Percy Jackson began production this past June and has not looked back since. Author and executive producer Rick Riordan has shared that the series has “mostly” finished principal photography on two of the eight planned episodes for the freshman season, which puts it on schedule to wrap production by its expected January 2023 finish. Much of that is thanks to the show’s use of Industrial Light & Magic’s StageCraft (also known as the Volume), a massive virtual production visual effects screen that has been used by The Mandalorian, Thor: Love and Thunder, and The Batman. “Our new Volume stage is an even more cutting-edge version of that wraparound virtual environment, making it one of the most advanced production stages in the world,” Riordan said. “We are using it for things that have never been attempted before, creating settings so realistic that if we do it right, you should never be able to guess which scenes were done on location and which were done on the stage.”
