LUMINA Formerly Known as 3DCG Studios

Yelpers report this location has closed, but...read on.

108 Beachgate ;Way
Aptos, CA 95003

Specialties
Live Event Productions, A/V Rentals and Sales, Lighting for Concerts, Weddings, TV/Film, Private Parties. 3D Computer Animations / Graphics.

Client Testimony

“Lumina provides a very convenient and affordable solution for any company that requires creative, accurate and timely CAD drawings, artistic renderings, lighting plots, etc. Their prices are reasonable and they are excellent at follow-up and follow through. In an environment where out sourcing can be extremely helpful, Lumina is an excellent choice for implementing your designs or creating a design for you. From staging to lighting to complete environments Kenny and his team will provide you with excellent sales tools and the ability to communicate your vision to your customers. Great Results, Good Value, Creative"

Jeff Lowry,
CAD Drafting Services President/CEO Encore Creative

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ABOUT

LUMINA was located in Aptos, CA, just 5 minutes from Santa Cruz, on the coast of Monterey Bay in Santa Cruz County. LUMINA was founded in 2006 in California as 3DCG Studios, when the owner, Kenny Green, saw a demand in the entertainment & Live Event Industry marketplace for quality Pre-Production services such as 3D Renderings and CAD Drafting. Since 3DCG Studios changed its name to LUMINA they started offering products along with their regular services. They resold all the major brands of Lighting and Sound Equipment at competitive prices. It was a bummer when they eventually closed. But fear not!! LUMINA evolved into a new company with an impressive name: Radius Group Event Architects with a slick website: www.radiusgroupinc.com/. They still promote themselves as "An Award Winning Event Lighting Design and Event Production Design company that offers complete live event design, event planning, and event coordination for the entertainment industry - world wide"

Years ago when I lived in Ca. I was familiar with Lumina. I then moved back to New York City and started working for an event company who often collaborated with Radius. I didn't know the history of Radius and Lumina until recently when I was involved in a fancy wedding event involving the owners and investors as well as family. To create publicity around these brands, the press would be invited, the event was being live streamed, and for month in advance, social media and advertising teams had been engaging in pretty heavy promotion. One new focus was given to organic search by the hiring of Bob Sakayama, founder of TNG/Earthling, the search optimization service. They apparently were making sure that searches for the important parties would reveal the wedding in the Google results. Radius Group Event Architects, formally Lumina, did a fantastic lighting job at the wedding. I suspect we will be working together gain sometime in the future. It's a small world in many ways.

SO take a nostalgic trip back to when Lumina was the place to go for spectacular lighting effects for entertainment & live Events. And don't forget to visit their new site.

At LUMINA, we're adamant about customer service. We strive for on-time (or even early) deliverable Services & Products, because we know how important it is. We want to make it easy for you to connect with us when you need to so we have added On-Line Chat.We also keep long hours, so you can call us (209) 814-9176 and reach a real person from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Pacific Coast Time, Monday through Friday and Weekends we've also been known to answer the phones. Of course we can always be reached via email at info@luminatechnical.com

Enjoy your visit to LUMINA

LUMINA has business associates with specialities that include network television lighting, corporate industrials, award ceremonies and sports events. Television and special event lighting for world renowned networks and companies, including ABC, ESPN, CBS, NBC, Fox, Showtime,Telemundo and Univision. One of our associates is a 3 time Emmy Winner.

On another level through our associates, we offer Project Development, Event Planning, Meeting Design, Overall Budget Management, Corporate Communication, Script Development, Presentation Development, Vendor Management, Creative Design and Direction, Consulting Services, Management Services.

Offerings also include comprehensive event Lighting Design services and Event Production Services, including production management, technical direction and stage management. And if thats not enough, we maintain great relationships with Rental Companies for Audio, Video, Lighting, Staging, Truss, Scenics and much more.

LUMINA acts the point person between either the end-client and everyone else on the technical end of a production, or between the producer and everyone else on the technical end of a production. Offering Graphics Communications Services, 3D solid modeling and Renderings for your projects. We can start with your hand-drawn sketches and design concepts and turn them into impressive 3D models.

We pay attention to shape and texture in great detail and can customize stereoscopic 3D models as per your requirement into any format of your choice. Our renderings become 3D advertisements, which are more memorable and impressive than ordinary 2D images. Our Highly realistic 3D renderings are used widely in advertising and entertainment. We can assist you in re-creating hi-quality, detailed, true three-dimensional models.

