No more green screens in cinemas: virtual 3D worlds are rolling onto film sets

2023-06-19 09:13:15

The illusion is perfect. The image of the cabin of the spacecraft, its riveted metal structure and its portholes revealing a constellation of stars, literally floats behind the two actors encased in their astronaut suits. Behind the camera, his eyes riveted on his control screen, Jérôme Bernard is shooting his third film on behalf of the European Space Agency (ESA), giving his directives to the duo of actors but also and above all to the many technicians who active, this Thursday afternoon, at the Lendit studio L 3 in Saint-Denis (Seine-Saint-Denis). Welcome to a film set like no other, where totally virtual sets appear on screen, more real than life.