme wide. An arena packed with a digital crowd; two gladiators on practical sand.	HOST: Ten thousand in the stands. Six extras on the sand.	DIGITAL CROWD 10,000 IN ENGINE · 6 ON THE SAND
2:37 29 · 4s	STAGE 04 · DAY 1 · 17:05 Wide. A practical tank hull on a dirt floor; a fighter crosses the sky on the wall; smoke plume behind.	STAGE: “Planes inbound.”
2:41 30 · 4s	EXT. FRONT LINE — DAY Handheld. A soldier ducks as the plane passes overhead. Practical sparks.	HOST: Smoke, sparks and haze play live against the wall.	PRACTICAL FX SPARKS · SMOKE · HAZE · IN THE VOLUME
2:45 31 · 6s	EXT. NORTH FACE — DAY A climber hangs on a rope against a cliff, peaks far below. Split frame in the edit: the final on top, the stage underneath.	HOST: Stunts work here too. A climber on a rope, a cliff on the wall, a mat below.	STUNTS ON A LINE ROPE FROM THE TRUSS · ROCK FLAT · CLIFF ON THE WALL
2:51 32 · 4s	STAGE 04 · DAY 3 · 09:10 An actor runs through smoke toward the burning sky on the wall; a handheld operator chases behind.	HOST: And if the scene needs a run, there’s room to run.	ACTION ON THE FLOOR HANDHELD · PRACTICAL SMOKE · 8 M RUN
2:55 33 · 4s	EXT. ROADSIDE — NIGHT — RAIN Rain and haze. Red tail-lights, a hooded figure, red light across a face.	HOST: So does rain.
2:59 34 · 4s	EXT. BATTLEFIELD — DUSK A rider before an army that fills the horizon.	STAGE: “Give me ten thousand more.”
7 · THE REVEAL3:03 · One last world, the widest pull back, and the offer.
3:03 35 · 7s	STAGE 04 · DAY 2 · 18:40 HOST in front of the mountain-pass world, the red car behind. Speaks to camera, then steps out of frame.	HOST: Any world. Any hour. Any weather. You see the final on the day.
3:10 36 · 4s	EXT. MOUNTAIN PASS — DAY A woman beside the open door of a red car. A mountain valley falls away behind her.
3:14 37 · 6s	STAGE 04 · DAY 2 · 18:55 Pull back. The valley is the wall, the car sits on a dressed floor, crew all around.	STAGE: “Checking the gate…”	FINAL + STAGE ONE FRAME
3:20 38 · 6s	STAGE 04 · DAY 3 · 19:02 The widest frame of the shoot: the whole volume from the highest point, haze, one world still glowing, crew tiny.	HOST: Gamma XRS. Final pixel, on the day. STAGE: “That’s a wrap on the world.”
3:26 39 · 5s	Void ground. Static tagline lockup (lockup E): “Final pixel, on the day.” and gammaxrs.com. No animation: the guide allows the Aperture build only at the head of a film.

0 · WELCOME

An empty room wakes up. The host introduces the stage and makes the promise: everything you see was shot here, in camera.

010:00 · 5sSTAGE

STAGE 04 · DAY 1 · 07:58

Opens on black: the Gamma XRS Aperture build (620 ms, hold 1.2 s) over the dark stage. Then the extreme wide from the back of the stage. The wall is dark, work lights only, haze hanging, crew small in silhouette.

This is Stage 04 at Gamma XRS. Right now, it’s dark.

Kit: Haze, Work lights on dimmers, Aperture build animation from the brand team (ProRes 4444 with alpha)

World: Stage 1 (empty volume, brain bar)

Reference #3: Unreal Engine, 0:00 · watch the moment

020:05 · 5sSTAGE

STAGE 04 · DAY 1 · 07:59

Same locked-off wide. The wall fades up section by section to white and floods the crew with light.

Everything you see next, we shot here. Final pixel, on the day.

Kit: Locked-off wide, Processor fade cue

World: Stage 1 (empty volume, brain bar)

Reference #11: Tyler Casey, 0:04 · watch the moment

030:10 · 9sHOST

STAGE 04 · DAY 1 · 08:05

HOST (Gamma XRS VP supervisor) walks into frame in front of the glowing wall, turns to camera, gestures back at the screen. Medium wide, slow push in to a mid shot.

Gamma XRS runs nine LED volumes across two countries, on one colour pipeline. Here’s what that means for your shot.

[NAME]

Kit: Host lav mic, Steadicam or slider, Lower-third graphic

World: Stage 1 (empty volume, brain bar)

Reference #5: Doctor Who (BBC), 0:31 · watch the moment

1 · IN-CAMERA VFX

A finished image first, held long enough to believe, then the reveal of how it was made.

