Riva Group
Riva Group is a diversified design and development group, delivering excellence in
creative development, animation, visual effects and master planning worldwide. Riva maintains offices in Europe, USA, the Middle East and Far East Asia. RIVA GROUP holds an industry advantage in our ability to take a project from concept to opening day in-house, on budget and on time. Our complementary teams include
Riva Arch
Riva Architecture is established in Dubai with around 100 staff in our offices in Studio City and a spread of projects and clients to match. This means that we have experience and expertise to apply to the broadest range of design challenges .
As the practice continues to evolve, we have developed extra skills in order to value add to the services we provide. We offer:
Architecture:
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As well as providing an additional service for clients, these complementary disciplines are a valuable resource for our teams, improving the quality of our architecture and our local knowledge base.
Our experienced staff works collaboratively with clients, consultants and construction teams at every stage of design and construction process. The team has the knowledge to design projects based on the local regulations and International codes. They are also capable of handling the regulatory approval process from various governing authorities within the UAE to obtain the design building permit to enable commencement of construction.
As we continue to grow, we have been careful to maintain the culture of our practice.
We provide the accessibility and responsiveness of a small practice with the security and expertise of a large one. It means our clients will always know their whole project team and that we will be able to provide the specialist knowledge our clients need.
Riva Creative:
Riva Creative is a full service design group with an extraordinary pedigree in theme parks, branded experiences and location-based entertainment.
Our highly collaborative team of experts and dreamers consists of master planners, producers, creative directors, designers, artists, graphic designers, and ride and attraction technicians, along with a world-class lineup of project-based consultants and freelance vendors. Riva Creative’s professionals have countless years of experience developing projects and designing theme parks and attractions with such industry heavyweights as Disney, Universal, DreamWorks, Paramount, MGM, Warner Bros., Sony Pictures and Industrial Light and Magic.
Excelling in all aspects of design and production, Riva Creative is a comprehensive team of passionate artists and engineers who know how to get the job done right, on schedule and within budget.
We aspire to inspire. Our approach to any project is to get out of the box, shift the paradigms, and find the next new thing, all while holding true to the integrity of good storytelling, emotional connection and guest experience.
Riva Digital
Riva Digital was established in 2002, a dedicated cell conceived to capitalize on the opportunities offered not only by the emerging real estate development in the region but also the growing awareness and need for digital thinkers who could harness the potential of new media for clients. Our founders have extensive experience with Virtual gaming conceptualization and development. Our combined pool of talent and skill-sets places us in the unique position of being able to provide complete turnkey multi-media solutions to our clients. We have production facilities with full time employees/associates based primarily in Dubai, Germany, Los Angeles and San Francisco.
Riva Digital has amassed an enviable reputation as an extremely versatile and creative, Digital Effects production company engaged in the development, production and distribution of world class 3D, 2D animation and visual effects.
Our team comprises individuals who have spanned the globe working on celebrated assignments including blockbuster films and mega real estate development projects earning some of the most prestigious creative awards along the way. Together with our best of breed partners we have evolved the face of prestigious international brands , companies and several mega developments.
What we offer:
3D Animation and FX
Character Animation
3D Stereoscopic Animation
Renderings and Matte Paintings
Trailer and Feature Title Design and Production
Pre visualization and Animatics
Concept Design, Art Direction and Matte Painting
On Set Visual effects Supervision
Rotoscoping, Wire Removal and Compositing
Network, Station Packages and On-Air Graphics
Commercial Effects and Motion Graphics
2D Animation
As a highly established player in the Digital Effects Production domain working for blockbuster films, Animation and mega real estate development projects, it has already built one of the largest visualization portfolios in the world.
Riva Games:
Riva Games has been established to create and produce games for PC and Mobile Application platforms, of which a number are currently under development on Mobile Application platforms.
The core business of Riva Games is to produce world class gaming for PC and mobile application platforms to compete with the best in the international arena. Digital and Interactive Game Development: Riva Games will be engaged in designing, developing and creating any interactive and digital games software, controllers etc.
Mobile Media: Riva Games specializing in interactive media services on mobile phones/PDAs and tablets such as advertising, entertainment, application development, animated content development [wallpapers, screensavers, ring tones etc.], and distributing content through handheld devices such as mobile phones, tablets, PDAs etc.)
Riva Comics:
RIVA COMICS
Riva Comics creates qualitative genre-oriented comic books and graphic novels for a broad, international audience, fusing the kinetic story-telling traits of the American comic with the polish of its European counterpart.
Comics and graphic novels are, from a creative standpoint, among the most exciting and dynamic fields within the media landscape of today. It’s a quick and relatively affordable medium, directly mirroring and influencing the zeitgeist, generating adaptations for games, movies and TV. It’s also a medium that allows for experiments in storytelling on a manageable scale.
The portfolio of Riva Comics is genre-oriented (encompassing crime fiction, sci-fi, horror, fantasy and adventure) and mixture of adaptations of established IPs and original content.
The creative aim in three words: bold, captivating and cool.
RIVA ANIMATION
Riva Animation is the only 2D animation studio in the UAE. Doing advertisements, music videos and anime-inspired action as well as European-flavored comedy, mainly for the Indian market.
At present Riva Animation is producing pilots for two animated TV series.
Previously Riva Animation has created trailers and openings sequences for the Bollywood movie Fukrey and on-line ads for Flickbay among other things.