Brompton Technology’s Tessera LED processing platform has been deployed alongside AOTO LED panels at the newly opened Chengdu Film City VP Studio (CDFC VP Studio) in Chengdu, China. Brompton describes the new facility as “one of the world’s largest and most technically advanced virtual production stages”.
The 5,000sqm stage is built around an 820sqm LED volume comprising a curved main wall 60m wide and 12m high, paired with a 100sqm motorised LED ceiling, all constructed from 3,240 AOTO RM2.3S series LED panels.
Together, the surfaces create a 360-degree visual environment with an 180-degree shooting angle and a usable depth for shooting of approximately 19.1m. An automated rotating turntable exceeding 1,100sqm sits at the centre of the stage, enabling rapid reconfiguration between setups. Camera tracking is handled by a RedSpy and WatcherX system, with real-time rendering integrated into a virtual production workflow developed in partnership with Tencent Interactive Entertainment’s Content Ecosystem Division. a usable depth for shooting of approximately 19.1 metres
The LED volume is driven by 48 Brompton 4K Tessera SX40 LED processors and 96 Tessera XD 10G data distribution units. The SX40, Brompton’s flagship processor, has previously won an Emmy Award and a King’s Award for Enterprise.
Several Tessera features support the studio’s workflow. ShutterSync is intended to eliminate scan lines and phasing artefacts that can otherwise appear when digital cameras interact with LED displays, regardless of frame rate or shutter angle. Dynamic Calibration is designed to maximise the AOTO panels’ HDR capability, rendering deep, noise-free blacks in shadow areas while retaining highlights in scenes such as night exteriors or neon-lit cityscapes.
OSCA (On-Screen Colour Adjustment) gives operators control over colour and brightness at individual panel level, intended to maintain uniformity across the wall’s 60m arc. The platform’s 3D LUTs feature allows DPs and colourists to apply on-set colour grading directly through the LED volume at display level.
Li Haifeng, production director at Tencent Interactive Entertainment’s Content Ecosystem Division, said the real-time composited image allows the art department to adjust lighting and set design as they go, rather than imagining the final shot in advance.
Elijah Ebo, director of APAC operations at Brompton Technology, said: “This is one of the most ambitious virtual production deployments we’ve been involved with in Asia.”
He added: “The scale of the CDFC VP Studio, including the arc length of the LED wall, the motorised ceiling, and the rotating stage, creates a genuinely demanding processing environment. Having 48 SX40s working simultaneously across this volume is a real statement of where virtual production infrastructure is heading, and we’re proud that Tessera is at the core of it.”
CDFC VP Studio sits within Chengdu Film City, a 16.5sqkm film and media park in Pidu District. The facility is part of the Chengdu Digital Intelligence Studio Complex, coinciding with the 13th China Network Audio-Visual Conference.
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