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CAPTURE / 03 — SET & LOCATION SCANNING

VFX Scanning —
Sets & Locations

On-set VFX scanning with LiDAR, structured light, and photogrammetry — sets, locations, environments, vehicles, and props. Set-experienced teams in six cities, mobile nationwide, delivering clean registered data your vendors can use on day one.

[ 6 CITIES / CREWS ON SET IN HOURS ]

A scanned film set reconstructed as fully textured 3D geometry

SRC / SET SCAN / TEXTURED RECONSTRUCTION

WHAT IT IS

Ground truth for everything you build later.

Set and location scanning captures the physical world as measurable data: a soundstage before strike, a practical set that has to be extended, a hero vehicle, a period prop, or a location you only have access to for an afternoon. That scan becomes the reference your matchmove, set extension, and virtual art department teams trust — accurate scale, accurate geometry, no guesswork weeks later when the location is long gone.

Because our teams came up through set work, we scan around a live production instead of stopping it. We know how to move quietly through a company move, work within a lighting setup, and hand off data in the formats your pipeline already expects.

Standing set captured as a registered LiDAR point cloud, walls and rigging measurable at true scale

SRC / REGISTERED LiDAR / STANDING SET SWEEP

HOW SCANABLE DOES IT

The right instrument for each surface.

No single sensor captures everything, so we combine them. Long-range LiDAR locks the overall scale and structure of a set or environment; structured light resolves the fine detail of props, sculptural elements, and vehicles; photogrammetry adds color-accurate texture. We register every pass into a single, clean coordinate space and remove the noise, so what your vendors open is usable geometry, not a raw dump they have to untangle.

Crews stage from Los Angeles, Las Vegas, New York, New Jersey, Atlanta, and Houston and mobilize nationwide, which means a scan team can be on your set in hours — and when the environment is too large or too high to reach from the ground, we pair the same workflow with our aerial photogrammetry service.

THREE INSTRUMENTS, ONE COORDINATE SPACE

A terrestrial laser scanner set up on location
Long-range LiDAR — scale & structure
The registered set mesh, untextured, straight out of the solve
Registered mesh — noise removed
A hero vehicle captured as a fully textured photogrammetry scan
Vehicles, vessels & props

[ LiDAR + STRUCTURED LIGHT + PHOTOGRAMMETRY / REGISTERED CLOUDS / MATCHMOVE-READY ]

WHAT YOU RECEIVE

Clean data your pipeline can open.

  • Registered point cloudsUnified coordinate space, decimated and cleaned to scale.
  • Meshed geometryWatertight or shell meshes for set extension and matchmove.
  • Textured photogrammetryColor-accurate surface detail for props and vehicles.
  • Pipeline-ready formatsDelivered to the specs your VFX vendors and VAD expect.

CAPTURED 3DGS-READY BY DEFAULT

Every set scan is a splat waiting to happen.

We don’t shoot a location just for meshes. Every set and location capture is shot with full photogrammetric coverage — overlapping, color-accurate imagery from enough angles that the same data set can be processed into a photoreal, real-time 3D Gaussian Splatting scene later, with no reshoot. You get the registered clouds and meshes your VFX vendors expect today, and a splat-ready archive of the environment for whenever a virtual production or interactive use comes up.

[ PHOTOGRAMMETRIC COVERAGE / 3DGS-READY / NO RESHOOT ]

A full-scale vessel captured with complete photogrammetric coverage — the same data set a splat scene is built from FIG.03 / FULL COVERAGE — SPLAT-READY ARCHIVE

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DEPLOY ANYWHERE

Get a crew on your set this week.

Tell us the location, the scan window, and what has to be captured. We mobilize from six cities.

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