040:19 · 6sFINAL

EXT. EUROPA — ICE PLAIN — DAY

Wide, slow push. Three astronauts walk out of a white glare across an ice plain.

This is a final image. It came straight out of the camera.

IN-CAMERA VFX

Kit: 3 astronaut suits, Practical ice floor, Dolly push

World: Ice moon with gas giant

Reference #7: Sony, 0:05 · watch the moment

050:25 · 6sFINAL

EXT. EUROPA — ICE PLAIN — DAY

Low wide. The astronauts are small under the giant planet. Hold the frame long enough to take it in.

No green screen. No comp. The planet is in the lens.

Kit: Low mode, Wide lens

World: Ice moon with gas giant

Reference #7: Sony, 2:37 · watch the moment

060:31 · 7sFINAL + STAGE

STAGE 04 · DAY 1 · 08:40

Same angle, pulled back past our camera and a softbox. The planet is on the wall; practical ice rocks melt into the LED at the floor line.

This is a virtual set extension. The rocks are real; the ice plain behind them is on the wall.

VIRTUAL SET EXTENSIONS THAT LOOK REAL

Kit: Second camera for the reveal, Practical ice rocks, Floor-line dressing

World: Ice moon with gas giant

Reference #7: Sony, 2:47 · watch the moment

070:38 · 5.5sFINAL

EXT. EUROPA — ICE PLAIN — DAY

Close on a helmet visor. The ice world and the planet curve across the glass.

The world is really there, so it reflects. Visors, glass, water.

REAL REFLECTIONS

Kit: Mirrored visor, 100mm macro

World: Ice moon with gas giant

Reference #7: Sony, 6:04 · watch the moment

2 · TRACKING AND PARALLAX

Why a wall reads as a place: the camera is tracked, perspective moves, and the inner frustum follows the lens.

080:43 · 5sSTAGE

STAGE 04 · DAY 1 · 10:02

Close on the tracking crown on top of the camera. Rack focus from the markers to the wall behind.

The camera is tracked. The wall follows the lens in 4.2 milliseconds.

CAMERA TRACKING

Kit: Tracking system (e.g. Mo-Sys, stYpe, OptiTrack), Macro lens

World: Stage 1 (empty volume, brain bar)

Reference #5: Doctor Who (BBC), 0:37 · watch the moment

090:48 · 6sSTAGE

STAGE 04 · DAY 1 · 10:20

Dolly track leads to a lone actor in a teal machine hall. As the dolly moves, the wall’s perspective moves with it.

Move the camera, and the world moves with true perspective.

PARALLAX

Kit: Dolly + track, Tracking system

World: Sci-fi machine hall

Reference #20: Versatile Media, 0:10 · watch the moment

100:54 · 6sFINAL

EXT. PINE RIDGE — DUSK

A man in silhouette walks a forest ridge at dusk. The camera tracks alongside; near trunks slide past faster than the far treeline.

Track alongside an actor, and every tree shifts as it would on location.

WALK AND TRACK

Kit: Dolly + track parallel to the wall, Practical ferns and logs at the floor seam, Haze

World: Pine ridge at dusk

Reference #3: Unreal Engine, 1:06 · watch the moment

111:00 · 7sSTAGE

STAGE 04 · DAY 1 · 10:45

An actor in silhouette against the inner frustum, switched to green, while the rest of the wall keeps lighting the set.

The sharpest pixels follow the lens. Need VFX later? We key just that patch green.

INNER FRUSTUM

Kit: Tracking system, Green frustum preset

World: WWII front line

Reference #12: SMASH Virtual Studios, 1:23 · watch the moment

3 · REAL-TIME CHARACTERS

A CG giant performed live, so the actor has something real to react to.

121:07 · 4sSTAGE

STAGE 04 · DAY 1 · 11:15

Extreme wide in silhouette. Actor on a rock riser, misty stone spires on the wall. No dialogue; let the music breathe.

Kit: Jib, Rock riser, Haze

World: Stone pinnacles with live giant

Reference #17: Orbital Studios, 0:00 · watch the moment

131:11 · 5sFINAL

EXT. THE PINNACLES — DAWN

MCU. The heroine looks up. A giant shape moves in the fog behind her.

Your actors react to something real.

Kit: Armour costume, Haze, Backlight from wall

World: Stone pinnacles with live giant

Reference #17: Orbital Studios, 0:48 · watch the moment

141:16 · 7sSTAGE

STAGE 04 · DAY 1 · 11:52

Wide. A mocap performer in the corner of the stage raises an arm; on the wall the stone giant raises its arm with them, in real time.

The giant is played live, by a performer in a motion-capture suit on the floor.

