Playard Studios Creates Animated Short Film with Virtual Production Workflow Share via:
Wednesday, February 24, 2021 at 10:00 AM in Exclusive Interviews
The fully CGI film, “An Artful Future,” is being used by the Miami Beach-based museum to promote its upcoming expansion. Playard Studios’ Carlos Fueyo (Creative Director) and Tanya Fueyo (Producer) used a combination of Unreal Engine and DaVinci Resolve Studio for the film, which was edited, composited and color graded with Blackmagic Design’s software and a DaVinci Resolve Micro Panel.
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Tell me a little about Playard Studios.
Tanya Fueyo: We had been living in Los Angeles for about a decade where Carlos worked at various studios on a variety of films, commercials, and game cinematics. In 2018, we moved to Miami, FL and decided we wanted to continue this line of work, so we opened up Playard Studios in 2019, hoping that it could cater to the local void. We knew that this would be challenging beca
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