Sci-Fi & Space
Horizon Prime Outpost Set
One of 250+ virtual standing sets at our Burbank and Albuquerque studios. Hart to Heart, Aquaman 2 and Bosch have all shot here. See the credits →
Horizon Prime Outpost set rental for film and TV, at our Burbank and Albuquerque studios. The Horizon Prime Outpost Set is a photoreal virtual set that appears around your talent live, in camera, and it loads in seconds with no set construction.
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By utilizing the Unreal Engine, the Horizon Prime Outpost set is more than just a backdrop. It is a fully realized, 3D environment where the lighting, the atmosphere, and the alien vistas outside the glass react with realism to your camera’s every movement on our Burbank or Albuquerque stages.
Horizon Prime Outpost Set: Production Use Cases
Feature Film: The High-Stakes Sci-Fi Drama
In a feature film context, Horizon Prime Outpost serves as the ultimate frontier headquarters. Imagine a tense political drama set on the edge of the galaxy. The vast, sweeping windows provide a constant reminder of the isolation and the stakes. Because we utilize a sophisticated green screen workflow rather than limited LED panels, we can achieve perfect, crisp reflections on those tiled floors and metallic surfaces. The depth of the corridors allows for cinematic long takes, pulling the audience into the physical reality of the outpost as the tension rises.
Television: The Procedural Space Station
For episodic television, this set is a producer’s dream. One day, the main hallway is a bustling thoroughfare for alien dignitaries; the next, with a simple lighting shift in Unreal Engine, it becomes a darkened, secondary corridor during a station-wide power failure. At ABQ Castle Studios, we can save these lighting configurations, allowing you to jump between “Day Shift” and “Emergency Red Alert” modes instantly, saving hours of traditional lighting setups and keeping your production on schedule.
Commercial Projects: The Future of Luxury and Tech
If you are filming a commercial for a premium automotive brand or a modern tech product, Horizon Prime Outpost offers an aesthetic of “clean innovation.” The architectural symmetry and the abundance of natural light create a sense of openness and high value. Positioning a product in the atrium, with a sunset occurring in real-time behind it, associates your brand with the pinnacle of human achievement and forward-thinking design.
Music Video: The Ethereal Voyage
For a music video, we can transform this outpost into a surreal, rhythmic environment. Using the power of Unreal Engine, we can sync the external celestial events, like a supernova or a rotating nebula, to the track’s bridge. The contrast between the sterile interior and the chaotic, beautiful cosmos outside provides a perfect visual metaphor for an artist’s internal journey. The lab equipment and holographic displays add layers of “eye candy” that keep the viewer engaged in every frame.
Gaming and VR: The Interactive Lobby
Because this set is built entirely within a real-time engine, it can also serve as the ultimate “live-action” environment for gaming content or VR experiences. You can host a live-streamed event from within the Horizon Prime Outpost, where the host interacts with live-rendered data feeds on the consoles, blurring the lines between the digital world and the physical presenter in a way that feels seamless and high-tech.
At L.A. Castle Studios and ABQ Castle Studios, the Horizon Prime Outpost Set shows what is possible when detailed architecture meets real-time rendering. We don’t just provide a place to shoot; we provide a world for your story to inhabit, with a level of creative freedom that traditional location scouting could never offer.
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Shoot the Horizon Prime Outpost Set in Burbank or Albuquerque
- Ready at our Burbank film studio in Los Angeles and our Albuquerque film studio in New Mexico
- Turnkey: the studio, the multi-camera Unreal Engine pipeline, lighting and the operator are included; crew is optional
- Shoot other scenes the same day: any other environment in the library loads between setups, with no company move
- Pioneered real-time virtual production in 2007, now patented
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A note on availability: Due to ongoing advances in technology and our constant upgrades to systems and software, not all sets are available at all times. We keep as many ready as we can. Reach out and we'll confirm what's ready for your shoot dates.
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