StoryFutures Academy training and funding programme.

VP Futures is an exciting co-production training & development programme where eight companies tested new ideas, upskilled their teams and received extensive in-depth mentorship from Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) and Epic Games. The programme was created to build VP skills in the workforce and capacity in UK businesses to take up the new opportunities coming on stream in VP and real time technologies.

Stage 1 ‘The Development Zone’ brought companies through a 6-week training and development programme, where teams got hands on with VP technologies and received mentorship and 1-2-1 support from industry experts. The participants were also able to learn more about mocap and performance capture, with remote sessions provided by CCIXR and Mocap Vaults. The 8 Development Zone companies included: Sunnyside, Aura, Engine House, Draw & Code, Liminal Stage Productions, Retinize, Soluis, TAUNT

Stage 2 ‘The Production Zone’ offered the two winning companies funding and the opportunity to go into production on a VP Shoot, one in London and one in Northern Ireland. These 2 projects acted as demonstrators for the innovative use of VP in the creative content sector and identified follow-on developmental training capacity building opportunities.

Companies

StoryFutures & Future Screens NI

Partners

Industrial Light & Magic, Epic Games (UNREAL Engine)