Motion Control Services

Motion control rigs meet a precise, demanding need on Chinese sets: the same frame-accurate camera move repeated across many passes. That covers VFX compositing, multi-element photography, and car tabletops. It also covers the high-end product filming that defines the country's smartphone, EV, beauty, and FMCG sectors. Most large-scale rigs still arrive on per-project import bookings. Mark Roberts Milo platforms, Bolt, and the new Bolt X high-speed robotic arms ship in from Korean and Japanese partners. Our crew then handles the customs clearance, ATA carnet, and bonded-gear paperwork these short-term imports need.

Smaller Modula platforms and tabletop rigs handle macro work, liquid pours, and food filming. We source these through Beijing and Shanghai rental houses for many kinds of campaigns. They cover Huawei, Xiaomi, DJI, and OPPO product launches. They serve BYD, NIO, Xpeng, and GAC Aion car reveals at Pingshan, Hefei, and Guangzhou. They also run Florasis and Perfect Diary beauty cutdowns, plus Mengniu, Yili, and Nongfu Spring beverage spots from Beijing and Shanghai agencies. Our crew works out of four main sites. These are Hengdian World Studios with its 130-plus volumes, Qingdao Oriental Movie Metropolis with its underwater tank and virtual production stages, Wanda Studios Qingdao, and the Shanghai Songjiang Film Industrial Park.

Pre-visualisation sits at the heart of the process. Our crew programmes the camera paths in software, times them against animatics, and signs them off before any stage time is spent. This lets DPs and clients refine moves before talent or product arrives at Hengdian, Qingdao, or the Songjiang volumes. On the day, frame-accurate repeats deliver each pass a VFX team needs: hero takes, clean plates, lighting passes, multi-pass element photography, and matched moves. We export the motion data, camera tracking metadata, and lens metadata alongside the footage as OpenEXR or ProRes deliverables.

Our team plugs in directly with China's top VFX houses: Base FX Beijing, Digital Domain China, MPC Shanghai, More VFX, Pixomondo Beijing, Mindwalk Studios, and Light Chaser Animation. We align schedules with the Qingdao 40-per-cent rebate timelines where eligible, plus the standard 17-per-cent VAT paperwork. Our operators carry credits across Huawei and Xiaomi product launches, BYD and NIO car cutdowns, and beauty work for Florasis and Perfect Diary out of Shanghai agencies. Their credits also span high-end commercial campaigns run by Tencent, Alibaba, and ByteDance brand teams. For foreign shoots, we put the required Chinese co-producer relationship in place. We also secure full NRTA, CFA, and provincial film bureau sign-ups before stage day.