Studio 360° During Turbine Production | Immersive NFB Archive | Alex Boya

Описание: This immersive 360° studio recording captures the working environment during the production of Turbine at the National Film Board of Canada. Unlike traditional linear documentation, the spherical capture situates the viewer inside the workspace, allowing an expanded perceptual field of the animation process, spatial arrangements, and research practices at the NFB.

360° videography here is not simply a novelty format but a production research tool: it records the workflow ecology, including drawing stations, camera rigs, monitors, pinned reference drawings, and the circulation of analog and digital media within the creative process. Such documentation offers a rare archival lens on how animation production unfolds in real time—revealing the spatial negotiations of animators, the layering of visual references on studio walls, and the hybridization of traditional drawing methods with digital editing environments.

As an audiovisual ethnography of production, this recording also intersects with ongoing research in animation studies, media archaeology, and immersive documentation practices. By situating the spectator at the center of the creative space, the 360° format functions as an expanded field of animation research, challenging conventional behind-the-scenes footage and instead positioning the studio itself as an animated environment.

Produced within the NFB’s Montreal facilities, this material now operates as both an archival artifact and a pedagogical resource—contributing to broader understandings of Canadian animation heritage, immersive documentation technologies, and the interplay between process and product in experimental filmmaking.

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