VFX Array Rig Hire in Bristol
We cover Bristol and the surrounding region, including Redland, Montpelier, Clifton, Bedminster and the city centre, across the BS postcode areas. We supply wireless video systems, camera bodies, lenses, VFX kit and grip equipment for both location and studio shoots.
Bristol is the centre of natural history and factual film-making in the UK. The BBC Natural History Unit and the independent wildlife producers around it have made the city the default home for landmark documentary, and that work now leans heavily on CG — creature builds, extinct species, environments that no longer exist. Accurate on-set reference is what makes those shots work.
That work depends on accurate on-set reference. Our chrome and grey VFX balls capture lighting data from the location itself, the ZEISS CP.3 XD lenses supply extended data for distortion mapping and undistortion, and the RED KOMODO-X VFX Array records 15K stitched plates across a 160° field of view with 27.9% overlap for background and environment capture.
Beyond documentary, The Bottle Yard Studios carries scripted drama and returning series, and Aardman has kept a large animation and post community in the city. Clifton, the harbourside and the Victorian terraces of Totterdown and Montpelier give varied exteriors, and Bath is half an hour east for period work. The Mendips, Cheddar Gorge and the Somerset Levels are within easy reach for landscape and aerial capture.
The array can be flown in its 9.2kg drone configuration for aerial plates, or rigged to a gimbal or tracking vehicle on the ground. It arrives as a turnkey build ready to shoot in under thirty minutes.
Bristol is around two hours from our base in London via the M4, and we deliver to studios, production offices, unit bases and location sets across the city and the wider South West.