Michael Rubloff
May 21, 2025
When Radiance Fields made their debut at the 2025 BAFTA Awards earlier this year, they offered a powerful hint of what might come next for visual media. This time, at the BAFTA TV Awards, that vision sharpened its focus.
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts' annual TV Awards celebrate excellence in British television, and this year’s ceremony doubled down on innovation. Award winners and presenters were invited once again to step into a purpose-built Radiance Field station, but the experience they helped create this time went even deeper.
Returning to lead the capture effort was Harry Nelder, with Amity Studio once again. This time, Nelder brought a 32-camera rig, doubling his previous setup. The expanded configuration enabled wider-angle captures, smoother movement parallax, and richer volumetric fidelity.
Nelder continued to rely on the Radiance Field method known as Gaussian Splatting for the reconstruction. RealityCapture, Postshot, and Nelder’s own cloud based reconstruction software were used to reconstruct 50 3DGS scenes that night. Nelder’s software should begin rolling out their beta within the next couple of months and will feature an API with options such as number of training steps and multi GPU. We will continue to keep people updated on its progress.
A new compilation video of the TV awards captures, posted by BAFTA, was again edited by Amity Studio using both Adobe After Effects and Postshot.
Unlike traditional videography, Radiance Fields don’t just record one angle. They encode the entire volume of a scene, allowing future viewers to experience it interactively—walking around it, changing perspective, and immersing themselves in the moment. As this technology matures, it offers an alternative to the static image: one that lives, breathes, and unfolds as you explore.
The BAFTA TV Awards installation further demonstrated this potential by immortalizing winners and presenters in three-dimensional space, capturing the subtle emotions, intricate details of their attire, and the energy of the moment in full 3D.