LIVE PERFORMANCE CAPTURE

Kit: Mocap suit (e.g. Rokoko or Xsens, rentable), Live Link into Unreal, Rigged character

World: Stone pinnacles with live giant

Reference #17: Orbital Studios, 1:22 · watch the moment

4 · LIGHT

The wall is the key light. Time of day on a fader, sunrise on demand, stage lights cued by the engine.

151:23 · 8sHOST

STAGE 04 · DAY 3 · 08:10

HOST in the wasteland set, half-lit by the wall. Points up at the sky on the wall, then at the actor’s face.

The wall is also your biggest light. Change the sky, and every face changes with it.

THE WALL IS THE LIGHT

Kit: Host lav mic, Handheld

World: Wasteland (time of day)

Reference #5: Doctor Who (BBC), 0:51 · watch the moment

161:31 · 6sSTAGE

STAGE 04 · DAY 3 · 08:20

Locked extreme wide of the wasteland set. The wall shifts from red dusk to bright amber and the whole set relights with it.

TIME OF DAY

Kit: Locked-off wide, Sky look presets

World: Wasteland (time of day)

Reference #5: Doctor Who (BBC), 2:46 · watch the moment

171:37 · 5.5sFINAL

EXT. RIVIERA TERRACE — DUSK

Close on a woman at a candlelit terrace table. The sea and mountains sit behind her at dusk.

Golden hour lasts twenty minutes on location. Here, it lasts all afternoon.

Kit: Terrace set, Period wardrobe, Practical candles

World: Riviera terrace at dusk

Reference #3: Unreal Engine, 2:40 · watch the moment

181:43 · 5sFINAL

EXT. LAKE PAVILION — SUNRISE

Two robed figures in silhouette between pavilion pillars. Golden mist over the lake.

Kit: Pavilion pillars, Haze, Backlight from wall

World: Lake pavilion at sunrise

Reference #15: Versatile Media, 1:20 · watch the moment

191:48 · 5sSTAGE

STAGE 04 · DAY 3 · 11:20

The brain bar: operators at screens, the wall glowing beyond them. Slow track left along the desk.

One desk runs the wall, the engine and the stage lights.

THE BRAIN BAR

Kit: Brain bar dressed and lit, Slider

World: Stage 1 (empty volume, brain bar)

Reference #7: Sony, 1:18 · watch the moment

201:53 · 6sSTAGE

STAGE 04 · DAY 3 · 11:30

Night campfire set. A cyan beam drops from an overhead fixture onto an actor as a ship appears on the wall.

So a light cue lands on a story beat.

LIGHTING CUED BY THE ENGINE

Kit: Moving-head fixture on truss, Practical fire, Engine-to-DMX link

World: Night forest campfire + spaceship

Reference #11: Tyler Casey, 2:54 · watch the moment

5 · LOCATIONS WITHOUT TRAVEL

Paris to New York between takes, night driving with a parked car, and a motorbike on a stand with the road moving past. No vehicle rig.

211:59 · 4.5sFINAL

EXT. PARIS — DAY

Front-on medium wide. A parked car, headlights on, a Paris avenue and landmark behind it.

Paris.

Kit: Parked hero car (no rig), Photoreal city environment or plate

World: Paris boulevard (day)

Reference #1: Virtual Production Academy, 0:01 · watch the moment

222:03 · 5sSTAGE

STAGE 04 · DAY 2 · 12:10

Extreme wide of the volume, car centred. The wall cuts from the sunny avenue to a neon night square and the crew changes colour with it.

New York. Between takes.

LOCATION CHANGE

Kit: Two loaded environments, Parked car

World: Neon square (night)

Reference #1: Virtual Production Academy, 0:11 · watch the moment

232:08 · 6sFINAL

EXT. CITY — NIGHT — DRIVING

Through the windscreen. The driver is lit by city bokeh streaming past. The car is parked.

For driving scenes, the car stays parked. The plates do the moving.

DRIVING, NO RIG

Kit: Parked car (no rig), Night driving plates, Ceiling or overhead panel for reflections

World: Night city driving plates

Reference #22: Teleport VP Studios, 0:23 · watch the moment

242:14 · 3sFINAL

EXT. CITY — NIGHT — DRIVING

ECU on glossy paint. Neon city slides across the bodywork.

Kit: Dark gloss car, Macro slider

World: Night city driving plates

Reference #22: Teleport VP Studios, 0:32 · watch the moment

252:17 · 5.5sFINAL

EXT. BURNT ROAD — DUSK — MOVING

A rider on a motorbike tears down a burnt-out road, dead trees streaming past. The bike sits on a stand; only the road moves.

