VFX Competitors Flashcards

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ALT VFX

  1. Location(s)
  2. Staff
  3. Services
    3a. Focus & Clients
  4. Flame Artists?
  5. Edit / Colour?
  6. Growth over 2 years
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ALT VFX

  1. Location(s) - Brisbane (oroginal Location), Sydney, Melbourne, Los Angeles and Tokyo.
  2. Staff - 50 Website, 60 LinkedIn
  3. Services - Visual Effects, Animation, Editing, Color Grading, Design, Creature Design, Virtual Reality, Motion Capture, Augmented Reality
    3a. Focus & Clients - Mix of TVC, Film and TV Series
  4. Flame Artists? 3 +1 former, (3 are VFX supervisors)
  5. Edit / Colour? 8 Editor “Partners”, 10 Colourist “Partners
  6. Growth over 2, 1, 0.5 years? 25%, 0%, 1%
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Blackbird VFX

  1. Location(s)
  2. Staff
  3. Services & Focus

3a - Clients

  1. Flame Artists?
  2. Edit / Colour?
  3. Growth over 2 years
  4. Notes
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Blackbird VFX

  1. Location(s) - Surry Hills
  2. Staff - 16 LinkedIN, ? from website,
  3. Services - VFX, Colour (external colourists) for Film, TV, TVC, Music Video, VFX, ONLINE, GRADE, EDIT

Focus - Primarily TVC Work

  1. Flame Artists? 1 +1 Junior
  2. Edit / Colour? Offer as service with external colourists
  3. Growth over 2 years - 60% LinkedIn Headcount
  4. Notes - They look like a good company to watch and to try and emulate, good quality work, mix of live action and CG
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Blockhead Studios

  1. Location(s)
  2. Staff -
  3. Services
  4. Flame Artists?
  5. Edit / Colour?
  6. Growth over 2 years
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Blockhead Studios

  1. Location(s) - Auckland New Zealand
  2. Staff - 25
  3. Services - Post Production, Visual Effects, Vfx, 3D, Tv, Film, Commercials, Design, AR, Augmented Reality
  4. Flame Artists? 2 inhouse, 1 freelance in Berlin
  5. Edit / Colour? No inhouse Editors but have suites they can use as rental. Colourists are repped by Blockhead they have 12 on the website.
  6. Growth over 2 years = 4%, 1yr = 4%, 6mnths = -7%
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Cause and FX

  1. Location(s) - Auckland New Zealand
  2. Staff - 40 LinkedIn, 25 Photo From Website
  3. Services -

2D/3D COMPOSITING

2D/3D FX

DIGITAL SET EXTENSION

HARD SURFACE & ENVIRONMENTAL CG

DIGITAL MATTE PAINTING,

ON SET SUPERVISION

  1. Flame Artists? None
  2. Edit / Colour? 1 editor/ colourist but junior, no other mention of editong or colour
  3. Growth over 2 years
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Cause and FX

  1. Location(s) - Auckland New Zealand
  2. Staff - 40 LinkedIn, 25 Photo From Website
  3. Services -

2D/3D COMPOSITING

2D/3D FX

DIGITAL SET EXTENSION

HARD SURFACE & ENVIRONMENTAL CG

DIGITAL MATTE PAINTING,

ON SET SUPERVISION

  1. Flame Artists? None
  2. Edit / Colour? 1 editor/ colourist but junior, no other mention of editong or colour
  3. Growth over 2 years: 263%, 1 years = 73%, 6 months 17%
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Cutting Edge

  1. Location(s)
  2. Staff
  3. Services & Focus

3a - Clients

  1. Flame Artists?
  2. Edit / Colour?
  3. Growth over 2 years, 1 year, 6 months
  4. Notes
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Cutting Edge

  1. Location(s) - Brisbane, Sydney, the Gold Coast & Tokyo.
  2. Staff - 350
  3. Services & Focus - Reality Television Technical Services, Digital, Design, Animation, Sound & Picture Post-Production, VFX, and Branded Communications

3a - Clients - advertising and film and television industries.

