Services
Four ways to hire the company.
One senior filmmaking team, engaged at the level your production needs. Every capability listed further down sits inside one of these four.
Produce the picture
Who it suits
Financiers, producers and companies with a project and no standing production infrastructure behind it.
What it covers
- Development and packaging
- Preproduction, schedule and budget
- Live action photography
- Editorial, VFX and finishing
- Delivery to specification
Where it comes from
The company is producing its own features this way now — one producing team from development through delivery.
The first conversation
Send the script or the shape of the project. A producer reads it and comes back with an honest view of scale, method and what it would take to make.
Start hereEmbed the department
Who it suits
Studios, franchises and slates that keep rebuilding the same department every greenlight.
What it covers
- Production, VFX and AI department leadership
- Pipeline and asset continuity across titles
- Vendor orchestration and delivery operations
- Shot database, budgeting and schedule operations
Where it comes from
Long-running franchise work where environments, assets and creative shorthand carried season to season instead of being rebuilt.
Virtual production at scale →The first conversation
A slate assessment: we look at the upcoming titles, where the work repeats, and what a standing department would actually change.
Start hereLead the difficult part
Who it suits
Productions already running that have one sequence, block or discipline deciding whether the show lands.
What it covers
- VFX supervision
- Virtual production supervision
- Second unit and block direction
- Complex sequence design and delivery
Where it comes from
Episodic work built around one demanding visual idea, carried by a supervisor inside someone else's production.
The Man Who Fell to Earth →The first conversation
Show us the sequence and the constraint. We come back with the method we would use and who would carry it.
Start hereBuild the future workflow
Who it suits
Studios and production companies deciding how their pictures will actually be made over the next few years.
What it covers
- Pipeline and tooling design
- Virtual production and previs workflow
- AI policy, approval and provenance practice
- Production systems and operations
Where it comes from
Stage, volume and realtime workflow decisions taken with the people who then had to shoot on them.
Toronto virtual production →The first conversation
A working session on how you make pictures today, followed by a written plan you own — including where we would advise using none of this.
Start hereSpecialist technology
The technical disciplines we run in-house.
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.
The embedded department model
Capability that compounds instead of expiring at wrap.
Antique Robots can operate as an embedded production, VFX and AI department for studios, production companies, franchises, features and episodic slates.
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.
Every capability, in full
Directing / creative leadership
Director-level 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.
Creative technology
Pipeline design, workflow integration, cloud collaboration and emerging production tools.
Formats we produce
- Features
- Episodic television
- Commercials
- Branded content
- Shorts
- Trailers
- Animation
- Hybrid production