Orbital Studios, the virtual production company that worked on History’s World War II with Tom Hanks And Netflix enemymoved to Television City and brought with it several LED walls.
The company moved its headquarters from the Arts District to the 25-acre production campus on Beverly Street. In Los Angeles, she announced with Television City on Monday. As a result, TV City will now house the company’s virtual production and R&D lab, providing LED-sized capabilities for projects filmed there.
“We couldn’t be more excited to welcome Orbital Studios to Television City,” said Anthony Mazziotti, executive director of operations and marketing at Television City Studios. “Their work places this group among the most advanced production environments anywhere, while honoring everything these stages stand for. This is exactly the kind of partnership that keeps TV City iconic and essential.”
Virtual production, which has been used in projects such as Disney+ The Mandalorian And HBO Max Dragon Housedeploys technology (CGI, LED displays, and augmented reality) to create specific effects and backgrounds on a physical set. Think sunset scenes with the Gotham City scene in Warner Bros. Pictures. Discovery’s Batman Or it takes place in a Disney forest Thor: Love and Thunder.
Orbital Studios, which offers mobile and non-mobile virtual production tools, is currently working on FX Snow falling Substring The Drop: The Saga of Snowfall It helped recently enemy Photographing a version of downtown Los Angeles through digital scans.
Amid a production decline in Los Angeles, the 73-year-old TV city is turning things around, opening its stages to influencers in 2025 and planning an expansion that The Grove’s owner, Rick Caruso, has challenged in court.
The move to invest in virtual production appears to be another way the Hackman Capital Partners-owned facility, once synonymous with former owner CBS, is trying to survive in the brave new world of the entertainment business.
“Walking through these stages, you feel the weight of what was created here,” AJ Wedding, founder and CEO of Orbital Studios, said in a statement. “Generations of crews have poured everything they’ve got into these rooms. That legacy makes us determined to do it right. We’re bringing the latest virtual production technology and the most talented virtual and AI artists into the spaces that helped define American television, because the best way to honor an iconic place is to make sure the next great stories happen there, too.”
