A studio service
A bike has nowhere to hide anything.
Motorcycles modelled from blueprints and rigged in Blender. There is no bodywork to hide the mechanism: forks, swingarm, chain and engine are all in shot from a normal camera angle, so all of them are built rather than suggested.
$500 to test · $3,000 to rig · $6,000 to build from blueprints
N° 01Why a bike is the harder build
Every part is on show
A car hides most of its engineering under panels. A motorcycle hides almost none: frame, forks, swingarm, chain, engine cases and brake assemblies are all visible.
There is nothing to approximate. A fork that compresses without the internal spring behaving correctly reads as wrong even to someone who could not say why.
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Forks and rear travel
Front fork compression and rear suspension built as assemblies, with working springs inside them.
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Chain and drive
Chain and sprockets modelled as individual parts rather than painted on as a textured loop, and driven by the rear wheel's rotation — so the drive stays in step with the bike instead of being keyed by hand and hoped over.
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Three different bikes
A superbike, a long-travel adventure bike and a naked retro. Deliberately not three of the same thing — each one fails differently.
N° 02Investment
What it costs
Rig test
$500
One assembly rigged on a model you supply — a suspension corner, a door, a mechanism — returned in your own file.
- One assembly of your choosing, rigged
- Controls, limits and constraints as in the full job
- A written assessment of whether the rest is riggable
- Your own file back, not a copy
- About a week
Rigging only
$3,000
You supply the model. We rig it: controls, constraints, working mechanism.
- Full mechanical rig
- Controls for wheels, steering, doors and panels
- Suspension and internal moving parts
- Control scheme documented
- About one month from a usable model
Modelled and rigged
$6,000
Built from manufacturer blueprints, then rigged. The internals are modelled as components — which is where both the accuracy and the timeline come from.
- Modelled from manufacturer blueprints
- Internal components built, not implied
- Full mechanical rig on top
- Control scheme documented
- Six to twelve months, depending on the subject
N° 03Questions
The answers we give most often.
- Which bikes have you built?
- A BMW M1000RR, a BMW R1200GS and a Kawasaki Zephyr 1100 — a superbike, an adventure bike and a naked retro. All demonstration builds rather than client work.
- Can you rig a rider too?
- No. A rider is character work and a different discipline. Say so at the briefing and we will tell you whether we are the right studio for that half.
- Same prices as cars?
- Yes. The price follows whether we are rigging something that exists or building it from drawings, not the number of wheels.
Start your book
Send the bike, or the blueprints.
Tell us which you have and what it is going into. You get the route and a fixed price back.
Both full figures are per vehicle. The gap between a month and a year is the difference between rigging something that exists and building it from drawings first. Send what you have and we will tell you which one you are asking for.
The vehicles shown are demonstration builds made in-house to show the craft — not client commissions. Each was modelled and rigged from manufacturer blueprints.