Brompton Technology’s Tessera LED processing platform has been deployed at Chengdu Film City VP Studio in Pidu District, Chengdu, China.
The newly opened facility includes a 5,000 sq m virtual production stage built around an 820 sq m LED volume. The volume comprises a 60m-wide by 12m-high curved main wall and a 100 sq m motorised LED ceiling.
The LED surfaces are built from 3,240 AOTO RM2.3S series LED panels, creating a 360-degree visual environment with a 180-degree shooting angle and a usable shooting depth of around 19.1m.
At the centre of the stage is an automated rotating turntable of more than 1,100 sq m, allowing production teams to reconfigure setups quickly. 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.
The LED volume is driven by 48 Brompton 4K Tessera SX40 LED processors and 96 Tessera XD 10G data distribution units.
Brompton said several Tessera features are central to the studio’s workflow, including ShutterSync, which is designed to prevent scan lines and phasing artefacts when cameras interact with LED displays, and Dynamic Calibration, which supports HDR performance across the Aoto panels.
OSCA, or On-Screen Colour Adjustment, allows operators to control colour and brightness at individual panel level, supporting uniformity across the 60m curved wall. Tessera’s 3D LUTs feature also allows colourists and DPs to work with on-set grading tools directly through the LED volume at display level.
Elijah Ebo, director of APAC operations at Brompton Technology, said: “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.”
CDFC VP Studio sits within Chengdu Film City, a 16.5 sq km film and media park in Pidu District. 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 wider Chengdu Film City park.
Brompton said the studio’s workflow allows production teams to change environments quickly, reducing the need for location moves and allowing directors, performers and art departments to view final composited images in real time on set.