Method
Our approach
Exactly how we combine traditional craft with our own locally-run AI and graphics tools — and where we draw the line.
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The studio
A studio named for what good stories do.
Alter your perspective and a familiar thing becomes new. That’s the whole job of stories — and the reason this studio has the name it does.
Est. 2026
Our story
Father, son, and one whole pipeline.
Altered Perspective is a family, friends, and fools studio built on a clean division of labor: one of us makes the technology that draws the world, the other makes the world worth drawing. Richard has spent a career close to the machine — the systems, the performance, the hard parts of making pixels behave. Owen came up on the analog side, drawing the things those systems would one day render.
Put them together and you get a studio that owns its whole pipeline — from the story to the sketch to the shader to the render — and a conviction that the newest tools belong in service of the oldest craft. We work across two cities, Blacksburg and Savannah, and treat that distance as a feature: each discipline stays honest and independent, and the work is better for the daily conversation between them.
What we believe
A few things we hold to.
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The hand stays the author
Craft is the source. Our tools amplify the maker; they never make the maker optional.
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Own the whole stack
Engine, tools, and art under one roof — so no compromise gets blamed on someone else’s pipeline.
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Local & owned
Our models run on our machines. Our art stays ours; it never becomes someone else’s training data.
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Make it, then show it
We’d rather reveal something finished than trade in hype. Look twice is the bar.
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People
Meet the team
The two founders, the disciplines, and the collaborators who help our worlds come together.
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Careers
We’re a small studio with big worlds to build. If you make things by hand and love good tools, say hello.
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Press kit
Fact sheet, boilerplate, brand assets, and a press contact — everything a journalist needs in one place.
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Questions, collaborations, or just curious what we’re building? The door’s open.