Bikes work the same way. The bike stays on a stand. The road comes to you.

MOVING BACKGROUND

Kit: Motorbike on a paddock stand (no rig), Two wind fans, Road environment or plate

World: Burnt-out road (moving)

Reference #11: Tyler Casey, 0:35 · watch the moment

262:23 · 4sSTAGE

STAGE 04 · DAY 2 · 15:20

Wide on the stage. The rider sits on the bike in front of the moving wall; fans blow, the camera crane hangs overhead.

Kit: Fans, Camera on a jib or crane

World: Burnt-out road (moving)

Reference #2: Sony / PXO, 2:10 · watch the moment

6 · SCALE AND EFFECTS

Set extension, digital crowds, a climber on a rope, a run through smoke, sparks and rain, all live in the volume.

272:27 · 5sSTAGE

STAGE 04 · DAY 3 · 15:00

A practical pavement with bikes and a kerb flows into an LED city street. Slow push toward the seam.

Real pavement, real bikes, then pixels. Find the seam.

FLOOR-TO-WALL BLEND

Kit: Pavement build, Bikes, bollards, Colour match

World: Brick city street

Reference #21: Netflix Production Technology, 0:52 · watch the moment

282:32 · 5sFINAL

EXT. ARENA — DAY

Extreme wide. An arena packed with a digital crowd; two gladiators on practical sand.

Ten thousand in the stands. Six extras on the sand.

DIGITAL CROWD

Kit: Sand floor, Crowd system, 4–6 extras

World: Arena with digital crowd

Reference #3: Unreal Engine, 2:21 · watch the moment

292:37 · 4sSTAGE

STAGE 04 · DAY 1 · 17:05

Wide. A practical tank hull on a dirt floor; a fighter crosses the sky on the wall; smoke plume behind.

Kit: Tank hull scenic (static), Dirt floor, Animated aircraft

World: WWII front line

Reference #12: SMASH Virtual Studios, 0:15 · watch the moment

302:41 · 4sFINAL

EXT. FRONT LINE — DAY

Handheld. A soldier ducks as the plane passes overhead. Practical sparks.

Smoke, sparks and haze play live against the wall.

PRACTICAL FX

Kit: Spark gag, Haze, Handheld

World: WWII front line

Reference #12: SMASH Virtual Studios, 0:18 · watch the moment

312:45 · 6sFINAL + STAGE

EXT. NORTH FACE — DAY

A climber hangs on a rope against a cliff, peaks far below. Split frame in the edit: the final on top, the stage underneath.

Stunts work here too. A climber on a rope, a cliff on the wall, a mat below.

STUNTS ON A LINE

Kit: Stunt coordinator and rigger, Rope rig from the roof truss, Practical rock-face flat 3 m high, Crash mat

World: Cliff face

Reference #8: DJI, 0:05 · watch the moment

322:51 · 4sSTAGE

STAGE 04 · DAY 3 · 09:10

An actor runs through smoke toward the burning sky on the wall; a handheld operator chases behind.

And if the scene needs a run, there’s room to run.

ACTION ON THE FLOOR

Kit: Clear 8 m run line, Smoke, Handheld operator

World: Wasteland (time of day)

Reference #5: Doctor Who (BBC), 0:26 · watch the moment

332:55 · 4sFINAL

EXT. ROADSIDE — NIGHT — RAIN

Rain and haze. Red tail-lights, a hooded figure, red light across a face.

So does rain.

Kit: Rain bars downstage, Wall protection, Parked car

World: Rainy roadside (night)

Reference #18: The Granary, 0:57 · watch the moment

342:59 · 4sFINAL

EXT. BATTLEFIELD — DUSK

A rider before an army that fills the horizon.

Kit: Horse or horse buck, Army crowd system

World: Army battlefield

Reference #15: Versatile Media, 0:50 · watch the moment

7 · THE REVEAL

One last world, the widest pull back, and the offer.

353:03 · 7sHOST

STAGE 04 · DAY 2 · 18:40

HOST in front of the mountain-pass world, the red car behind. Speaks to camera, then steps out of frame.

Any world. Any hour. Any weather. You see the final on the day.

Kit: Host lav mic

World: Mountain pass

Reference #7: Sony, 1:38 · watch the moment

363:10 · 4sFINAL

EXT. MOUNTAIN PASS — DAY

A woman beside the open door of a red car. A mountain valley falls away behind her.

Kit: Parked red car, Dressed floor, Valley environment

World: Mountain pass

Reference #18: The Granary, 0:23 · watch the moment

373:14 · 6sFINAL + STAGE

STAGE 04 · DAY 2 · 18:55

Pull back. The valley is the wall, the car sits on a dressed floor, crew all around.