  1. Flame Artists? 3 current or past
  2. Edit / Colour? 5 editors on website,

Sydney Studio has below, Brisbane has similar

15 Offline Edit Suites

3 Online Edit Suites

2 Grading Suites

2 Sound Suites

1 Cinema (7.1 Dolby Digital Enabled)

  1. Growth over 2 years, 1 year, 6 months - 4%, 2%, 0%
  2. Notes - There is also Cutting Edge FEatures & Television as a seprate company based in Sydney with 17 people
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FIN Design + Effects

  1. Location(s) -
  2. Staff
  3. Services
  4. Flame Artists?
  5. Edit / Colour?
  6. Growth over 2 years, 1 year, 6 months
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FIN Design + Effects

  1. Location(s) - Surry Hills, Sydney, Melbourne, Shanghai, Singapore and Los Angeles.
  2. Staff - 139 LinkedIn,
  3. Services - 2D & 3D Animation, Compositing, Grading, Design, Shoot Supervision, Photoreal Rendering, Matte Painting, Conceptualisation, VFX, Features, Film, TV Series
  4. Flame Artists? 2
  5. Edit / Colour? based on linkedIn no titles as editor or colourist
  6. Growth over 2 years - 80%, 17%, 2%
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Heckler HQ

  1. Location(s) -
  2. Staff -
  3. Services
  4. Flame Artists?
  5. Edit / Colour?
  6. Growth over 2 years
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Heckler HQ

  1. Location(s) - Surry Hills Sydney, Singapore
  2. Staff - 47 LinkedIn
  3. Services - Branded Content,

Animation, TVC VFX, 3D Effects, Branded Content, Film Production, Visual Effects, Broadcast Design, Film Titles, Post Production, Digital Creative Production, Online, Mobile, Live Action Production, Creative Direction, Design

  1. Flame Artists? 2, 1 in UAE Flame Artist
  2. Edit / Colour? 3 Editors, 1 assist, no colourists
  3. Growth over 2 years - 38%
  4. Notes - Also have heckler Sound
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Little Zoo Studio

  1. Location(s) -
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  3. Services
  4. Flame Artists?
  5. Edit / Colour?
  6. Growth over 2 years
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Little Zoo Studio

  1. Location(s) - ??? Assuming US
  2. Staff - 33 (one freelancer in queensland)
  3. Services - Concept Design, Character design, Animation

Clients, Games, Film, TVC

  1. Flame Artists? None
  2. Edit / Colour? None
  3. Growth over 2 years? 50%
  4. Notes: have a global team, people in poland, spain, australia, canada, Uk, Brazil, Germany
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New Holland Creative

  1. Location(s)
  2. Staff
  3. Services & Focus

3a - Clients

  1. Flame Artists?
  2. Edit / Colour?
  3. Growth over 2 years, 1 year, 6 months
  4. Notes
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New Holland Creative

  1. Location(s) - Darlinghurst
  2. Staff - 8
  3. Services & Focus - graphic design and branding, concept development, animation and project supervision,

Concept Development

Creative Direction

2D & 3D Animation

Graphic Design

  • *Identity & Branding**
  • *Broadcast Design**
  • *Motion Graphics**
  • *Titles for TV & Film**
  • *Experiential Design**
  • *Storyboards & Previs**
  • *UX Design**

3a - Clients - advertising, broadcast branding and feature film.

  1. Flame Artists? - none
  2. Edit / Colour? none
  3. Growth over 2 years, 1 year, 6 months - 60%, -20%, 0%
  4. Notes - They also have a cmapign with Print Visuals for Elantra that went with it, Director - Collidor

Have another job with the flame compositing mention and post production by ALT VFX

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Method Studios (iloura merged with them)

  1. Location(s)
  2. Staff
  3. Services & Focus

3a - Clients,

  1. Flame Artists?
  2. Edit / Colour?
  3. Growth over 2 years, 1 year, 6 months
  4. Notes
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Method Studios (iloura merged with them)

  1. Location(s) - Los Angeles New York, San Francisco, Atlanta, Vancouver, Montreal Melbourne and Pune
  2. Staff - 747 inkedIn, 55 Australia Based (LinkedIn)
  3. Services & Focus - visual effects, animation, cgi, compositing, feature films, finishing, on-set supervision, concept art, titles, motion graphics, matte painting

3a - Clients, high-end feature film, commercial, television, games and motion graphics clients in the global marketplace.

  1. Flame Artists? 19! all in the US
  2. Edit / Colour? 2 Editor both in Oz,
  3. Growth over 2 years, 1 year, 6 months. -40%, -44%, -34%
  4. Notes - there is a alert saying employees are moving to Ghost VFX
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Mighty Nice

  1. Location(s) -
  2. Staff -
  3. Services
  4. Flame Artists?
  5. Edit / Colour?
  6. Growth over 2 years
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Mighty Nice

  1. Location(s) - Sydney
  2. Staff - 16
  3. Services -
  4. Flame Artists?
  5. Edit / Colour?
  6. Growth over 2 years
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Plastic Wax

  1. Location(s)
  2. Staff
  3. Services & Focus

3a - Clients,

  1. Flame Artists?
  2. Edit / Colour?
  3. Growth over 2 years, 1 year, 6 months
  4. Notes
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Plastic Wax

  1. Location(s) - Rhodes Sydney
  2. Staff - 92 LinkedIN
  3. Services & Focus - Visual Effects, Animation, Creative, Game Trailers, In engine, Cutscenes, Pre rendered, Games Animation, VFX, VR

3a - Clients, animated series and features, cinematic game trailers and virtual reality productions.

