Our high-fidelity 3D scanning and spatial data services give artists, filmmakers and experience designers the precision and flexibility they need while visualising possibility to push boundaries. From heritage preservation to cutting-edge AI art, our scans provide the digital foundation that turns ambitious ideas into fully realised worlds.
Traditional production teams often wrestle with incomplete references, unpredictable weather, and expensive physical builds. Our work solves these problems by delivering accurate, scalable digital twins of real sites that can be explored, modified and reused throughout the creative pipeline.
Case Study 1 — Preservation and Digital Legacy
Preservation is an ambitious film from Anna Dobos, exploring ecological collapse, cultural memory and digital conservation. It asks how technology (from LiDAR to photogrammetry) can both document and alter our relationship with the natural world. The directors pull from themes of digital glitching and ghosting to question what is truly preserved when a landscape is digitally copied, and how those records may outlive the real spaces they depict.
To ground this complex narrative in reality, Visualskies provided high-fidelity 3D scans of the Portland site. These assets became the spatial backbone for the film’s production and visual effects.
REALISTIC SETS & CGI INTEGRATION
Our scans captured the site with millimeter accuracy, allowing VFX artists to extend and manipulate the environment while maintaining physical credibility.
IMMERSIVE ENVIRONMENTS
The models let the filmmakers and designers virtually explore and block scenes before shooting, ensuring creative control even in challenging terrain.
HERITAGE & DIGITAL LEGACY
Beyond immediate production needs, the scans created a lasting record of a fragile landscape — aligning with the film’s central questions about preservation in the digital age.
HANDLING SCALE & COMPLEXITY
The site was vast and diverse; our workflows delivered consistent resolution and seamless registration across large areas.
OPTIMISATION & RISK REDUCTION
With dependable digital replicas, the team could plan virtually, reduce on-location days, minimise weather disruptions, and cut production costs, freeing the filmmakers to focus on storytelling.
By delivering precise, scalable, and production-ready digital environments, Visualskies enabled Preservation to explore the intersection of technology, ecology and memory without sacrificing visual style or production efficiency. We didn’t just operate as 3D scanners, we also acted as advisors, providing insights and assistance to the small production team, helping them to harness the most visual value from their scans.
Case Study 2 — Echoes of the Earth: Living Archive
Grounding a World-Scale Nature Model in Real Space
Echoes of the Earth: Living Archive (an immersive exhibition by media artist Refik Anadol with Dataland’s Living Encyclopedia) turns the Serpentine North Gallery into a living, breathing portrait of the planet. At its heart is the Large Nature Model (LNM): a pioneering AI model trained on millions of images and datasets of rainforests, fungi, coral reefs and other ecosystems. The model generates endlessly shifting, dream-like visions of the natural world, inviting visitors to reflect on how technology remembers and reimagines nature.
To feed this groundbreaking model with authentic, high-resolution references of the natural world, Visualskies captured detailed 3D scans of plants, organic forms and real environments. To make sure that we captured nature in all its minute beauty, we constructed a purpose built mini-cyber rig for capturing specularity maps.
These scans became a large part of the training and calibration dataset behind the LNM, ensuring the AI’s representations of flora and ecosystems were structurally accurate and visually faithful.
Our work allowed the creative team to:
PHYSICALLY TRUTHFUL TRAINING
Train the AI on true-to-life plant geometry and textures, grounding generative visuals in physical realism.
NATURAL COMPLEXITY
Enhance the richness and detail of the LNM’s output, giving the resulting imagery natural complexity rather than generic forms.
DIGITAL PRESERVATION
Preserve delicate natural structures digitally, aligning with the exhibition’s theme of ecological memory and conservation.
LOWER RISK, LOWER COST
Reduce production risk and cost by supplying ready-to-use, high-fidelity digital assets instead of relying solely on photographic or stock references.
By contributing precise, scientifically faithful scans of real plant life and environments, Visualskies helped transform the vast, planetary imagination of the LNM into a believable and emotionally resonant experience — turning raw ecological data into immersive digital art that still feels deeply connected to the real natural world.
Case Study 3 — Marni: WEARWEARE
Digitising Fashion for a New Reality
For their Spring/Summer collection, Italian fashion house Marni collaborated with Visualskies to reimagine what a digital fashion experience could be. The result was WEARWEARE — a fully immersive virtual environment that blended fashion, technology and art to create an interactive, multi-sensory world.
Through the use of high-fidelity 3D scanning, Visualskies produced detailed digital doubles of Marni’s models and garments, forming the foundation for an interactive 3D lookbook, an AR interface, and a navigable virtual world. These scans enabled users to explore the Models from the show as hyper-real avatars moving, rotating, and interacting within a psychedelic landscape of colour and texture. On top of the production role, we advised the fashion based post house on getting the 3D data into their metaverse.
The project demonstrated how digital craftsmanship can extend storytelling beyond the runway.
With Visualskies’ support, Marni was able to:
PERFECT REALISM
Build a digital collection with perfect realism, capturing the exact structure, fabric flow and silhouette of each garment.
FASTER, CHEAPER WORKFLOWS
Reduce modelling time and costs, replacing repetitive 3D modelling with efficient, high-fidelity scanning.
REUSABLE, CROSS-PLATFORM ASSETS
Create dynamic, reusable assets suitable for AR, VR, and web-based experiences — ready for redeployment across campaigns and platforms.
ELEVATED STORYTELLING
Elevate storytelling, embedding each look within surreal, otherworldly settings that mirrored the brand’s creative identity.
By relying on cyber scans rather than repeat studio sessions, Marni achieved significant cost and time efficiencies, while gaining assets that could be repurposed across media and future campaigns.
Through Visualskies’ advanced scanning pipeline, WEARWEARE became more than a virtual lookbook — it became a new form of fashion storytelling, one that Vogue described as “a revolutionary step into digital couture”.
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Our Value Proposition
Visualskies provides more than beautiful point clouds. We de-risk production, enable creative freedom and preserve cultural heritage. Our work sits at the intersection of accuracy, efficiency and imagination:
ACCURACY
Millimeter-precise capture for seamless VFX, VR/AR and AI pipelines.
EFFICIENCY
Faster production planning, fewer location days, lower costs.
FLEXIBILITY
Creative teams can explore and iterate before committing physically.
LEGACY
Digital records that last beyond the project.
LET’S BUILD THE DIGITAL FOUNDATIONS
OF YOUR NEXT WORLD
Whether you’re designing an immersive art installation, training an AI model on real landscapes, or building complex VFX-ready sets, Visualskies provides the trusted spatial backbone your project needs.
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Visualskies is proud to offer our expert Photogrammetry services for VFX across multiple locations worldwide. Our presence in key cities enables us to provide prompt and efficient service to our clients. You can find us in the following locations.
