The feature combines the company’s existing drop-in actor replacement, in which you could easily replace a person with an animated 3D character keyed to their movements, with a full scale 3D background of your choosing.

To be clear, as with all the company’s previous features, this is not intended to provide a finished product — just a base layer to build on. Animation is labor intensive, and location shooting is difficult and expensive — if you can film two friends walking down the hall and convert it to robots walking down a futuristic street, that’s super useful for previsualization, story flow, and other early stages of production.