This page is a space dedicated to knowledge transfer and where we openly share our materials to support Virtual Productions.
We will be updating this regularly, and new learning material will become available.
This year’s theme, “Leaders of the Craft,” brought together professionals, educators, students, and industry leaders from across Europe to explore the cutting edge of virtual production. Who Attended? 440 participants hailing from over 20 countries! The BUas campus provided a creative and collaborative backdrop for the gathering, leaving attendees inspired and ready for next year’s event. Enjoy the aftermovie and relive the moments that shaped our community’s vision of digital storytelling!
Free Your Imagination: Welcoming the next generation of cinematographers This presentation introduces the Free Your Imagination contest, a joint initiative between TVN XR Studio, a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery Poland, and various educational institutions around the country to expand access to and spur excitement in the possibilities of virtual production for indie filmmaking.
Portals / Traces — Potentialities of Transnational and Transcultural VP collaboration in real-time Portals/Traces develops a shared AI/VP/XR infrastructure linking AUT with partners across Aotearoa New Zealand, Europe, Asia, and the Pacific to enable real-time, culturally grounded VP collaboration. Moving beyond technical interoperability, the project tests how distributed studios can function as a single, ethically responsive creative ecosystem – integrating motion capture, photogrammetry, textiles, and AI-driven environments – to support sustainable and transcultural storytelling. This presentation reflects on the infrastructural, aesthetic, and decolonial implications of connecting VP sites as “portals,” where traces of place, culture, and authorship persist within shared real-time worlds.
Reinventing Tabletop Cinematography with Virtual Production @ VP Stage This masterclass explores virtual production through the lens of tabletop cinematography, where control, timing, and detail drive storytelling in a unique way. Focusing on food and beverage, the session looks at how LED volumes, real-time environments, and motion control can be used not just to capture reality, but to design entirely new ones. With an emphasis on working within smaller LED volumes, the class explores how to push creative boundaries through smart shot design, forced perspective, and precise control of light, reflection, and motion. Rather than treating limitations as constraints, participants will learn how to use them as a framework for innovation.
Animated Gaussian Splatting for Virtual Production In this conversation, we will look at the latest advancement in animated Gaussian Splatting for broadcasters and Virtual production workflows. We will look at usecases, current bottlenecks and recent technological advancements that unlock new opportunities for creatives, producers and a new form of storytelling.
Artificial intelligence steps onto the virtual production stage, colliding with the precision and control of real-time filmmaking. As generative systems begin shaping worlds alongside LED walls and game engines, the line between simulation and cinematography dissolves. What emerges is a new hybrid craft where artists don’t just capture reality — they collaborate with machines to invent it.