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Realtime 3D Production

The Unreal Engine is a tool that’s been revolutionizing the gaming industry for several years. Recently, it’s begun to change the ways films are made too, with its integrations of motion capture, digital humans, and stunning environments. As a realtime 3D render tool with cinema-level capabilities, it’s affecting both Computer Generated Animation and also what’s known as Virtual Production. We started working with it in late 2020, and have only begun to scratch the surface. Below are some are our early experiments and commercials from the past year that made use of the efficiency and unlimited potential of the Engine. Lots more to come!

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Featured Filmmaker: Christena Hampson

“My sister is my hero.”

-CHRISTENA HAMPSON

Meet Christena Hampson. An actor, choreographer, writer, and now gearing up to be a first time film director. The film: A true story with a personal connection.

Canadian-born Hampson originally went to university for medicine. While she may have had the brains for it, she didn’t have the stomach. Her true love was drama and dance, and helping people through the arts. She quickly repositioned herself into a more suitable educational stream, majoring in Drama. The stage has always been an exciting place to her, and through her twenties she both acted and danced in performances such as The Nutcracker. At the same time, she was developing behind the scenes as a producer and choreographer. Over the last twenty years she has built a thriving dance centre that teaches dancers of all ages and backgrounds, and continues acting (recently appearing in the hit tv show Fear They Neighbour on Discovery Investigation).

Compassion has always been a part of her journey, both in developing young dancers and creatives, as well as at home with her family. Christena’s sister Angela has special needs. Born in the mid-70s, Angela’s childhood challenges shed a light on the weaknesses in the “system”. As a baby, doctors wanted to send her to an institution, said she’d never walk or talk, and later she encountered alienation in the school system. Fortunately for Angela, her mother Dawn was a fighter. Dawn worked hard in her humble way to see her daughter breakthrough the barriers and shift the system toward integration, for the benefit of Angela and the future of children with special needs.

Her family’s struggles have inspired Christena’s emotional new feature film, My Lala, currently in development at The Shooting Eye. Jeremy Major will produce.

We’re excited to bring it to you. Stay tuned and follow its progress from script to screen, and support the making of this film.

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