ORB Studio is an AI-powered film production platform that replaces text-prompt generation with a set-based 3D workflow, allowing directors to build geometry, position cameras, and select lenses before AI generates the final scene. The platform uses proprietary ORB Scan technology to capture real locations and performers with consent, supporting previsualization, reshoots, and fully synthetic production in one unified pipeline. It is built in collaboration with working directors to bridge the gap between creative vision and production budget.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
The distance between the film a director can envision and the film a production can afford to realize causes scenes to be lost in budget meetings, scheduling conflicts, and the daily calculation of which setup is sacrificed so the schedule survives. Film production runs on instruments that have not kept pace with what the work demands, and every year the gap widens. Additionally, text-prompt AI tools fail because they substitute description for set-building, lens selection, and professional judgment, while also generating performers from composites of people who did not consent.
Solution
ORB Studio provides a set-based, not prompt-based, AI film production platform where a scene exists as a coordinate space with real geometry, real camera mathematics, real focal lengths, and real distances. Filmmakers build the set, place the cast, position the camera, and pick the lens, then the system generates exactly what was designed — interpreting no intent because nothing was described; the scene was staged. Through the ORB Scan application, productions capture their own locations and their own performers, ensuring consent and ownership. The platform runs three workflows on one principle at three scales: previsualization to plan coverage, reshoot to convert existing shots into digital twins and rebuild them with revised intent, and fully synthetic production for projects that would not have been financed at all.
Target Audience
Primary users are working directors, producers, cinematographers, and independent filmmakers from studio and independent production who need to close the gap between creative vision and production budget, particularly those facing hard constraints on financed productions or seeking entry into the industry without capital.
Features
- Set-based 3D scene construction with real geometry, camera mathematics, focal lengths, and blocking instead of text-prompt generation
- ORB Scan application for capturing a production's own locations and cast with explicit, withdrawable, and deletable consent
- Previsualization workflow to scan locations, block scenes, and plan coverage before day one
- Reshoot workflow that converts existing shots into digital twins for revised angles, lenses, or lighting design
- Fully synthetic production workflow for scanned performers and environments with synthetic camera and light
- Enforceable commitments: no training on footage without permission, no digital resurrection, and no marketing on eliminating departments