FINAL + STAGE

Kit: Long dolly pull or jib, Reveal camera

World: Mountain pass

Reference #18: The Granary, 0:27 · watch the moment

383:20 · 6sSTAGE

STAGE 04 · DAY 3 · 19:02

The widest frame of the shoot: the whole volume from the highest point, haze, one world still glowing, crew tiny.

Gamma XRS. Final pixel, on the day.

Kit: High vantage (scissor lift or indoor drone), Haze

World: Stage 1 (empty volume, brain bar)

Reference #2: Sony / PXO, 2:06 · watch the moment

393:26 · 5sTITLE

Void ground. Static tagline lockup (lockup E): “Final pixel, on the day.” and gammaxrs.com. No animation: the guide allows the Aperture build only at the head of a film.

Kit: Tagline lockup artwork from the brand team

Need	Asset	Store	Price
Ice plains and cliffs	Scifi Arctic Biome (KK Design) 16 km² photoreal sci-fi arctic, PCG + Nanite. Needs UE 5.6+.	Fab	₹11,220 (sale ₹3,366)	TOP PICK
	Arctic Cliffs (Konstantin Bugakov) Hero ice cliffs and ice sheets.	Fab	₹3,926
	Ice Cave – Modular Set + PCG Spline Tool Ice cave from a spline. UE 5.7 only.	Fab	Confirm
Gas giant	16K Gas Giants (Mathew81) 30 gas giants, 16K textures. The Jupiter in the sky.	Fab	₹1,458 (sale ₹729)	TOP PICK
	Jupiter (Nestaeric) FBX; set up the material yourself.	Fab	Free
Astronauts (digital doubles in the distance)	Astronova – Astronaut Character (BigMediumSmall) Cinematic hero astronaut, 30 poses. Also the design reference for the practical suits.	Fab	from ₹11,220	TOP PICK
	Helios Astronaut Suit (MetaHuman) For a mocap-driven astronaut.	Fab	from ₹5,048

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Sci-fi machine hall with pods	Sci-Fi Creatures Research Lab (Tirgames) Rows of glowing cryo capsules with a demo level. Retint to teal.	Fab	from ₹3,926	TOP PICK
	Sci-Fi Cryo Stasis Capsules (Tirgames) 14 capsule types to line the hall.	Fab	from ₹2,243
	MASSIV Modular Sci-Fi Facility 300+ modular pieces for the hall shell.	Fab	₹5,610 on sale
	Sci-Fi / Futuristic Corridor (Leartes) Corridor alternative.	Fab	₹5,609

Need	Asset	Store	Price
Misty stone pinnacles	Scifi Jungle Biome (KK Design) Avatar-style jungle, 4.6★ from 151 reviews. Add rock spires and height fog.	Fab	from ₹11,220	TOP PICK
	Guilin Karst Landscape (Magicvalley) Real karst cones from elevation data.	Fab	₹7,853 (sale ₹3,927)
	Rock pillars (DmitriyDryzhak) Tall pillars; retexture with moss.	Fab	from ₹2,243
	Electric Dreams Env (Epic) Photoreal jungle rocks; heavy, strip it down.	Fab	Free
Stone giant for live mocap	Rock Golem (Etherion Designs) Rigged to UE4 and UE5 Mannequin skeletons, so mocap retargeting is simple. 8K textures.	Fab	from ₹2,243	TOP PICK
	Stone Golem (buxoided) 3.2 m, stone/snow/lava variants; check the UE skeleton.	Fab	from ₹5,609
	Stone Golem – game-ready (Feyloom) Cheapest; confirm the UE5 skeleton.	CGTrader	$15 (shown $7.50)

Need	Asset	Store	Price
Wasteland	Wasteland Environment (Leartes) 168 meshes, two lighting setups. Base for the dusk-to-golden change.	Fab	from ₹7,853	TOP PICK
	Desert Planet Environment (Leartes) If the brief leans alien.	Fab	from ₹7,853
	Post-Apocalyptic Wasteland (GeorgeShachnev) Cheap debris dressing.	Fab	from ₹2,467
	KitBash3D Wasteland Big wreckage silhouettes.	KitBash3D	$145
Giant skeleton (optional)	Desert Boneyard / 71 Assets (PackDev) Check the screenshots for a large ribcage.	Fab	from ₹3,365	TOP PICK

