XYZ RGB, a scanning facility founded in 2001 in Ottawa, Canada, has been busy. First, there’s the new Los Angeles office, in the Marina Del Rey area. “It acts as a satellite office to our Ottawa headquarters,” says COO Troy Robinson. “It’s convenient for clients.”

The company has most recently used its high-res 3D scanning to capture actors in costume and props for Percy Jackson and The Olympians: The Lightning Thief, which debuts February 12. The scans were used as a basis for creating digital doubles and stunt people in this action-adventure film. In addition to actors and costumes, XYZ RGB scanned all the weapons, including swords, shields and bows and arrows. Robinson reveals that XYZ RGB took their scanning equipment to Vancouver, where the production was shooting. “We’re very, very portable,” says Robinson, who is getting ready to fly to New York and then Montreal. “We only rarely do scanning in Ottawa.”

Since the company’s founding–when it created a niche in the VFX industry by providing 3D scanning for the two Matrix sequels, Reloaded and Revolution— it has developed capture systems enabling instant full body scanning, props, automobiles as well as buildings and sets. Their scanning services are used by the gaming, VFX and inspection/manufacturing industries and others  requiring high-end scan data including the automobile and reverse engineering industries. Among its other credits, XYZ RGB scanned faces for the Fight Night 3 game, the dragons for PlayStation’s “Lair”, dinosaurs for Kong, and full body scanning for GI Joe.