
At the DroneX show I met Dora Schluttenhofer, a producer with "virtualization studio" Visualskies, who told me about her team's work on the Ridley Scott film Napoleon – and why the team chose DJI's Matrice drones to lift Sony cameras.
If you're thinking that drones were only used for aerial photography, and that many thousands of extras dressed for 19th Century battle were needed, you'd be wrong. Yes, aerial photography is a thing, but modern moviemaking also relies on 3D mapmaking. I'll let Dora explain: