Explore the configurable features of The Mill BLACKBIRD®, a fully adjustable car rig built for photoreal CG cars in video production. This VR experience on PC lets users interact with its unique functions, from chassis adjustments to match car lengths and widths to programmable electric motors that mimic acceleration and gear shifts. Adjustable suspension tweaks ride height, rigidity, and dampening to replicate real driving traits, plus bespoke systems capture light and reflection data.
Animation and modeling professionals gain hands-on access to these design and illustration tools. Users examine how the rig overcomes limits like car availability and location constraints in automotive content creation. The experience targets creators in video production seeking precise control over CG vehicle footage.
In collaboration with JemFX, Performance Filmworks and Keslow Camera, The Mill created The BLACKBIRD®, the first fully adjustable car rig that creates photoreal CG cars.
Until it’s launch, automotive content was often dictated or hampered by car availability, model revisions, limited access to locations and footage that can quickly become irrelevant.
The Mill BLACKBIRD® is able to quickly transform its chassis to match the exact length and width of almost any car. Powered by an electric motor, it can be programmed to imitate acceleration curves and gearing shifts and the adjustable suspension alters ride height, rigidity and dampening to replicate typical driving characteristics.
The Mill BLACKBIRD® VR Experience allows users to explore all of the configurable features of The BLACKBIRD®, allowing users to interact with the unique rig functions including the bespoke systems created by The Mill, used to capture light and reflection data.
