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It was an honour to be nominated for the #daffne2025 . Congratulations to @ratpackfilm and @netflixde for their marvellous work on Cassandra. Take a look at our nominated work and stay tuned—we already have new shows in the works and hope to claim the @daff.tv prize next year. 🤩 #vfxanimation #deutscheakademiefürfernsehen

A movie like @deadofwinterfilm can only reach its full intensity when it’s shot as realistically as possible. That’s why the crew — including our VFX supervisors — traveled to Finland to film in the harsh northern cold. It was an unforgettable experience for the whole team and brought everyone even closer together. Along the way, we also captured special VFX elements, from the burning tent to a snowstorm fully realized in virtual production. Take a look behind the scenes — Dead of Winter is still playing in German cinemas. @augenscheinfilm @leoninestudios

@deadofwinterfilm out now in German cinemas! The movie, directed by Brian Kirk and starring Emma Thompson premiered at @filmfestlocarno last year. A grief-stricken loner caught in a brutal Minnesotan blizzard discovers a young woman imprisoned by a desperate armed couple, forcing this unlikely hero into a dangerous fight for her and the victim’s survival. We helped create the rough, snowy environment the movie takes place in. Have a look at some before and afters. @augenscheinfilm @leoninestudios

Welcome to the Rocky Mountains! 🏞️ Well - it was only the Alps, but would you've guessed that? We supervised filming on the location for Clearwater High - the school for Woodwalkers - and filmed some animals like cougars, ravens or wolves in 2nd unit. It was a great setting and sometimes a bit scary to be near those noble creatures. But the awesome animal trainers and great production crew made sure that everything went well. Enjoy it again in @woodwalkers.derfilm and watch part 2 - out now in cinemas.

Nature is calling. @woodwalkers.derfilm 2 is in cinemas and directly reaches the top5 in Germany. Have a look into some of our shots from the first movie. We've been on set in Italy for supervision and prepared VFX for the big finale. #vfx #vfxbreakdown #visualeffects #woodwalkers

Know your strength. Find your destiny. 🐾 The new @woodwalkers.derfilm will be released in cinemas on 29th of January 2026 - time for a few "befores & afters" of the first part. We helped extending the world of the rocky mountains and then took it down in a big avalanche.

Building the post apocalypse. 🏜️ #theassessmentmovie was shot on location in Tenerife and Cologne, as well as in the @mmcstudios and an animal unit in Paris. Have a look behind the scenes and behind the camera.

Magic... Science! 🐒 Whether it's extending a small patch of monkey fur or a whole landscape - have a look at our VFX done for #theassessmentmovie . Visit @lavalabs homepage for more information.

A stimulating sci-fi that invests its high concept in ideas rather than special effects. If you read this quote about #theassessmentmovie (from Rotten Tomatoes) as a VFX artist, you know you did everything right. We used digital effects to build a dystopian world for this science-fiction thriller without showing anything digital at all. It was key to extend the outstanding production design—which won a British Independent Film Award—in a subtle way, and to show the technical progress of this “what if” version of the human future without distracting from the cast’s powerful performances.

It's an honour that our work on the TV-Series "Ich bin Dagobert" got nominated for the DAfFNE-Award from the Deutsche Akademie für Fernsehen in the category VFX/Animation. Our team recreated Germany in the nineties to show the world around the "DuckTales Bandit" Arno Funke. The series, produced by zeitsprung pictures, also got nominated for best Cinematography, best Make Up and best Production Design. Check our work on /home/ich-bin-dagobert Congratulations to the other nominees for their marvellous work on "A world divided" and "Cassandra". Fingers crossed that we win the award again after 4 years, when we won the award for our work on "Oktoberfest 1900".

🚀 Exciting New Project! 🚀 We at LAVAlabs had the great honor of receiving the grant notification from State Secretary Nathanael Liminski as part of the Next.In NRW funding competition. This marks the official start of our exciting project **“AVASTARS“**! 🌟 In collaboration with the University of Applied Sciences Düsseldorf (Hochschule Düsseldorf) and under the representation of Prof. Christian Geiger, we will be working on this innovative project over the next three years. AVASTARS stands for a Collaborative Virtual Production Application Tool for Scenic Architecture with Avatars in the Previsualization Phase of the Film Production Cycle. 🎥🤖 State Secretary Liminski presented the grant notification to myself, Michael Brink from LAVAlabs, Rolf Mütze from LAVAlabs, and Prof. Christian Geiger from the University of Applied Sciences Düsseldorf. A heartfelt thank you to the state of NRW and the EU for their support and efforts in promoting innovation in the fields of culture, media, creative industries, AI, and ICT. Without this funding, the AVASTARS project would not have been possible. We look forward to the coming years of collaboration and to shaping the future of film production! 🚀 📸 Robin Teller / Staatskanzlei NRW #NextInNRW #FundingCompetition #staatskanzleinrw #nathanael.liminski #Innovation #AVASTARS #VirtualProduction #LAVAlabs #UniversityofAppliedSciencesDüsseldorf #HochschuleDüsseldorf #FilmProduction #CreativeIndustries #AI #halostage #rolfmuetze

Tomás Saraceno's current project at K21 Düsseldorf (Kunstsammlung NRW), AEROCENE: FREE THE AIR. "Orbit-s" For a Post-Fossil Fuel Era (2022), is a virtual reality experience that invites visitors to experience an aerosolar journey visually, acoustically and sensorially. A special experience reveals a maneuverability enabled by real thermodynamic principles. We are grateful and proud to have been involved in the creative and conceptional development of this project together with the University of Applied Sciences Düsseldorf. We would like to thank all partners for the successful collaboration, special thanks go to Tomás for his trust, to Studio Saraceno Berlin, to the curators of the Kunstsammlung NRW, Dr. Doris Krystof and Dr. Falk Wolf. We would also like to thank the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EAPS) for their support in the process of making this open-source VR artwork a special experience for visitors of K 21, while at the same time drawing attention to the relevance of climate justice. Funded by: Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia. #tomassaraceno #studiosaraceno #Aerocene #freetheair #K21 #mit #lavalabs #mirevi #mkw_nrw #virtualreality #mixedreality #art #digitalcontent #immersivestorytelling #immersivetechnology #extendedreality