In PLSN’s February 2024 issue, Cinematographer Pierre Gill, CSC, spoke of how he and others filming Disney’s Percy Jackson and the Olympians were able to capture, among other things, a very realistic semblance of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, inside and out, relying heavily on virtual production with ILM.
“That was all done in the volume,” Gill says. “The exterior of the Met was so difficult. It was so hard, because the thing is, it being the exterior of The Met, it was very realistic. And because you’re outside, but really inside the volume, the problem is, to create sun is very difficult. That was a very challenging one. And it was the first day of shooting. And my first day shooting in a volume. But I am very happy with it, it came out very good. After that, we did the interior Met in the volume as well. I was able to relight The Met completely, working with ILM in a virtual world.”
From PLSN, “In the Volume,” by Michael S. Eddy, Feb. 2024, page 18
