ABOUT CONICAL / AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND
People with
big imaginations.
We’re a creative technology studio led by filmmaker and producer Alex Davila. We bring stories to life through AI video, animation, virtual reality, augmented reality and games.
Behind the worlds we create are performers, artists, developers and a lot of creative problem-solving. Take a look inside.
A LOOK BEHIND THE SCREEN
This is where
the magic starts.
Real performances. Shared ideas. Time spent getting the details right. Our projects bring creative and technical people together around a story worth making.
A team shaped around the project.
You work directly with Alex, with the creative and technical collaborators the brief needs. That can mean animation and game development, performance capture, visual effects, AI production or a combination of disciplines.
THE CONICAL STORY
One small fairy.
A much bigger world.
CONICAL began in 2016 with an idea: what if a tiny fairy lived inside the lights around us?
That idea became The Green Fairy, growing from a virtual reality film into a world of animation, augmented reality and storytelling. It also set the direction for our studio: follow the story, explore what technology makes possible, and keep creating.
Today, our original projects include The Green Fairy, Faeborne and Time Travel New Zealand. The craft developed through those worlds also feeds into our work for brands, agencies and organisations.
EPIC MEGAGRANTS SPOTLIGHT / 2023
A story that kept growing.
Unreal Engine featured CONICAL’s journey with The Green Fairy, from immersive storytelling to a wider creative world.
BEHIND THE SCENES
THE WORK BEHIND THE WORLDS
Curiosity.
Craft. Collaboration.
An actor’s gesture. A camera move. The moment a digital character starts to feel alive.
We work across film and real-time production, bringing performance, animation and interactive technology into the same creative conversation. This behind-the-scenes film is a glimpse of Alex’s virtual production approach.
Whether the result is a cinematic AI film, a game or an immersive experience, our starting point is the same: what should the audience feel, understand or do?
HELLO, I’M ALEX
Come have
a conversation.
You may know me as Alex Davila, Alejandro Davila, or the umbrella-carrying time traveller from Time Travel New Zealand.
I lead CONICAL and stay close to the work, from the first idea through to production. If you have a project in mind, you can come straight to me. I’ll help you shape the brief and work out the people and approach it needs.
We can talk about a finished concept, a problem you’re trying to solve or an idea you’re still figuring out.
alex@conical.nz / Auckland, New Zealand