Film, TV & VFX
Scan the set. Scan the town. Flood it later.
Sets, locations, vehicles, props and people, captured on the shoot day and delivered as the assets your pipeline already uses. We have scanned a whole Welsh village for Milk VFX, sets at Nu Boyana for Untold Studios and three people who became balloons.
Three jobs.
Each with its brief, toolbox, notes from location and numbers. Where a figure is still to come, it says so.
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MILK VFX FOR SKY ATLANTIC
Under Salt Marsh
A whole Welsh village and a purpose-built set, captured so Milk VFX could flood them on screen.
435 Terrestrial scans17,732 Images, ground and air
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SKY
Sky TV
Props, characters and indoor and outdoor sets for Sky Glass Air,
3 campaigns
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UNTOLD STUDIOS
confused.com
Three digi-doubles for the second phase of Just Used Confused.com, so three people could inflate into helium versions of themselves.
3 digi-doubles delivered
Also in this sector: Netflix: You're Not Ready, Extra Ordinary, Hurricane Heist, Poretti Beer.
Deliverables
What comes back.
- Textured OBJ / FBX with UDIMs
- Digi-doubles, clean and rigged-ready
- LED-wall environments
- Registered point clouds for layout
- 3D Gaussian splats
- HDRI and colour reference
What you will want to know
01Where are you based?
A few minutes from Stansted Airport, between London and Cambridge, with the road, rail and air links that implies. Most of our work is wherever the subject is.
02Which countries can you work in?
Almost anywhere. We travel, and we draw on a trusted network of licensed pilots and scanning specialists across the UK, Europe and further afield when a job needs local permissions or extra hands.
03How do you price a project?
There is no single rate card. Day rates, weekly rates or a fully inclusive package, whichever fits the scope and the budget in front of us. Tell us what you need and we will propose a shape.
04How much notice do you need?
We have mobilised within hours, including for crime scenes. That said, the best projects get a sensible lead-in for planning, and any drone work needs time for permissions, which are set by the regulator and not by us.
05How do you decide which technology to use?
By understanding what you need at the end. Then we choose the mix: laser scanning for geometry you can trust, photography for surface and colour, handheld structured light for the small and the awkward. Usually more than one, often all of them.
06How long does the capture take?
Hours or days, not weeks. Short capture windows mean less disruption and consistent light and weather across the dataset. On big jobs we run several teams at once for the same reason.
07Is your equipment portable?
Everything is built to come to you: a village, a hangar, a set in Bulgaria, a quayside in the Mediterranean. Precise, professional, portable.
08Is there anything you cannot scan?
Given time and preparation, very little. Glass, mirrors, very dark surfaces and anything that moves or flexes are harder, and there are techniques for each. Say what it is and we will tell you how.
09How long does processing and delivery take?
As long as you have. Shorter schedules mean more of us working in parallel. On Under Salt Marsh, a first-pass model was ready within hours of leaving site so coverage could be checked before the full model was built.
10What formats do you deliver?
Most recognised 2D, 3D and 4D formats: CAD drawings, BIM, registered point clouds, textured OBJ or FBX with UDIMs, digi-doubles, LED-wall environments and 3D Gaussian splats. Tell us what your pipeline wants and that is what arrives.
11Who owns the data?
The contract decides. Absent a prior agreement, we retain the intellectual property in the captured data and you, as the commissioning client, hold the right to use it for the purpose it was made. Yours to use, ours to keep safe.
Scope a project.
Tell us what needs capturing and where. We reply within one working day with a method and a price.
hello@kittiwakedigital.com