ADELAIDE, South Australia –  Leo Evershed and Nick Centofanti undertook visual effects training at Rising Sun Pictures in 2021. Leo earned a Graduate Certificate in FX and Lighting, while Nick completed courses in Dynamic Effects & Lighting and Compositing and Tracking while working toward a bachelor’s degree in film & television from University of South Australia (UniSA). Almost immediately after ...

New South Bank production site, with space for 60 artists, will help the studio keep pace with its rapidly growing VFX workload and serve productions based in Queensland. Adelaide, South Australia – Benefitting from a worldwide boom in film and series production, Rising Sun Pictures (RSP) opened a visual effects production studio in Brisbane in mid-2021. Visual Effects Supervisor Marc ...

ADELAIDE, South Australia—January 2022— Rising Sun Pictures produced nearly 200 visual effects shots for the new Marvel Studios series Hawkeye, which recently debuted on Disney+. The studio’s work included the reproduction of an actual New York City neighborhood visible outside an apartment where much of the series takes place. Rendered in extraordinary detail, the urban exterior is seen in daytime ...

Adelaide, South Australia—While 2021 remained challenging for many sectors of the economy, the visual effects industry has flourished. A global surge in film and streaming production caused VFX companies in Australia and around the globe to ramp up. That, in turn, led to a tight job market as studios competed with one another to hire capable staff. For recent graduates ...

ADELAIDE, South Australia— Rising Sun Pictures (RSP) has added two post-doctoral researchers from the Australian Institute for Machine Learning (AIML) to lead a new initiative centered on the application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to its visual effects pipeline. Dr. John Bastian and Dr. Ben Ward will develop pipeline tools based on machine learning and other AI applications as a means ...

ADELAIDE, South Australia—In its latest project for Marvel Studios, Rising Sun Pictures delivered nearly 300 visual effects shots for Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, the first Marvel film to feature an Asian superhero and the studio’s first film to premiere exclusively in theatres in more than two years. The film is directed by Destin Daniel Cretton. RSP’s ...

The studio applies its expertise in photo-real visual effects in delivering more than 100 shots for the modern sequel to the horror classic.  Adelaide, South Australia— Rising Sun Pictures recreated Chicago’s iconic Cabrini-Green housing project, exactly as it appeared in 1992, for Candyman, the new horror film from director Nia DaCosta, producer Jordan Peele and MGM. Artists from the studio ...

Studio applies its skill in photo-real environments producing stunning recreations of the Amazon rainforest. Adelaide, South Australia—Rising Sun Pictures (RSP) recreated huge swaths of Amazon rainforest with photo-real accuracy for Disney’s rollicking adventure film Jungle Cruise. The breathtaking jungle environments are used in several scenes in the film, which follows wisecracking skipper Frank Wolff (Dwayne Johnson) and intrepid researcher Lily ...