BOOTCAMP No. 1 OPERATE THE LED STAGE
What Is It About
This on-site bootcamp introduces virtual production as a professional discipline and builds the operational foundation: how a professional LED volume functions technically, creatively, and organisationally. Participants learn real-time workflows, camera & tracking integrity, colour/sync discipline, playback control, and troubleshooting under time pressure. The week culminates in simulated production days and a structured competence review.
Participants will:
- A structured understanding of the virtual production pipeline
- Practical experience with real-time filmmaking workflows
- Working knowledge of perspective, colour management, lighting, latency, and synchronisation
- Insight into sustainable production practices within virtual environments
- Experience collaborating across technical and creative departments in simulated production scenarios
Each participant receives a Certificate of Professional Competence in Virtual Production aligned with the focus of the bootcamp.
Week Structure
Day 1 – How the LED stage works as a system
- The week begins inside the volume: VP types (LED/ICVFX/hybrid), team roles, and safety protocols.
- The aim is to make every participant fluent in the stage’s signal chain—camera, tracking, render, LED output, capture—so later troubleshooting becomes logical rather than trial-and-error.
- Daily output: Stage system map + role glossary + safety checklist.
- Hands-on stage walkthrough and first “bring-up” drill: load an environment, validate tracking, confirm stable output, and record settings. Teams rotate roles early so everyone experiences the workflow friction points.
- Lab deliverable: First calibration log + basic take with documented settings
Day 2 – Camera & Image Systems
- Perspective and camera frustum
- ICVFX workflows
- Tracking systems (optical and inertial)
- Latency and image synchronisation
- Colour spaces (ACES, sRGB, Rec.709)
- LED calibration
- Genlock and timecode
- Moiré, banding, flicker – causes and mitigation
Day 3 – Media & Playback
- Plate playback vs real-time content
- Media servers and playback systems
- On-set adjustments and troubleshooting
Days 4–6 – Simulated Production
- Camera and actor movement constraints
- Lighting interaction
- Background integration
- Rapid scene changes
- Rehearsals and technical resets
- Cross-department coordination under time pressure
Day 7 – Assessment & Certification
- Individual practical assessment
- Workflow presentation
- Structured feedback
- Certification
What Is It About
Each day begins with a focused technical and production briefing aligned with that day’s practical objectives.
Morning sessions combine structured instruction with live demonstrations inside the LED stage. Topics are directly tied to production practice: camera systems, real-time rendering, lighting interaction, playback control, and interdepartmental coordination.
Afternoons are dedicated to supervised studio exercises. Participants rotate roles in small teams to reflect real production environments. Emphasis is placed on communication, workflow clarity, and decision-making under production constraints.
The final day includes structured evaluation based on practical competence and collaborative performance.
Who Is It For
- Digital and environment artists
- VFX and technical artists
- AI creatives working with visual content
- Unreal Engine users developing film-ready assets
- Mid-career post-production professionals transitioning into virtual production
Typical career paths include
- Virtual Production Operator
- Media / Playback Operator
- Junior Virtual Production Supervisor
- Technical Artist
Jan Adamus
Trainer, Operate the LED Stage, Create Digital Worlds
VP Supervisor & Unreal Operator, Fantasy Studios
Jan Adamus is a VP Supervisor and Unreal Operator at Fantasy Studios, specialising in virtual production and real‑time environments built in Unreal Engine. For more than a decade he has been working at the intersection of art and technology – creating immersive digital worlds, projection‑mapping shows, interactive installations and tools that power real‑time and virtual production workflows. He is the creator of Just Assets, where he develops assets, tools and tutorials for Unreal Engine, and as an Unreal Engine Authorized Instructor he helps creators around the world speed up their workflow and gain real confidence in real‑time production.
His portfolio includes work for both Czech and international clients, including the Anthony Joshua x Under Armour virtual production campaign and collaborations with studios and artists across Europe. In the Operate the LED Stage bootcamp, Jan will guide participants from “what exactly is Unreal doing on this LED wall?” to building camera‑ready scenes: how to design environments for the lens, think about light, parallax and performance in real time, and collaborate with directors, DOPs and the VP team so that the LED stage becomes an active storytelling tool rather than just a pretty background.
Jan will also be a key trainer on the Create Digital Worlds bootcamp in Mallorca, where he will go deeper into building and optimising Unreal worlds themselves – from first layout through to final, production‑ready environments designed for virtual production and real‑time visuals. For participants of both bootcamps, this is a chance to learn directly from one of the most experienced real‑time environment creators working with Unreal Engine in our region, someone who uses the tool every day and actively shapes how others work with it.
Vojtěch “Vojta” Horký
Trainer, Operate the LED Stage
Co-Founder & Executive/Technical Director, Fantasy Studios
Vojtěch “Vojta” Horký is the Co‑Founder and Executive/Technical Director of Fantasy Studios, with deep expertise in virtual production, VFX, video engineering and LED‑based workflows. Since 2017, he has worked across high‑profile productions and live events – contributing to projects for Netflix, Amazon and Apple as well as major shows like the Super Bowl and the Fortnite World Cup, where robust in‑camera VFX and real‑time graphics are mission‑critical. Before co‑founding Fantasy Studios, he worked in London with Ncam, a pioneer in camera‑tracking technology, helping to prepare some of the very first large‑scale LED‑based virtual productions, including the now‑iconic “Volume” used on The Mandalorian.
Today, Vojta runs Jeff’s Virtual Production, designing VP workflows, post plates and consulting for studios, while also serving as Senior Product Specialist for Virtual Solutions at Ross Video. This blend of on‑set LED volume work, workflow design and vendor‑side insight allows him to translate complex technology into practical, production‑friendly setups for directors, DOPs and producers.
