The Dutch Skies 360° HDR’s are being used worldwide for 3D, Architecture, VR, VFX, Games, Documentaries, TV Series, Advertisement productions , Movies etc. since the project started in 2008.

Had some wild adventures over time………

Years ago got a request from a Producer who wanted a couple of Dutch Skies 360° HDR’s to be used in a upcoming ( Hollywood ) movie. We were almost done finishing the details, suddenly got a mail that the producer needed to cancel the order for the selected Dutch Skies 360° ( HDR )...reason was that the Law-firm ( their role in film production is protecting the production from lawsuits, ensuring the film can be distributed without legal obstacles ) did not believe I was the owner of my own Skies………. to the complete surprise of the Producer and me ..and quickly had a big laugh about it ( and still do :) )

Another day somewhere in the past, went to blockbuster movie here in the Pathé Cinema Scheveningen and seeing the Dutch Skies 360° HDR’s being used in a lot of scenes of the movie. During the movie was thinking about the fact that the captured skies being shown in the movie, were recorded a couple of 100 meters from the cinema and… no one in the cinema at that moment was aware of that. Plus that I’m not allowed - due to non-disclosures - mentioning movie details anywhere. It sounds a bit awkward but in fact it isn't, this situation it stays a bit magically for me personally.

So It’s very hard to get permission ( in other words for 98,2 % impossible) due to the non-disclosure contracts ( specially the bigger Game/ TV Series / movie clients ) to get permission to put it here on this showcases page or even talk about it in public. Its just part of the deal.

Meanwhile at least 2 billion ( not a typo) people have see the Dutch Skies 360° HDR’s in action somewhere without noticing the skies were recorded in Scheveningen.

This makes the recording position ( 52.1032722 | Latitude, 4.2582423 | Longitude ) in combination with the Skies from Scheveningen a very known but unknown film location!

Guess this could be the reason it’s not mentioned by the writers of the Dutch book - Fantastic Film locations ( Google Translated Dutch > English ). Original Dutch version > Fantastische Filmlocaties.

Anyway on this page will show some projects where got permission to show it here. For sure there are a lot of productions that not aware of.

First some technical notes , can imagine you are not aware of it, so how are the Dutch Skies 360° ( HDR ) technically being used by clients? Entered some details into a.i to generate a kind of blue-print of the Skies - HDR pipeline. Noting that there are some issues with the final a.i output perhaps will generate a new one in the future. For now most info shown on the image on the right ( or on top when viewing this page on a mobile phone) seems to be not that bad.

So the Skies can be used as background image, can be as lighting source of 3d objects/ characters or a combination of both.