AI Integration for VFX Studios

AI That Fits Your Pipeline.
Not The Other Way Around.

Above the Line AI helps VFX studios find where AI fits inside a compliant pipeline, builds the tools to get it there, and trains the team to use them, drawing on 37 years inside Hollywood VFX.

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How We Help

Four Ways In.
One Constraint.

Pipeline Tool Builds, AI Integration Strategy, Team Training, and AI Audits, all scoped around the same rule: client assets don't leave the building.

Inter-App & Farm Tools

Pipeline Tool Builds

ShotGrid integrations, asset library tools, farm watchdogs, naming validators. Built fast, with Claude Code, by someone who's spent decades inside pipelines like yours.

Compliance-First Roadmap

AI Integration Strategy

A phased map of your pipeline: what's safe to use today, what needs a legal conversation first, and what's not worth touching yet.

Half-Day Sessions

Team Training

Claude Code for scripting, ComfyUI and local LLM setup, and practical prompting for TDs and generalists who'd rather build than wait on IT.

1-2 Day Review

AI Audit

A structured review of your pipeline against the current AI toolset, ending in a prioritised plan. No ongoing commitment required.

See What We Build

Pre-Rendered AI. Real Results.

AI video ads, produced without a camera, a crew, or a studio. This is the pipeline running this week. Browse the work below.

Built with an AI avatar, a custom voice clone, and a production pipeline that plans, builds, and ships itself every week. The same discipline goes into the pipeline tools we build for studios.

Meet Your AI

Talk to Our AI

Our 3D realtime interactive avatar streams directly to your browser — powered by Unreal Engine and Convai AI. Ask it anything about what we do.

This is a placeholder demo. The live avatar streams directly to your browser — you talk, it talks back. Want to experience it yourself?

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The Process

From First Call to Going Live

One conversation. Then we handle everything from there.

1

Discovery Call

We learn how your team works today, what's slowing things down, and what you're trying to achieve. You tell us what you need. We tell you exactly what's possible, no pitch deck, no pressure.

2

We Build

Our pipeline produces the content, avatar, pipeline tool, or audit you need. You review and approve. We handle the technical build, the integration work, and the delivery.

3

You Deploy

Content goes live on your channels. Your avatar goes live on your site. Your pipeline tool ships into the studio's workflow. You get back to running the business, we keep it moving from there.

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In 30 minutes we'll review your situation and show you exactly what's possible. No hard sell — just a straight conversation.

Why Above the Line AI

Hollywood Craft.
AI Speed. Real Results.

Pierson Lippard — Founder, Above the Line AI

Pierson Lippard

Founder & CEO — Above the Line AI

Most AI agencies learned AI last year. I've spent 37 years building photorealistic characters for Hollywood — as a traditionally trained animator, Lead Artist in games, and Senior Technical Director on major film productions.

I know what separates production-grade work from something that just looks fine in a thumbnail. My credits include:

Interstellar Tenet Avengers: Endgame Avengers: Infinity War Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

That background is also why pipeline work with me isn't generic AI consulting. I'm fluent in the tools studios actually run on: ShotGrid, Maya, Houdini, Nuke, Arnold, Renderman. And "client assets don't leave the building" isn't a compliance slide to me, it's the starting constraint every recommendation has to work with.

Client Work — ACTi AI

Built a bespoke fully interactive 3D AI avatar for ACTi AI (New Jersey) — as a proof of concept for one of their interactive agents. Testimonial incoming.

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Tell us what you're building. We'll tell you exactly what's possible — and whether we're the right fit to make it happen.

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