In the Operate the LED Stage bootcamp, Vojta brings a true “hands‑on technical director” perspective: he walks participants through configuring cameras, tracking, LED walls and signal chains, shows what to do when things get messy on set, and how to collaborate with the VP team so that the LED stage becomes a reliable, powerful storytelling tool. Knowing he has been involved with some of the earliest flagship LED‑based virtual productions, such as The Mandalorian, makes it clear that what he shares in the bootcamp is grounded in real‑world experience rather than slides and theory.
Matyáš Podstránský
Trainer, Operate the LED Stage
Real Time Camera Tracking Specialist & Founder, MotionJoy
One of the key people in our trainer team is Matyas Podstransky – founder of MotionJoy, an independent Barcelona‑based camera tracking service working across film, virtual production and broadcast. He started his career at TV Nova, one of the leading broadcasters in the Czech Republic, where he was responsible for real‑time graphics systems and first worked with Ncam tracking in a live on‑air environment. From there he joined Ncam (now ZEISS CinCraft) as a Product Specialist, building deep expertise across a wide range of tracking systems and workflows for broadcast, film and virtual production. Today, with MotionJoy, he works on productions across Europe and the US – from promo work for RTVE to major live events such as New Year’s Rockin’ Eve in Times Square for ABC and productions for Netflix. MotionJoy is intentionally vendor‑neutral: Matyas always looks for the right tracking approach for each project and makes sure everything runs cleanly and reliably on set. We are genuinely excited to have secured his participation in Digitalent Academy – not only as a top‑tier specialist, but as someone who is great to collaborate with and who shares his know‑how clearly, openly and without unnecessary marketing noise. For bootcamp participants, this is a rare chance to learn camera tracking directly from someone who solves it on real shoots every week, not just in a classroom. Matyas brings deep technical knowledge, calm, humour and practical on‑set tricks from international productions – exactly the kind of mentor who helps you build confidence on a virtual stage and move from “I’m curious about VP” to “I know what I’m doing and can stand behind it in front of the crew”.
Mazze Aderhold
Trainer, Operate the LED Stage
Virtual Production Workflow & Camera Tracking Specialist ASSIMILATE
Mazze Aderhold is an experienced freelance application engineer, workflow specialist and trainer with a strong background in post‑production, colour workflows and virtual production. He works as a technical consultant for software developers in the film and television industry and has a long‑standing relationship with ASSIMILATE, where he has been involved in product design, worldwide support and innovation around tools such as SCRATCH and Live FX. In 2015, he founded Angry Face, a company focused on color grading hardware, including the Rageboard grading panel he developed.
For our bootcamp participants, Mazze is exactly the kind of trainer who connects theory with real‑world practice: he not only shows how to build an optimal image pipeline, but also how to think about it in the context of real jobs and communication with clients and crew. With his mix of deep technical knowledge, structured workflow thinking and years of experience on international projects, participants gain real confidence – from colour decisions all the way to deploying Live FX in virtual production.
Lukáš Fišárek
Trainer, Operate the LED Stage
Film Art Director & Virtual Production Supervisor
Lukáš Fišárek is a Czech film art director and virtual production supervisor with a strong background in film language, visual storytelling and in‑camera VFX on LED stages. He collaborates with Fantasy Studios as Art Director / VP Supervisor, designing the visual concept, layouts and digital backgrounds for productions shot directly in‑camera on their LED volume.
Coming from the film world, Lukáš has worked on author‑driven film projects, visual identities for TV and film formats, and award‑winning film posters, including a Czech Lion for best poster. He also teaches film language and visual storytelling at HAMU’s Nonverbal Theatre Department, helping directors and performers understand how images work on screen.
At Operate the LED Stage, Lukáš will focus on how to think like a filmmaker inside an LED volume: how to design and select backgrounds that support story and mise‑en‑scène, how to prepare content and layouts for in‑camera VFX in collaboration with directors and DOPs, and how to bridge classic film visual practice with real‑time virtual production workflows.
Lukáš Skalník
Consortium Representative, Trainer, Operate the LED Stage
CEO, Fantasy Studios
Lukáš Skalník is the Founder and CEO of Fantasy Studios, a Prague‑based studio specialising in virtual production, and the co‑founder of animation studio Eallin, which currently employs around 60 people in Prague, Tokyo and Bratislava. From 2010 to 2014, he served as Vice President of the International Quorum of Motion Picture Producers and took part in several international co‑productions. He has worked closely with the New York office of Amnesty International, producing the global campaigns “Standing up for Freedom” and “One More Voice”, and has collaborated with artists such as Peter Gabriel, Meryl Streep, Hans Zimmer, Wyclef Jean and Terry Gilliam of Monty Python.
As a producer, he has been behind numerous short animated films and series, documentary projects and co‑productions, including the international experimental feature Exquisite Corpse, which brought together 54 directors from 46 countries, and the 2023 feature documentary 15x15x5 Minisalon. Today, Lukáš leads Fantasy Studios, which has delivered virtual production for projects and brands such as AMC, Prime Video, Apple TV and TV Nova, and develops innovative workflows at the crossroads of animation, live‑action, virtual production and sustainable green filming.
In the Operate the LED Stage bootcamp, Lukáš brings a producer’s and studio founder’s perspective: he will show how an LED stage fits into the full production pipeline, how to use it to shoot smarter and more sustainably, and how to structure collaboration between clients, crew and the studio so that virtual production becomes a creative upgrade rather than a logistical headache.
