Services
Everything a picture needs, under one roof.
We are structured so a project never has to be handed between vendors mid-flight. Take one service or all of them.
Directing / creative leadership
Founder-level directing and season-level creative leadership — shaping the vision, the tone and the production process across a whole show.
Producing
Senior producers running schedule, budget, crew and delivery on premium feature and episodic productions.
Development
Scripts, treatments, beat sheets and lookbooks taken from a first idea to a package a financier can read.
Preproduction
Breakdowns, schedules, budgets, casting support, locations and department planning before a single frame is shot.
Live action
Crewing, principal photography and on-set producing for features, episodic, commercials and shorts.
AI production
Generated imagery and motion produced under director supervision, with a clear record of how each frame was made.
Virtual production
In-camera and hybrid stage work, previs and realtime environments built alongside the shooting plan.
Visual effects
Design, plates, animation and finishing handled with the shoot rather than bolted on afterwards.
Animation
Character, environment and motion work produced by the same team that supervises the picture.
Editorial
Assembly through picture lock, with the director watching real cuts and answering notes on the exact cut they watched.
Post production
Colour, sound finishing, conform and specification-correct masters for every recipient.
End-to-end production
One producing team accountable from the first conversation to final delivery and archive.
Specialist production technology & VFX capabilities
A specialist layer inside the production company.
Inside the broader full-service production model, antiqueRobots carries deep specialist capability in visual effects, virtual production, AI workflows, production operations and creative technology.
VFX-SUP
VFX supervision
Creative and technical oversight from preproduction through final delivery.
VP
Virtual production
LED volume workflows, Unreal Engine environments, previs, techvis and real-time on-set production.
AI-OPS
AI production workflows
AI-assisted compositing, look development, concept generation, previs/techvis acceleration and production automation.
PROD
Production management
Scheduling, budgeting, vendor management, asset tracking and delivery oversight.
CRE-TECH
Creative technology
Pipeline design, workflow integration, cloud collaboration and emerging production tools.
How these can be engaged
Independently
Take a single discipline — supervision, virtual production, AI workflows, production management or creative technology — into a production you are already running.
As part of a production
Slot alongside your existing team and vendors for a season, a block or a sequence.
As an embedded department
Operate as your in-house production, VFX and AI department across a slate, so knowledge compounds instead of expiring at wrap.
As an end-to-end production
Hand the whole picture over: development through final delivery, one accountable producing team.
The embedded department model
antiqueRobots can be engaged as a complete production company, as a directing and producing partner, as an embedded production department, as an embedded VFX, virtual production and AI department, or as a single specialist service. Where a department is embedded, leadership, pipeline and creative knowledge compound across a slate instead of being rebuilt with every greenlight.
Continuity
Environments, character assets, look development and creative shorthand carry from film to film and series to series — worlds compound instead of being rebuilt on every bid cycle.
Economics
Department-level planning replaces per-show bidding volatility, while AI-accelerated workflows keep bending the cost curve down.
Security
Scripts, franchise assets and unreleased footage live inside one controlled production environment rather than scattered across a rotating vendor network.
Scale
Supervision stays constant while capacity scales through a proven global vendor network — surge for the finale, contract between seasons.
Track record
47,235+
VFX shots completed
265
Episodes delivered
$248M+
Combined production budgets
150+
Star Trek franchise episodes
Six-year in-house record
$19M
VFX shots & assets delivered · 6 years
$5.9M
Total team payroll · same period
3.2×
Value delivered per payroll dollar
Historical performance of this team as an in-house department over a six-year period. Figures describe work already delivered; they are not a projection, an estimate, a guarantee of savings or a forecast of future results.
Formats we produce
- Features
- Episodic television
- Commercials
- Branded content
- Shorts
- Trailers
- Animation
- Hybrid production