How we work
You approve the expensive decision first.
Nearly every render project that goes wrong goes wrong the same way: materials applied before the camera and the light were agreed. Our process exists to make that impossible.
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Brief and fixed quote
By the next business morning
You send drawings — elevations and a plan are enough — plus a sentence about what the imagery has to achieve. We come back with a fixed price, a written scope and a delivery date. Not a range, not an hourly estimate, and not a discovery call first.
Your part
Drawings, and what the images are for. - 02
Gray-box and camera
Before any material work
We build the massing and set every camera with no materials applied at all. You see exactly what will be in frame, from where, at what time of day. This is the single most important approval in the project and it is also the cheapest one to change.
Your part
Approve composition and light, or tell us to move it. - 03
Materials, styling and first frames
Once composition is signed off
Finishes go on to specification. Landscape, furniture, vehicles and figures are placed. You receive the first full-quality frames for review, and the revision rounds begin here rather than at the end.
Your part
One consolidated round of comments. - 04
Grade and delivery
Final stage
Final color grade, full-resolution render, and delivery in every format you actually need — print, web, social crops, and layered files if you want to make your own adjustments later.
Your part
Nothing. Files land in your inbox.
Aurum Meridian
The pipeline behind every frame
Every Aurum image is made through Meridian, the production pipeline we have built in-house. The scene is built from your drawings and real site data. The light is solved for the actual orientation, latitude and hour. Materials are matched to the specification rather than picked from a catalog, and every frame is finished with a color-managed photographic grade.
It is how the Aurum Standard holds from the first gray box to the final file — and why a frame for a billboard and a frame for a phone screen come out of the same scene without rework.
FAQ
About the process
Why does the gray-box stage matter so much?
Because changing a camera angle after materials are applied means redoing the materials. Approving composition and light first is the difference between a project that lands on schedule and one that quietly doubles in cost. Every studio knows this; not every studio enforces it.
What if I need to change the design mid-project?
It happens constantly and it is fine. We re-quote the change before doing it, so you always approve the cost before it is incurred. Small changes are usually absorbed at no charge.
Can I get a faster turnaround?
Usually, yes. Ask for the earlier date in your brief: the quote says before you commit whether it holds, and the rush surcharge is written into it, never applied afterward.
What software do you use?
Our own in-house pipeline, Aurum Meridian, built on physically based rendering, so light and materials behave the way they will in the finished building. Stills, film and tours all come out of the same pipeline, which is why everything in a campaign matches.
Who actually does the work?
A senior artist owns your project from gray-box to grade. We cap concurrent projects specifically so this is possible — you are not handed between a modeler, a lighter and a compositor who never speak to each other.