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Who to Ask.

Contact
Lindsay Adams
Founder & Head of Studio
Email
it@future-associate.com
Response time
Same business day, Sydney hours (AEST/AEDT, UTC+10/+11)
Studio address 39–43 Shepherd Street
Marrickville NSW 2204
Australia Also on IMDb · LinkedIn · Vimeo

Interviews with Lindsay Adams and with supervising artists can be arranged, in person in Marrickville or remotely. Facility visits are possible but need notice: the building runs under content security controls and productions in progress cannot be filmed or photographed.

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Description.

Future Associate is a visual effects studio in Marrickville, Sydney, founded in 2018 by Lindsay Adams. The studio has capacity for more than 50 artists in a 750-square-metre facility it owns, and holds a TPN Gold Shield content security assessment. Recent feature and television credits include Mortal Kombat II, The Bluff, Boy Swallows Universe and NCIS: Sydney.

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The Details.

Founded
2018
Founder
Lindsay Adams, Founder & Head of Studio
Legal entity
Future Associate Pty Ltd · ABN 15 626 575 371
Ownership
Privately held and owner-operated. No parent company, no external shareholders
Location
39–43 Shepherd Street, Marrickville NSW 2204, Australia
Premises
750 sqm, owned by the studio rather than leased. A former smash repairs workshop, rebuilt for VFX production
Capacity
50+ artists on site
Staff
Averages around 20, against a facility capacity of more than 50
Disciplines
Animation · Creature VFX · Environments and set extension · Fire and pyro · FX simulation · Vehicles · Virtual production · On-set VFX supervision
Certification
TPN (Trusted Partner Network) Gold Shield, the MPA-backed content security assessment. Most recently assessed 2025
Power
Three-phase supply, solar generation and 4× Tesla Powerwall 3 battery storage on site
Pipeline
On-premises. Production assets are not sent offsite during a job
Incentives
Qualifying VFX work attracts the 30% Australian PDV offset plus the 10% NSW post, digital and visual effects rebate
Memberships
Ausfilm

The Trusted Partner Network published a profile of the studio's Gold Shield assessment in June 2026: Building Content Security in From Day One. Future Associate is the only independently owned VFX studio in Australia holding a Gold Shield; every other Australian facility with one sits inside a larger corporate group. The TPN member directory is not public, so to confirm it independently, ask TPN.

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Three Stories
Here.

An independent passing a standard built for corporates

TPN Gold is the content security assessment the major studios and streamers increasingly require of their vendors. It covers 200-plus controls across physical and cyber security, is independently audited, and has to be re-earned. Facilities that hold it in Australia are, with one exception, owned inside larger corporate groups.

The exception is a studio of this size in Marrickville. The story is what a small independent has to do — and spend — to sit on the same vendor lists as the multinationals, and what that says about who gets to bid on studio work in this country.

Everyone in one room, at a time the industry went the other way

Most VFX work is split across facilities and time zones. Future Associate delivered 500-plus shots on a single season of NCIS: Sydney, and 200-plus on Mortal Kombat II, with the artists in one building and no work sent out.

That is a testable claim and a real argument about how VFX is made: whether the distributed model actually delivers, and what a single-site studio can and cannot take on. Lindsay Adams worked at Weta Digital, ILM, MPC and Animal Logic before this, and will talk about the trade-offs on the record.

A render farm that runs on its own solar

Rendering is the energy cost nobody in screen production reports. This facility generates its own power and stores it in four Tesla Powerwall 3 units, running an on-premises GPU farm through Sydney's peak tariffs and through outages.

The whole system is in the one building and can be seen: panels, batteries and the render room. Lindsay Adams will walk through how it was specified and what it changes about running renders overnight.

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What We
Actually Did.

