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Mariana Acuña Acosta — Senior Vice President, Global Virtual Production and On-Set Services, Technicolor

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Aliens and The Terminator inspired Mariana Acuña Acosta to get into movie-making — and now, she’s on the cutting edge of new production methods. After working on movies including The Day After Tomorrow, Planet Terror, and Green Lantern, Mariana joined Foundry’s Media and Production department. She then founded JoltVR to create virtual reality experiences, and Glassbox Technologies, which specializes in the unique toolset used for virtual production.

Mariana talks Chris through the past, present, and future of filmmaking, from rubbing shoulders with stunt people on-set through to the enticing promise of creating movies within the metaverse. She dives into the Glassbox’s Dragonfly virtual camera, which enables directors to explore sets and shoot films in virtual environments. She also offers her thoughts on how gaming companies are changing the movie-making process.

Links:

Glassbox Technologies >

Mariana Acuña Acosta on LinkedIn >

Mariana Acuña-Acosta on Twitter >

Mariana Acuña Acosta on IMDb >


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3:40 “Aliens,” “Terminators” — and VFX in Photoshop

7:55 Moving into software development

11:42 Favorite parts of working on movies

15:13 Starting Jolt VR

21:42 Changing attitudes to VFX

26:00 Virtual cameras

30:07 What GGlassbox does

37:23 Open source software

43:42 Unreal and Epic in virtual production

47:37 Giving real filmmakers virtual tools

53:41 Virtual production in the metaverse

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About the author

Christopher Nichols

Chris is a CG industry veteran and Director of Chaos Labs. He can also be heard regularly as the host of the CG Garage podcast which attracts 20,000 weekly listeners. With a background in both VFX and Design, Chris has worked for Gensler, Digital Domain, Imageworks and Method Studios. His credits include Maleficent, Oblivion and Tron: Legacy.

Originally published: February 22, 2022.
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