Lightcraft announces production platform Spark

Lightcraft has announced a production platform, Spark, that will be available in 2026. 

Spark consists of four parts, Spark Shot, Spark Live, Spark Atlas, and Spark Forge, all of which are accessible through the user’s browser. 

Spark Shot is a browser-based interactive scene assembly tool that combines scans, USD 3D models, animation, audio, AI tools and camera simulations to conceive shots. It can use as much or as little AI as the user wants. 

Spark Live connects voice, video, chat, “push-to-talk” and 3D interactions with the associated shot or asset, and unifies project discussions under one roof. It can also integrate external tools, such as Zoom, with its internal systems. 

Spark Atlas provides storage, and based on the open source Supabase/PostgreSQL system, encrypted security for nearly every element of the production, from 3D files to EXR sequences to take proxies. 

It parses scripts and connects every element in the project to its associated action, scene or dialogue in the script, and can store scripts, storyboards, simulated shots, camera takes, 3D models and AI data. 

Finally, Spark Forge coordinates post production into a timeline-based tool. It uses Jetset shot metadata and OpenTimelineIO timeline exports to automate VFX tasks such as tracking, shot building and compositing. It can process hundreds of “slap comps” in a few hours, and then coordinate the actions of a team with generated, application-specific scripts for Blender, Unreal Engine, Nuke, Maya, Fusion, SynthEyes and more. 

“The traditional obstacles of filmmaking — raising money, getting approvals, finding locations, scheduling — wear out the artists and kill the magic of making movies,” said Eliot Mack, CEO and founder of Lightcraft Technology. “Spark knocks aside these barriers and instantly unifies all the talents of a team within a single system. For the first time, one tool combines the human power of filmmakers with the massive technological changes that are occurring now.”