{"id":914682,"date":"2026-09-30T00:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T00:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/914682\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T00:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T00:26:09","slug":"heated-rivalry-vfx-company-dark-slope-buys-pixomondo-assets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/914682\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Heated Rivalry’ VFX Company Dark Slope Buys Pixomondo Assets"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tDark Slope<\/a> wants to make Canada look like anywhere but.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Toronto-based virtual production<\/a> studio has acquired competitor Pixomondo<\/a>\u2018s similar assets from the Sony Entertainment subsidiary\u2019s own Toronto studio as well as its Vancouver digs, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. Dark Slope\u2019s existing Toronto campus is 75,000 square feet; Pixomondo\u2019s Toronto spot had been the second-largest LED stage in North America before being shuttered.<\/p>\n

\n\tDark Slope has provided in-studio and on-location virtual production for shows like Heated Rivalry, Ginny & Georgia, The Boys and its spinoff Gen V. \u201cVirtual production\u201d here refers to the usage of LED volume screens (a stage made of high-definition panels that display computer-generated backgrounds in real-time), motion-tracking cameras and AI<\/a> (among other tech) to create impressive settings aiming to be indistinguishable from the real deal. The cost-conscious option has famously been used for Disney+ series The Mandalorian and Sam Mendes film 1917. Dark Slope says its method \u201csaves hundreds of thousands of dollars for productions.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cProductions are under enormous pressure to deliver bigger, more cinematic worlds while being smarter about managing ever-evolving budgets and production schedules,\u201d said Dan Fill, president of Dark Slope. \u201cDark Slope has always been focused on solving that problem: Giving filmmakers an elevated look without an elevated price tag? This acquisition takes us a step further. We can now build a custom LED volume to virtually any scale and bring it to the production, rather than forcing the production to fit the stage.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tPixomondo does the same thing as Dark Slope for a trio of Star Trek shows.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThese are industry leading virtual production assets built to support productions at the highest level, and Dark Slope has the team and expertise to maximize what they can do,\u201d said Christopher Cox, global head of virtual production and head of PXO Clara \u2014 Pixomondo\u2019s virtual production division \u2014 at Pixomondo. \u201cAs Canada continues to attract ambitious film and television projects, Dark Slope is well positioned to put this technology to work for the next generation of productions shooting here.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tDark Slope also has an upcoming \u201cpreschool puppet-hybrid\u201d production it will stage at the Toronto facility. Dark Slope is represented by Independent Artist Group (IAG).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dark Slope wants to make Canada look like anywhere but. The Toronto-based virtual production studio has acquired competitor…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":914683,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[62,49,48,315590,77,315591,61,73174,238553],"class_list":["post-914682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ai","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-dark-slope","tag-international","tag-pixomondo","tag-technology","tag-vfx","tag-virtual-production"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=914682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/914683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=914682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=914682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=914682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}