Welcome to
Sébastien Gauthier 360 Studio

Where stories surround you

We are a multi-award-winning Montréal-based studio crafting unique immersive experiences for planetariums, giant screens, and VR. With strong roots in 360° live-action filmmaking, we work across borders to tell stories that resonate worldwide.

Our passionate team of artists and technical specialists offers a complete range of services in immersive media — from fulldome shows and VR to large-scale audiovisual productions — always committed to innovation, scientific rigor, and artistic depth.

Celebrated internationally as pioneers in immersive cinema, we unite live-action 360°, time-lapse, and immersive VFX with powerful visuals and refined sound to elevate the dome into a space of wonder, knowledge, and emotion.

Immersed in every shot,
a passionate team

SG360 Studio unites a diverse network of artists and technicians. With Montréal’s thriving film and immersive scene at our doorstep and passionate collaborators worldwide — from musicians and writers to cinematographers and VFX artists — we bring together the talent and expertise that elevate every project.

Every project is a true collaboration, and if we have the chance to work together, your team will join ours as part of the creative journey.

Meet our regular key collaborators

360° Immersive Fulldome & VR Production

We produce award-winning works that inspire, spark curiosity, entertain, and reveal the invisible.

Whether you are launching a new planetarium, showcasing your magnificent region, or presenting research that reveals the Universe in a new way, we help you create immersive experiences that make a lasting impact and live on in the collective imagination.

Turnkey Production
From Script to Screen

World-class feature-length or short films. Whether you want us to work independently or in close collaboration with your creative leadership team, SG360 Studio can deliver fully finished, ready-to-distribute immersive films.

  • End-to-end expertise in immersive storytelling, 360° capture, dome playback technologies, CGI animation and VFX

  • Global network of collaborators to assemble the ideal team for your project

  • High-resolution, sharp and bright video masters

  • Refined, dynamic, and precisely mixed soundtracks

À la Carte Services
Support Where You Need It

    • Immersive visual writing and storyboarding

    • Science communication and astronomy consulting

    • Scouting, shoot planning, schedules, and budgets

    • Live-action and timelapse 360° cinematography

    • Specialized camera rigs

    • 360° equipment rental and custom design of specialized gear

    • Extreme-conditions and low-light capture, astrophotography and astrocinematography

    • Editing in dedicated fulldome and VR suites, with editors who master the pacing and cadence unique to 360°

    • Stitching, stabilization, color grading, and geometric corrections of immersive footage

    • Handling and processing of domemaster (polar equidistant) and equirectangular (latlong) formats

    • Rotoscoping, cleanup, deliverables preparation, and quality control

Specific need

Do you have a specific need? We have many ways to help.

Immersive 360° Cinematography

Visual storytelling, mastered, is the key to achieving lasting impact on a giant dome.
— Sébastien Gauthier

Sébastien Gauthier is an internationally recognized pioneer in live-action fulldome filming. Over a decade ago, while the field was dominated by CGI and experiments with consumer-grade action cameras, he built cinema-derived immersive systems that delivered bright, crisp, expressive live-action images — virtually unseen in fulldome production at the time.

This approach opened the door to living subjects and daytime sequences, far beyond night-only timelapses, and rapidly built a reputation for excellence, resulting in multiple award-winning films.

Our approach to immersive cinematography

For us, filming the subject is not the goal in itself. How we film it is what matters.

  • Spherical shot scales and deliberate framing

  • Camera position, speed, and field of view tailored to the dome

  • Pacing and editorial intent considered from pre-production

  • Projection scenography in mind: tilted vs flat domes, circular theaters, and VR each require different capture strategies

Filming services

Most dome theaters are larger than IMAX screens. Filming with GoPro-like action cameras will almost certainly fail to deliver the full potential of your dome.

If your project calls for cinema-quality immersion, work with a team built for the dome.
— Sébastien Gauthier
    • Single-camera kits covering 360°×180°, 360°×220°, and 360°×250°

    • Multi-camera rigs for low-light work and extremely high resolution and sharpness

    • Nodal multi-pass rigs for near-unlimited resolution and field of view

    • Immersive Aerial Drone Cinematography

    • Motion-control dollies purpose-built for spherical imaging

    • Controllers and intervalometers designed for the challenges of 360° field production

  • SG360 Studio can bring our experience, team and equipment to your projects.

    • Artistic and cinematographic direction for immersive media

    • Immersive shoots and on-set supervision

    • Production management and permitting

    • ATA carnets and international on-location logistics

    • 4K, 6K, 8K, 16K fulldome and VR

    • 24, 30, 60 fps and higher for slow motion

    • Rec. 2020 color space workflow

    • Uncompressed 4:4:4 production workflow

    • Surround sound capture

    • Deliverables: equirectangular (latlong) and domemaster (polar equidistant)

    • Post-processing services: stitching, stabilization, color grading, QC

Equipment Rental

We’ll admit it — at SG360 Studio, we have a passion for camera gear and a tendency to collect it. So much so that when we’re deep in writing or post-production, some of our equipment sits waiting for its next adventure.

You need a high-performance setup for immersive capture, a motion-controlled dolly for timelapses, or an extra 360° or conventional cinema camera for your shoot. Get in touch — we might already have exactly what you’re looking for.

Custom Rigs and Systems

Immersive cinema pushes beyond the limits of traditional filmmaking. It often requires tools that don’t even exist yet. At SG360 Studio, we don’t wait for solutions; we invent them.

From custom-built 360° camera rigs and optics to motion-controlled dollies, jibs, and specialized control systems, our workshop turns ideas into working tools. When your production demands the impossible, we might be able to engineer the gear to make it possible. Let’s connect and see how we can help.

    • Multi-camera rigs

    • Motion control systems

    • Custom dollies, tracks, and jibs

    • Protective housings for extreme environments

    • Specialized and multi-camera intervalometers

    • Custom electronics

    • Custom software

    • Low-power controllers

    • Radio-controlled remotes

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SG360 Stock Images

Award-winning shots, available for your project

Have you seen a shot in one of our films that you’d like to use, or do you think we might already have the footage you need? SG360 Studio licenses archival and stock footage from our productions.

We don’t yet offer an online catalogue, but if you share your needs with us, with a bit of luck we already have the perfect shot for you.

    • High-resolution timelapses of starry skies

    • Northern lights (aurora borealis)

    • Lunar eclipses

    • Total and partial solar eclipses

    • Moon and sun rises and sets

    • Live-action footage of people in nature and in the city

    • “Holy grail” timelapses from day to night and night to day

    • 4K, 6K, 8K, and 12K stock footage — including many 4:4:4 uncompressed shots