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World & Image · Department 16

Visual Effects & Simulation

Extend the world without breaking its physical contract.

In development

A controlled Project 001 VACE route has executed, but it is tested—not qualified—and is not promoted as a supported production capability.

Cinematic department study showing the people, environment and working practice of Visual Effects & Simulation
Visual Effects & Simulation / department studyCreative context—not readiness proof
01 · INPUT

What arrives

Plate intent, physical rules, camera data, practical interaction and the approved visual language.

02 · CREATIVE AUTHORITY

The decision

Choose where invisible extension strengthens reality and where practical evidence must lead.

03 · ACCEPTED ARTIFACT

What moves forward

Simulation rules, integration plans, review targets and final images with coherent consequence.

The proof standard

Ambition is not availability.

Visual Effects & Simulation: In development. The visual material on this page helps explain the craft; it does not imply a completed production route.

Read the readiness standard ↗Inspect Project 001 ↗

Visual Effects & Simulation / Quality Cell

Challenge the work
before the audience does.

Council specificationIntended operating model—not an active staffing claim. Scoped workflow status: In development. Full department commissioning is a separate requirement.

Accepted
artifact
Human authority required
01

Originating Creator

Meaning and identity

Human authority
02

Department Craft Lead

Discipline quality

Human authority
03

RORI Creative Lead

Cross-department coherence

Human authority
04

VFX supervisor

Department specialist lens

Review function
05

FX technical director

Department specialist lens

Review function
06

Compositor

Department specialist lens

Review function

Production Realist

Feasibility, physical truth and dependencies

Review function

Constructive Sceptic

Artefacts, clichés and unearned choices

Review function

Rights / Safety / Culture

Rights information is optional. Stop authority applies to actual safety, privacy, consent or external-commitment boundaries—not copyright recognition.

Stop authority

Physics specialist

Department specialist lens

Review function
“Extensions must preserve the scene’s physical and photographic contract.”
Reality check

Scale, contact, energy, material behaviour, light, shadow, grain and lens response.

Required proof

Plate data, simulation rules, comparison, integration targets and composite review.

Autopilot may

May generate, simulate and detect artefacts.

Human authority remains

Final integration and physical credibility require craft sign-off.