PXO Virtual Production: Creating Season One Visuals for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

[@heavycrown005]

These are some of the most beautiful imagery in the Trek universe. I'm obssessed

[@Carstuff111]

The first encounter with the Gorn had me on the edge of my seat, just as the movie Das Boot did when I first saw it. I was stunned, in all the best ways. As I was in the next Gorn episode!

[@mmyers6441]

Good work guys. Keep it comin' ❤️

[@Charlie_Alpha_Lima]

This reminds me of that old school technique of projecting the background on a lit cloth in the background of a scene as was poopular in 90s tv shows. I also don't think this process will replace greenscreen till rotoscoping becomes an almost automated process. Hell, even keying still isn't as straight forward as it should be. The art direction on the VFX in this show looks really super. I will have to start watching this soon as work slows down.

[@shayneoneill1506]

Part of the appeal is it cuts down the need for green screening AND rotoscoping. They dont film it and rotoscope it out and put a new render behind them. They just straight up use whats on the screen behind them as the background. Which is wild when you think about it. I mean obv there might still be the occasional need for it. Lens focusing *must* be accounted for, and sometimes theres just gonna be a need to fix whats behind them if something ugly becomes apparent in post. But this is a huge time and resource saver and if it brings down the time and cost of production it makes it so much easier to go "big" on a TV budget. And yeah it very much is like the old shooting in front of a lit cloth or painted sound stage.

[@pjincho]

Life and art.

[@MrSpacepauls]

This is actually amazing

[@AstroComposerKarE]

Oh wow, great job on the visuals! I thought engineering was a practical set it was so well done. Does it make the cast and crew sea sick since the room seems to move based on the camera so you get a little queasy when your visuals and physical sensations don't match up?

[@drawnhere]

Unfortunately, the AR wall is always glaringly obvious in every damn shot where it's used.