NYU's Tisch School of the Arts opens Martin Scorsese Virtual Production Centre

The Martin Scorsese Virtual Production Center at Industry City in Brooklyn has officially opened in New York City. 

The stage will serve as both a training platform for post-graduate NYU students and a commercial Virtual Production studio for the film and advertising production industry.

It is run by NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, which offers a master's in virtual production that was made possible by a significant donation, announced in 2021, from the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundations by Mellody Hobson, co-CEO of Ariel Investments, and filmmaker George Lucas.

The facility is 45,586 sqft and features two double-height, column-free stages, two television studios, broadcast and control rooms, dressing/make-up rooms, a lounge and bistro, scene workshops, offices, post-production labs, finishing suites and training space.

AbelCine led the facility's systems build working partner Lux Machina on the virtual production integration. The facility has Arri Alexa 35 cameras, Zeiss Supreme Prime lenses, and an integrated lighting grid featuring Arri SkyPanels for the virtual production stage, which is a 180 degree LED volume on a 3,500 sqft soundstage.

ROE Visual Black Pearl 2V2 panels were selected, utilizing the Megapixel Helios LED processing platform.

Lux Machina’s custom-developed ARCA media servers power the stage. They are optimized for virtual production and can switch between multiple content rendering platforms, including pre-installed Pixera licenses. The NYU Center has also been outfitted with Vicon’s Shōgun entertainment market software and 40 Vicon cameras. 

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