Clear Angle Studios, the market-leading 3D capture and processing company for the film and TV industries, has opened its new full-service studio in Culver City, LA. 

Clear Angle Studios was founded in 2013 and has its main headquarters at Pinewood Studios, London. From there, the team provides scanning services for all the major film studios, including Disney, Lucasfilm, Marvel, Netflix, Amazon, Universal, and Paramount.

The Atlanta studio was opened in 2017, followed by Vancouver in 2018.

Los Angeles is the next step in its growing global offering, with locations across Europe and plans to expand into Asia and Australasia in the near future.

Clear Angle Studios’ goals for the new studio

Clear Angle Studios has provided scanning services in Los Angeles for many years, utilizing their custom-made portable scanning units in spaces provided by studio productions. However, there has been growing demand for a permanent scanning facility in this location, where much of the global entertainment industry is based.

The new premises have been established following a partnership with the CAA Vault – a project which exclusively uses Clear Angle Studios’ data capture services. This new hub is the next step in the company’s overall plan for growth in order to support the global film, TV and video games industries.

“This is an exciting step in the growth of Clear Angle Studios. We have seen an increase in demand for our services in LA, in particular to make face and full body scanning more convenient for locally based talent, so it made sense for us to open a permanent hub here.

We already have some interesting projects underway from the short time we’ve been in Culver City, and we’re excited for further projects in 2025 and beyond.”

Dominic Ridley, Co-Founder and CEO at Clear Angle Studios

“We have been working with Clear Angle Studios at their London hub at Pinewood on many of our productions. With Clear Angle Studios opening their branch in Los Angeles, we’re now able to better utilise their expertise and implement consistency across all of our productions and pipelines. 

Having a permanent base offers more convenience and flexibility and makes streamlining our process much simpler. We look forward to continuing our work with the team in London and now also in LA.”

TJ Falls, Vice President of Visual Effects at Lucasfilm

The Culver City hub will offer all services Clear Angle Studios provides including: 

• Character scanning

• Photometric head scanning

• Digital facial capture

• 4D volumetric facial capture

• LiDAR scanning

• Environment capture

• Prop scanning

• Costume scanning

Also coming soon to the LA studio:

• Radiance fields capture and processing

Turner Denicola has moved from the Clear Angle Studios Atlanta hub to take on the Capture Manager role in LA, alongside Tatjana Panek, a Senior Special Systems Technician who has moved over from the UK. 

Clear Angle Studios will be growing the team in early 2025 with new roles being announced on the website in the coming months.