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    Virtual filmmaking takes center stage in reopening Hollywood

    by Anousha Sakoui, Los Angeles Times May 28, 2020 5 minutes

    LOS ANGELES - When "Good Trouble" returns to screens, fans of the Freeform TV drama will reconnect with the two young women, Callie and Mariana, trying to make it in Los Angeles.

    But instead of shooting scenes in downtown L.A. - an impossibility during the shutdown caused by the COVID-19 pandemic - filmmakers are digitally recreating the historic Palace Theatre and other landmarks on a set in Valencia.

    By fusing the latest advances from the video game world, using software that powers the hit game "Fortnite," producers will shift much on-location shooting indoors to Santa Clarita Studios, projecting photo-real imagery of downtown's skyline on LED video walls.

    "We are preparing all the virtual assets so that on Day One they can be as if they

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