Trioscope, the cutting-edge company behind The Liberator (Netflix), Night of the Cooters (produced by George R.R. Martin) and Takeover (starring Quavo) announced the launch of its patented Trioscope Platform to license its proprietary technology to third-party content creators.
The Platform offers a suite of practical production tools and software that marries human performance with CG environments, enabling filmmakers to forge compelling, stylized final pictures that boast a broad array of imaginative looks, including graphic novel, painterly imagery and more. Creators will be able to leverage more cost-effective and faster production operations relative to traditional high-end live-action productions with heavy CG. The tools help them tell complex character-driven stories, combining the nuanced actors’ performances with unlimited CG elements, including backgrounds, sets, props, costumes, effects and fully-animated characters.
London-based production house Oiffy (The White King and the upcoming The Last Worker, the only game in competition at the 78th Venice Film Festival) and Poland-based BreakThru Films (Oscar-winning Peter & the Wolf and BAFTA-winning Loving Vincent) are the first to license the Trioscope Platform for specific sequences in director Alex Helfrecht’s 2024-slated epic love story A Winter’s Journey, based on Franz Schubert’s timeless song cycle. The film stars John Malkovich, Jason Isaacs, Martina Gedeck and Ólafur Darri Ólafsson and has been acquired by Sony Pictures Classics for major territories with mk2 Films handling international sales. Trioscope Europe will provide CG and VFX services for the film.
To maximize the Platform’s offerings and global reach, Trioscope is leveraging the expertise of Greg Mandel, a seasoned media and technology executive who will serve on the Board of Advisors to advise on the platform’s business strategy, operations and expansion. Mandel previously served as COO of Technicolor’s global animation division Mikros Animation, the creative force behind hit titles PAW Patrol: The Movie and The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run, Star Trek: Prodigy and The Boss Baby: Back in Business.
“Our revolutionary technology fuels the unbounded imagination that defines our brand and the vision behind The Liberator and our current projects Night of the Cooters and Takeover,” says L.C. Crowley, CEO of Trioscope. “Our new platform is designed to put our tools and process in the hands of content creators around the world, bringing their stories to stunning life.”
Adds Greg Jonkajtys, Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer, “When some of the industry’s most talented filmmakers saw the early results of The Liberator, they recognized that Trioscope could make their ambitious projects possible. We have developed an advanced medium that transcends traditional storytelling and opened a whole new lane for entertainment.”
Producer and Oiffy co-founder Jörg Tittel says, “Our highly complex continuous shots are designed to fully immerse audiences in living, breathing early 19th-century Romanticist paintings and Schubert’s timeless music. The technical challenge is immense, especially on an independent budget. Our collaboration with Trioscope and their tools will allow our artists to spend more time on giving each frame the care and attention it deserves.”
Trioscope Platform’s proprietary suite of integrated tools includes:
- Scrimshaw, a smart makeup and prop edge marking system
- Ether, a practical on-set soundscape syncing system
- Tincture, a cell shader and posterization plug-in
- vPEN, a 2D/3D particle generation plug-in for textures, brush strokes, halftones and shading enhancements
- Outline, a dynamic edge detection plug-in
- TimePainter, a plug-in that allows for variable frame rate calibration
- Currently developed for use with Nuke by Foundry
In order to develop a global ecosystem that allows for Trioscope-driven productions, the Company will be accepting a limited number of visual effects and animation studios into its Certified Trioscope Platform Network. Filmmakers, producers, visual effects studios, and animation studios that are interested in learning more about Trioscope, licensing the Platform or qualifying for the Certified Trioscope Platform Network should direct all inquiries to licensing@trioscopestudios.com or at trioscopestudios.com/trioscope-platform.
The news follows a highly successful year for Trioscope, which has seen rapid growth with a recent seed round investment from BITKRAFT, Sony and more to further pioneer their hybrid content genre for global audiences. Recently, the company expanded its management team, having tapped seasoned animation expert John Evershed as Chief Strategy Officer and appointed former Roblox executive Keith Lucas as an Advisory Board member. In addition to the premiere of The Liberator on Netflix, which reached #3 worldwide for the platform, the company finished production on the short film Night of the Cooters, produced by George R. R. Martin and starring Vincent D’Onofrio, who also directs. Trioscope also has a television development and production partnership with major music powerhouse Quality Control, which includes Takeover, starring Quavo.
Trioscope develops original content, partners with top-tier studios and filmmakers and adapts third party IP using its proprietary technology. Reinventing the way content is made, Trioscope’s proprietary toolset marries human performance with computer-generated environments to produce a first of its kind viewing experience filled with powerful human emotion and breathtaking cinematic visuals. It is the only medium that brings a photo-real level to human faces, character movement and action while allowing filmmakers to tackle powerful dramatic stories with sweeping scale all on a cost-effective budget. (www.trioscopestudios.com)
