The hybrid AI / live-action process
Read this before you submit. Every performer onboarded through Digital Talent Studios receives the same explanation.
Hybrid Production: Live-Action Performance Meets AI
Our productions blend genuine human performance with advanced digital tools to give studios the best of both worlds. You are not replaced — you are amplified.
Live-Action Performance Requirements
Talent will be hired by studios to perform specific key sequences on camera where human nuance is critical, rather than being replaced for the entire physical shoot.
Critical Performance Bits
Duties include shooting close-ups, emotional expressions, intimate scenes (such as kissing sequences), and dynamic live-action reactions (such as a driver reacting to sharp turns in a racing scene).
The Hybrid Workflow
While your digital twin/AI version handles scaled crowds, complex replication, or full action sequences, you remain the essential live actor on set for targeted emotional and high-impact beats.
What a hybrid production is
A hybrid production shoots real performers and then extends that footage with AI-assisted tools: synthetic environments, crowd replication, digital doubles for stunts, age adjustment and language dubbing. The performance itself is always human-originated.
What we capture from you
Three reference images are all we require at this stage: one full-body photograph from the front, one half-body photograph from the waist up, and one clear face photograph. Together with your audition video (ten minutes maximum), these establish your look, proportions and range for our roster. If a studio, film company or AI digital production house selects your likeness, the full-body volumetric scan is arranged and performed on their side as part of the production agreement.
Likeness consent
Consent is granted per production and is required before any submission is stored. It covers the creation of a digital likeness from your reference media for the productions you are cast in. It does not transfer ownership of your likeness, and it can be withdrawn in writing for future work.
Compensation and credit
Hybrid shots that use your likeness are treated as performance work. You are credited as a performer and compensated under the terms of the production's agreement, whether the final frame is captured on camera or generated in post.
Accessibility and representation
We ask about handicap and accessibility requirements so that set, stage and capture sessions can be planned properly. We also record your current representation status so agents and managers are looped in from first contact.
Agency representation & 15% commission
Digital Talent Studios acts as an exclusive digital IP licensing agency representing talent. An agency commission of 15% applies to production compensation payouts under project agreements. You acknowledge this in the submission form before your profile enters the casting database.