This month, we get a peek into the lives of Pete Divers (Head of VFX) & Deanne Czarnecki (Head of Studio), the co-founders of Australia’s virtual production studio Fika Entertainment.
8 a.m. Our day starts with the team arriving at our new Burleigh Studio on the Gold Coast. Sometimes we need a little VR/AR to hide our true images on mornings when the coffee hasn’t quite kicked in!
8:05 a.m. Dee and I jump straight into video calls and review the day’s schedule. No two days are ever the same, but what’s not to love in a world where you have the power to create anything!
8:30 a.m. The team is already hard at work on today’s daily shoot and run schedules, as well as all rigging and equipment set up.
9 a.m. The performers arrive and are dressed in their superhero attire … I mean, motion-capture suits.
9:30 a.m. Test and adjust time, to ensure all the mo-cap action is interfacing correctly with the animated worlds we’ve created, using our Alchemy pipeline and virtual production techniques.
10 a.m. Not sure if I should call Dee and I puppet masters, wizards or sorcerers, but I definitely feel like all of the above.
3 p.m. Time for editing and post production. Thankfully with our revolutionary tech solutions, this is far less tedious and time consuming than traditional animation.
4 p.m. That’s a wrap as they say! Let the cast and crew’s pack up begin.
4 p.m. That’s a wrap as they say! Let the cast and crew’s pack up begin.
