Sans Strings Studio is a San Francisco real-time animation and entertainment company building 'animation with a soul.' Co-founded by Substance 3D creator Sebastien Deguy and real-time artist Ryan Corniel, it uses a proprietary digital-puppetry system called F.E.L.T. to turn live human performance into instant character animation, aiming to make animation fast, affordable and scalable across interactive, linear and live formats.
Flawless is an AI filmmaking company building assistive tools that let studios re-edit dialogue and localize films into other languages while preserving the original actor's performance. Its products TrueSync and DeepEditor use computer vision and deep learning to reshape an actor's lip movements and expressions to match new lines or dubbed dialogue, removing the disconnect of traditional dubbing and subtitles. Co-founded by filmmaker Scott Mann and tech entrepreneur Nick Lynes, Flawless positions itself as a rights-first, consent-driven alternative to generative AI in cinema, endorsed by SAG-AFTRA and used across hundreds of studio productions.
LucidLink is a San Francisco-based company that makes cloud storage feel like a local hard drive. Its Filespaces platform streams file data on demand from cloud object storage, letting creative teams and enterprises around the world collaborate on huge files - video, design, datasets - without syncing or downloading. Customers include Paramount, Spotify, Adobe, A&E Networks, BuzzFeed and Shopify.