Unreal Engine studio for series and features
Virtual Studio Rental for Film & TV
Book a virtual studio for your series or feature in Burbank or Albuquerque: Unreal Engine virtual production, with the locations in your script appearing around your cast live, in camera.
- 250+ sets, no build required
- Virtual system operator included
- Multi-camera, one render per camera
- 30% NM credit in Albuquerque
Browse the set library: 250+ ready-to-load sets →
Or call 818-934-3775 Burbank 818-861-7317 Albuquerque
Watch the reel
Features, series and specials shot in our virtual studios.
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Film and TV sets
Locations a script calls for, ready to load.
What's included
The studio comes with the location.
- The virtual system operator who drives the sets in real time, included in every rental
- 250+ ready-to-load virtual sets, from hospital corridors and suburban streets to spaceship bridges
- Unreal Engine environments composited live, in camera, with our patented CastleVision method
- Multi-camera coverage: each tracked camera gets its own render of the set
- Lighting, grip and audio packages already on the floor
- Dressing rooms, makeup, green rooms and production offices; writers' rooms in Burbank
- No set construction required, no set storage fees, no strike
- Optional crew package of camera and teleprompter operators, or bring your own departments
- Two U.S. patents on the method, pioneered in Burbank in 2007
Productions that have trusted us
The networks, the streamers and the studios have all shot here.
Hart to Heart, Aquaman 2, Inventing Anna, Bosch, The Mummy, Greenland, Deadliest Catch and national spots for T-Mobile, Amazon and Domino's. Full credit list
Check availability
Tell us about the picture and the schedule.
Tell us the format and your dates. A producer replies with availability and a quote.
- Included: the studio, 250+ ready-to-load sets, lighting, grip and audio, dressing and green rooms, and the operator who runs the virtual sets
- Two studios, in Burbank, California and Albuquerque, New Mexico. Albuquerque shoots qualify for New Mexico’s 30% refundable film credit
- Quoted against your actual shoot, never a rack rate
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What a virtual studio rental gets a film or series
At L.A. Castle Studios in Burbank and ABQ Castle Studios in Albuquerque, the location is a photoreal virtual set that appears around your talent live, in camera, on our stage. You see the finished shot on the monitor while you film, with no background added later in post, and the location can change between takes.
For a feature or a series that means the location list shoots in one building. No set construction is required, nothing needs to be struck, and there is no company move between a hospital corridor in the morning and a suburban street after lunch. The virtual system operator who runs the sets is included in every rental, so your director asks for the environment and the camera rolls. If you are pricing virtual studios for rent against a build or a location shoot, the difference is what drops off the budget: the construction, the strike and the company move.
Your location list, without a company move
Break the script down by room and check it against the virtual set library: 250+ sets ready to load, grouped so a line producer can check a location list in minutes. Hospital sets, city streets and spaceship interiors each have their own page. A grounded drama can live on the hospital corridor and the suburban street; a period piece can play in the mission control room; a genre picture has bridges, hangars and whole planets in our sci-fi and spaceship sets; and the breaking-news cutaway has newsroom sets for film scenes.
If the script needs a place the library does not have, our artists build it from your reference, or we recreate a real location with our patented CastleVision method. Real furniture and props dress the foreground and blend with the virtual set, so the frame cuts like a built location.
Sets live on drives. Pickups and a second season reload the exact set, lighting and framing, even months later, with no storage fee.
Unreal Engine, live in camera: what changes on the day
Unreal Engine, the video game engine, draws each set in real time from the tracked camera’s point of view, and the composite is finished before the take ends. The director approves the actual shot on set instead of imagining it against green, and the DP lights to a picture everyone can see. In Burbank the whole team watches it on a giant LED video village.
This is virtual production beyond LED walls: the actors perform on a green screen cyclorama, and the environment is keyed in live rather than displayed on a wall behind them. For the full pipeline, the gear at each studio and how a shoot day runs, see our Unreal Engine filming studio page and the virtual production technology behind it. If you are weighing an LED volume, read our LED volume comparison.
Multi-camera coverage for episodic schedules
Each camera gets its own render of the set. Three cameras can move in different directions through the same space, each with the correct perspective, so coverage takes fewer resets. Hilton Head Island shot 32 episodes and more than 50 locations in our Burbank studio.
When a picture wants a single-camera cinematic approach, the same pipeline runs that way too. For short-form series on an eight-day clock, see vertical drama and micro-series production.
Two studios for film and TV: Burbank and Albuquerque
Both studios run the same pipeline and carry the full set library, so a production can split between them without losing continuity.
- Burbank, 154 S. Victory Blvd, directly across from Nickelodeon and about five minutes from Warner Bros. A pre-lit green screen cyclorama with a 20-foot ceiling (15 feet to grid), silent HVAC, three Panasonic Varicam 35 cinema cameras, a CamMate Encodacam jib, drive-on load-in, 20+ parking spaces, five green rooms, writers’ rooms and production offices on site.
- Albuquerque, 8610 President Pl NE, about ten minutes from the Sunport. One of the largest virtual production stages in the world, and almost everything shot there is a feature. Three ARRI Alexa 35 cinema cameras with Fujinon zooms, 36 Aputure Nova P300c fixtures, a telescoping crane, a furniture and prop warehouse and extensive parking. ABQ Castle Studios is a New Mexico Qualified Production Facility, so studio days put the production on the 30% track of the New Mexico film tax credit.
Booking studio space for a single film shoot? See film studio rental in Los Angeles and Albuquerque. Taping a talk or game show in front of an audience? See TV studio rental in Los Angeles.
