Interactive Entertainment and Immersive Experiences

Michela is chuffed to be speaking at The Studio's annual International Women's Day event in Sydney on 8th March.

The team at Mod is thrilled to announce the release of A Clever Label, our latest interactive documentary experience.

Mod has a contract available, starting early 2022, for an Interactive Media Producer or Technical Project Manager with solid experience in the games or interactive media sector.

Mod has a 12-month full time contract for an experienced software engineer with good Unreal Engine 4 experience.

Mod is looking for a Software Engineer focussed on web development. This is an initial 1 month full time contract (160 hours), with a view to extending. It is a remote working role.

The Shoah Foundation, established by Steven Spielberg, is dedicated to recording and preserving interviews with Holocaust survivors and witnesses. Mod is working alongside DOP, Paul Nichola on the Foundation's Australian production of Dimensions in Testimony.

We will be filming at the Sydney Jewish Museum, November to February, using a 23-camera array to capture massive amounts of data for volumetric video, which will be turned into cinematic quality, interactive biographies, preserving irreplaceable oral histories from precious elders.

We're honoured to be entrusted to work on this important project.

We are excited to announce that we have been accepted as members of Ausfilm, the national body that promotes Australia's screen talent, studios and production incentives to the international film industry.

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Our latest Virtual Production is political satire starring the legendary Harry Shearer, with releases timed to coincide with the USA's current presidential election season. The Many Moods of Donald Trump, comprising 13 tracks, hits the shelves 30 October, just three days before the US goes to the polls. 

We're excited that sci-fi mystery-thriller feature film, 2067 has had its US release! Back in late 2018 Mod director, Michela Ledwidge worked in pre-production with the film's On-Set VFX Supervisor, Mark van den Bergen to research Virtual Production techniques to assist filming. Two options - in-camera VFX and real-time point-cloud "hologram" capture were tested. Michela then joined the production on-set at Adelaide Film Studios to capture holograms for key dramatic shots. 

2020 has been a hell of a year and it's taken a toll on mental health for many of us.

The Mod team is excited by the live online event work that we’ve been doing in Mozilla Hubs. We’ve found Hubs to be a scalable, flexible and fun platform that allows a more natural human communication experience than video conferencing allows. 

We are very excited to announce that Mod has been awarded an Epic Games MegaGrant to support production of our investigative documentary, A Clever Label. Our VR doco allows audiences to explore how prominent figures in business and politics are linked to The Australian Christian Lobby, a conservative political advocacy group, revealing impacts on LGBTQ+ people and on democracy itself.  A Clever Label is created using our Rack&Pin pipeline for Virtual Production. This grant gets us a little bit closer to releasing it as an online video series pilot and as a touring VR experience.

Mod is currently working on a satirical deep fake project (watch this space) and firmly front of mind are issues canvassed at last years Vivid Ideas event, Love/Machine. 

Here are Michela's most exciting take-aways from her time in Hubs by Mozilla at IEEEVR 2020.

SIGGRAPH Asia 2019 was huge for Mod. We enjoyed demonstrating our latest work, strengthening industry connections and meeting peers. Our highlights in numbers:

We are pleased to confirm that the Birds of a Feather - Virtual Production event is locked in for SIGGRAPH Asia 2019.

Our documentary project A Clever Label, to be demoed at SIGGRAPH Asia next week, is produced using the technology behind our new Grapho app - a tool that lets non-technical users examine and manipulate graph data for presentations. Filling a gap in the market for easy-to-use VR data visualisation, Grapho makes data insights engaging and accessible. Mod has identified demand for a tool that allows secure visualisation of private  data without cloud sharing; Grapho aims to support both local and cloud data, making no assumptions about data location.

SIGGRAPH Asia is a conference like no other, where innovation is more than a buzzword - it’s actually tangible and forward thinking. This year, SIGGRAPH Asia 2019 will be held in Brisbane, the first time it has ever been in Australia! We're excited that Mod will have such a strong presence at the conference this year - as well as being a finalist in the prestigious Real-Time Live! competition, we're co-hosting the Birds Of a Feather session on Virtual Production and exhibiting in the Trade Show for the first time.