StoryEngine · Vancouver, BC · Virtual production
Real locations, captured. Your actors, shot against them live. Picture-ready shots before wrap.
Fees, permits, insurance, restoration. The location you can afford is never the location the script needs.
Every move costs half a day. Trucks, crew, resets. The schedule bleeds before a single frame is shot.
One grey sky can erase a shooting day. And the contingency for it was spent last week.
Volume stages solved this. For productions with volume-stage money. Yours probably isn't one of them.
"We fixed it in prep."
We capture real-world locations as photorealistic digital environments. Shot once, they are yours to return to in any season, any light, any year.
Your actors perform on our Vancouver stage against those environments, live. The director and cinematographer watch a broadcast-quality composite in real time, and make creative decisions on the day, not in post.
No months of post on these shots. Productions leave the stage with picture-ready material in hand, on schedule and on budget.
Producer and co-founder of Trembling Void Studios: ten features and a television series across fifteen years in British Columbia, which is where he learned exactly how much of a budget gets spent on things that never reach the screen.
Co-founder of Trembling Void Studios and showrunner of The Switch. She has brought ten features in on budget, a feat the industry generally files under witchcraft.
Twenty years of compositing for the largest VFX houses in the world, on Star Wars, Game of Thrones, District 9 and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2. Founder of ArcVFX, where he pioneered live compositing for virtual production. He got tired of fixing shots six months after wrap.
See the workflow live at the CenterGrid booth: real locations composited behind performers in real time, presented by world building TD Daniel Langhjelm. If you are at the show, this is twenty minutes that will change how you budget your next season.
Over a year of structured R&D behind the workflow.
A dedicated Vancouver production facility, purpose-built for this work.
Technical validation underway now, on our own stage.
An invited producer showcase planned for fall 2026.
We are showing this to a small group of producers first. If schedule, budget, and creative control are the problems you carry, you should be in the room.
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