High-Fidelity 3D & 4D Capture. Mastered.
The LightStand is a modular multi-camera array engineered for flawless digital doubles and advanced volumetric performance. It empowers the world's leading VFX and gaming studios to capture production-premium data with a flexible, in-house solution.
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Your In-House 3D & 4D Body Scanning Stage, Redefined.
Modular by Design
Instantaneous Capture
Pipeline-Ready Assets
Inconsistent Data Compromises the Pipeline
Building a professional character pipeline demands a source of unassailable ground truth. Yet, studios are often forced to rely on inconsistent third-party scans or the expense of inflexible permanent capture stages.
This initial compromise creates significant downstream costs: artists spend weeks cleaning noisy data, characters suffer from asymmetrical geometry, and the final character lacks the anatomical precision required for true realism.
Data Integrity. Captured by Design.
The ESPER LightStand is an engineered solution to the data integrity problem. It is a modular, professional multi-camera array designed to provide an uncompromised source of ground-truth data, in-house.
By synchronising dozens of cameras and controlling illumination with precision, the LightStand delivers geometrically perfect, de-lit 3D assets. Beyond static 3D body scanning, it provides the temporal resolution required for volumetric scanning to digitise dynamic performances and create truly lifelike 4D assets.
Core Technology for Flawless Digital Doubles
The LightStand system is engineered for one purpose: to produce a perfect foundation for a digital human. The synchronized capture provides flawless geometry for rigging and simulation.
Animation-Ready Digital Doubles That Perform
The LightStand system is engineered to produce a perfect foundation for a digital human—static or in motion. The synchronized capture provides flawless geometry for rigging, simulation, and performance animation.
The controlled lighting delivers colour-accurate textures ready for look development. The result is pipeline-ready assets that empower your artists to focus on what matters most: bringing characters to life through authentic performance
Trusted by Industry Leaders
The resulting neural assets allow for photorealistic re-lighting and novel view synthesis, making them ideal for virtual production, AI training, and advanced simulation. Move beyond simple textured meshes and start creating assets that respond to light as they would in the real world.
Experience Uncompromised Data
Get hands-on with our raw scan data and see what’s possible for your next project. Our sample pack includes:
- High-resolution 3d head scan with 16k de-lit texture maps.
- Full-body scan with clean, production-ready topology for digital human creation.
- Photometric stereo data for unparalleled surface information.
A Complete Ecosystem for Flawless Data
Geodesic Dome: Structural Perfection
The rigid geodesic frame provides a mathematically perfect and stable structure for the precise, repeatable placement of cameras and lights, ensuring error-free calculations.
High-Resolution Cameras: Unrivaled Image Quality
We intergrate high-resolution cameras, leveraging their large sensors for superb texture detail for deeep, programmatic control over every setting.
Integrated power distribution
ESPER MultiFlash lights, ESPER ControllerBox, LightCageController software a multi region power supply unit and all connection cabling.
LightCageController software
Comes bundled with the LightCage – allowing the programming and control of each lighting unit and the accurate synchronisation with capture system.
Technical Specification:
Purpose-Built for Your Needs
If your project requires a non-standard solution, we can help. We specialise in designing and building fully custom and modular systems for any application. Let's discuss your specific requirements.
Applications for the LightStand System
From blockbuster films to cutting-edge AI, discover the ground-breaking work with ESPER systems.