Need	Asset	Store	Price
Mediterranean coast + town	Mediterranean Coast (MYTHRA TECH) Sea, cliffs, background mountains. 4.4★ from 101 reviews. Coastline only: pair with a town pack.	Fab	$159.99 (sale ~ $80 to 17 Oct)	TOP PICK
	Italian Alley Environment (Leartes) Realistic Italian facades for the foreground.	Fab	$109.99 (sale ~ $55)
	Rome – Italian Town (Scans Factory) Scan-based, 1,000+ modular assets, 4.6★.	Fab	$69.99
	Positano coastal town (free backdrop) FBX, marked experimental. Distant background card only.	Fab	Free
Dusk sky (HDRI)	qwantani_dusk_2 Up to 16K+.	Poly Haven	Free (CC0)	TOP PICK
	small_harbour_sunset Sea at sunset.	Poly Haven	Free (CC0)

Need	Asset	Store	Price
Lake with Chinese pavilion	Chinese Lakeside Town Environment (Leartes) Lakeside town with water, demo map. Needs the Water plugin: profile it on the cluster.	Fab	$69.99	TOP PICK
	Traditional Chinese Style Park (cgmomokey) Song-dynasty pavilion kit over water. 4.7★ from 63 reviews.	Fab	$99.99
	Modular Chinese Canal Town (BillCrate) Jiangnan canal town.	Fab	$54.99
	KHS – Gyeonghoeru, Gyeongbokgung Palace Official heritage pavilion on a pond. Korean, not Chinese.	Fab	Free
Sunrise sky (HDRI)	lakeside_dawn	Poly Haven	Free (CC0)	TOP PICK
	qwantani_sunrise	Poly Haven	Free (CC0)

Need	Asset	Store	Price
Moonlit forest clearing	Spruce Forest (Andrey Gubin) Photoscanned trees, wind, light enough for nDisplay.	Fab	$34.99 (sale ~ $10.50)	TOP PICK
	Dark Forest Misty Pine Trees Comes with a night scene. Low-poly.	Fab	$59.99
	Electric Dreams Env (Epic) Photoreal PCG forest; bake PCG first.	Fab	Free
Spaceship / UFO	Alien Mothership Z – mid-poly UFO Worn classic saucer, 4K PBR.	Fab	$14.99	TOP PICK
	Alien Mother Ship (Naked Singularity) Huge cinematic mothership.	Fab	$69.99 (sale ~ $35)
Night sky (HDRI)	rogland_moonlit_night	Poly Haven	Free (CC0)	TOP PICK

Need	Asset	Store	Price
Paris boulevard (day)	Modular Paris City Street (Leartes) Photoreal Haussmann street with a lit daylight scene and a free demo.	Fab	$39.99 (~$80 Pro)	TOP PICK
	Paris Dauphine Street (Digikore) Built for LED volumes, but lit for dusk.	Fab	$249.99
	City Core – Paris (PolySphere) Procedural boulevard builder; heavier.	Fab	$219.99 (sale −30%)
	KitBash3D Paris Kit, not a lit scene. Includes Haussmann blocks and the Arc.	KitBash3D	$245

Need	Asset	Store	Price
Neon night square	NYC \| New York Night (Kyrylo Sibiriakov) Photoreal Manhattan night, Lumen + Nanite.	Fab	$89.99 (sale −50% to 23 Oct)	TOP PICK
	City Sample (Epic) Huge; cut a small section for nDisplay.	Fab	Free
	New York City Times Square (NoneCG) Accurate, but not UE-native: import and optimise.	Fab	$199.99
	Neon Point – Chinese Streets (Dekogon) Neon street, not NYC.	Fab	$84.99

Need	Asset	Store	Price
Night driving plates (2D video)	DrivingPlates.com 175+ cities incl. Europe, 8 angles + reflection angle, 6K. Best for Paris/EU night.	Plate library	Quote	TOP PICK
	DrivingFootage.com US cities, 4K, published prices.	Plate library	$459 per angle / $2,999 per 9-angle set
	PlatePros 12K/16K stitched plates made for LED volumes. US only.	Plate library	From ~$3,500 per clip
	Pond5 – night city driving plates Cheap single-angle clips. Fine through windows only.	Pond5	~$16–60 per clip

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Brick city street	Modular Amsterdam City Street with Canal Brick, bikes, cafés. 4.8★ from 19 reviews.	Fab	$99.99	TOP PICK
	London – British Environment (Scans Factory) Photogrammetry, lots of brick, fast.	Fab	$49.99
	European City Streets (PixelPress)	Fab	$69.99 (sale −50%)
	Urban Street Pavestone Red (Megascans) Match the practical pavement to this scan.	Fab	Free

