Join CoSTAR Screen Lab on 27 May for a hands-on workshop exploring the use of AI for motion capture, where companies are invited to learn how they can improve their mocap workflows using artificial intelligence. Places are limited!
👉 Book your ticket now- link in bio
Part of the CoSTAR Network's exciting new £1 million 'AI for Creativity' initiative, there are a number of other workshops taking place across the network.
👉 Find out more about the full programme of workshops coming up - link in bio
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Multisensory Workshops for Creatives📣 Are you interested in taking your creative business to the next level with multisensory elements? 🚀
CoSTAR National Lab's Inclusive User Futures team is inviting companies and freelancers to a workshop touring the UK that explores the future of multisensory elements used in entertainment.
Whether you're just starting to explore how multisensory could transform your practice, or already fully immersed — we'd love to hear from you.
🗓️ 11 June – Production Park, Wakefield @costarlivelab
🗓️ 12 June – Edinburgh Futures Institute, Edinburgh #CoSTARRealtimeLab
🗓️ 15 June – Studio Ulster, Belfast #CoSTARScreenLab
🗓️ 18 June – Stewart House, London #CoSTARNationalLab & #CoSTARForesightLab
🎯 Who is it for?
Creatives, technologists, designers, producers, business developers and organisations making or investing in experiential work across live performance, XR, installation, games, themed entertainment or exhibitions.
Why join?
🔸️ Get a first look at our new Multisensory Hub
🔸️ Weigh up the cost/benefit of going multisensory
🔸️ Network with fellow creatives across the region
🔸️ Feed into our future funding calls
⏰ Express interest deadline is 24 May 2026 - link in bio
🔗 Learn more about the team - link in bio
📣 CoSTAR National Lab are #hiring a User Experience Designer!
We are seeking an experienced and creative User Experience Designer to join our CoSTAR National Lab Applied Research and Innovation team – someone who can help the team bring early ideas to life quickly and keep user needs a the centre of all that we do and build.
Post Type: Full Time, Permanent
Salary: £41,374 to £48,639
Location: Egham, Surrey / Pinewood Studios, Buckinghamshire
Closing Date: Sunday 24 May 2026
You will be part of a creative, inclusive and dynamic environment, working with the research teams across all the partners of the National Lab as well as with industry collaborators, working at locations in Surrey (Royal Holloway campus) and also at our flagship CoSTAR lab at Pinewood Studios.
In this hands-on position, you will be comfortable working collaboratively using agile methods as part of a multidisciplinary innovation team focused on developing a range of pilots, prototypes and software capabilities. You will get the chance to work with a range of Creative Technologists, software engineers, research producers, as well as to collaborate with external companies.
🌟 Learn about the CoSTAR National Lab - link in bio
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🎉 We are pleased to announce the launch of @CoSTARNetwork 's ‘AI for Creativity’ initiative, offering UK companies access to research insights, interactive workshops, business support, funding programmes, and cutting-edge AI compute and cloud infrastructure, to support the growth of responsible AI adoption across the UK’s creative sector; our ambition is to address pressing industry challenges and needs while maintaining core principles around authorship, intellectual property and human creativity.
The £1 million initiative will kick off with a series of workshops and webinars across the UK in May and June 2026, featuring a range of pioneering industry leaders/experts:
💫 ‘An Introduction to AI Assisted Pipelines in Motion Capture’ with at CoSTAR Screen Lab @studio.ulster | Wednesday 27 May 2026 | 10am – 4pm BST
💫 ‘Directing Generative AI – Control, Realism and Creative Workflow’ with @costarlivelab at @productionparkuk | Wednesday 10 June 2026 | 10am – 4pm BST
💫 ‘Creative Work in the Age of AI: Tools, Practice and the Road Ahead’ with CoSTAR Foresight Lab online | Tuesday 23 June 2026 | 3:30pm – 5pm BST
👉 Find out more about ‘AI for Creativity’ and sign up to our workshops - link in bio
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🎉 We are delighted to introduce the four ‘Advanced Production Technology’ companies who have been awarded funding to innovate/develop new workflows and tools for digital content production, supported by the National Lab’s AI compute facilities and world-class research expertise.
🌟 Hat Trick Productions - Founded in 1986, Hat Trick is a highly regarded independent production company in the UK, behind iconic shows like 'Have I Got News for You', 'Derry Girls', and 'Father Ted'.
🌟 All Your Tomorrows - Founded in 2023, All Your Tomorrows is a UK Creative R&D studio working at the frontier of AI and immersive technology; they develop experimental tools and production pipelines for interactive and spatial media, with a focus on procedural generation, AI-assisted design, and VR/XR systems.
🌟 Ten24 Media – is a Sheffield-based technical art studio specialising in high-resolution 3D human scanning, photogrammetry and digital human production. Their work has supported major games and screen projects including Baldur’s Gate 3, Final Fantasy, Hellblade II and hundreds of other AAA games, alongside 3D Scan Store. Ten24 is also developing SP-6M, a rights-clear 3D facial dataset containing over 80,000 scans, designed to support next-generation digital human and AI research.
🌟 Visualskies – Founded in 2016, Visualskies is a hybrid studio bridging the gap between physical reality and digital worlds. As globally recognised technology drivers, they deliver an end-to-end 3D scanning solution for Film/TV, Heritage and Commercial, integrating multi-scale volumetric capture, custom processing pipelines, and Unreal Engine 5 workflows. From foundational data to real-time In-Camera VFX, they empower storytellers to define the digital future.
