BEIJING: Home to China’s largest digital technology movie studio that uses virtual shooting scenes throughout the entire filming process, Yongchuan district in Chongqing aims to become a high-tech production hub for movies and TV shows.
“Film technology is our new economic development area, and we are building a high-tech movie city in western China,” said Zhang Zhikui, Party chief of Yongchuan.
Chongqing, a megacity with over 32 million permanent residents, is a hot destination for film shoots with its unique landscape, long history, distinctive culture and futuristic skyscrapers. The southwestern municipality draws over 300 film crews a year, according to local authorities.
With good geolocation, beautiful natural scenery, ample local talent and complete film production service, Yongchuan is an ideal place for film production, Zhang said. The district government has set up a 1 billion yuan ($143 million) fund to develop a digital cultural and creative industry and has introduced a series of policies to help establish a film and television industry ecosystem.
Yongchuan Technology Studio, which was launched last year, consists of three 3,000-square-meter virtual filming studios and one 1,000-square-meter motion capture studio, and it can accommodate 1,000 people at once. It is equipped with the largest LED virtual filming screen in Asia with an arc length of 42 meters and a height of 7 meters, providing 800 square meters of virtual shooting space, according to local authorities.
Last year, the studio handled 12 film shoots.
In recent years, AI-generated content has advanced significantly and has been rapidly applied in various aspects of film creation, production, management and analysis.
“The use of LED virtual shooting can greatly improve the efficiency of filmmaking,” said Lu Qi, president of Dawa (Chongqing) Imaging Technology. –The Daily Mail-China Daily news exchange item