Need	Asset	Store	Price
Arena	Gladiator Arena – Modular Roman Combat Environment Modular seating, gates, banners; lists virtual production as a use.	Fab	Confirm	TOP PICK
	KitBash3D Roman Empire Includes a Colosseum; check interior detail.	KitBash3D	$145
	Roman Colosseum Ruins (8K) Ruined, present-day look.	Superhive	$100
Crowd system	OverCrowd Thousands of animated people via VAT. Cheap on nDisplay and plays the same on every node.	Fab	Confirm	TOP PICK
	City Sample Crowds (Epic) Modern clothing: retexture for Roman crowds.	Fab	Free
	MetaHuman Crowds sample Photoreal but heavy.	Epic	Free
Gladiators (optional, digital doubles)	Munkhartist – Gladiator Modular Character Epic skeleton, sword and shield.	Fab	Confirm

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WWII ruined town / front line	WW2 Warzone Environment Megapack (Leartes) 800+ Nanite meshes, destroyed variants, low-poly versions for nDisplay, includes VFX. Listing mentions virtual production.	Fab	Confirm	TOP PICK
	KitBash3D World War 2 76 models; you build the town.	KitBash3D	$245
	World War 2: Liberation Paris-style WWII city; very large.	Fab	Confirm
Aircraft + tank	Vesper System WW2 & Vintage Aircraft (animated) Rigged flight animations; .blend, convert to UE.	Fab	Confirm	TOP PICK
	Sherman M4A3 76W Rigged + Interior Use as the build reference for the physical hull.	Gumroad	~$150 (confirm)
	Free Sherman mesh (reference only) Proportions for the set build.	Sketchfab	Free (CC-BY)
Smoke and fire	Niagara Examples (Epic) Smoke columns and fire for the wall.	Fab	Free

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Rainy roadside	Highway – Environment (Mykola Usov) Full road environment, 5.0★.	Fab	$99.99	TOP PICK
	Road Essentials (DerSky) Modular roads and guardrails.	Fab	$49.99
	Rainy Neon Streets (Maarten Hof) If the shot can be urban.	Fab	$69.99
Weather	Ultra Dynamic Sky (incl. weather) Sky, rain, wet surfaces, time of day. 4.9★ from 1,316 reviews. Used across the whole shoot.	Fab	$49.99 (sale $34.99)	TOP PICK
	Easy Rain (William Faucher) Realistic in-shot rain.	Fab	$24.99
	narrow_moonlit_road (HDRI)	Poly Haven	Free (CC0)

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Army battle system	Cinematic Battle Simulator Thousands of agents for cinematics. Record to Sequencer so every node plays the same.	Fab	Confirm	TOP PICK
	Pioneer Mass Strategy System Up to 10k units via VAT.	Fab	Confirm
Soldiers and banners	Chinese style Ancient warriors (MetaHuman outfits) Ming-period costumes.	Fab	Confirm	TOP PICK
	Tang Dynasty Mo-Dao General Front-rank hero soldier.	CGTrader	~$24
	Sovereign Standards: Dynamic Flag Kit Banners; foreground only (cloth is costly).	Fab	Confirm

Ref	Channel	Film	Shots
#1	Virtual Production Academy	Driving Shoot \| Virtual Production	21, 22
#2	Sony / PXO	Behind the Scenes of "Cut to the Chase" \| Virtual Production	26, 38
#3	Unreal Engine	Virtual Production with Unreal Engine at Dimension Studio	01, 10, 17, 28
#5	Doctor Who (BBC)	Bringing Virtual Production to Doctor Who \| Boom	03, 08, 15, 16, 32
#7	Sony	Behind the Scenes of EUROPA \| Virtual Production	04, 05, 06, 07, 19, 35
#8	DJI	Inside a virtual movie production set with DJI Ronin 2	31
#11	Tyler Casey	Filming with Virtual Production to easily change environments	02, 20, 25
#12	SMASH Virtual Studios	Armor \| Virtual Production WWII film behind the scenes	11, 29, 30
#15	Versatile Media	Behind the Scenes of The Kingdom of Wuyue	18, 34
#17	Orbital Studios	Orbital Studios: Virtual Production of Goliath	12, 13, 14
#18	The Granary	INDIE Virtual Production Test \| LED wall	33, 36, 37
#20	Versatile Media	"New Air" Trailer - Virtual Production Making of	09
#21	Netflix Production Technology	iHostage \| Behind the Scenes	27
#22	Teleport VP Studios	Virtual Production - LED Volume - Car Demo	23, 24

Need	Asset	Store	Price
Mountain pass / valley	ALPINE LANDSCAPE (MEKA.) 64 km² with Nanite mountains. Needs the Water and PCG plugins: bake before nDisplay.	Fab	$79.99	TOP PICK
	Alpine Tundra Mountains (Polynoor) Best built-in volumetric mist.	Fab	$159.99
	Large Scale Mountain Valley with River (Wedo4D) Cheap alternative.	Fab	$19.99
	Natural Wonders – The Alps Nanite mountains for distant layers.	Fab	$39.99
	Mountain Road (Dexsoft) Spline road for the pass.	Fab	$29.99
Sky (HDRI)	rocky_ridge	Poly Haven	Free (CC0)	TOP PICK

