Visual Effects Compositing

Here is how this works in practice. Ireland's VFX-compositing bench is one of Europe's most skilled global-co-production benches, shaped by the prestige slate that has shot in the country: Game of Thrones (eight seasons in Northern Ireland. Castle Ward as Winterfell, the Dark Hedges as the Kingsroad, Ballintoy Harbour as the Iron Islands, Murlough Bay and Larrybane Quarry as Westeros wilderness. With Framestore Dublin and Yellowmoon Belfast providing big VFX support across the run), Star Wars Force Awakens and Last Jedi (Skellig Michael off the Kerry coast as Ahch-To.

Here is the short of it. With the full ILM + Framestore global pipeline supplemented by Dublin and Belfast subcontract work), Foundation Apple TV+ (the Asimov adaptation with big The North photography and Yellowmoon Belfast + Dublin VFX support), Vikings (six seasons in County Wicklow and County Dublin), Banshees of Inisherin (Achill Island and Inishmore), The Wonder, Belfast (Branagh 2021), The Northman (Robert Eggers — partial The North photography), and The Tudors (the long-running Showtime series in County Wicklow). Senior compositors operate through Framestore Dublin (the UK Framestore branch with the GoT and Doctor Who lineage). Egg Post Dublin VFX. Mac Guff Dublin.

Boulder Media Dublin VFX, The Mill Dublin, Brown Bag Films Dublin VFX, Yellowmoon Belfast, and Carnegie Studios Belfast.

Here is the breakdown. Pipelines run Foundry Nuke for high-end cinema and series compositing in ACES-linear color running, Blackmagic Fusion for Resolve-native cinema finishing, and Adobe After Effects for motion-graphics-heavy commercial and broadcast composites. Multi-channel green-screen keying handles motion blur, fine hair, and semi-transparent elements against ARRIRAW, RED R3D, Sony Venice X-OCN, and Blackmagic RAW originals at 4K, 6K, and 8K resolution. Motion tracking runs 3DEqualizer and PFTrack for cinema camera-solves, with SynthEyes covering broadcast and commercial work. The Dublin and Belfast composite bench services both the prestige global subcontract circuit routed from London (DNEG, Framestore, MPC, Cinesite).

Here is what that looks like on the ground. Vancouver (DNEG. ILM. Image Engine), and Los Angeles supervisor desks, and the Irish independent feature catalogue (Element Pictures, Treasure Entertainment, Wildfire Films, Subotica Entertainment) plus the Cartoon Saloon-Mac Guff-Boulder Media cinema-animation pipeline. Linear ACES pipelines deliver HDR (Dolby Vision, HDR10, HDR10+, HLG) masters as DPX or EXR sequences and ProRes 4444 down-conforms into the appointed finishing site (Egg Post Dublin. Windmill Lane Dublin, or Yellowmoon Belfast). With Common Travel Area cross-border routing into London's Goldcrest Post and Picture Shop for prestige global co-productions finishing.

Here is how the picture comes together. Coimisiún na Meán + RTÉ + BBC NI broadcast spec, Netflix Ireland office Originals + HBO Max + Disney+ + Apple TV+ + Amazon Prime + Sky Ireland streaming spec, and DCP for Cineworld Ireland + Light House Cinema Dublin + the festival circuit ship alongside delivery.