DESIGN AND PRODUCTION PRACTICES
We employ our creative practices to design with purpose and connect through story and emotion with audiences to create resonant, compelling and memorable media experiences that entertain and educates.
Live Action & Performance for VFX, Specialist Cinematography for Food, Beverages & Products
Three Wise Monkeys Studio & Tasty Morsels undertake live action shoot production using film and high speed data -based camera shoots on location and in studio for technical, narrative performance and documentary based projects featuring animation, visual effects, immersive media, virtual production or motion control. Carl Grinter has produced drama, documentary, commercials, branded content, behind the scenes and technical producing for live action set and location construction, art direction, camera and lighting teams for large and small scale buildsacross multiple sets, with a deep understanding of camera technology, lighting, crane, motion control and camera head technologies. With Mark Emberton as director for, food, beverage and product tabletop, we produce fast turnaround live action, virtual production, motion control and high speed based specialist cinematography and effects shoots, environment capture using LiDar, photogrammetry, volumetric capture and performance using motion capture technologies.
VR, AR, 360 and XR
We have produced multiple virtual reality, 360 live action, augmented reality and mixed reality projects for experiential entertainment, brand and peroduct promotion, pharmaceutical, health and sport based productions. We work with coders using C Sharp, Python and Unity and Unreal across multiple headsets using volumentric augmented assets, depth camera technoloogies and ambient environment sensors.
Consultancy / Strategy / Innovation
We undertake consultancy for strategic media company management, innovation or media post production facilities, building niches for competitive advantage using emerging technologies applicable to live action, animation, visual effects, immersive media, virtual production and generative AI integrations and roadmaps.
Immersive Media
Immersive Media is an experiential format of media where perception and proprioception register consciously an orientation within the media as emotionally and physically accurate,. The body and mind inhabit the media and experience aesthetic and emotional feelings associated with the storytelling such as awe, terror, disorientation, levitation, weightlessnss, vertigo, heat, touch, smells amongst many other synaesthetic feelings. Large scale projection formats such as IMAX, Cinemascope, location & site specific contextual projections onto buildings, gallery walls, LED or back projection screens, enable audiences to inhabit the media by remediating previous related experiences within stories, spectacles and other world journeys..
Animation
Bringing objects, typography and designs to life by animating creatures, characters, plants, animals, objects and environments requires an understanding of not only why an entity moves as it does, but also an interpretion of what motivates and affects the entity, what action conveys as intention and how and why it is affected because of what it feels because of its connection to its world. Three Wise Monkeys are specialists in creature, character, design and effects based animation with specialist practitioners, who bring award winning, world class experience to bounded relism and unbounded imagainative interpretations. of what animation can deliver by rippling the surface of conscious perception whilst subversively stirring its depth.
Virtual Production
Virtual production is a practice of recording in real life performance of actors, animals and object movement in physical foreground and midground sets with digitally created virtual background environments at high resolution, by linking the live action recording camera movement with virtual computer camera movement to that physical an virtual worlds move in prspctive with one another. Virtual production uses game engin technologies and softwares to build environmnts that are optimised to run using real time rendering gpu engines and can be back projected using LED walls or green screen separation to view the virtual background in situ with the recorded live action performance.
AI OPTIMISED AND AUGMENTED ADVANCED PRODUCTION PIPELINES
We use open- source AI model and Low Ranking Adaption Models, computer animation inferred generative AI rendering .and 360 Gaussian based characters utilising deformation field based motion to create more sustainable ways of creating scalable, character animations that are fully iterable and can be combined with CGi, Generative AI, Gaussian 3DGS backgrounds or integrated with virtual production methodologies and existing film practices to create hyper realistic or photorealistic live action. We are constantly developing and refining AI optimised and augmented advanced production pipelines and hence research and development is a part of our evolution.
3D CGi & GenAI interpretive rendering
We define environments using 3D and CGI blocking of scenes for interpretive AI Rendering to give nuance and detail.
3D CGi character modelling and GenAI interpretative rendering
We design and develop characters using drawing, CGi modelling and/or AI image development converting imagery to high poly mesh 3D models to then refine for genAI interpretive rendering.
360 Gaussian characters and AI Optimisation
Our current research is looking at creating precise 360 RGB volumetric depth capture of actors to create 360 Gaussians of characters that can be animated as either mesh based characters or deformation field AI models that define a specific character movement by traning individual character models.
Participative Animation
Our research and development trajectory is evolving with the intent of producing emotionally resonant and immersive participoative animation, interactive storytelling, games and gamified education, where audiences become participants in the story and world building narrative structure. A larger project seeks to develop fully inclusive health and well-being applications that are preventative as well as beneficial to wellness using movement and counselling based therapies. This is a lng term objective that AI optimisation andaugmentation and new image technologoies enable.