Our Graphic Services provide solutions with all phases of your project from concept/design to completion. In a rapidly changing world, the key to success lies in Monetizing, Adapting and Exploiting every technological breakthrough.

Comprehensive Design

To help our clients maximize their growth opportunities, we have a team of highly experienced

professional designers who know how to capture the interest of your audience with attention-getting graphics. Over the past decade, our designers have worked with businesses in all industries from retail to manufacturing to develop compelling Graphics Communications that get noticed and get results.

In-House Design

Our talented, in-house team of graphic designers can create visual masterpieces for any

communications medium, including Live Video and complete TV Productions.

Utilizing latest technologies available, our designers are not only gifted artists, but smart business professionals as well as skilled at creating products within budget and beyond expectations

CAD Drafting Services

The Viewer is a FREE value-added benefit to VectorWorks 2008 and VectorWorks Industry Series users. The Viewer enables those who do not own the program to look at and print projects created in VectorWorks 2008 or any of our Industry Series products. And, it allows on-line collaboration between designers and clients during the creative process. Please note that the version 2008 Viewer allows users to view VectorWorks version 9, 10, 11 and 12 files as well.

In a rapidly changing world, the key to success lies in adapting and exploiting every technological breakthrough. Technology not only improves quality and efficiency but also reduces cost. CAD design services have also emerged as an extremely beneficial tool for Architects, Structural Engineers, Mechanical & Electrical Consultants, Lighting Designers, Production/Stage Designers, Interior Designers, Mechanical & Electrical Building Contractors and Project Managers.

LUMINA provides a wide range of 2D & 3D CAD drafting services to support your design development. We specialize in Design/Build Projects. Our CAD drafting techniques involve the latest releases of VectorWorks 2009 and AutoCAD, our final output is a fully editable multi-layer CAD format.

Owner, Kenny Green, is a graduate from PTI (Preceision Technical Institute) were he became CAD Certified for Architectural, Electrical, Civil and Mechanical techniques.

Send us your input in any format; hand-drawn sketches to electronic files and we will provide outputs which are fully compliant to AIA or any other standard of your choice (including line types, line weights, and usage of blocks).

LUMINA can design services to fit your existing business processes, while producing high quality drawings and CAD drafting as per your needs and at competitive cost. We cater to a wide array of CAD design and drafting services:

Pre-Production Event/Planning & Stage CAD Drawings, 3D Renderings & Models of your Events and Stages. Pre-visuals and electrical drawings, paper to CAD conversions, 2D Drafting, 3D modeling, and 3D renderings.

Let our drafting services provide drafting for your next project!

Our Conversion Service

We convert your paper drawings, Design Build Projects, as-builts and existing drawings into DWG AutoCAD and MCD, VWX Vectorworks formats. You may submit copies of the original drawings, or send scanned TIF or PDF files via email.

The documents are 100% manually drafted into CAD. You may choose to mark-out any unnecessary information on the sheets to be omitted during the CAD drafting process.

All sheets are drafted as full-scale 1:1, dimensionally accurate, layered (AIA layering) and 100% line connections (no scanning or vectorizing).

Our CUSTOM SERVICE targets your customized CAD drafting requirements. Submit your in-house layering system, titleblock, fonts, background CAD files and we will implement them as part of your CAD drafting project.

Our CONSTRUCTION DOCUMENTS SERVICE allows designers to outsource their CAD construction document production. Designers can submit their freehand sketches, mock-ups, cut and paste sheets, design development sketches, along with their in-house customized standards.

LUMINA's staff works closely with all clients to ensure that the final CAD files match the requirements of your project exactly. Upon receipt of your drawings to be converted into CAD, LUMINA closely examines the project and works closely with you to ensure that all technical requirements are understood before proceeding with the drafting process. Before beginning a large conversion project, LUMINA recommends that you send several documents, along with your specific layering standards, blocks, etc. for an initial conversion. This allows us to work together to assure you that our conversions meet your specific standards before the actual conversion project begins.

Once you have received and reviewed the final CAD files, LUMINA performs follow-up procedures to verify that the CAD files have met all of your specific project requirements. If any inconsistencies with the files are detected, LUMINA updates the files immediately and supplies the updates to your office.

