MASON+DIXON

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We are a design and development company that uses the cutting edge digital technology to create virtual sets. By using this new technology, it not only cuts down on the amount of people that need to be on set, locations and time, but also creates sets that otherwise couldn’t exist. We use camera tracking to film live camera actions while tracking the camera’s motion so 3D or virtual assets can be added in post production.
Our studio has a 16×20 green screen stage and (name your computer stuff) where we can design and build real time AR graphics, character animation and VFX. With our technology, we are able to marry live action and real world assets with virtual sets and visual effects in camera, in real time.

Lights. Camera. Action. Seriously. We roll out the big guns to bring your vision to life and captivate your audience. We film everything using RED cameras — the industry’s best production gear.

Our DIT is an agent of the cinematographer. He is there to ensure image quality control, troubleshooting, color correction, and managing the workflow of production once all the raw footage is collected.

Now it’s time to fit all the pieces together. Our video editing team is the real deal. We don’t rest until your video flows seamlessly with captivating transitions. Depending on the style of your video production will determine the camera angles and how we build your final product.

Most studios don’t house professional audio engineers. We do. With millions of minutes of video content consumed daily, clarity is paramount. Between the voiceover, soundtrack and ambient sound even the slightest error can degrade your video. You’re in good hands with us.

Accordion Content

We have several options for lighting:

3 x Apurture c300D with wireless/dmx

8 x Astera Titan Tube with wireless/dmx

1 x  1000Watt Tungsten

3 x Arri 650Watt Tungsten

4 x Aperture MC wireless/dmx 

2 x 1000 LED panel lights 6500K

We have lots of modifiers and accessories, please inquire for more information.

We use CGI to create 3D animation and 2D animation for real time renderings. We can create rigging to put skeletal animation into our characters and matte painting to blend images. We are also beta testers for NVIDIA’s Omniverse Audio2face for Unreal’s Meta Humans.

Color Correction

Accordion Content
Accordion Content

Our state of the art digital imaging suite gives us unprecedented control over the quality of every frame. This is especially valuable when filming outside in natural lighting. In the end, nothing is left to chance. It is all carefully curated to look and feel and the way we both intended.

What is Virtual Production?

We are a design and development company that uses the cutting edge digital technology to create virtual sets. By using this new technology, it not only cuts down on the amount of people that need to be on set, locations and time, but also creates sets that otherwise couldn’t exist. We use camera tracking to film live camera actions while tracking the camera’s motion so 3D or virtual assets can be added in post production.

RED Camera 6K Raw 

Foreground Plate With Unreal Engine 5 Virtual Set

As Forbes Magazine reported in 2020 regarding these new techniques, “Using game engines like Unreal and Unity, combined with high-power graphics cards, camera tracking, as well as VR and AR, filmmakers are now able to create scenes across the physical and digital worlds, together…Because you figure out the creative with less people, you’re taking a lot of the uncertainty out of post production. Instead of spending months with dozens of visual effects artists trying to figure out what a shot should be, you are doing it with a couple people in a few hours. Plus, you can edit the scene so you know exactly what the film needs to be great BEFORE you send it to the hundreds of artists who will make it feel real.” 

“Meanwhile, the impact of UE5 on the film industry is likely to expand once filmmakers realize its capabilities for rendering digital objects and scenes quickly and relatively cheaply. Over the past few years, Unreal Engine has been used by big budget shows including Westworld and The Mandalorian, whose showrunners commissioned Epic to erect stages surrounded by massive LED walls. Those hi-definition walls served as a replacement for creating complex sci-fi sets, appearing in the camera as fully three-dimensional. Westworld, for example, was able to shoot a helicopter flying over a city despite everyone being planted firmly on the ground. This technique is likely to become more and more common: Epic says that there are now more than 250 in-camera visual effects stages across the world, up from less than a dozen just two years ago.”

Time Magazine, April 5, 2022

We happen to be one of those 250 in-camera visual effects companies in the world that Time mentions in its article. We are capable of putting you anywhere. “

Ncam Reality 2022 real-time tracking system for incorporating virtual graphics into film, broadcast and live events is now updated to track the motion of any type of camera, using any lens or rig, regardless of the shooting environment. This update opens new options for developers and producers who want to build CG imagery into their productions.

What is AR/VR/XR ?

Augmented Reality

AR

Augmented reality is when a designer uses computer generated informational enhance a user’s real world scenario.

Virtual Reality

VR

Virtual reality is where everything is computer generated and you need a headset for this experience.

Extended Reality

XR

Extended reality is referring to all real-and-virtual combined environments and human-machine interactions generated by computer technology and wearables.

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  • 3D
  • Audio Post
  • Branding
  • Cinematography
  • Color Correction
  • Editing
  • Lighting
  • Motion Graphics
  • Packaging Design
  • Photography
  • Product photography
  • Scoring
  • Set Design
  • Virtual Production