Lux Machina – Barbie
AV Magazine – Lux Machina provides virtual production services for Barbie
Hi Barbie! For Greta Gerwig’s smash hit Barbie, we filmed on V-Stage at Warner Brothers Studios Leavesden and transformed the stage into a pink wonderland for car process shots driving through Barbie Land. I was the virtual production supervisor for Lux Machina on this showing, providing services to operate the ICVFX volume and content delivered by Framestore. Given the precise and controlled camera moves to create a world where everything is perfect, we worked with the camera team and grips to control moving the world, car, and camera relative to each other with extensive techvis to ensure alignment.
We also paid tribute to the Dawn of Man scene from 2001: A Space Odyssey for the film’s opening scene. Together with artists from Framestore, we recreated the landscapes and skies from 2.5D matte paintings to match the original film. To capture the slow motion shots as the girls discover the wonder of Barbie, we did extensive testing to minimise banding and artefacts against the LED shooting at 120 fps.