Virtual production company Orbital Studios has a new brick-and-mortar home. The producer whose credits include Netflix’s Nemesis and FX’s upcoming The Drop: A Snowfall Saga is setting up shop at Television City in Los Angeles.
Established in 2020, Orbital Studios offers art teams, tools, software and pipelines aimed at making virtual production faster, leaner and easier to budget – while pushing final-pixel quality. The move continues Orbital’s recent global expansion through strategic partnerships with other soundstages.
The partnership comes as many high-end productions relocate to other states and countries. Enabling productions to capture global locations without leaving Los Angeles will helps keep creative work, crew jobs and production spending local.
“Walking these stages, you feel the weight of what was made here,” said A.J. Wedding, founder and CEO of Orbital Studios. “Generations of crews poured everything they had into these rooms. That legacy makes us determined to get it right. We’re bringing the latest in virtual production technology and the most talented virtual art and AI artists inside spaces that helped define American television, because the best way to honor a storied place is to make sure the next great stories happen there, too.”
An Orbital Studios team works on a virtual production
Orbital Studios
Along with Nemesis and The Drop, the latter of which is in production, Orbital’s recent credits include FX’s Justified: City Primeval and History Channel’s History’s Greatest Heists and 20-part docuseries World War II with Tom Hanks.
”We could not be more excited to welcome Orbital Studios to Television City,” said Anthony Mazziotti, Executive Director of Stage Operations and Marketing at Television City Studios. “Their work puts this lot among the most advanced production environments anywhere, while honoring everything these stages have stood for.”
During its nearly 75-year history, Television City in the Fairfax District has played host to such iconic TV shows as All in the Family, The Carol Burnett Show, The Price Is Right and daytime dramas The Young and the Restless and The Bold and the Beautiful. It was designated as a Historic-Cultural Monument in 2018.
