CAPABILITIES / FULL CAPTURE PIPELINE
3D Scanning Services
SCANable is the largest US-based 3D & 4D capture studio built for film and episodic production. From a single digital double to a full backlot survey, every service below travels. We design and build our own camera arrays for scanning actors and props; for everything else we use the right instrument for the job — LiDAR on sets and environments, structured light on props, drones over locations. Mobile CyberSCAN™ Studios and set-experienced crews deploy from six cities to any production in the country, anytime.
[ LA → LV → NY → NJ → ATL → HOU → YOUR SET ]
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Digital Doubles
Full-body character capture in our 150+ camera Mobile CyberSCAN™ Studios. About 60 seconds with the actor — two scans, one held as a backup.
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Mobile CyberSCAN™ Studios
Custom-built photogrammetry trailers that bring a full capture stage to your production — nationwide, and capture-ready in as little as 15 minutes once we are on set.
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Set & Location Scanning
LiDAR, structured light, and photogrammetry for sets, environments, vehicles, and props — clean, registered data.
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Aerial Photogrammetry
FAA-licensed UAS crews capture terrain, backlots, city blocks, and inaccessible structures at production detail.
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4D Capture
Volumetric performance capture — geometry that changes frame by frame, built for ICVFX and real-time pipelines.
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3D Gaussian Splatting
Photoreal real-time radiance fields of sets, environments, and objects — and every set scan we shoot is captured 3DGS-ready.
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Virtual Production
Capture and asset prep for LED volume work — environments, splats, and doubles built for real-time engines.
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Modeling
Retopology, texturing, and subsurface maps. Dense scan data in, render-ready assets out.
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Enterprise & Survey
Architecture & heritage (BIM, HABS/HAER), civil/survey, plant & marine, and security analysis.
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Capture for Neural Rendering
Synchronized, calibrated, scale-locked datasets that train cleanly into radiance fields — 3DGS, NeRF-family, and neural pipelines.
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Photometric & OLAT Capture
Cross-polarized, three-point beauty, then eight lights at 45° increments — relightable likeness, plus ML video capture.
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Digital Crowds
Background actors scanned on your set, plus a synchronized 4K–6K volumetric array — gear and crew supplied — for sprites, volumetric assets, 4D mesh sequences, and 4D Gaussian splats.
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HOW IT WORKS
How 3D laser scanning works at SCANable
01 / CAPTURE
The right sensor for each job
No single sensor captures everything. Long-range LiDAR records the scale and structure of sets and locations. Structured light picks up fine detail on props and vehicles. Photogrammetry adds texture. Our own camera arrays scan actors and props in 3D and 4D.
02 / PROCESS
One clean, registered dataset
Every pass is registered into a single coordinate space and cleaned of noise. We scope deliverables with your VFX vendor before the shoot, so the data lands matchmove-ready in a form your team can use on day one.
03 / DEPLOY
Our crews, on your set
The fleet is owned and crewed by us, not subcontracted. Crews are based in Los Angeles, Las Vegas, New York, New Jersey, Atlanta, and Houston, and travel nationwide — to a stage, a practical location, or a backlot. Work under production NDA is standard.
Beyond film, the same 3D laser scanning supports survey and enterprise work: scan-to-BIM, as-built modeling, and HABS/HAER heritage documentation.
FAQ
Common questions
Where do you operate?
We are US-based with people and equipment across six cities — Los Angeles, Las Vegas, New York, New Jersey, Atlanta, and Houston — and we travel to wherever production is shooting.
Can you scan on location, or does it have to be a stage?
Either. The studios are built to be trucked in and stood up wherever the day is happening: a sound stage, a practical location, a backlot, or a parking lot.
Who operates the equipment?
We do. The fleet is owned and crewed by us, not subcontracted, so the people who built the rigs are the people running them on your set.
Do you build your own equipment?
We build the camera arrays — the Mobile CyberSCAN™ Studios and the C.A.L.V.I.N.N.™ modular rigs are designed, built, owned, and crewed by us, because nothing off the shelf fired the way set work needs. Those arrays are what we scan actors and props with, in 3D and 4D. Other jobs call for other instruments: LiDAR for sets and environments, structured light for props, drones for locations. Those come from the leaders in each field and run through our own workflow and pipeline.
What do you deliver?
That depends on the pipeline you are handing it to — we scope deliverables with your VFX vendor before the shoot so the data lands in a form your team can use on day one, not after a conversion pass.
Do you handle NDAs and secure delivery?
Yes. Almost everything we shoot is under NDA — unreleased titles, talent likenesses, and production designs. We work under production NDAs as standard practice and treat likeness data accordingly.
How far in advance should we book?
As early as you have a cast list. Earlier bookings give us the widest choice of dates and let us fold the scan into a day you were already shooting, but we regularly work to short notice — ask us even if the date is close.
How much does a scan cost?
It depends on scope: how many performers, what passes you need, where you are shooting, and what the deliverable has to be. Send us the shoot dates and the cast count and we will quote it.
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See the work, then bring us your production.
Decades of digital doubles, set scans, and environments for every major studio and streamer. Tell us what you need captured and where — we mobilize.