MacInnes Studios

Congrats to OSCAR WINNER Zoe Saldana! I was a huge admirer of her work. So much so that as a then unknown screenwriter I wrote a script with her in mind. That script then won the Academy Nicholl Fellowship and Zoe optioned the script as both star and producer! Sometimes the stars do align and they did last night when she took home the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress! Well deserved! https://lnkd.in/gTZE9A_W

New and expanded website. There's a page for each of the projects I've done over the past decade, and the story behind them. Covers the application and evolution of Unreal Engine in movies, music, games, art, marketing, documentary and XR.

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I'm hoping history doesn't repeat itself! Eight years ago it felt like a bad joke. Today it feels like the cold chill of fascism. Back 2016 Harry Shearer asked me to produce the first ever real-time TV pilot. For nearly 30 years Harry had provided half the voices for The Simpson and now wanted to create his own weekly political satirical show in the vein of Spitting Image. Instead of rubber puppets we’d be using the Unreal Engine and photorealistic digital avatars to enable Harry to play all of the characters. My team made full-rigged avatars of Trump and Obama and I brought onboard the A-team of real-time performance, Cubic Motion and Ninja Theory from the UK. Nothing like this had been done before, but everyone was eager to prove what we all knew was possible. Epic Games sent a support team and NVIDIA provided the hardware. #UnrealEngine #tv #macinnesstudios

Had the pleasure of chatting on the Surviving the Dream podcast about my career and experiences. Check it out! #filmmaking #movie Unreal Engine https://lnkd.in/g9EuCnd9

More mocap tests with Alastair Macleod, Harper Tramm and Cameron Taylor from Peel Software Development LLC and their new vcam with students from Theatre of Arts Hollywood. This time in Santa Monica at James DeFina's stage at ASTRO PROJECT LLC. It was a great opportunity for some of our movie cast members to get more acquainted with performance capture. Unreal Engine #virtualproduction #realtime #filmmaking

Surprise! Diversity and inclusion make for winning content! So says Deloitte's 2024 Digital Media Trends. "Younger generations get a lot of attention in the media and entertainment industry, often because they’re early adopters of innovations like social media, video games, and streaming video. But beyond their tech-savviness, these generations are also inherently different demographically from preceding generations. Media and entertainment (M&E) companies should consider investing in meeting the expectations of an increasingly diverse population to help win market share and keep consumers engaged." #diversity #inclusion #virtualproduction #macinnesstudios #UE5 #movies https://lnkd.in/gc8D2U6x

Re-thinking how movies are made in th heart of old Hollywood. In preparation our #UE5 feature #film shoot we’ve been working with students at the Theatre of Arts Hollywood, the oldest running acting school in #Hollywood where the likes of Marilyn Monroe and James Dean perfected their craft. Our performance capture shoot is going to generate an enormous amount of motion, visual and audio data so we’re working with Peel Software Development LLC to streamline our workflow. All of the data is accessible through one interface so as the director and producer I’m able to make immediate creative decisions at source about what data needs processing. Our low-budget indie production is only possible because of innovation like this, but this massively saves time a money whatever the size of your production. It’s a win-win for everyone. I get to workshop my scenes and bullet proof our workflow and acting talent get learn what the future of filmmaking looks like. #BaadViibes is a MacInnes Studios production supported by Epic Games, Amazon Web Services (AWS) , Nextira and Perforce Software. Shout out to Alastair Macleod, Cameron Taylor and Harper Tramm at Peel Software Development LLC and big thanks to David Conolly , Juan De La Rosa, Henry Layton and all the students at Theatre of Arts Hollywood. Unreal Engine Follow our production here: https://lnkd.in/df4KbjSv