Need	Asset	Store	Price
Burnt-out road	Post-Apocalyptic Wasteland (GeorgeShachnev) Wasteland kit with day and night maps, 4.8★. You still build the looping road.	Fab	₹2,091 (Pro ₹3,327)	TOP PICK
	Tileable Pine Forest Road (spline-ready) Seamless road tile to loop past the bike. Credit required.	Fab	Free (CC-BY)
	Road Creator Pro Spline road tool, 4.98★.	Fab	₹10,935 (Pro ₹19,968)
	Desert Road (Digikore) Sold for LED stages, but static and not post-apocalyptic.	Fab	₹23,772
Dead trees	Broken and Burned Trees Pack Opaque Nanite burnt trees; good for nDisplay.	Fab	₹2,852 (sale ₹1,426)	TOP PICK
	PCG Burned Forest (G-Star) No reviews yet.	Fab	₹1,806

Need	Asset	Store	Price
Pine forest ridge	Spruce Forest (Andrey Gubin) Same pack as the campfire world, so one purchase covers both.	Fab	₹4,754 (sale ₹1,426)	TOP PICK
	Pine Forest – PCG Biome (EasyBiomes) Photoreal, 5★ from 49 reviews. UE 5.6+ only.	Fab	Personal ₹5,324 on sale
	Nordic Conifer Biome Widely used, 4.58★. Check distant billboards on the wall.	Fab	Personal ₹4,992 on sale
	temperate Vegetation: Spruce Forest (Project Nature) Cheapest test of the look; UE up to 5.4.	Fab	Free

Need	Asset	Store	Price
Cliff face	Realistic Looking Cliffs and Rocks (highpoly.Forehead) Huge Nanite cliffs, optional moss and snow. 5★.	Fab	₹2,852 (Pro ₹8,557)	TOP PICK
	Mountain – Environment Set (NatureManufacture) 448 scanned meshes, 4.72★.	Fab	Pro ₹13,075 on sale
	Dolomites free 8K rock sample (APEX Nature) Free scanned rock to test.	Fab	Free
Mountain vista	NANITE MOUNTAIN RANGE (MEKA.) Distant Nanite peaks; no reviews yet.	Fab	₹4,754 (Pro ₹9,508)	TOP PICK
	[FREE] Mountain Tops for UE 5+ 4.88★.	Fab	Free (Pro ₹475)

How the brand guide shapes this reel

Voice

Captions carry the rig

Picture and grade

Logo and type

Claims to confirm before recording

Everything needed to plan and shoot the reel

The format

The team script

The shot breakdown

Assets and budget

Practical scope

What the team says, and when

Recording our voice-over

Putting it on the animatic

0 · WELCOME 0:00

1 · IN-CAMERA VFX 0:19

2 · TRACKING AND PARALLAX 0:43

3 · REAL-TIME CHARACTERS 1:07

4 · LIGHT 1:23

5 · LOCATIONS WITHOUT TRAVEL 1:59

6 · SCALE AND EFFECTS 2:27

7 · THE REVEAL 3:03

Picture, sound and captions

39 shots

0 · WELCOME

1 · IN-CAMERA VFX

2 · TRACKING AND PARALLAX

3 · REAL-TIME CHARACTERS

4 · LIGHT

5 · LOCATIONS WITHOUT TRAVEL

6 · SCALE AND EFFECTS

7 · THE REVEAL

Per world: digital, practical, wardrobe, light

Stage 1 (empty volume, brain bar)

Practical / set

Wardrobe and talent

Lighting and FX

Ice moon with gas giant

Practical / set

Wardrobe and talent

Lighting and FX

Sci-fi machine hall

Practical / set

Wardrobe and talent

Lighting and FX

Stone pinnacles with live giant

Practical / set

Wardrobe and talent

Lighting and FX

Wasteland (time of day)

Practical / set

Wardrobe and talent

Lighting and FX

Riviera terrace at dusk

Practical / set

Wardrobe and talent

Lighting and FX

Lake pavilion at sunrise

Practical / set

Wardrobe and talent

Lighting and FX

Night forest campfire + spaceship

Practical / set

Wardrobe and talent

Lighting and FX

Paris boulevard (day)

Practical / set

Wardrobe and talent

Lighting and FX

Neon square (night)

Practical / set

Wardrobe and talent

Lighting and FX

Night city driving plates

Practical / set

Wardrobe and talent

Lighting and FX

Brick city street

Practical / set