AR Production

Here is how the work lines up. Canadian AR production runs on the Unreal Engine, Unity and AR Foundation pipelines that already power the country's Oscar-credited VFX sector. Hybride Saint-Hyacinthe and Rodeo FX Montreal carry the francophone-side AR fresh ideas track, Pixomondo Toronto integrates AR overlays with its The Vol virtual production work, and Pacific Backlot Services Vancouver runs an AR R&D programme alongside its Russian Arm and LED specialties.

Here is the breakdown. Our coordinators connect those teams to ARKit and ARCore mobile delivery, WebAR browser experiences, Spark AR / Meta filters and bespoke Unity / Unreal AR apps built for Destination Canada, the provincial tourism boards (Ontario Tourism, Destination BC, Tourisme Québec, Travel Alberta, Tourism Yukon) and federal-cultural commissions through Canadian Heritage and Parks Canada. Asset capture runs photogrammetry, LiDAR scanning and 3D modeling out of Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal studios, with permits for AR location anchoring at Banff and Jasper National Parks routed via Parks Canada lead-time channels our location managers handle directly.

Here is what that looks like on the ground. Heritage AR overlay work has a specific Canadian colour palette — the Group of Seven landscape painting tradition (Tom Thomson, Lawren Harris and Emily Carr's Pacific-coast canon) anchors digital matte and AR overlay reference for Algonquin, Killarney, Georgian Bay and BC backcountry sites, while Quebec City UNESCO walled-city heritage, Lunenburg UNESCO, Old Montreal and the Fortress of Louisbourg drive period-reconstruction AR commissions that route through MELS Cité du cinéma and the Hybride / Rodeo FX francophone post chain.

Here is how the picture comes together. Research teamwork runs through Sheridan College Oakville digital media programs (one of the world's top animation feeders), UBC Centre for Digital Media, Concordia University Montreal hands-on arts, York University immersive labs and University of Toronto media-arts research. Our coordinators carry CBSA ATA carnet forms for imported LiDAR rigs and reference cameras.

Here is what we have to work with. Tax-credit forms stacks CPTC 25% federal labour with Ontario OPSTC 21.5% plus 18% computer animation, BC PSTC 28% plus DAVE 16% plus 6% regional, or Quebec QPSTC tiered — with CAVCO certification, Telefilm Canada and CMF Experimental / Convergent / Indigenous stream filings carried through delivery.