CGI & 3D Animation

Here is how the work lines up. New York runs one of the deepest CGI and 3D animation pools in the world, with the Chelsea VFX corridor. The Mill NY, Method Studios, MPC, Framestore (the Gravity and Avengers VFX house), DNEG and Brickyard — sitting alongside the Brooklyn DUMBO motion-design cluster anchored by Buck, Imaginary Forces, Trollbäck+Firm, Charlex, Eyeball, Loyalkaspar and Roof Studio.

Here is what we have to work with. Our planning places global shoots with the right tier of studio for the brief, whether that means a senior Chelsea facility for character-led hero shots on a Marvel or HBO Hudson Yards series, a mid-size Brooklyn boutique for product visualisation aimed at the New York fashion and luxury sector, or a specialty animation house handling stylised work for an Apple TV+ or Netflix NY first. We brief in English, manage asset turnovers against the offline edit, structure review cycles through ftrack, Shotgrid or Frame.io, and align milestones with theatrical, broadcast and streaming delivery dates across global areas shipping from a New York master.

Here is the layout. Modelling, texturing and look-development draws on talent trained through NYU Tisch, SVA's MFA Computer Art programme, Pratt Institute and Parsons, with senior artists carrying credits on Succession, Mrs. Maisel, Severance, the Marvel features and the NBC, CBS Sports and ESPN broadcast graphics packages built out of New York facilities. Pipelines run Maya, 3ds Max, Houdini, Cinema 4D, ZBrush, Blender and Substance Painter, with character animation supported through full rigging, motion-capture cleanup, keyframe work and facial animation at facilities equipped for performance capture.

Here is how the work shapes up. Photorealistic rendering deploys Arnold, V-Ray and Redshift, with Unreal Engine 5 increasingly used for virtual production tie-ins on the Steiner Brooklyn Navy Yard LED volume and Silvercup's volume stage. On-site supervisors attend shoots to capture HDRI, lens-distortion data and tracking-marker placement, and qualifying budgets pair this work with the NYS Film Tax Credit 30-35% post-prod uplift — the deepest US post-prod credit — with our team managing the records alongside IATSE Local 700 crewing, MOME permitting and Emmy or Annecy submission packages where the project warrants.