KUVA

KUVA An Experience Design & Creative Production Studio. We create new forms of visual aesthetic and interactive experiences.

We are Kuva, a digital art and experience design studio based in the UK. We create beautiful experiences that both captivate and inspire. Our craft lies somewhere between art, design and technology. We produce work across both virtual and physical spaces including installation, animation, interactive and vr.

A little deep dive into one of the most challenging shots from our film ‘Orbital’: The Earth Shot. If you’ve been lucky ...
07/02/2025

A little deep dive into one of the most challenging shots from our film ‘Orbital’: The Earth Shot.

If you’ve been lucky enough to catch the show in venue at Cosm LA or Dallas, you’ll have seen first hand the result of months of work.

▪️ This shot ended up being one continuous 8.5 minute shot, clocking in at over 30k frames, and rendered at 24K / 60fps

▪️ A whopping 35,000 render hours were needed for this one shot alone

▪️ The horizontal texture resolution of the earth was over 1/2 million pixels

▪️ All cloud and city data was created and assembled from real NASA, satellite and Open Street Maps data

▪️ Alongside the huge earth, we had to include the atmosphere, stars, clouds, thunderstorms and lightning, meteor showers and some epic auroras, alongside the terminator line moving from day to night

▪️ The atmosphere was a volumetric model, modelled on real atmospheric data (not just a shader)

▪️ The route the shot covered over the earth required meticulous planning. This included the speed (therefore distance) at which we could move across the earth without incurring motion sickness, tying up the story points/narration relating to specific activity/locations we had to hit, and enough dense city lights to bring the night sky to life

And if you haven’t managed to catch the show yet, Orbital should be coming to select Cosm planetariums this year globally 🙌

https://www.kuva.io/portfolio/orbital

https://cosm.com/media/orbital

https://www.cosm.com/los-angeles/series-events/orbital_2024_series

17/09/2021

We’re proud to demo the beta release of a virtual NFT art gallery that we’ve helped create for The Crypt. An online multiplayer experience where you can browse and collect NFT’s from artists such as Signalnoise.

We designed the environment in Houdini and the site runs in WebGL with multiplayer and group chat. We’re excited to bring this to the NFT community and we’ll be adding new features such as VR over the coming months.

Check out the beta at https://crypt.art

21/10/2020

We're hiring!

Senior Creative Coder 🔨
Junior Creative Coder 🔨
Character Artist 🎨
Game Environment Artist 🎨

All positions come with a positive, creative, autonomous working environment with ongoing flexible, remote, semi-remote, and onsite working offered (in Bristol, UK)

Full details here 👉 https://jobs.kuva.io

16/07/2020

We had a lot of fun earlier this year helping with these new visuals for a client.

Trying to capture a modern look that had a dynamic feel - and mostly because we're a bunch of tech heads - we trained an AI (StyleGan2) to create graphical outputs based on forms and vibrant tones that were curated by the team. We then created a tool so designer team could explore the visual landscape expressively in real time, using a tablet as a gestural input. By using natural, expressive gestures with the pressure and stroke of the pen, we were able to create a diverse range of beautiful visual expressions - both as stills and animation - that were at once subtle and unique yet all felt collectively curated. videos etc to follow.

16/07/2020

A visual exploration on the aesthetics of oil and fluid. Created in GLSL as a live interactive installation for large format display.

Created by KUVA
Sound Design by Utopia Planitia

15/07/2020

An visual exploration of oil and liquid. Interactive simulation created in GLSL

14/07/2020

As we begin to see past lock down and the long stretch of social isolation, we've been contemplating on the relationship we have with our own physical spaces that we spend so much time within.

Earlier this year we scanned our studio, our own person space This is a kind of homage to it and being back together.

Kudos to RubenFro for the inspo

Some early concept work and visual treatment for an interactive experience. Video coming soon
08/04/2020

Some early concept work and visual treatment for an interactive experience. Video coming soon

14/01/2020

Glitch materials with a meshed liquid simulation

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Hi, we’re Kuva!

An award winning Interactive Design & Creative Technology studio based in the UK. We work with brands, agencies and cultural institutions to create lasting moments and experiences. We do this by fusing our obsession with technology with our passion for art and culture.