Features and series already shot here
Abstraction, a released 2025 feature, was shot entirely on our stages. Mr. Spaceship, An Adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s Novelette, a feature-length sci-fi drama now in post, was captured almost entirely in camera at our feature film studio in Albuquerque with a New Mexico crew and cast. In Burbank, Celebrity Crime Scene: Princess Diana for FOX was shot entirely on our stage, Discontinued with Bruce Campbell shot its host segments in a different world every scene, and productions including Aquaman 2, The Mummy, Greenland, Bosch and Inventing Anna shot scenes here. See the full credit list.
We pioneered real-time virtual production in Los Angeles in 2007, and we hold two U.S. patents on the method. We are the studio, not a production company, so you keep your production and your credit.
How to book a virtual studio for your production
Every production is quoted on its own. The number moves with shoot days, crew size, set complexity and which studio you use; see how a production is priced. Send the dates, the script or location list and the shoot days, and a producer replies with availability at both studios and a quote built on your schedule.
Producer tours run by appointment at both studios, with a live CastleVision demo. Book a studio tour and bring the script, or check availability now.
Sample gallery
Stills from film and TV shoots at our studios.
A look at film & TV shot at L.A. & ABQ Castle Studios.
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Selected credits
- Aquaman 2
- The Mummy
- Greenland
- Bosch
- Inventing Anna
- Discontinued series, Bruce Campbell
- Hilton Head Island 32 episodes
- Celebrity Crime Scene FOX special
- Abstraction feature, 2025
- Mr. Spaceship feature in post, Albuquerque
Questions
Virtual studio rental for film and TV: before you book.
- What is a virtual studio?
- A virtual studio is a studio where the location is a photoreal virtual set that appears around your talent live, in camera. You see the finished shot on the monitor while you film, with no background added later in post, and the location can change between takes. Ours are turnkey: the green screen cyclorama, camera tracking, Unreal Engine and live compositing are already in place, and the virtual system operator who runs them is included in every rental, in Burbank and in Albuquerque.
- Can a feature film or a TV series really shoot in a virtual studio?
- Yes. Abstraction, a released 2025 sci-fi feature, was shot entirely on our stages, and Mr. Spaceship, a feature-length sci-fi drama now in post, was captured almost entirely in camera at ABQ Castle Studios in Albuquerque. On the series side, Hilton Head Island shot 32 episodes and more than 50 locations in our Burbank studio, and Celebrity Crime Scene: Princess Diana for FOX was shot entirely on the Burbank stage.
- What does a virtual studio rental include?
- Every rental includes the studio, the sets from our 250+ set library, lighting and audio packages, the teleprompter system, support spaces (dressing rooms, makeup, green rooms and production offices) and the virtual system operator who drives the environment in real time. Camera and teleprompter operators are an optional crew package, or you bring your own team.
- Burbank or Albuquerque: which studio fits our film or series?
- Both run the same pipeline and carry the same set library, so a production can split between them without losing continuity. Our Burbank studio, in the Media Capital of the World, sits directly across from Nickelodeon and about five minutes from Warner Bros., with a 20-foot ceiling (15 feet to grid), stadium-style audience seating, writers' rooms and a giant LED video village, and it shoots features too. Albuquerque is our feature film studio, with three ARRI Alexa 35 cinema cameras, a furniture and prop warehouse, extensive parking, and studio days that can qualify for New Mexico's 30% refundable film tax credit.
- How much does it cost to rent a virtual studio for film and TV?
- There is no rate card. Every production is quoted on its own shoot days, crew size, set complexity and which studio you use. What comes off the budget: no set construction required, no strike, no company moves, no location fees, no travel days and no set storage. Send your dates, the script or location list and the shoot days, and a producer replies with availability at both studios and a quote.
- Can we come back for pickups or a second season?
- Yes. Sets live on drives, so there is no storage fee. Pickups do not mean a rebuild: the exact set, lighting and framing reload, even months later, which keeps a returning series or a reshoot day in continuity.
- How do we book a virtual studio for a film or series?
- Send the dates, the script or location list and the number of shoot days through the form on this page. A producer reads it, not a sales queue, and replies with availability at both studios and a quote built on your schedule. Producer tours run by appointment at both studios, with a live CastleVision demo, if you want to see the pipeline before you book.
- What if our script calls for a location that is not in the library?
- Our artists build it from your reference, or we capture the real place with our patented CastleVision method and bring it onto the stage. Real furniture and props dress the foreground and blend with the virtual set. Between the library, custom builds and CastleVision captures, nearly any scene a script calls for can be shot here.
More for film and series producers
- Unreal Engine virtual production studio The pipeline, the gear and how a shoot day runs
- New Mexico film tax credit 30% refundable on qualified in-state spend at Albuquerque
- Vertical Drama and Micro-Series
- Talk Shows
- Game Shows
- News
- Sci-Fi and Spaceship Sets
- Commercials
- Corporate Video Studio
- Music Videos
- The Burbank studio Burbank, the Media Capital of the World, minutes from the major lots
- The Albuquerque studio Feature films and New Mexico’s 30% refundable credit
- The set library Every set, searchable by room and theme
- Rates and what drives the cost How a production is priced
- Tour the facility What is on site at each studio
- Credits Features, series and shows finished here
Tours run by appointment at both studios. Bring the script or the rundown and we will price the shoot against it.
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From the studio
Aug 2026
Celebrity Crime Scene: Princess Diana Premieres on FOX — Shot Entirely at L.A. Castle Studios
Sep 2026
Mr. Spaceship: Another Feature Film Wraps at ABQ Castle Studios
Jul 2026
Where Was Discontinued with Bruce Campbell Filmed?
Dec 2019