Photorealistic 3D and 2D animation for trial attorneys, built from depositions, expert reports, and scene data so a mediator or jury can follow what happened.
Courtroom, litigation, or trial animation. Whatever your firm calls it, every project starts from the evidence and your expert's analysis.
Premises falls, product failures, construction site incidents, and vehicle cases. For vehicle work, we animate from the accident reconstructionist's analysis, so the motion on screen comes from their numbers.
2D and mixed-media animation for things a camera can't capture: airflow, bacterial contamination, injury biomechanics, or how a part fails inside a sealed housing.
Motion capture and MetaHuman likenesses for cases where a person's movement is the question. A fall. A reach. A turn of the head before impact.
Navigable scenes in Unreal Engine 5 for questions about space: what someone could see, where they could have been, and whose account fits the room. Delivered as a standalone application that runs offline. More on interactive exhibits →
Depositions, expert reports, photos, scene measurements.
We shape what it shows together, and they check the physics and timing.
Scan, model, capture, animate, render.
Drafts go back and forth until it matches the opinion.
Video, stills for boards, or an offline interactive app.
Our animations are demonstrative exhibits. Each one illustrates the retained expert's opinion, and the expert lays the foundation for it.
If anyone needs to know how the animation itself was made, Max Hulburt, the studio's founder, is available to testify about the build: the source data, the software, and the choices behind each shot.
Admissibility rules vary by court and by judge, and your trial team makes that call. How courts treat demonstrative evidence →
Max spent 17 years in 3D and visual effects, including VFX supervision for film, before starting Caustic Studio.
Jurors are used to the high-end CG they see in movies and on TV. A dated, low-quality render invites more doubt than a polished one, so lighting, materials, and motion get the same care a film shot would. And every frame still traces back to the record.
Maya · MetaHuman · Arnold · Unreal Engine 5 · Houdini · Chaos Physics · Fluid Flux · Photogrammetry · Lidar · Blue laser scanning
A 99-year-old man fell backward when a defective wheel assembly on his rollator walker gave way. There were no witnesses. We reconstructed the failure and the impact using Xsens motion capture, Maya, MetaHuman, and Unreal Engine 5. The case resolved in the plaintiff's favor before trial.
Read the case →A patient developed a serious infection after open heart surgery. The source was a heater-cooler unit contaminated during manufacturing. A 2D animation traced the airflow from the unit to the open surgical site, step by step.
Read the case →Both, one side per case.
Most projects take a few weeks once we have the materials and a clear scope, whether it's an animation or an interactive tool. When a project runs longer, it's usually because the case schedule moved, not the work. Rush projects under 2 weeks are possible depending on scope, so tell us your mediation or trial date on the first call.
Every case is scoped after a first call. Cost depends on how much has to be built, how many shots or views you need, and the deadline.
Whatever you have: expert reports, depositions, photos, video, scene measurements, medical records. If an expert hasn't been retained yet, we can still talk through what the animation might need to show.
Yes, before the first call.
We're based in San Diego and work with firms across California.
Tell us about the case and what the jury needs to understand. If we can help, we'll say so directly. If not, we'll refer you to someone who can.