Studio
A team that stays with the work from prep through the shoot.
Sehnsucht is an end-to-end virtual production studio. Our work is structured so the creative and technical vision stays consistent from early design through the end of the shoot.
If you want to change the world,
you have to entertain it.
We live in a world saturated with visual content. Making something new isn’t the end game it used to be; it’s the starting line. What used to take hundreds of people and weeks to orchestrate can now be done with a device that fits in your pocket. The images that used to be confined to our imagination can now be brought to life at the click of a button.
So what do you do in a world where seeing anything you can imagine is novel? How do you make things that linger in a vast sea of visuals competing for every second your eyes can spare?
What can you do to hold people’s attention?
We do this by integrating creative ideas with technical mastery.
We work with a core team of experts and scale per project with trusted collaborators. This foundtation of expertise gives us the opportunity to steward ideas from inception to creation, defining the guardrails of what is necessary for production without getting in the way of the ideas that will make it come to life.
This allows us to make direct decisions that honor the creative needs of the project while keeping the technical work tied to what production actually needs on stage.
Plan
Scope the work, scout virtually, and set the pipeline early
Design
Build the environment, previs, and digital lighting in UE5
Build
Prepare everything to run cleanly on the LED volume
Operate
Stay with the shoot and run the stage in real time
With Virtual Production, we can do all these things at once.
With the right resources, artists have been able to put virtually anything they can imagine on a screen for quite some time. Now, with the advent of Virtual Production, we can do all this and more for a fraction of the cost.
Unifying the team creating the content with the personnel tasked with displaying it allows us to reduce these costs even further. The breathtaking visuals that might have only been possible with millions and millions of dollars and half a year of planning might be possible in a week at a fraction of the cost in your local studio.
Pre-Production / VAD
The VAD phase is led by art direction, supported by a VAD lead and pipeline or prep TD. This group takes the environment from first block-out to stage-ready delivery.
- Art Director
- Environment Arist
- Pipeline TD
- Specialized Collaborators per Project
Production / Stage Operations
On set, virtual production supervision leads the stage with a real-time or systems technician and on-set creative support, often from the same VAD team. This is how we keep prep and stage work connected.
- Virtual Production Supervisor
- Unreal Engine / Systems Tech
- On-Set Art Direction / Creative Support
- LED / Stage Tech
Sehnsucht works closely with every team involved in production, letting us add the right people without building a lot of extra layers around the work. From working directly with agencies to coordinating practical set construction, we’re with you every step of the way.
Agencies
Content planning, concept / look dev, long term economic strategy
Producers
Scope, schedule, and practical use of the volume
Directors
Shot decisions, stage collaboration, live changes when needed
Production Designers
Environment planning, virtual scouting, digital set development
Early conversations help virtual production fit the schedule, the budget, and the rest of the crew before stage work begins.
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