TFO creates the universes of its children's programs with Zero Density

The technology of Zero Density allows Canadian television TFO shape educational and cultural content for students, parents and teachers.

Since its launch, TFO has trusted the solutions of Zero Density to feed your virtual studio and breathe life into your children's programs mixing live action, puppets and computer generated content. The programs, beyond seeking to educate, seek to entertain children by transporting them to various Quirky and colorful virtual worlds. Apart from this children's content, the channel also produces formats political and cultural, including live election specials and debates using the virtual studio.

All these contents are generated from the three studies production facilities that TFO has in Canada, which house numerous tools to accommodate all types of productions and live events, as well as pre-recorded. The staff at the headquarters, which is usually made up of 12 and 20 people depending on the format, is in charge of the entire production chain: planning, production, design, marketing and distribution. In fact, TFO even has a in-house 3D design team formed by 3D modelers, concept artists, technical artists and technical producers.

Filming in virtual environments

TFO's studio measures 10 meters x 14 meters, while its chroma has dimensions of 14 meters x 6.7 meters. These environments are equipped with three Reality Engines and two cameras Mon-Sys StarTracker located on pedestals.

The chroma set is used all year round. monday to friday. The channel rolls in block most series to maintain the continuity from one episode to another and the familiarity of the production team throughout the filming sessions.

According to the TFO team, the adoption of the production in virtual studio with Reality has paid off in many significant ways. One of the main advantages is the elimination of large physical sets, allowing you to quickly move from one virtual environment to another. They also have total flexibility for the custom set design. Another of the advantages mentioned is the Reality Keyer keying quality. In short, “they have more creative and technical freedom while offering higher quality.”

He Virtual universe laboratory at TFO

In 2016, TFO launched a new production environment called Virtual world laboratory (Virtual universe laboratory) driven by motor Reality of Zero Density. With this proposal, the channel has won the award for innovation in content creation with Zero Density in IBC and was shortlisted in the IABM Game Changer Awards from Las Vegas.

The future is full of projects for TFO. At the beginning of 2023, the production and television company will expand its chroma set at approximately double the width of your current filming space. Similarly, it is expected that prefabricated walls will be integrated next year Pro Cyc and the expected leap to the 4K.

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