Proof Inc. returned to Australia after 25 years of local work

The picture

On 8 July 2026, Deadline reported that Proof Inc., the Los Angeles-headquartered visualization studio behind previs for the Harry Potter series and other franchises, had opened a permanent studio in Brisbane, ending what founder and CEO Ron Frankel called a return after Proof's 'earliest international productions were based there' and 'close to 25 years' of Australian work, most recently through an earlier Sydney studio. Deadline's report states Proof, founded in 2002, 'operates in the pitchvis, techvis, stuntvis, postvis, virtual production, and animation portions of a film or show's production,' naming stuntvis as one of six service lines alongside previs itself.

What the documents show

Deadline's characterisation of Proof's service list, including stuntvis, is the article's own description of the company rather than a quoted line from Proof's marketing. Checked against Proof's own service page, the vendor's site as retrieved on 16 September 2026 defines previs, techvis and postvis in its own words, previs as building 'a preliminary version or visual prototype,' techvis as extracting 'critical information about speeds, distances, positions, and accelerations,' postvis as combining CG with production photography 'to validate footage,' but it does not itself use the word 'stuntvis' anywhere on that page. The term rests, in the sources available here, on Deadline's reporting rather than Proof's own visible service description, a distinction the site's framework treats as significant: a vendor-coined term and a press paraphrase of it are not the same evidence.

What it is allowed to decide

Techvis, as Proof's own page describes it, hands a crew usable numbers, speeds, distances, positions, accelerations, which supports at least class 5, technical execution. A stunt-specific variant, if it exists as trade coverage describes, would plausibly serve the same class for a stunt coordinator's planning, but this entry cannot confirm that scope from Proof's own materials. The sources establish Provenance for the company itself, a documented 2002 founding, a named founder, a dated 2026 studio opening, but not Auditability for a 'stuntvis' deliverable specifically, since no source describes how such a product is versioned or reproduced.

The disclosure label

In the site's format: a visualization studio's reported, not self-published, stunt-planning service, named by trade coverage of a 2026 studio opening; techvis-class work of this kind can support class 5, technical execution; holds Provenance for the company's founding and history; does not hold a confirmed Auditability record for the specific term 'stuntvis' in the vendor's own materials; dated 16 September 2026; the service-list claim is asserted by Deadline's reporting, not yet independently confirmed on Proof's own site as retrieved.

• Does the stunt coordinator or the production's insurer commission this work, and does that change what it is allowed to decide?
• Would Proof's own site, if updated, define 'stuntvis' the same way trade coverage does?
• Is a term reported by a trade outlet equivalent to a term a vendor uses to describe itself?

The Brisbane opening is well documented; the specific service name attached to stunt planning is not yet confirmed in Proof's own words, which is itself worth recording rather than smoothing over.