Sony Pictures Entertainment is ready to announce its newest superior visualization facility, Torchlight, at CES this night.

Located at Sony’s Culver City studios, Torchlight is already operational and being utilized by filmmakers.

The facility will permit filmmakers to create digital scenes as a part of their pre-visualization course of. The facility makes use of Unreal Engine and digital cameras, together with the Virtual Production Tool Set, which is able to hyperlink digital environments with on-set manufacturing utilizing Sony’s digital cinema VENICE digital camera.

“Sony values creators and we are always searching for ways to make the most of their time. Torchlight empowers filmmakers with real-time creation to help turn creative sparks to stories,” says Kenichiro Yoshida, chairman and CEO of Sony Group Corporation.

The facility additionally provides filmmakers the pliability to speak to stakeholders in real-time and with distinctive specificity in movie manufacturing, offering companies that may assist function a roadmap for visible results, artwork division property, principal pictures, set design, gaming property and advertising property.

Additionally, the house comes geared up with Sony applied sciences together with the cell movement seize system Mocopi, which gives full-body movement monitoring with light-weight sensors, and Hawk-Eye Innovations’ optical monitoring system SkeleTRACK, which is utilized by main sports activities leagues all over the world for real-time participant, object and ball monitoring.

Torchlight will proceed to be up to date, because the Sony Group corporations work collectively to proceed to develop and take a look at new applied sciences.

Alex LoCasale, senior vice chairman of visualization, and Alex Cannon, artistic director of visualization, will oversee Torchlight. They will report back to Andy Davis, president of manufacturing administration at Columbia Pictures, and Sanford Panitch, president of Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group.

“For my entire career, I always dreamed about a state-of-the-art facility where we could give filmmakers, creators and storytellers a way to experiment with the highest quality pre-visualization and give them the ability to play with ideas and sequences – and even entire films,” says Panitch. “Sony’s extraordinary technology and its investment in Epic Games along with the brilliant leadership at Torchlight have made this dream come true.”

Adds Cannon, “Coming from a traditional VFX background, I’ve experienced the challenges that come with developing a filmmaker’s vision and the pressures that build when a project ramps up. Torchlight offers filmmakers the ability to express their ideas in real-time, using tools designed for their unique sensibilities. We can invite creative partners into our space and within moments produce memorable images that would normally take weeks or months.”

The formal announcement shall be made at 5 p.m. PT.