Equipment sales and rental
Every General Lift system is available for direct purchase with worldwide installation and integration, or for rental on productions in México and Latin America. Select the equipment you're interested in and a specialist will contact you with a proposal tailored to your project.
Sistemas completos para producción
Mark 2 · Genuflex
Sistema portátil de motion control con cinco ejes trabajando simultáneamente: Dolly (Track), Swing (Este/Oeste), Lift (Boom), Pan y Tilt, más dos ejes adicionales para foco y zoom del lente. Alcance de brazo modular de 72 a 121 pulgadas según configuración, con velocidades de track superiores a 7 ft/s.
Zeduflex
Grúa ligera con combinación básica de movimientos — Dolly (Track), Lift (Boom), Pan, Tilt y Foco/Zoom — especial para movimientos largos y rápidos. Su arquitectura modular permite desmontarla en paquetes portátiles Jet-Rail o combinarla con cabezal Rotoflex funcionando como memoryhead sobre trípode.
Jet-Rail
Solución ligera diseñada para portabilidad. Ideal para movimientos de Dolly, Pan y Tilt en locaciones difíciles de alcanzar. La versión Jet-Speed Rail alcanza velocidades de más de 18 ft por segundo (5.48 m/s), lo que lo hace perfecto para grabaciones Hi-Speed, proyectos documentales y fotografía Time-Lapse.
Operado en Waterworld, The Lord of the Rings y comerciales BMW.
IMC · Interactive Motion Control
Grúa IMC diseñada específicamente para fotografía de mesa, stop motion y miniaturas. Controla siete ejes: Dolly (X), Grúa (Y), horizontal (Z), Pan, Tilt, Roll (dutch) y Foco. Su super-estabilidad soporta cualquier cámara de cine o video HD — Alexa, RED — y acepta el uso de snorkels y borescopes con alta precisión.
Model Movers
Dispositivos para aplicar movimiento controlado a objetos, personajes o partes del set. Diseño personalizado a la medida del proyecto o soluciones de stock: turntables para movimiento circular, sliders para trayectorias lineales de producto, dollies especiales para desplazar objetos o actores en la escena.
Cada configuración se diseña a la medida de la coreografía del proyecto.
Rotoflex
Cabezal encoded tipo Ronford para uso en trípode, grúa o hi-hat. Programa u opera movimientos en Pan y Tilt con ejes adicionales de Foco y Zoom. Compatible con cualquier cámara de cine o video HD. El software Kuper almacena y reproduce infinitas versiones con clicks del ratón. Ideal para rastrear movimientos de live action y reproducirlos al instante.
Operado en Hollow Man con variante impermeabilizada para tomas subacuáticas.
Trípodes, electrónica y controladores.
Para qué sirve un rig de motion control
Duplicados
Un actor aparece dos o más veces en la misma escena.
Live Action con miniaturas
Actor y miniatura en capas separadas, movimiento escalado.
Eliminación de elementos
Elimina cables o rigs en post con una capa limpia.
Table Top
Cámara y producto en armonía con foco perfecto.
Live action + time lapses
Distintas velocidades de cuadro en una misma toma.
Green screen
Composición de capas con elementos filmados por separado.
Dissolve entre fondos
El mismo movimiento con distintos fondos.
Variaciones de velocidad
Del slow motion al movimiento acelerado en una toma.
Atravesar paredes
De Nueva York a Tokio en un solo movimiento de cámara.
Time lapses en movimiento
Cámara programada, con o sin motion blur.
Stop-U-Matic Senior
General Lift's reference rig for high-end stop motion production. Includes Pan/Tilt/Roll head, 8 ft straight track, 8-channel driver electronics, and Kuper system. Used by Laika, Stoopid Buddy Studios, and Taller del Chucho on productions including Pinocchio, Kubo, Coraline, and ParaNorman.
Stop-U-Matic Junior Next Gen
Compact motion control system with track, boom with elevation and swing axes, and a welded steel frame on casters. Ideal for tight sets, complex locations, and agile productions. Includes Knuckle Head Plus with Pan/Tilt/Roll and motorized follow focus base.
Genuflex MK III
General Lift's motorized arm for live action. Carries professional cinema cameras with sub-millimeter repeatability, integrating with straight and curved tracks up to 42 ft. Used on The Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, The Hobbit, Apocalypto, and Cloud Atlas.
Knuckle Head Plus
General Lift motorized heads with three axes — Pan, Tilt, and Roll — in a single compact unit. The Knuckle Head Plus with Follow Focus version integrates a motorized bellows for sub-millimeter repeatable focus, ideal for stop motion and precision table top.
Operated on productions such as Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio, Wendell & Wild, Kubo and the Two Strings, Marcel the Shell with Shoes On, and Anomalisa.
Kuper Motion Control System
Academy Award® for Technical Achievement The controller running behind virtually every motion control film of the past two decades — from The Lord of the Rings and The Matrix to Pinocho Pinocchio.
ncludes K2001i computer, Kuper cards JogBox for live manual control, cables, and accessories. Compatible with every General Lift rig.
The Kuper/Dragon interface is available for native integration with Dragonframe — the world standard in stop motion software. This integration runs in the workshops of Laika, Stoopid Buddy Studios, and Taller del Chucho.
Sliders and Tracks
Curved tracks in 20, 30, 42, and up to 80-foot diameters — the same ones used on productions like The Book of Eli and global commercials for BMW, Lexus, Toyota, and Canon..
Motorized JetRail Dolly for straight or curved tracks. The Hi-Speed version with servo motor reaches up to 18 feet per second. Operated on Waterworld and Waterworld and The Lord of the Rings..
Motorized sliders in 3 ft and 4 ft with THK belt drive for high-precision XY moves in stop motion and table top. Modular straight tracks in 8 ft sections that connect together. Custom configurations available for any production.
Stepper Drivers
Driver electronics that convert Kuper Controls signals into physical movement on every axis of the rig. Essential to any General Lift configuration.
8-channel Riglink package for the Senior Rig — handles Track, Boom Elevation, Boom Swing, Pan, Tilt, Roll, Focus, and a spare channel.
4-channel Cinder / SS Quadbox package for Junior MoCo and modular setups. Two boxes cover all 8 axes of the complete Junior.
Native integration with K2001i or Classic RTMC48. Cabling and DB37/DB9 connectors included.
Follow Focus and other accessories
Follow Focus motor manufactured by General Lift for independent motorized focus. Millimeter-repeatable and integrable with any rig in the lineup.
Configurations also compatible with the Preston FIZ system — the world standard in lens control for professional cinema, used by camera assistants on the most demanding productions.
Also available: specialized cables, clamps, camera mounts, original General Lift replacement parts, and ongoing technical support. Each configuration tailored to the lens and camera of your project.
We design custom configurations
Contact us to configure the system that fits your production: stop motion, table top, live action, virtual production set, or turnkey installation for your studio.