Video, 3D & Oddities

3D Video Impossible angles for inventions that need explaining.

Robotics, machinery and new inventions are hard to film and even harder to explain. 3D animation shows them from impossible perspectives: through the housing, under the load, inside the mechanism, at any speed and any scale. We create technical 3D videos that make engineers nod and buyers finally get it.

Polished metal bust with a perforated, sculptural headpiece

The Final RenderPolished steel, 8,000 frames and counting

What’s included

Impossible angles. Real engineering.

Built from your CAD files, so every part, joint and dimension is true to the real thing.

The clever part of an invention is usually the part nobody can see: inside a housing, under a load that weighs tons, or happening faster than the eye can follow.

Impossible perspectives

3D animation puts the camera where no camera fits: inside the mechanism, underneath the machine, through the floor or right beside a needle tip. Housings turn transparent, parts slide apart and click back together, and motion slows down until every step makes sense. People see exactly how it works instead of taking your word for it.

Made for robotics and inventions

Automation systems, tooling, drive units, transporters and precision devices are our kind of project. We build from your CAD files, so every part is true to the real thing, then light and animate it so the engineering looks as good as it works.

Sell it before the demo unit ships

A machine that weighs tons can’t come to every meeting. A 3D video can: on the trade show screen, in the sales deck, on your website and in the investor update, showing the whole system working in a setting you choose.

One model, years of use

Once it’s built in 3D, the same model makes product spins, stills for brochures and listings, and next year’s update without another shoot. New version? We change the model and render it again.

Let’s show them how it really works.

Got an invention that’s hard to explain?

Send CAD files, drawings or photos. We’ll show you the angles nobody has seen yet.

Pro Tips
Straight answers from twenty years of client meetings.
Examples

Where no camera fits.

Intelliport · Omni-directional heavy-load transporters

Flexible Tooling Solutions · Pogo flexible tooling system

GRIP · Tattoo cartridge needles up close

Intelliport · OmniAxle drive unit from every angle

Pricing

Three ways to show how it works.

Every price is per finished piece, and every piece includes revisions until you love it.

Product Spin

Every angle of one product.

from$750

up to 30 seconds

Most popular

Technical Animation

Show how it works.

from$2,500

up to 45 seconds

System Film

The whole machine, in its world.

Let’s talk

quoted per project

We model your product once. Every video after that reuses the model, so it costs less.

How it works

From CAD file to “so that’s how it works.”

01

Share the CAD

CAD files, drawings or photos, plus what people need to understand.

02

Plan the shots

A storyboard of the angles, cutaways and moves that tell the story.

03

Animate and light

Motion, materials and lighting, approved in previews.

04

Render and deliver

Final videos with music and titles, cut for every screen.

Questions

Asked at nearly every kickoff.

What do you need from us?

CAD files are ideal, in most formats. Drawings, photos, samples and measurements work too.

Yes, that’s the point. Housings can turn transparent, parts can separate in an exploded view and the camera can go anywhere, so the clever part is always visible.

It depends on the length and the number of scenes. You’ll get a schedule with your quote, and previews to approve along the way.

Yes. The same model can produce stills for brochures, trade show graphics and online listings, and future videos. See Product Renderings for Online Stores.

Let’s talk

Every great project starts with a little contact.

Book a free consultation. Bring the big idea, the messy brief or the “would it be crazy if…”. We’ll bring the questions, and probably a few good answers.

Two marble hands reaching toward each other, after Michelangelo

The Kickoff MeetingAfter Michelangelo. Coffee not pictured.