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18-536: Reel FX Animation ( Reel FX ), formerly known as Reel FX Creative Studios , is an American visual effects and computer animation studio based in Dallas , Texas , with offices in Hollywood , California , and Montreal , Quebec . Known for its multiple projects on animated films and visual effects for live-action films. The studio primarily produces animated features, short films, and television series. Among them

36-470: A movie's story and appeal. Although most visual effects work is completed during post-production , it usually must be carefully planned and choreographed in pre-production and production . While special effects such as explosions and car chases are made on set , visual effects are primarily executed in post-production with the use of multiple tools and technologies such as graphic design, modeling, animation and similar software. A visual effects supervisor

54-455: A reenactment of the beheading of Mary, Queen of Scots , Clark instructed an actor to step up to the block in Mary's costume. As the executioner brought the axe above his head, Clark stopped the camera, had all the actors freeze, and had the person playing Mary step off the set. He placed a Mary dummy in the actor's place, restarted filming, and allowed the executioner to bring the axe down, severing

72-780: A second location in Pasadena, California, and in 2008 merged with VFX-studio Radium and opened a studio in Santa Monica. In 2017, Reel FX opened its first studio outside the United States in Montreal Canada. The studio would eventually add artists in Toronto and Vancouver as well. In 1999, the studio produced its first short film, The Man In The Moon . Based on William Joyce's Guardians of Childhood and co-directed by Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg. The short film became

90-667: A street scene in Paris. When he screened the film, he found that the "stop trick" had caused a truck to turn into a hearse, pedestrians to change direction, and men to turn into women. Méliès, the director of the Théâtre Robert-Houdin , was inspired to develop a series of more than 500 short films, between 1896 and 1913, in the process developing or inventing such techniques as multiple exposures , time-lapse photography , dissolves , and hand-painted color. Because of his ability to seemingly manipulate and transform reality with

108-574: Is an American animation studio and a subsidiary of Netflix, Inc. It was founded in March 2018. The studio primarily produces and develops animated programs and feature films hosted on the Netflix streaming service. When Netflix began to produce original animated content in 2013, all of them were produced by third-party companies, mostly DreamWorks Animation Television . However, in November 2018, it

126-506: Is the studio's first original animated feature film, Free Birds , released in 2013. A year later, The Book of Life was released. The film received several nominations, including Best Animated Feature Nominations from the Golden Globes, Critics’ Choice Awards, Producers Guild Awards and Annie Awards . In 2020, Reel FX Animation teamed up with Warner Animation Group (now Warner Bros. Pictures Animation ) on Scoob! . In addition,

144-549: Is usually involved with the production from an early stage to work closely with production and the film's director to design, guide and lead the teams required to achieve the desired effects. Many studios specialize in visual effects; among them are Digital Domain , DreamWorks , DNEG , Framestore , Weta Digital , Industrial Light & Magic , Pixomondo , Moving Picture Company and Sony Pictures Imageworks & Jellyfish Pictures . Netflix Animation Netflix Animation (also known as Netflix Animation Studios )

162-654: The cinematograph , the prolific Méliès is sometimes referred to as the "Cinemagician." His most famous film, Le Voyage dans la lune (1902), a whimsical parody of Jules Verne 's From the Earth to the Moon , featured a combination of live action and animation , and also incorporated extensive miniature and matte painting work. thumb VFX today is heavily used in almost all movies produced. Other than films, television series and web series are also known to utilize VFX. àÁ' Bold text' Visual effects are often integral to

180-447: The dummy's head. Techniques like these would dominate the production of special effects for a century. It was not only the first use of trickery in cinema, it was also the first type of photographic trickery that was only possible in a motion picture, and referred to as the " stop trick ". Georges Méliès , an early motion picture pioneer, accidentally discovered the same "stop trick." According to Méliès, his camera jammed while filming

198-596: The episodic series was created using a custom-built real-time production pipeline with Epic Games ’ Unreal Engine , the first animated series to be rendered entirely in a video game engine. Visual effects VFX involves the integration of live-action footage (which may include in-camera special effects) and generated-imagery (digital or optics, animals or creatures) which look realistic, but would be dangerous, expensive, impractical, time-consuming or impossible to capture on film. Visual effects using computer-generated imagery (CGI) have more recently become accessible to

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216-404: The film, now titled Worlds Away directed by Adamson and executive-produced by James Cameron . First called Turkeys , and opened in 2013 under Free Birds , the film was directed by Jimmy Hayward and starred Owen Wilson , Woody Harrelson , and Amy Poehler . Its release landed Reel FX's CEO Steve O’Brien the front page of D CEO Magazine in their May–June edition of that year. Following

234-540: The first Reel FX Original (now called Inventions), and in 2007, was optioned to DreamWorks Animation where it ultimately became Rise of the Guardians , directed by Peter Ramsey. In October 2012, The Hollywood Reporter revealed Reel FX's connection to the 2012 feature film. In December 2010, Reel FX produced an untitled 3D film with producer Andrew Adamson and Cirque du Soleil . In January 2012, Paramount Pictures announced that it had acquired worldwide rights to

252-438: The independent filmmaker with the introduction of affordable and relatively easy-to-use animation and compositing software. In 1857, Oscar Rejlander created the world's first "special effects" image by combining different sections of 32 negatives into a single image, making a montaged combination print . In 1895, Alfred Clark created what is commonly accepted as the first-ever motion picture special effect. While filming

270-525: The release of The Book of Life , Reel FX assisted on Rock Dog (Summit Entertainment, Huayi Brothers) and UglyDolls (STX Entertainment) while developing its next feature. Released in 2021, Rumble is based on Rob Harrell's graphic novel Monster on the Hill and adapted for the screen by Matt Lieberman and Etan Cohen. In 2022, Reel FX released the original series Super Giant Robot Brothers! , with Netflix Animation . Directed by Mark Andrews ( Brave ),

288-495: The studio released Rumble , a co-production with Paramount Animation and Back to the Outback with Netflix Animation , both in 2021. Most recently, Reel FX teamed up again with Netflix Animation to create The Monkey King in 2023. The studio's upcoming slate of films includes The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants with Nickelodeon Movies and a film titled Diya with Good Karma Productions. Reel FX Animation

306-647: Was announced that Netflix was developing original animated projects in-house including Klaus and Kid Cosmic . In 2019, Netflix Animation expanded operations and leased offices in Burbank and Hollywood for animation, television and film production. The company acquired Australian animation/visual effects studio Animal Logic in July 2022. The same month, Melissa Cobb stepped down as vice president of film animation whilst still on board as producer with Karen Toliver as her replacement. In June 2024, Hannah Minghella

324-581: Was founded in 1993 as Reel Magic in Fort Worth, Texas. The studio was the sixth to purchase an Autodesk Flame system. In 1995, the company moved to Dallas and changed its name to Reel FX Creative Studios . Reel FX purchased West End Post, and in 1999, moved to the White Swan building in the West End. In 2005, the studio moved its headquarters east a couple of miles to Deep Ellum. The company opened

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