Lux Aeterna is known for its award-winning visual effects on productions including The Dinosaurs, The Crown, Human, and Our Universe. With RENO, the studio took a different approach: producing its own original sci-fi short film to explore how emerging tools and production methods might reshape the VFX pipeline.

Created as both a narrative project and a technical experiment, RENO allowed the team to rethink how a traditionally post-driven VFX studio could operate within a virtual production environment. The film became a practical testing ground for new approaches to capture, environment design, and real-time filmmaking.

In this session, the Lux Aeterna team breaks down the production of RENO, from adapting their pipeline for a newly opened virtual production stage to integrating technologies such as Gaussian splat scanning, automated rotoscoping and marker removal. Through the lens of a small, high-ambition production, the talk explores how emerging tools are reshaping the relationship between production and post.