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Be Curious. Generative AI Is A Tool, Not A Crutch.

Be Curious. Generative AI Is A Tool, Not A Crutch.

AI covers a lot of ground, so to be clear, when I talk about AI here I’m mainly referring to generative AI.

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Locked Off, Not Held Back: Pre-rendered virtual sets for the Vizrt TriCaster

Lightwell is best known for real-time virtual studios. Tracked camera systems, Unreal Engine environments and hybrid physical and virtual sets for broadcasters such as BBC Sport and ITV are the most visible part of our portfolio. Alongside that work, we have a long record of designing non-tracked, pre-rendered virtual sets. Most of them are built for the Vizrt TriCaster.

New Showreel: Virtual Production for Broadcast Television

There's always something significant about unveiling a new showreel. It's the closest thing we have to a single statement of who we are and what we do - 13 projects, distilled into a single minute that has to speak for itself. We've just updated ours.

Lightwell pitch animation

Lightwell pitch animation

We’ve never shown the animated sequence we prepared for our winning pitch for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic designs to anyone outside of the pitching process. It was such a labour of love that it needs to be seen and appreciated, and if we didn’t share it, how would everyone know how hard we had worked to bring it to life.

MegaLights in UE 5.5 – An Incredible Lighting Design Boost

MegaLights in UE 5.5 – An Incredible Lighting Design Boost

At the Unreal Fest held in Seattle, last week, Epic games revealed the next release of their all-conquering game engine, Unreal Engine 5.5. Alongside a cluster of impressive looking updates and new features was a new lighting approach they’ve called MegaLights. Rather than a new set of lights, MegaLights provides a new lighting method within the engine, and promises to increase GPU scene render times. If it truly works as demonstrated, this will be huge for the virtual sets and any other industry requiring realtime scenes. I decided to test it.

Newscast Studio on ITV Sport

Newscast Studio on ITV Sport

Leading broadcast production trade magazine NewscastStudio has published an interview with Lightwell's Jim Mann, and BK Design's Toby Kalitowski in which they discuss the inspiration and development that went into the creation of ITV Sports multi use virtual set.

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