  1. Flame Artists? None.
  2. Edit / Colour? 2 editors, No Colourist
  3. Growth over 2 years, 1 year, 6 months
  4. Notes - Create 2 Animated Series in Unreal Engine, apparently only a few companies are capable of this. They may use 3Ds MAX the CD and founder teachers it.
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ResolutionDesign

  1. Location(s)
  2. Staff
  3. Services & Focus

3a - Clients

  1. Flame Artists?
  2. Edit / Colour?
  3. Growth over 2 years, 1 year, 6 months
  4. Notes
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ResolutionDesign

  1. Location(s) - Surry Hills
  2. Staff - 6
  3. Services & Focus - Post, VFX & CGI, motion graphics and animation, social content, multimedia projects, event projections, activations, AR/ VR, and immersive environments.

3a - Clients - advertising

  1. Flame Artists? none
  2. Edit / Colour? 1
  3. Growth over 2 years, 1 year, 6 months , -14%, +20%, -0%
  4. Notes
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Rotor Studios

  1. Location(s)
  2. Staff
  3. Services & Focus

3a - Clients

  1. Flame Artists?
  2. Edit / Colour?
  3. Growth over 2 years, 1 year, 6 months
  4. Notes
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Rotor Studios

  1. Location(s) - North Sydney
  2. Staff - 74 LinkedIn
  3. Services & Focus - Visual Effects, Animation, CGI, Post-Production, Automotive, Software Development, Virtual Reality, 3D Rendering, Content Creation, Product Configurators, Mixed Reality, Augmented Reality

3a - Clients - Advertsing

  1. Flame Artists? No
  2. Edit / Colour? No titles like that, lots of Technical artists
  3. Growth over 2 years, 1 year, 6 months. -10%, +2%, 0%
  4. Notes -
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Resin

  1. Location(s)
  2. Staff
  3. Services & Focus

3a - Clients,

  1. Flame Artists?
  2. Edit / Colour?
  3. Growth over 2 years, 1 year, 6 months
  4. Notes
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Resin

  1. Location(s) - Adelaide, Bisbane, Melbourne
  2. Staff - 39 LinkedIn
  3. Services & Focus - a visual effects studio with a specialty in long form series and feature film visual effects

3a - Clients film, TV series and advertising

  1. Flame Artists? none
  2. Edit / Colour? none
  3. Growth over 2 years, 1 year, 6 months. 8%, 11%, 11%
  4. Notes - at least 15-20 of the name sof people on LinkedIn seem to have nothing to do with the company other than it says resin, ie they are in india and iran, there are only 8 people when listed in Australia, unless they are using outsource work.

Did awesome Romper Stomber CG opening sequence

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Rising Sun Pictures

  1. Location(s)
  2. Staff
  3. Services & Focus

3a - Clients,

  1. Flame Artists?
  2. Edit / Colour?
  3. Growth over 2 years, 1 year, 6 months
  4. Notes
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Rising Sun Pictures

  1. Location(s) - Adelaide
  2. Staff - 430 (LinkedIn), 200 Adelaide office (website), 270 when limited to australia, Smaller office in Brisbane
  3. Services & Focus Visual effects for film, including pre-visualisation, concept design, on-set supervision, visual effects design, character animation, digital environments, digital compositing and matte painting.

3a - Clients, Film,

  1. Flame Artists? Looks like none
  2. Edit / Colour? 2 editors, Colourists look like none
  3. Growth over 2 years, 1 year, 6 months, +33%, +21%, +7%
  4. Notes
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Slate VFX

  1. Location(s)
  2. Staff -
  3. Services
  4. Flame Artists?
  5. Edit / Colour?
  6. Growth over 2 years
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Slate VFX

  1. Location(s) - FOX Studios, Sydney
  2. Staff - 14 LinkedIn, 17 Website
  3. Services - Creature Design & Animation / 3D FX / 3D Augmentation / 2D Nuke Compositing / 2D Design and FX Animation / DMP & Set Extension / Pre Viz / Tech Viz / Post Viz.

Clients - visual effects and animation for feature films, television and streaming series in Australia and for the International Market

  1. Flame Artists? - none, more CG generalists and compositors
  2. Edit / Colour? No one inhouse, no mention of colour or edit on their website
  3. Growth over 2 years = -30%, 1 year = 40%, 6 months 40%
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