playard studios
OUR SERVICES
A Virtual Filmmaking Process - Helping You Hone Your Story and Achieve Results
What is the PlayYARD?
PlayYARD is a customized virtual production workflow designed for filmmakers across disciplines - directors, production designers, VFX supervisors, cinematographers, virtual production supervisors, and producers. It brings teams together in a fun, intuitive, and real-time environment, making visualization accessible on the fly.
By aligning vision, visuals, and production goals early, PlayYARD minimizes headaches, optimizes VFX and visualization, and enhances physical production. While the name suggests “play,” it’s a refined methodology built for efficiency, creativity, and collaboration.
If you'd like to learn more, reach out to us - we'd love to discuss how PlayYARD can support your project.
Tools & Workflows
Virtual Camera & Storyboards
We use virtual cameras and motion capture processes to create real-time character blocking and framing in Unreal Engine. This generates still-shots for storyboarding purposes, to be used in visualization, kick-off your set design, or as a starting point for VFX. Tailored towards directors and VFX supervisors.
Replica - Behind The Scenes
Virtual Location Scouting
Collaboratively build locations, integrating set design, VFX, set decoration, cinematography, and lighting - into a real-time design process. VR is optional. Digital assets are shared with you, streamlining production across departments. Tailored towards production designers, and VFX supervisors.
Ant-Man & The Wasp: QUANTUMANIA Virtual Set Scouting
Virtual Prelights
Helps refine shot composition and lighting before production, using real-time tools to adjust cameras and light scenes digitally. This minimizes set builds, optimizes shoot days, and adapts to client preferences.
EXODUS Spec Commercial Visualization & Digital Cinematography
Realtime Filmmaking
Create production ready VFX shots in real time and within the production timeline without the traditional post-production process.
REPLICA - Realtime Filmmaking shots
Ai Avatars
We’re actively exploring new technologies and their applications. Our AI avatar work has given us insight into how advertising and digital media might evolve.
Digital Avatar work & Digital Ai avatar concepts
Ai Powered Production Workflows
We’re actively exploring new technologies and their applications. Including AI powered production workflows. Working through some of the softwares below is giving us insight into how we might build efficiencies, only if the project allows.
