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Creative

Create your biggest visions.

Right here, in the North.

  • Hybrid productions that reach new cinematic heights.
  • Bring archives and oral stories to life.
  • Create your own cinematic marketing.
  • Build something the world has never seen.
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Hybrid original productions & cinematic websites

Real cameras and real crews, with AI on the visual effects, motion graphics and edit: higher quality than the North has ever had, for less than a traditional production. No more shipping our creative visions down south, let’s giv’r right here.

Still from the Gnarwhal music video The War / Nothing More: three riders on a narwhal in open waterPlay

Gnarwhal · The War / Nothing More

The NWT’s first AI-enhanced music video.

Music video Frames from Dead North films, the Yellowknife genre film creating festival, 2012 to 2020Play

Dead North Film Festival

Eight winters, 225+ Northern genre films. Where Rated‑N began.

Film archive A scratchboard drawing of a black bear turning into real footage in the fireweed, made for the Rated-N websitePlay

Cinematic websites & marketing

This site, made with Runway, Blender and many connected tools. Yours can be too.

Website & campaign
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Apps

Tools built for Northern communities. Every one of them can be built for your business too.

Handgames Smart Bracket showing a live tournament bracket for hand games teamsPlay In development

Handgames Smart Bracket

A whole handgames tournament run from one screen.

App · demo data NorthCore live map of Canada with flights in the air and data layers for earthquakes, wildfire and caribou rangesPlay In development

NorthCore

The North’s own public data, in Northerners’ hands.

Open source
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Games & world engines

micrOmega: one living world, built once, that can become a book, a film, a web series, a graphic novel or a game. Built in residence at the Banff Centre.

Demodex Simulator from micrOmega: a mite crossing the skin of a human face among the poresPlay In development

Watch the Demodex communicate

A human face in infrared, every mite’s pheromone trail lit.

World engine · game Demodex Simulator from micrOmega: a mite crossing the skin of a human face among the poresPlay In development

Into the skin

From a whole face down to a single mite, in one shot.

World engine Demodex Simulator gameplay: a mite walking the skin surface and laying its own trailPlay In development

Walk as a mite

Become a mite, walk the skin, lay your own trail.

Gameplay Entity Translator answering a written line in the voice of the Demodex, with a plain-language readingPlay In development

Entity Translator

Write a line; the world answers in its creatures’ voice.

World engine

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