Northern Ireland’s film industry has received a major boost with news of plans to develop a new £25 million virtual production studio complex in Belfast.
Studio Ulster is being developed by Ulster University in partnership with Belfast Harbour, alongside Northern Ireland Screen, and is designed to attract more production companies to locate their projects in Northern Ireland. Construction begins this month and the building is expected to be completed by early 2024.
Based in Giant’s Park, Studio Ulster will create a 57,000 square feet building, housing two large-scale virtual production stages with in-camera visual effects stage, a motion capture stage, a 3D scanning stage for full body, facial and object scanning and a smart stage with virtual production technologies to support research.
