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Tommy, staring multi Emmy Award winner Edie Falco, is about a former high-ranking NYPD officer who becomes the first female chief of police for Los Angeles.
CBS VFX recently completed the final 7th season of the hit Netflix series “Orange is the New Black”. The team was tasked with a myriad of visual effects. Behind many of the seasons’ episodes were character flashbacks.
STUDIO CITY, Calif. (Oct. 1, 2019)– Its work has been seen in enormously popular series ranging from G.L.O.W. and Orange is the New Black on Netflix, to This Is Us on NBC, and CBS’s Hawaii 5-0 and the upcoming All Rise, and today the award-winning technology group CBS VFX unveiled its new name and logo, as well as newly enhanced virtual production capabilities that push the boundaries of what’s possible in TV production.
Showtime’s hit series “Black Monday” chronicles the 31st anniversary of the worst stock market crash in the history of Wall Street, Oct. 19, 1987. The series stars legendary actor and director Don Cheadle. One key challenge was to transform Los Angeles into a variety of New York streets.
Creative director, Craig Weiss, stated: The audience must believe they are in the moment with the actor. On the recent episode titled “Vietnam” Jack played by Milo Ventimiglia has flashbacks from the Vietnam War. All the scenes were filmed in the Los Angeles county desert. The challenge was to transform the dry arid desert into a lush green Vietnam jungle.
Parallax PreViz is CBS VFX’s latest addition to their visual effects services. This previsualization tool is a giant step beyond traditional storyboards and 3D animatics. It enables cinematographers and directors to step right into their scene. You have the ability to switch types of cameras, lenses and record each sequence in real time.
CBS VFX’s Emmy Nominated VR experience for Netflix’s “Stranger Things” was recently updated and made available on the Sony Play Station. (PSVR)
CBS VFX, in collaboration with Netflix, created an original, fully immersive VR experience for the psychological thriller, Death Note. The experience had its public premiere at AsiaPOP 2017 (Comicon) on August 25th in Manila to coincide with the film’s release. Netflix Movie Death Note VR experience Let’s you Play God.
CBS VFX’s visual effects creative team has entered the race for an Emmy Award. Executive Creative Director, Craig Weiss and Executive producer, George Bloom, elaborated on the collaboration with Netflix. The Stranger Things Virtual Reality experience had one key mission.
Netflix’s newest hit series GLOW, tasked CBS VFX with creating seamless visual FX shots to support the story of a crew of misfits reinventing themselves as the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling, in 1980’s Los Angeles.
Netflix kicked off their “See What’s Next” press event in Berlin during the first week of March and CBS VFX was there to present our Stranger Things Virtual Experience to the public for the first time.
When The Drew Barrymore Show made its debut earlier this month, viewers saw its ever-optimistic star greet guests on stage – a seemingly impossible scenario during the COVID-19 pandemic made possible by virtual production and visual effects technology pioneered by CBS VFX.