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A physical starship miniature emerging from darkness under an edge light

REAL MATTER.IMPOSSIBLE SCALE.

I build physical miniatures, capture them under real light, and turn them into cinematic worlds.

BUILD IT SMALL.
FILM IT REAL.
MAKE IT VAST.

Digital tools should not erase the physical source. They should carry its texture, light and accident into places a workshop could never hold.

The object
is small.
The frame
is not.

Same miniature. First on the bench, then beyond it. The source stays physical while the camera and world become free.

Starship miniature standing in the workshop
The same physical miniature in a star field composite test

ALIVE

A practical-first pipeline for turning captured matter into a navigable set — and bringing a real performance back into it.

  1. Matter

    Build the source

    Stone, cloth, resin, metal and miniature sets begin as real objects. Surface response and imperfection are photographed, not invented after the fact.

  2. Light

    Record the states

    The object is lit as a miniature stage. Separate practical lighting states preserve the decisions made in front of the camera.

  3. Capture

    Repeat the path

    An eight-axis motion-control system is built to repeat camera movement and coverage precisely across multiple passes.

  4. Reconstruct

    Keep what the lens saw

    Gaussian splatting turns the photographs into a navigable record of the real object — material, light and all — ready to be scaled and assembled into a world.

  5. Perform

    Put the camera back in

    The next proof places a motion-controlled greenscreen performance inside the captured world, then finishes the shot in Nuke with matched lens, timing, grain and light.

Explore ALIVE

THE MACHINE. THE FILM.

Wide view of the TUMBRINK workshop with a starship miniature on its stand

Motion Control

Eight axes built to make the camera repeat the impossible.

Studio-scale starship miniature under a single hard key light

KORETH

A science-fiction short developed one physical shot at a time.

THE LAB NEVER CLOSES.

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ARRI ST5 fresnel lamp in the TUMBRINK workshop

One workshop. No hand‑off.

Miniatures, machines, electronics, firmware, camera movement and final image — built as one connected filmmaking system.

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