Disciplines

Bushfires, house fires, explosions, ember storms and burning environments. Built from a 30TB live-action element library with Houdini and EmberGen simulation. From the Black Summer fires of the ABC's Fires to the virtual pyrotechnics of Heartbreak High S2.

Character animation, digital doubles and procedural effects. WWII aircraft, CG sharks, a Blue Wren, a Holden Kingswood in space, and hair that spells words. Built in Houdini, Maya and Substance from production scans, reference photography and on-set data.

Fully CG animals, digital doubles and hybrid creature builds. Photorealistic sharks, a Splendid Fairy-wren, a CG cow, and things that used to be human. From Dangerous Animals to Boy Swallows Universe, In Vitro and Dark Harvest.

Set extension, digital matte painting, period environment builds and world completion. The broadest discipline in the studio. From the MGM back lot of Elvis to the castle interiors of Watchmen, the prehistoric environments of La Brea, and the burnt aftermath of Fires.

Houdini FX across destruction, fluid dynamics, cloth, hair, rigid body and pyro simulation. Snowstorms, water tanks, crashing vehicles, shattering glass, tearing wallpaper and vapour text that spells words in smoke.

CG vehicles built for destruction, reflection and movement that can't be staged safely. Fire trucks, WWII aircraft, naval vessels, period tour buses and crashing Camrys. Modelled from reference, surfaced in Substance, animated to match or invent the on-set performance.

LED volume content, plate photography, multiplate stitching and real-time environment pipelines for on-set capture. From Penrhyn Castle scanned for HBO's Watchmen to the 16K You Yangs plates for The Whistleblower and the 1949 Los Angeles streets of Why Women Kill S2.

Chrome balls, Lidar scanning, tracking markers, previz and technical planning. The work that happens before a single shot is composited. From the dream sequences of Boy Swallows Universe to the bushfire locations of Fires, NCIS: Sydney and Heartbreak High S2.