Design. Create. Animate.
Now in your space.
Sketchbot Studios is the character-driven 3D studio of Steve Talkowski: thirty years of animation for brands and film, a designer-toy icon, and now professional work for Apple Vision Pro.
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What’s new from the studio
Fresh from the workbench: apps, environments and services.
Quads
A spatial box-modeler for Apple Vision Pro. Hands-first, Logitech Muse stylus support, Catmull-Clark subdivision, sculpt, remesh, USDZ export and SharePlay co-modeling.
Coming soon to the App Store →
Immersive web environments
Websites you can step into. TRON: The Grid and the Backrooms are full-immersion Safari environments with spatial audio, built from USDZ.
Enter The Grid →
Studio services
Spatial character and mascot design, visionOS app design and prototyping, USDZ and Reality Composer Pro pipelines, spatial UX consulting.
Work with the studio →
Characters that live in your room, not behind glass. Everything the studio has learned about appeal, weight and timing, brought to spatial computing.
Selected work
Robots, mascots and worlds
Trusted by
Thirty years of
brands, studios
and film.
- Years in animation
- 30+
- National spots
- 100s
- Feature films
- 4
- Academy Award short
- 1Bunny, 1998
About
Steve Talkowski
A veteran of the computer animation scene: Art Director, Animation Director, character designer and animator on hundreds of national brands, senior animator at Blue Sky Studios on Ice Age, Joe's Apartment, Alien Resurrection and the Academy Award-winning short Bunny. Founded Sketchbot Studios in 2008 and self-produced the Sketchbot designer toy.
News
From the studio blog
It's been a minute. The last time I overhauled this site was 2015 and a whole lot has happened since, so it was time. The new site is live, it's…
Radial Menu is Open SourceWhile building Quads I needed a radial menu that didn't feel arbitrary, and I ended up going way down the rabbit hole on it. So I've pulled it out…
Introducing QuadsOK, here's the big one I've been hinting at for over a year. Quads is a box modeler for Apple Vision Pro, and it's the app I've wanted since the…
Lost in the BackroomsSecond immersive environment for the site is live and this one is a little more unsettling. Sketchbot has wandered into the Backrooms.
TRON Immersive: End of LineThe original TRON ignited my passion for computer animation when I first saw it at 16 in 1982. With TRON: Ares hitting theaters this week, I decided…
Upcoming gig?
Let's talk.
Available for art direction, animation direction, character and concept design, 3D modeling, and spatial computing projects for Apple Vision Pro.