Brompton Technology’s Tessera LED processing platform sits at the heart of one of the world’s largest and most technically advanced virtual production stages, at the newly opened Chengdu Film City VP Studio (CDFC VP Studio) in Pidu District, Chengdu, China. The facility represents a landmark moment for virtual production infrastructure in Asia, and a significant deployment for Brompton at the very highest end of the market.
The studio encompasses a 5,000 square metre virtual production stage built around an 820 square metre LED volume, comprising a curved main wall 60 metres wide and 12 metres high, paired with a 100 square metre motorised LED ceiling. Together, these surfaces, built from 3,240 AOTO RM2.3S series LED panels, create a fully immersive 360-degree visual environment with a 180-degree shooting angle and a usable depth for shooting of approximately 19.1 metres. At the centre of the stage sits an automated rotating turntable exceeding 1,100 square metres, enabling rapid reconfiguration between setups. Camera tracking is handled by a RedSpy and WatcherX system, with real-time rendering integrated into the virtual production workflow developed in partnership with Tencent Interactive Entertainment’s Content Ecosystem Division.
Driving the entire LED volume are 48 Brompton 4K Tessera SX40 LED processors and 96 Tessera XD 10G data distribution units, a configuration that underscores both the scale of the installation and the demands it places on processing infrastructure. The SX40, Brompton’s flagship processor and winner of an Emmy Award and King’s Award for Enterprise, is widely regarded as the industry benchmark for colour accuracy, stability and feature depth in high-end virtual production environments.
At a facility of this scale, where directors, cinematographers and performers work within photoreal virtual environments rendered in real time, the demands on LED processing are uncompromising. Several Tessera features are central to the studio’s workflow.
ShutterSync® eliminates the scan lines and phasing artefacts that can otherwise appear when digital cameras interact with LED displays, ensuring clean in-camera results regardless of frame rate or shutter angle. Dynamic Calibration maximises the AOTO panels’ HDR capability, allowing the system to render deep, noise-free blacks in shadow areas while retaining vibrant highlights, critical when replicating challenging lighting conditions such as night scenes, sunsets, or neon-lit cityscapes.
Meanwhile, OSCA (On-Screen Colour Adjustment) gives operators precise control over colour and brightness at individual panel level, which is particularly valuable on a curved wall of this arc length, where maintaining seamless uniformity across the full 60-metre span is essential. The Tessera platform’s 3D LUTs feature allows the studio’s DPs and colourists to work with on-set colour grading tools directly through the LED volume at the display level without touching the source, tightening the link between what is shot on set and the final deliverable.
The creative and practical implications of the facility are far-reaching. In traditional production, crews travel across multiple locations to capture different environments, spending months on the road with significant cost and logistical complexity. At CDFC VP Studio, that model is inverted: environments change in an instant, actors’ performances are never interrupted by location moves, and directors can revisit a scene as many times as they need within a single shoot day.
The art department, meanwhile, can see the final composited image in real time and adjust lighting and set design accordingly, a shift described by Li Haifeng, Production Director of Tencent Interactive Entertainment’s Content Ecosystem Division, as moving from imagining the final shot to simply seeing it on the monitor. The complete virtual production workflow effectively transfers much of what was once post-production work onto the shooting stage itself, fundamentally changing the relationship between creative ambition and production reality.
“This is one of the most ambitious virtual production deployments we’ve been involved with in Asia,” says Elijah Ebo, Director of APAC Operations at Brompton Technology. “The scale of the CDFC VP Studio, including the arc length of the LED wall, the motorised ceiling, and the rotating stage, creates a genuinely demanding processing environment. Having 48 SX40s working simultaneously across this volume is a real statement of where virtual production infrastructure is heading, and we’re proud that Tessera is at the core of it.”
CDFC VP Studio sits within Chengdu Film City, a 16.5 square kilometre film and media park in Pidu District that has established itself as a leading production hub in western China. The facility officially opened on April 14, 2026 as part of the Chengdu Digital Intelligence Studio Complex, coinciding with the 13th China Network Audio-Visual Conference. More than 600 film, television and creative enterprises have established operations in the broader park, with productions and creators ranging from major directors to streaming platform content studios.
CDFC VP Studio’s opening marks a new chapter for virtual production capability in Asia, and reinforces Brompton Technology’s position as the processing partner of choice for the world’s most demanding LED volumes.