Runimation Studios has overhauled its creative and technical capabilities through Absen’s PR 1.9 LED panels, enabling more effective and creative workflows for specialist content production.
Based in Berwang, Austria, Runimation Studios specialises in tabletop product shoots, often involving fluid dynamics and reflective materials.
Through experience, the studio found that traditional backdrop methods such as printed canvases and physical set builds were often ineffective at achieving desired results, ruling out greenscreen as it does not work on reflective or translucent surfaces.
With traditional approaches proving to be time-consuming, lacking in flexibility and often causing glare or low contrast from flat looking backgrounds.
Runimation Studios sought a solution that would overcome these challenges, requiring a system that could support high-speed filming whilst integrating with robotic camera systems and realistic backgrounds.
The studio selected Absen’s Pixel Reality 1.9mm LED panels for its new virtual production backdrop, highlighting its brightness, colour, refresh rates and scan ratio.
Absen offer local repair support in Germany as part of its maintenance guarantee, with the studio using 40 LED panels with 32 for background and eight for a reflection surface or ceiling.
The panels are driven by a Brompton SX40 and a Brompton S8 processor, with the setup installed as a curved wall. This setup allows for real-time virtual production with minimal latency and high visual fidelity.
A motion control robot is used to transmit positional data ahead of its actual movement, vital to the workflow.
Combined with Assimilate LiveFX as the central data node, high speed recording can take place against the LED wall at 240fps and beyond.
With the Absen system, directors and clients are now able to view final compositions live on set, improving communication and creative decision making.