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FirstStage is your flexible friend!
It is a virtual sandpit for creative productions
It has functionality that supports everything from previsualising a film or planning a theatre production, through to animation layout or finished gamified training experiences.
It does not mind how much detail is needed
It can be used to quickly test an idea, or deliver broadcast quality videos or VR experiences. It encourages agile iterative development, and the level of detail is up to you.
It has tools for quickly crafting placeholder 3d models, or you can import high fidelity assets. You can record placeholder partial mocap using your headset and controllers, or high quality Rokoko Smartsuit animations. You can output images, a quick edited video sequence, or a VR player experience. You can work alone, or remotely collaborate in real-time.
We have a solution to suit your needs
FirstStage uses VR making the user experience natural and accessible. However, we at Moviestorm fully appreciate that some potential tool customers might initially prefer to be service clients, and let someone else operate the tool whilst they direct the vision, until they are comfortable to take the reins.
Throughout your journey, we will support you
FirstStage uses VR to make the user experience natural and accessible. However, we at Moviestorm fully appreciate that some potential tool customers might initially prefer to be service clients, and let someone else operate the tool whilst they direct the vision, until they are comfortable to take the reins.
So from first contact to independent creator we offer a service to help you minimise risk and realise your vision as quickly and simply as possible.
Filmmaking
For directors and producers in development, production designers and art directors in craft, and DoPs in technical departments ...
Scan a location or virtually build and stage it yourself, then choreograph the action and block out cameras to output storyboards, animatics, and production data to take on set.
A sandpit for exploring cinematic ideas and a laboratory for analysing production risks, to make critical production decisions before they are a problem on set.
Virtual Production
For Directors, VFX Producers and Editors, DOPs and DVPs, Production Designers, VFX Supervisors, Art Departments and VADs ...
Centre your volume in your virtual location then do some virtual rapid prototyping to deliver everything from pitchvis to data for your virtual production sessions.
Limitless time to explore ideas and block out scenes in VR, giving you a headstart in your virtual production volume, saving time and money.
Immersive Learning
For educators, vocational trainers or businesses looking to onboard and train their workforce.
Enable your experts to adapt existing materials into flexible gamified immersive learning.
Output flexible low cost content as video or VR experiences, that can be reused or updated at any time, without on-going dependency on costly external services.
VR Experiences
For IP owners in the metaverse or elsewhere in virtual reality
A quick means to create exciting content for users to experience in VR
As developers of VR tools, we are well positioned to help you realise your IP ambitions and create engaging content
Animation
For Heads of Story, Art and FX Directors, Modelmakers and Background Designers, Animators, Layout and Lighting Artists ...
Block out sets and layout animations and camerawork in realtime as a team.
Combine design, animation and layout in a single platform, to make realtime decisions before exporting the scene to your preferred animation software for final execution.
Theatre
For Directors and ADs, Stage Technicians, Scene and Lighting Designers ...
Design sets, choreograph scene performance, experiment with lighting and coordinate stage mechanics.
Get perpetual access to your stage to explore ideas and test logistics as a preproduction team, then share and communicate your production plans. It is great for touring production planning too!
Media Studies
For teachers and students in Film and Media Studies.
A creative sandpit tool for collaborative learning, that allows students to explore ideas and develop techniques whenever they want.
Work alone or in teams with production roles on a virtual stage at any time, to deliver creative productions without a budget, and build learning and portfolios.
Commercial Video
For Directors and ADs, DoPs, Production Designers and Art Directors.
Design and choreograph your production ideas and share with your client in real-time.
Help pitch and win projects and get greenlit sooner, keeping the client onboard throughout the creative production process.