Virtual Production

Here is how this works in practice. Virtual production capacity in Colombia is emerging rather than mature. Our coordinators are direct about it: Toma Uno Bogotá is launching dedicated VP skill across 2024-2025 through partnership tracks, Dynamo Studios is exploring a LED build, and Limonero Films is planning an in-house volume — but none of these sit at the scale of the set up LA, London, Mumbai or Mexico City stages today.

Here is the breakdown. For shoots that need a full LED volume on a Colombia-anchored schedule we run a hybrid model: tight Colombia VP for plate work and previs married to partner stages at Estudios GGM and Estudios Churubusco in Mexico City or Buenos Aires LED facilities (Non Stop, Sky Online), with crew movement set up through the Acuerdo Iberoamericano de Coproducción. Where the brief fits Colombia's today's skill — short-form virtual environments, hybrid greenscreen-plus-LED inserts, or pilot ICVFX work — the Toma Uno Bogotá pipeline runs Unreal Engine 5 and Unity content with Limonero's VFX team on virtual art department duties.

Here is what that looks like on the ground. Universidad de los Andes' Centro Ático Lab anchors the research joint work side of Colombian VP, training the operators and TDs who staff the emerging stages and connecting Bogotá producers to the Microsoft Mixed Reality Capture Studios partnership tracks. Pre-visualisation, asset creation and stage rehearsal sit ahead of principal photography, with Macondo magical-realism environments, pre-Columbian Quimbaya / Tairona / Muisca motif libraries, Cartagena Walled City digital matte references and Eje Cafetero virtual locations all viable for in-volume playback.

Here is how the picture comes together. ARRI Alexa Mini LF and Sony Venice 2 bodies from Cinetech Bogotá and 5.1 Cine pair with Mo-Sys StarTracker, Vicon and OptiTrack camera tracking, ZED, Pixotope and disguise media servers handle synchronisation, and Brompton Tessera processors plus ROE Visual / AOTO / Infinity Sets LED panels import through DIAN ATA carnets. Qualifying spend routes through the CINA 40% cash refund. The FFC 35% tax credit with Proimágenes Colombia and the Comisión Fílmica Colombiana signing off.