32TEN Studios
Stage and Production Studios, Visual Effects and Practial FX
OUR MISSION
To provide a creative environment where current and future content creators can access the experience and the talents of the Marin production community.
WhAT WE DO
32TEN Studios provides sound stage and production facilities for all feature, commercial and TV projects. We also provide fabrication facilities for sets, specialty props and world class practical effects including models, miniatures and pyrotechnics.
Post production services are also available.
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Practical FX
Renowned artists from the former "ILM Model Shop" will create for you the most realistic and spectacular FX sequences imaginable. Drawing on decades of experience we will use models, miniatures, custom designed rigging, water tanks and pyrotechnics to ensure your production has blockbuster action while remaining within your budget.
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Digital FX
Our complete CG pipeline can be used for compositing shots or finishing your project, and is also stereo capable. Designed to complement the practical FX work we can use the best of both worlds to provide finished shots that are sure to impress.
Marty Rosenberg – Director of Photography
Marty has been a visual artist since joining ILM on The Goonies. For 20 years he photographed and supervised hundreds of breath taking effects sequences on such visually strong films as The Hunt For Red October, Mission: Impossible, Star Wars: Episodes I, II and III, War of the Worlds, Jarhead, A.I. Artificial Intelligence, and recently for Kerner Optical, Terminator Salvation, The Last Airbender and the soon to be released Big Miracle and Red Tails. In addition, Marty's visual skills are often utilized shooting features, commercials and high-end industrials. He is also currently producing his own feature, the thriller Preston Castle.
Nick D'Abo – Model Supervisor
Nick worked as a model maker and a model supervisor for ILM and Kerner Optical as well as set builder on various independent productions in the Bay Area. As a model maker his credits include Star Wars Episode I, Mission Impossible III, Evan Almighty and Transformers, and as lead model maker Star Wars:Episode III and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. As model supervisor he worked on Eagle Eye, Terminator Salvation, Killers, The Last Airbender, Priest and Cowboys and Aliens. Nick was the US construction co-ordinator for set builds last year for Red Tails and more recently was general foreman for set construction on Mavericks shot on location in Half Moon Bay.
Geoff Heron – Practical FX Supervisor
The Heron family is well known in the world of special effects both in LA and the Bay Area. Geoff has practiced mostly in the Bay Area where he has worked for both ILM and Kerner Optical. He has also worked on independent productions in the area, is an AMPAS member and frequently lends his skills to The San Francisco Opera House. Geoff's film credits start with Hook in 1991 and span two decades of some of the worlds biggest effects films including Star Trek: Generations, The Lost World:Jurassic Park, Men In Black, The Mummy, Pearl Harbor, Star Wars: Episodes I and II, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and all three Pirates of the Caribbean films.
Our Facilities
32TEN Studios provides production facilities and services for all content creators.
Explore our gallery to see how we can help your project.
Main Stage
This legendary stage, one of the largest in the Bay Area has been used to shoot sequences for some of the most iconic FX movies of all time.
32TEN Theater
The 138 seat luxury screening room offers state of the art digital projection for everything from dailies to 3D masters.
Fabrication Services
Set Building
Models & Miniatures
Specialty Props
Production Offices
Make yourself at home in our offices close to the action.
Wardrobe & Makeup
Let your talent relax just off the stage while they prepare for their next shot.
DIGITAL LAB
Our Digital Lab boasts professional VFX applications installed on state-of-the-art workstations.
SCREENING
Mix B: This small screening room, at one time a sound mixing room, can be rented for dailies or private screenings
Spacious Courtyard
The Courtyard is ideal for exterior shots, trucks and trailers.
BIRTHPLACE OF MODERN VFX
3210 Kerner Blvd. was built by ILM in 1980 as they were expanding beyond their original building next door, 3160. It was built to house a sound stage, a screening room and offices to support the artists and technicians who were pioneering into the field of optical and digital imagery. This historic building is where the LUCASFILM COMPUTER DIVISON, now known as PIXAR, wrote, produced and animated their first short "Andre and Wally B". 3210 was also home to the EDIT DROID, one the first non-linear film editing systems and testing ground for Display / ImagePro, which was eventually renamed Photoshop.
Films shot here
Sequences for dozens of hit movies have been shot on the "Main Stage". Here are just a few...
- Star Wars Series (Except for Episode IV)
- Indiana Jones Series
- Pirates of the Carribean Series
- The Mummy Series
- Star Trek Series
- Back to the Future Series
- Die Hard
- Cocoon
- Always
