The Piano Lesson is Netflix’s 2024 drama adapting August Wilson’s 1987 play, directed by Malcolm Washington and starring Samuel L. Jackson. Washington co-wrote the screenplay with Virgil Williams, and the cast includes John David Washington, Ray Fisher, Michael Potts, Erykah Badu, Skylar Aleece Smith, Danielle Deadwyler, and Corey Hawkins. Set in 1936 Pittsburgh in the aftermath of the Great Depression, the film follows the Charles family of the Doaker Charles household and their heirloom piano, decorated with designs carved by an enslaved ancestor.
SCANable provided 3D scans of several sets and actors in support of the film’s visual effects, delivering LiDAR and photogrammetry data for the VFX team’s work.
