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Sunday, February 28, 2010

White Cyc Studio LA Digital Effects

By Phillip Guye

Perhaps you have seen the series Star Trek on television? Have you seen a Star Wars film? Perhaps you have seen a Sci-Fi movie or TV series involving outer space? Maybe you have wondered just how they produced the scenes traveling in outer space? Most of the digital effects for these programs were filmed in a white cyc facility using infinity cycs. The infinity cyc is bent at the underside where the walls and floor join collectively creating a visual effect of unlimited space. A White Cyc Studio LA is required on stage to form an optical illusion of atmosphere.

Star Trek is a good illustration demonstrating the starship Enterprise soaring throughout endless outer space bombarded by stars from a distance plus the cameras zooming in on the spaceship. In the end it will show the starship Enterprise in outer space and the cameras would zoom away from the space ship as the program was concluded. These types of visual effects were carried out using a White Cyc Studio LA. The type of the starship Enterprise was hanging from the ceiling in the middle of a white cyc stage.

What makes a great white cyc studio? The White Cyc Studio LA has to be well built and free of: visual anomalies, seams, grime, visual corners, and sharp angles which induce shadows. The white cyclorama must have: 1) Efficient space for focus images and to avoid crowding, difficult camera angles, and allow for suitable lighting arrangements. 2) A high threshold to counteract challenging camera angles, and lighting complications. 3) A couple of cyc walls to film against to avoid shooting restrictions. 4) Efficient time for setup, shooting and take down if booking a white cyclorama studio.

A number of film studios don't have their very own white cyc facility, so if they need to use a white cyclorama studio they go out lot and book one of several studios in LA. There are many facilities beside LA. Let's take a look at what a couple of studios offer. White cyclorama studios in LA need to feature: 1) Whisper quiet ac. 2) 3000 square feet of space to operate with. 3) Ground level access. 4) Sixteen and a half ft to lighting grid. 5) A couple of white cyclorama surfaces seventy-feet in size. 6) Full lighting and grip. 7) Free V/O booth and makeup room. 8) Any needed production gear.

Some other fantastic facilities that you could rent out includes: 1) Eighty linear feet of shootable White Cyc Studio LA. 2) 20 ton of grip, lighting, stedicam, jibs, dollies. 3) Three White Cyc Studio LA walls. 4) Action control setup. 5) 4 editing bays. 6) 3D animation/compositing. 7) Pre to post production crews. 8) Film, video, and post production tools. 9) Film, HD, and SD camera packages HD cameras. 10) Mini thirty-five adapter from P and S Technik thirty-five mm Zeiss PL, F-one point three speed lens 18, 25, and thirty-five, 50, eighty-five. 11) 25 foot Stanton Jimmy Jib with Remote Head and Dollies. 12) Cinema Products Provide Steadicam for 16 mm film, HD, DV-Cam and DV cameras.

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