Sumolight SUMOSKY LED-Wall for smart VFX

As shoots become faster-moving and more fluid with the huge advances in VFX, lighting and camera, there’s a new opportunity to create subtler, more reactive backdrops.

With years of installing and illuminating painted backdrops, we’d never found a solution that can project enough light, in the right colour, and without any spill. Workarounds included using extra lighting layers to create skylights, sunlights or any motivated light. Achieving the needed results took weeks to rig, increased costs in time and materials and required too much studio space.

To solve this problem, we created the SUMOSKY.

The new SUMOSKY is a quickly riggable, slim, backlit, multicoloured and versatile system that goes from neutral grey to green, blue or any other colour. Recreating skylights, night lights, sunsets or sky domes for stages is suddenly simple. When combined with harder sources, lighting effects are possible if doing process work in vehicles or fast-paced VFX work.

It’s a cheaper, simpler alternative to the full-immersion video wall. It also works with traditional translight backdrops to enhance light or colour changes, as well as Rosco Projection Screens and SoftDrops™.