Eighteen years of animation craft — since 2008 — now engineered in real time. Interactive experiences, in-engine cinematics, and AI-accelerated production, delivered fast by a small senior team.
The same hands that shipped 1,200 films now direct Unreal Engine and AI pipelines. Craft first — the tools are downstream.
Unreal Engine work — interactive installations, virtual production, training simulators, brand activations. A film studio runs UE differently: we storyboard and direct first; the engine is downstream.
Interactive kiosks · Virtual production · Real-time training · Archviz walk-through · UE cinematic
Stylized films at 2× speed. Animatics in hours. Multi-locale variants on demand — directed by humans who survived every pipeline before this one.
Stylized brand films · Rapid explainers · AI in-betweening · Concept exploration · Locale variants
Animated films, series, music videos, branded entertainment, IP development. Full crew, full pipeline, festival quality — 1,200 films of scar tissue.
Concept · Storyboard · Modeling · Rigging · Layout · Animation · Lighting · Compositing
Interactive deployment on a real-time engine — characters driven by live data.
Series-grade layout & animation pass for a flagship kids title.
Stylized brand piece on a hybrid AI-accelerated pipeline.
End-to-end original short. Festival cut.
Brand campaign spot, fully in-house.
Launch piece produced for our sister brand, runevr.
Eighteen years. Every stage from storyboard to final pixel, all in one studio.
Four pipelines. Same hands. Same direction.
We storyboard, light, and direct first — a film studio runs Unreal Engine differently. The engine is downstream of the craft.
Rafik and the team at Digistep are amazing. We worked together on a YouTube channel in the kids' space and they delivered, episode after episode.
Working with Digistep felt like a true creative partner — not a vendor. They asked the right questions and pushed the work further.
We needed a stylized 2D look at 3D speed. Their AI-accelerated workflow let us iterate on three concepts in the time one used to take.
The interactive kiosk they built for our exhibition exceeded what we'd seen from much larger studios. Real-time, and it just worked.
Five places AI absolutely belongs in 2026 animation — and three where it doesn't.
Raf Mkhitaryan · 2026-05-06Storyboard, light, and direct first — the engine is downstream.
Studio team · 2026-05-02And why we built our own pipeline software that became runevr.
Raf Mkhitaryan · 2026-04-28I started at seventeen, on a borrowed PC running 3D Studio for DOS. In 2008 I decided to make animated films — there was no animation team here to hire, so we built one. Eighteen years and 1,200 films later, we don't just make animation — we make the studio that makes the animation. Tell us what you're trying to ship.
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