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We’ve never shown the animated sequence we prepared for our winning pitch for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic designs to anyone outside of the pitching process. It was such a labour of love that it needs to be seen and appreciated, and if we didn’t share it, how would everyone know how hard we had worked to bring it to life.

At the Unreal Fest held in Seattle, last week, Epic games revealed the next release of their all-conquering game engine, Unreal Engine 5.5. Alongside a cluster of impressive looking updates and new features was a new lighting approach they’ve called MegaLights. Rather than a new set of lights, MegaLights provides a new lighting method within the engine, and promises to increase GPU scene render times. If it truly works as demonstrated, this will be huge for the virtual sets and any other industry requiring realtime scenes. I decided to test it.

Leading broadcast production trade magazine NewscastStudio has published an interview with Lightwell's Jim Mann, and BK Design's Toby Kalitowski in which they discuss the inspiration and development that went into the creation of ITV Sports multi use virtual set.