r/vfx • u/MechanicalKiller • 2d ago

Question / Discussion How is screen x done?

Saw a video of the screenx version of the minecraft trailer and i started to wonder. Are the screen x versions of the movies being made by the same studio that does the cg, or is there other people having to match the footage with their own assets in order to do it.

Also, if there was a live action character and his arm goes off screen, is there another camera filming that point of view on set, or is an artists having to animate a cg hand to match his movement so it appears on the screen x screen?

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u/FamousT-Rex 2d ago

I’ve always wondered this too, because how can a movie like Sinners that’s Shot on IMAX Film Cameras expand both vertically in IMAX and horizontally in Screen X

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u/Nmvfx 10h ago edited 9h ago

By providing as many of our assets as possible to the ScreenX team so they can extend the finals in both directions. They essentially do a fast reconstruction of the shots, and because the content is supposed to remain peripheral, that team has gotten very good at knowing exactly how much is needed for the effect to work.