Night Swim

Night Swim is a 2024 supernatural horror film from Universal Pictures starring Wyatt Russell and Kerry Condon. Written and directed by Bryce McGuire in his feature directorial debut, and based on the 2014 short film of the same name by McGuire and Rod Blackhurst, it follows a suburban family who discover that their backyard swimming pool is haunted by a demonic entity. Jason Blum and James Wan produced under their Blumhouse Productions and Atomic Monster banners, making it the first film released by the two companies after their January 2, 2024 merger.

SCANable provided 3D scanning services for the production, capturing talent and set environments to support the film’s visual effects, from digital doubles to set-extension work.

Capture happens once, then the set comes down

A backyard, a pool, a house interior — each exists for a fixed number of shooting days. After that the dressing is stripped, the location goes back to whoever owns it, and the geometry is gone.

A measured record is the only version that survives. Capturing it costs a small slice of a shooting day and cannot be recovered afterward at any price.

That is why set and location scanning belongs on the shooting schedule rather than in a post-production request six months later, when the only remaining reference is the footage itself.

Spaces a camera can never actually occupy

Horror built around water asks for angles no rig can hold — inside the volume, below the surface, in a space that behaves like a room but is not one.

Those shots are assembled digitally, and they sit correctly only if the real geometry surrounding them is accurate: the true dimensions of the pool, the height of the deck, the position of the house behind it.

Environment capture supplies that frame of reference. Anything invented afterward inherits its scale, and a frame with one correctly measured element reads as real far more readily than a frame built entirely from estimates.

Water the actor cannot be put in

Water sequences generate coverage that is unsafe, impractical, or simply impossible to shoot with the actor in frame.

A digital double covers those cuts, but only if the likeness holds against the real coverage on either side of the edit. Our arrays fire every camera at the same instant, so a full-body scan records the performer in a single moment rather than accumulating drift across a sweep. That is the core of cyberscanning as a technique.

Our Mobile CyberSCAN™ Studios deploy to the production, so talent is captured between setups, and every asset ships after retopology, UV layout, and render-ready build.

More feature film work is in the portfolio, and the full service list covers the rest.