Title Year Studio / network / distributor Director / creator Future Associate's work
Mortal Kombat II 2026 Warner Bros.Studio Simon McQuoidDirector 200+ shots. Environments and set extension, FX simulation. Lindsay Adams supervising, Caroline Adams producing
The Mongoose 2026 Samuel Goldwyn FilmsStudio Mark VanselowDirector 250+ shots. CG vehicles, creature FX, environments
The Bluff 2026 Amazon MGMStudio Frank E. FlowersDirector 150+ shots. The cliff rebuilt in CG from LIDAR and matte painting, the burning of Bodden House, ships and digital doubles at sea
Tenzing 2026 Apple Original FilmsStudio Jennifer PeedomDirector Environments and set extension. Gala presentation, Toronto International Film Festival 2026
The Get Out 2026 VerticalDistributor Derrick BorteDirector Animation, environments and set extension, FX simulation, vehicle work. Shot in Queensland as Bear Country
Wilderness 2026 Future PicturesStudio Martin McKennaDirector 30+ shots. Creature animation, vehicle FX, environments. World premiere, Melbourne International Film Festival 2026
Mr. Irrelevant 2026 Paramount PicturesStudio Jeff FisherDirector Virtual production — in-camera work on an LED volume
Balls Up 2026 Amazon MGMStudio Peter FarrellyDirector Environments and set extension
NCIS: Sydney — Season 3 2025 CBSNetwork Morgan O'Neill & Michael MillerCreators 500+ shots across the season. Fire and pyro, animation, creature work, environments, FX simulation, vehicles
Dangerous Animals 2025 Amazon MGMStudio Sean ByrneDirector 80+ shots. Every CG shark fin above the water, kept to nature-documentary reference
Prisoner of War 2025 Well Go USADistributor Louis MandylorDirector 30+ shots. Animation, vehicles, environments and set extension
Apple Cider Vinegar 2025 NetflixNetwork Samantha StraussCreator 20+ shots. Animation, creature work, FX simulation
Boy Swallows Universe 2024 NetflixNetwork John ColleeWriter 350 shots across all seven episodes. Gus's vapour writing built in Houdini, the flying Kingswood dream sequences, a fully CG blue wren
Nautilus — Season 1 2024 AMCNetwork James DormerCreator 200+ shots. A fire sequence and ten distinct ocean looks across the season
Heartbreak High — Season 2 2024 NetflixNetwork Hannah Carroll ChapmanCreator 100+ shots. Photoreal fire and CG smoke, including the burning of Hartley High and the flaming graffiti on the oval
Monkey Man 2024 Universal PicturesStudio Dev PatelDirector 30+ shots. The axe fight — impacts, and plaster destruction simulated in Houdini
In Vitro 2024 Madman EntertainmentDistributor Will Howarth & Tom McKeithDirectors 40+ shots. A fully CG cow double including a Houdini water-tank simulation, plus near-future set extensions
States of Mind 2024 Monster FilmsDistributor Ché BakerDirector 50+ shots. Creature animation, animation, FX simulation, environments
The Equalizer 3 2023 Sony PicturesStudio Antoine FuquaDirector 150+ shots. The wine cellar opening with blood and wine simulated in Houdini, the van crash, a stained-glass face replacement
Dark Harvest 2023 MGMStudio David SladeDirector 200+ shots. The monster Sawtooth Jack — the in-camera performance warped onto a skeletal frame with a burning head
The Portable Door 2023 MGM+Studio Jeffrey WalkerDirector 140+ shots. Hair that spells a warning, tractor beams, giant ears, orb battles
Elvis 2022 Warner Bros.Studio Baz LuhrmannDirector 100+ shots. Environments and set extension, vehicle work
Nope 2022 Universal PicturesStudio Jordan PeeleDirector Environments and set extension

Shot counts are Future Associate's own delivered totals, not the shot count of the film. On most of these titles other vendors delivered work as well. Production company credits are not listed here — take those from the titles' own billing. Full archive, including earlier credits: all projects. Recent coverage: news.

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The Future Associate studio floor in Marrickville, Sydney
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Lindsay Adams, Founder and Head of Studio at Future Associate
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