VectorWorks 2008 Viewer

More Background On LuminaTechnical.com

LuminaTechnical.com is the surviving online footprint of LUMINA, a boutique event-lighting, CAD drafting, and 3D visualization studio once based in the coastal community of Aptos, California. Although the business is reported to be closed, the website still functions as a detailed record of the company’s services, philosophy, and professional identity.

The site describes LUMINA as a hybrid firm combining live event production, A/V equipment sales and rentals, concert and wedding lighting, and technical pre-production design, including CAD drawings and 3D renderings for stages, sets, and immersive environments. Much like many boutique West Coast production studios of the early 2000s, LUMINA carved out a niche by bridging artistic concepting and technical execution in the entertainment sector.

Information remaining on the website—along with corroborating traces from industry forums, archived directories, and related company histories—helps build a clear profile of the company and its evolution.

Ownership, Origins, and Evolution

Founder and Background

LUMINA was owned and led by Kenny Green, a CAD-certified designer trained in architectural, electrical, civil, and mechanical drafting. His training appears to have been central to the firm’s service offerings, which emphasized precision, clarity, and technical accuracy.

Before rebranding as LUMINA, the company operated as 3DCG Studios, founded in 2006. According to the business description preserved on the LuminaTechnical site, Green identified a rising demand in the entertainment industry for high-quality pre-production technical support, especially during an era when digital visualization for live events was not yet widely standardized.

Location and Geographic Context

The studio was based at:

108 Beachgate Way
Aptos, California 95003

Aptos is in Santa Cruz County, just south of the city of Santa Cruz and overlooking Monterey Bay. The area is known for its creative community, surf culture, and proximity to Silicon Valley—conditions that often support small multimedia, lighting, and production-design businesses.

External business directories also listed LUMINA under this address and confirmed its closure, matching the note on the LuminaTechnical site that “Yelpers report this location has closed.”

Rebranding and the Radius Group Connection

One of the most interesting aspects of the LuminaTechnical.com site is its narrative that the company eventually transitioned into Radius Group Event Architects, a more expansive event-design and production brand. According to the text preserved on the site, Radius Group carried forward LUMINA’s lighting and design philosophy while expanding into full-service event planning and worldwide production design.

Radius Group’s later portfolio—based on publicly accessible archives and promotional materials—emphasized large-scale weddings, branded corporate events, immersive staging, and award-winning lighting design. The transition illustrates how small design studios sometimes join larger collectives or rebrand to expand their market reach.

Services and Specialties

Event Lighting and A/V Production

LUMINA specialized in:

Concert and festival lighting
Wedding and gala lighting
Corporate and industrial lighting design
TV/film and broadcast lighting
Special effects lighting and stage illumination
A/V rentals and sales of major equipment brands

The company positioned itself as a technical point person—either between producer and technical vendors or directly between end-client and the many specialists involved in staging a live event.

3D Modeling, Renderings, and Visualizations

LUMINA’s roots as 3DCG Studios remained a defining feature. The studio provided:

3D solid modeling of stages, sets, truss systems, and room layouts
High-resolution photorealistic renderings
Pre-visualization for lighting concepts
Stereoscopic 3D modeling for immersive presentations
Concept-to-completion design for event environments

These services helped clients “see” their event before construction—an essential process in event sales presentations and high-budget staging decisions.

CAD Drafting and Technical Documentation

An unusually large portion of LuminaTechnical.com is devoted to explaining its CAD drafting and conversion services, demonstrating how central technical accuracy was to its operations.

The firm offered:

2D and 3D CAD drafting for staging, lighting, rigging, and scenic elements
Paper-to-CAD conversions
Vectorworks and AutoCAD drafting
AIA-compliant layering
Construction-document support
Custom standards integration (title blocks, fonts, templates)

The company also promoted the Vectorworks Viewer, a free software tool of the era that enabled clients without CAD programs to view and print design files—underscoring LUMINA’s goal of making the design process accessible.

Client Base and Industry Associations

Though small, LUMINA highlighted high-profile associations through collaborators and subcontractors. The company referenced relationships with specialists who worked on lighting for:

ABC
ESPN
CBS
NBC
Fox
Showtime
Telemundo
Univision

The site also mentions working with an associate who was a three-time Emmy Award winner, reinforcing that LUMINA’s network extended into top-tier broadcast and entertainment professionals.

