We specialize in designing systems directly without the constraints of large vendor frameworks. This enables us to deliver clearer architectures, tighter performance, and novel precise solutions.

We treat software as a craft guided by human judgment. Our process favors direct authorship, clear logic, and an expressive relationship with the tools we build. This creates solutions that enhance capability while preserving the human intent and authorship behind the work.

Our engineering practice grew directly from building technology and tooling to support art for entertainment production and real-time media. This cross-disciplinary foundation allows our studio to work at the confluence of software, digital arts, and creative development—enhancing visual workflows while uncovering new technical and artistic possibilities.

We have architected and deployed full-scale proprietary applications with over 12 million total distributions worldwide. These systems emphasize clarity, performance, and long-term resilience, reflecting an engineering philosophy grounded in independence and precision.

Our studio authors and maintains hundreds of modern software packages across multiple languages and platforms. These tools power production pipelines, streamline workflows, and demonstrate a long-standing commitment to elegant, minimal, human-centered engineering.

We developed major production plugins and frameworks for industry-standard software including Maya, 3ds Max, Houdini, Blender, ZBrush, Unreal Engine, and Unity. These tools support artists, technical directors, and real-time developers across high-end creative and entertainment pipelines.

As an independently powered systems studio, we publish writing and research based on our own discoveries and practices. This work draws from direct production experience and often reevaluates widely accepted assumptions.

Midnight Citylights conducts exploratory research at the intersection of software, mathematics, and philosophy. This work examines how computational structures reveal insights about logic, perception, and the boundaries of complex systems. Through generative writing, theoretical modeling, and experimental code, we investigate the deeper frameworks that shape both technology and the human understanding behind it.

We provide high-level engineering consultation for teams facing complex or ambiguous technical challenges. This includes architectural analysis, problem decomposition, and identifying software-driven solutions.

We offer a wide range of proprietary applications, packages, and development tools. For select public releases, we also provide support, guidance, and licensing assistance to help teams integrate these solutions effectively into their own production environments.

Background on the studio’s direction, guiding principles, and engineering philosophy.

A curated directory of the studio’s public software applications, packages, and repositories.

An index of modular function endpoints and interactive utilities developed by the studio—self-contained web interfaces that demonstrate specific capabilities or workflows.

For technical discussions, collaboration inquiries, or consulting requests, we welcome serious correspondence.