Mo-Sys technology allows Papertown to fly from a virtual plane

The Papertown agency has created an ambitious virtual production project based on a passenger plane, relying on Onset VP Service, a virtual production services company from Mon-Sys.

Papertown is a creative production agency specializing in computer graphics (CGI). Your client, Business Made Simple, a company dedicated to coaching, was looking for an impactful way to record one of its latest courses, based on the analogy that every company should function like an airplane.

Renting and preparing a plane to taxi inside a hangar would have been “expensive and impractical,” he points out. Mon-Sys, hence Papertown proposed to shoot the speaker against a green screen and create the plane, hangar and other elements in CGI. This is where Onset VP Services came into play, contributing its knowledge of the necessary virtual production.

The team at Onset VP Services, which just opened a branch in Los Angeles, was able to help Papertown create a virtual production studio to merge real-world and CGI elements. In this way, Papertown was able to focus on image creation and storytelling, leaving the technical side to the Mo-Sys company.

StarTracker, project key

The StarTracker system Mon-Sys, which allows camera tracking in six axes, opened all kinds of possibilities in the virtual world generated by the engine Unreal Engine. Thanks to this system, the project's director of photography was able to frame each shot “with ease,” since the composite image was available directly in the viewfinder. Papertown was able to shoot the entire video series, consisting of three hours and tens of terabytes of film material, in just two days of studio time.

Julian Smith, fundador y director creativo ejecutivo de Papertown, valora positivamente la experiencia: “No teníamos experiencia con los productos de Mo-Sys antes de este rodaje, pero tuvimos todo el apoyo que necesitábamos para poner rápidamente a trabajar a nuestros creativos. Ser capaces de utilizar StarTracker, VP Pro y Unreal juntos extendió una gran cantidad de valor a nuestros clientes. Llevó nuestro CGI fotorrealista a un nivel completamente nuevo. Esto es un cambio de juego. Papertown siempre está empujando los límites con nuevas ideas y tecnología y estamos agradecidos de habernos asociado con un equipo como Mo-Sys, que hace lo mismo”.

For its part, Michael Geissler, director general de Mo-Sys, añade: “Ya sea para la televisión, el cine o la empresa, los productores buscan la mayor calidad posible con la máxima productividad. El rodaje de un píxel final como éste supone un gran impulso. Pero sólo puede hacerse de forma realista con un seguimiento preciso de la cámara y el objetivo, una composición en tiempo real y un operador de producción virtual que esté familiarizado con el motor Unreal”.

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