🌟 Find out more about the programme and the companies - link in biog. #CoSTARNetwork #CoSTARNationalLab #Production #CreativeTechnology #Innovation
🎉 We've launched a CoSTAR Network LinkedIn Newsletter!
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‼️ CLOSING IN 3 DAYS - Apply for the CoSTAR National Lab & StoryFutures Director of Operations role!
Post Type: Full Time, Permanent
Salary: £68,810 to £77,209
Location: Egham, Surrey / Pinewood Studios, Buckinghamshire
Closing Date: Monday 13 April 2026
This is a flagship senior leadership role responsible for the operational strategy, governance, financial stewardship and long-term sustainability of the CoSTAR National Lab (CSNL) and StoryFutures Strategic Business Unit (SBU), based at Royal Holloway, University of London.
The Operations Director will provide strategic leadership for the systems, infrastructure and delivery frameworks that underpin the UK’s largest ever investment in creative industries R&D. Working in close partnership with the CSNL Director and StoryFutures Directors, the postholder will ensure that a complex, multi-partner, multi-funder national research infrastructure operates with excellence, integrity and long-term financial resilience.
🌟 Learn about the CoSTAR National Lab - Link in bio
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✨ CASE STUDY: Conjuring Demo
👉 The Challenge
Live performance is increasingly converging with AI-enabled production tools, creating new opportunities for real-time creative augmentation, wider digital distribution, and more accessible audience engagement. A key challenge is how generative AI can be integrated into advanced production environments in ways that remain artistically controlled, technically feasible and democratised.
👉The Project
In spring 2025, CoSTAR National Lab undertook a prototyping project exploring how audio and visual generative AI systems could be embedded within converged media production pipelines for live performance. The work focused on enabling real-time control of lighting, LED volumes, spatial audio and in-camera visual effects in response to improvised studio performance, while designing workflows orientated towards streaming and emerging immersive platforms. A particular focus was the integration of Nitro Fusion, a fast-rendering image generation tool developed by the University of Surrey.
The prototype demonstrated new workflows for AI-enhanced studio performance, combining physical and digital production elements and exploring how audiences could potentially interact with generative processes at a cost and access level suitable for wider sector adoption.
👉 Next Steps
Building on this first-stage prototype, CoSTAR is progressing further applied research and second stage prototyping informed directly by production testing. The team is also seeking industry partners to trial emerging workflows and creative formats through collaborative R&D, as well as wider tool releases via the Access Programmes, ensuring continuous feedback between research, prototyping and real-world deployment.
📣 This case study is part of the CoSTAR National Lab Annual Report (October 2023 – December 2025) - Link in bio
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‼️ There is still time to apply - CoSTAR National Lab & StoryFutures are #hiring a Director of Operations!
Post Type: Full Time, Permanent
Salary: £68,810 to £77,209
Location: Egham, Surrey / Pinewood Studios, Buckinghamshire
Closing Date: Friday 10 April 2026
This is a flagship senior leadership role responsible for the operational strategy, governance, financial stewardship and long-term sustainability of the CoSTAR National Lab (CSNL) and StoryFutures Strategic Business Unit (SBU), based at Royal Holloway, University of London.
The Operations Director will provide strategic leadership for the systems, infrastructure and delivery frameworks that underpin the UK’s largest ever investment in creative industries R&D. Working in close partnership with the CSNL Director and StoryFutures Directors, the postholder will ensure that a complex, multi-partner, multi-funder national research infrastructure operates with excellence, integrity and long-term financial resilience.
🌟 Learn about the CoSTAR National Lab - Link in bio
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A brilliant night for the unveiling of Tele Sync ✨🎶
🌐Tele Sync is an exciting R&D project exploring connected live experiences across the #LiverpoolCityRegion - created by the @tonto_studio team and hosted at Grassroots music venue Kapsule.
It's one of 4 projects from our R&D call focused on Grass Roots Music Venue Innovation supported through our collaboration with @costarnetwork and supported by @musicvenuetrust
🔗 The experience connected audiences across multiple venues across the #LCR through interactive portals creating a real-time network of shared moments across the city at:
📍 @kapsule_club
📍 @quarryliverpool
📍 @artsbarbaltic
📍 @kazimiergarden_
📍 @brookhouse.liverpool
⚡Live performances brought the launch to life - electronic duo @thoseholy and harpist-producer @miamaiiiiii lit up the 360° stage, powered by a quadraphonic speaker system and @sona.lux Spatializer hardware - all designed and built by #LCR Music Innovation talent.
🤝It was amazing to see people across the city interacting with the portals and experiencing something together, in sync.
A huge shoutout to everyone involved - what a night!
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CoSTAR National Lab has today published its inaugural annual report, covering activity from October 2023 to December 2025. The report highlights more than a year of significant progress across applied research, industry access programmes, innovation projects, and partner collaborations supporting the UK’s creative R&D sector.
The report outlines key achievements from the Lab’s first two years of operation, during which the focus has been on establishing the foundations of a future-facing national capability.
Click the link in our bio to read the full report.
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CoSTAR National Lab has today announced Magnopus, the experience technology company, as a new partner. The partnership will give CoSTAR National Lab supported access to OKO, a spatial intelligence platform from Magnopus that makes it easy to create and run ‘Connected Spaces’ – cross-reality environments that work across devices like VR headsets, AR apps, and even web browsers.
The partnership will enable UK companies to explore the possibilities of convergent media production, bringing together the real and the digital to create new kinds of experiences for audiences.
Read more at the link in our bio.
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