PINAR DEMIRDAG
FOUNDER/CEO
We Believe
The most dangerous thing in the age of machines is not the machine. It is that while being enamored by the speed of output, we started accepting a new form of being creative which has to do with being a slot machine operator. Buy credit, write prompt incantations, push the button and hope the algorithm does not hallucinate too much.
Our Conviction
The current state of generative media stands at the opposite end of what modernism promised. The capability of the maker to go to the essence of a piece. The discipline of restriction, control, and rigor in service of the work.
Professionals creatives in every field, cinematographers, VFX supervisors, brand directors, have always demanded deterministic control over their output. A cinematographer does not accept a random lens choice. A set designer does not accept almost right. The fact that generative tools have normalized probabilistic output as acceptable for professional work is the real scandal.
We built EVRN to give makers control over their creative tools, so humans keep full authorship in the age of advanced machines.
The future of storytelling belongs to the people who direct it, not the ones gambling on what the algorithm comes up with.
Our Origin
My work with Google Brain Lab (which later merged with DeepMind) began in early 2018, after years as a world-building artist. Those two years inside Google taught me how machine learning worked at the genesis level, its strengths and its shortcomings for creative storytellers like myself.
I carried that fascination into motion pictures. I created one of the world's first AI VFX for a feature film, Descending the Mountain, in 2020, and one of the first generative AI commercials, Connections for Beko, in 2021.
In December 2022, weeks after the launch of ChatGPT, my late partner Gary Koepke and I founded Cuebric, the first generative AI platform purpose-built for virtual production stages. Building Cuebric through 2023 and 2024 placed us at the heart of the studio system, working with the world's most extraordinary production technologists and learning their workflows, what fascinated and frustrated them. Cuebric was built for what the technology made possible at the time. It turned 2D pictures into 2.5D parallax and exported generative 2.75D meshes. We couldn't generate full 3D, the technology wasn't there yet.
In 2026, generative 3D has finally matured enough to let me execute the dream I'd been carrying: to build the control layer for generative media. EVRN is built on everything Cuebric, Google, our partners, my 11-year background as an artist, the studio system, and most importantly our team have taught me.
We truly hope you'll have as much joy and satisfaction using EVRN as we felt while building it.
With great respect for you and your craft,
Pinar Seyhan Demirdağ
Our Team
We are a small team, who caught lightning in a bottle. A team of creatives and engineers, completely obsessed, who don't separate the week from the weekend because there is nothing on earth we'd rather be doing than building EVRN.
DENYS PERIEL
HEAD ENGINEER
DADE ORGERON
GTM/STRATEGY
BARIS YILMAZ
PRODUCT / R&D
DEN TARASOV
ENG. MANAGER
AWAIS AMIN
ML ENGINEER
ARSLAN TARIQ
3D FRONTEND ENGINEER
YURII TYRPYCH
FULL STACK ENGINEER
IRA DOBINOVA
UI/UX
SUJITH MOHAN
CLOUD & SECURITY
MARIA JULIANO
FINANCIAL CONTROLLER
SEYMA OZGE
ADMIN AND SUPPORT
MIKE RUGGIO
COMMUNITY
Founding Circle
We have been developing EVRN since the early days of 2025 with a group of more than 250 filmmakers, creatives, and pipeline designers who have been advising us. We are indebted to them, and grateful for their patience, their time, and the feedback they gave us through our endless iterations. A few of them are named here.
Kevin Tod Haug, Alex McDowell, Lindsey Robbins, Johannes Saam, Tristan King, Sagans, David Monguet, Krystian Wydro, Jose Alex Guedes, Michel Suissa, Jordan Muthra, King Willonius, Team Anima Studios, Frankie Caradonna, Elena Dimopoulou, Roni Beraha, Utku Atalay, Ankit Aurora, Adrianna Cohen, Scott Bryant, Ian Messina, Aaron Randall, Alex G, Angie Jones, Arijiit Das, Artur Arepyev, Asad Ahmed, Baris Cihan Pesmen, Carmelo M, Chaitanya K, Christopher Jorna, Christian Venables, Darien Davis, Darion D'Anjou, David Monguet, David Tveraas, Frank Bazuaye, Iris Magdalene Schmidt, Jonathan Masterson, Kursad Karatas, Maria Guerberof, Marilina Garcia Alchurut, Mike Jones, Madhushree Purohit, Nancy Joann Atanassov, Nina Sabina Caballero, Pierre Rinaldi-Doligez, Ralph Tompkins, Roos Van der Jagt, Tapan Aslot, Utku Atalay, Victory Igboanu, Vinod Padmanabhan Vijay Kumar, Mahmoud Wagdy, Yigit Karabag, and Tiago Martinez.