With bi-coastal operations and resources, the partnership is structured to support projects in any major production hub, ensuring consistent quality and workflow continuity regardless of location.
A Cohesive Offering Across Capture, Processing and Deployment
This partnership brings together complementary strengths and talent: District Cinema’s deep technical expertise in LiDAR, photogrammetry, and emerging capture methods, alongside AbelCine’s advanced imaging expertise and ability to operationalize new technologies through sales, rental, services, and training.
The result is a complete, integrated reality capture offering:
- Consultation & Workflow Design – Advisory services on capture strategies, asset applications and recommended deliverables
- Scanning Services – On-location capture of environments and assets using LiDAR and SLAM-based systems
- Processing & Optimization – Including point clouds, Gaussian splats, and production-ready datasets
- Deliverables & Integration – Creation of assets for Unreal Engine, virtual production, VFX, and spatial workflows
- Scanner Sales & Rentals – Access to leading capture technologies from XGRIDS, Sony, Zeiss and other manufacturers
- Training & Certification – Product quickstarts, training workshops and certification programs in development
This end-to-end model reflects AbelCine’s broader philosophy of offering complimentary service lines that integrate new tools and techniques directly into existing production workflows.
A Consultative, Workflow-First Approach
Environmental capture delivers the most value when integrated early and intentionally — whether supporting virtual production, location scouting, asset libraries, or real-time production environments. By aligning capture strategies with broader production goals, the partnership ensures clients are not just collecting data, but creating meaningful, reusable assets for all relevant departments throughout the production lifecycle.
This includes defining how captured data is accessed, shared, and utilized across teams — leveraging apps like Terra, a browser-based 3D viewer developed by District Cinema, to ensure assets are collaborative, accessible, and actionable throughout the production lifecycle.
Expanding Adoption Through Market Education and Accessibility
A core component of this initiative is market education. AbelCine has long played a role in helping the industry access and adopt emerging technologies, while building the internal expertise required to deploy them effectively.
This includes structured training programs, certification pathways, and hands-on workshops — designed to turn environmental capture into a repeatable, scalable capability across production teams. As adoption grows, the goal is to make 3D capture as standardized and trusted as traditional camera systems.
Reality capture is rapidly becoming a foundational capability across multiple forms of media production. The objective of this partnership is to lower barriers to entry, build practical knowledge, and ensure these tools are accessible to the broad production community.
About District Cinema
District Cinema is a creative technology studio specializing in virtual production, reality capture, digital twins, and production software for the film, television, commercial, live entertainment, and immersive experience industries.
District Cinema brings together researchers, developers, engineers, and production specialists to help creative teams adopt emerging technologies without disrupting the workflows that already work. Their mission is simple: transform innovative ideas into practical, production-ready solutions that save time, reduce risk, and unlock new creative possibilities. Learn more at districtcinema.com.
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