35North Studios Builds Virtual Production Stage with Planar LED Display Technology

Founded in 2020, 35North Studios is a state-of-the-art production studio. Their full-service approach helps filmmakers and businesses plan, shoot, edit, score, and finalize projects, all from one well-equipped and sophisticated location.

At its 12-acre campus, 35North Studios operates out of a 225,000-square-footfacility that includes soundstages and editing suites, in addition to a recording studio, equipment rental house and production office space. With an eye on the trends shaping entertainment and production, 35North Studios executive leadership began paying close attention during the pandemic lockdowns when virtual production projects started to accelerate. They conducted extensive research and evaluations into virtual production methodologies and the technologies that enable them. Soon after, they committed to building their own LED volume.

35North Studios’s new 3,500-square-foot virtual production stage is powered by Unreal and features a cutting-edge array of Planar CarbonLight CLI-VX Series LED video walls with Brompton technology. These include:

A curved, 36-foot-wide by 13-foot-high (22x8) main LED video wall backdrop with a 1.9mm pixel pitch (CLI VX 1.9).
A movable 16-foot by 10-foot (10x6) LED ceiling with a 2.6mm pixel pitch (CLI VX 2.6).
Two movable LED side walls, each 10-feet-wide by 10-feet-high (6x6) with a 2.6mm pixel pitch (CLI VX 2.6).

35North Studios virtual production volume is also equipped with a motion capture tracking system from Planar’s sister company OptiTrack and ARRI cinema cameras. Additionally, 35North Studios custom built all of its rendering nodes and computer hardware systems.