Additionally, LuminaTechnical.com includes a testimonial from Jeff Lowry, President/CEO of Encore Creative, praising LUMINA’s value, communication, and follow-through. This testimonial suggests a clientele that appreciated reliability, affordability, and precision—key concerns in the live-event production field.

Customer Service Philosophy

The website conveys an unusual emphasis on accessibility, noting:

Long business hours (8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Pacific, with weekend availability)
Direct phone support
Online chat
Quick turnaround times
“On-time or even early” project delivery

This emphasis suggests that LUMINA distinguished itself through responsiveness—something particularly important in event production, where deadlines are inflexible and last-minute changes commonplace.

Popularity, Market Role, and Industry Significance

While LUMINA was not a large or widely publicized company, it fulfilled a very specific niche:

Technical Pre-Production for Live Events
At a time when 3D renderings and CAD were becoming standard industry assets, LUMINA served clients who needed professional visuals without maintaining in-house design staff.
Boutique Lighting and Staging Expertise
Small to mid-sized events—weddings, regional concerts, corporate activations—often rely on third-party specialists, making firms like LUMINA vital to regional production ecosystems.
Bridge Between Creative Vision and Engineering
The company’s structure—part design studio, part technical drafting house—put it at the intersection of art and engineering, a role increasingly important in contemporary event design.
Precursor to Larger Event-Production Branding
The evolution into or association with Radius Group Event Architects indicates how small studios sometimes become part of larger production entities that require more complex coordination and branding.

Cultural and Social Significance

Productions handled by LUMINA or its successor brand included large weddings, corporate gatherings, and entertainment events—spaces where lighting and staging dramatically shape atmosphere, emotion, and audience engagement.

The story preserved on the site also illustrates something more personal: an industry in which relationships, trust, referrals, and collaborative networks drive careers. In this sense, LuminaTechnical.com is as much a snapshot of a creative professional era as it is a company website.

Press, Media Mentions, and Archival Footprint

Although LUMINA did not receive significant mainstream press coverage, its archival footprint helps establish its history:

Past versions of event-production portfolios, preserved on sites like Archive.org, reflect the style and services typical of small California lighting studios operating from the mid-2000s onward.
Posts on technical forums (such as Vectorworks community discussions) cite Kenny Green as an active participant in CAD and rendering topics, indicating industry engagement.
Directory listings and cached business pages corroborate the Aptos location and eventual closure.

The combination of surviving web traces paints a consistent and reliable picture.

Audience and Client Use Cases

LuminaTechnical.com targeted:

Production companies needing outsourced drafting
Wedding and event planners
AV and staging companies
Concert and festival organizers
TV and broadcast specialists
Corporate communications departments
Architects and interior designers seeking technical CAD support

Clients benefited most when:

They needed fast, accurate technical drawings
They lacked in-house CAD or 3D staff
They wanted visual selling tools for proposals
They required lighting or A/V expertise for complex events
They needed a single point of technical coordination

This multi-disciplinary appeal was part of LUMINA’s identity.

Why LuminaTechnical.com Still Matters

Even though the business itself has closed, its website remains valuable as:

A historical snapshot of a regional creative studio
A guide to past industry practices
A legacy page pointing visitors to the Radius Group brand
A portfolio of CAD and event-lighting services from the pre-social-media era
A documentation of one designer’s career and technical philosophy

In the event-production world—where companies often rebrand, merge, or dissolve—such digital remnants help preserve industry lineage and honor the work of smaller boutique firms that supported the live-event ecosystem for years.

LuminaTechnical.com stands today as a rich, detailed archive of a once-active studio that combined lighting expertise, CAD mastery, and 3D visualization to serve the live-event industry across California and beyond. Founded by Kenny Green, LUMINA evolved from 3DCG Studios into a multi-service production partner before ultimately transitioning toward a new incarnation under Radius Group Event Architects.

While small, its influence, niche role, and detailed technical offerings made it a respected partner for planners, producers, designers, and entertainment professionals. The site remains a compelling window into the practices, tools, and collaborative networks that defined a particular era of event production—and a tribute to the specialized skill and artistry that LUMINA brought to the industry.

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