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VFX Legion, a remote boutique-style global company, has announced the opening of a full-scale division in British Columbia. An early proponent of the virtualization of visual effects, industry veteran James David Hattin launched the company in 2013, introducing a groundbreaking collaborative work-from-home business model almost a decade before COVID-19 made social distancing essential. Headquartered in Los Angeles, the company's new Kelowna-based division takes its road-tested remote visual effect services to the next level.
We began testing the waters in British Columbia last April, says Hattin. It didnt take long to see that the volume of cost-effective, photorealistic visual effects that its robust film and television industry required made it a great fit with VFX Legions efficient, high-quality remote services. Workload steadily increased, and we outgrew our initial digs in less than a year. Spurred on by the influx of jobs and positive feedback from clients, we decided to launch a full-scale, end-to-end division with expanded technical and creative resources, further strengthening our capabilities.
With security a top priority, and crucial to its expansion strategy, VFX Legion set up the new location with TPN certification and remote workstations housed in a lockdown space. It also significantly increases the companys storage capacity. A built-out virtual private cloud keeps all content on-premises providing artists with immediate access and clients with total control over their assets. The studios size and layout allow for social distancing with multiple offices, rather than an oversized open workspace.
James David Hattin, Founder,Creative Director, VFX Legion
Proactively growing its team of talent residing throughout the province, VFX Legion has expanded its network of artists culled over the years from a global pool of talent, building a local workforce with the scale needed to take maximum advantage of substantial tax incentives, says Hattin. British Columbias investment in infrastructure technology, including fiber-optic internet connectivity, is another reason that the province is a perfect hub for our remote business model.
Our sophisticated pipelines ability to render an artists location irrelevant provides VFX Legion with its greatest asset - an abundance of exceptional remote-savvy talent, adds the company's creative director and founder. A collective of over 200 artists was in place long before the pandemic, bringing a mastery of remote technology and our collaborative workflow thats optimized efficiency and creativity for dozens of films and hundreds of TV episodes over the years. While the industry scrambled to set up in-house staff to work from home in response to a crisis, we didn't need to change a thing.
New B.C. studio (open area), home to core team managing collective of work-from-home talent
Current Projects, Right out of the Gate:
The studio already has over a dozen projects lined up and in progress, including seven films for Welcome to Blumhouse, a program of dark genre movies produced by Blumhouse Television and Amazon Studios. The B.C. division is currently managing the production of all of the visual effects for Black Box, scheduled to premiere along with The Lie, on October 6th. VFX Legion/B.C. is also sole VFX vendor for Evil Eye and Nocturne, both debuting on October 12th, and the final four films in the series for release in 2021. Slated to streaming on Prime Video, the thematically connected package marks Amazons first-ever global direct to services deal.
Weve invested in British Columbia at a very exciting time, says Hattin. The provinces work, establishing mandates and guidelines, has put it on the fast track to recovery. Shooting has resumed in B.C., making it one of North Americas first regions to restart production since COVID-19 brought it to a halt. The move presented an opportunity to expand our pioneering remote service, and position VFX Legion to provide the first wave of productions with innovative digital solutions that meet unprecedented challenges.
Welcome to Blumhouse, a program of eight thriller/horror genre films premiering on Amazon Prime Video
Signings:
The new division mirrors VFX Legions flagship studios structure, housing a core team of leadership and senior artists. The signing of an animation supervisor, C.G. supervisor, VFX coordinator, and two senior compositors are in the final stages.
Dylan Yestremski oversees the companys B.C. arm, bringing strong managerial and creative skills to his new post. Exiting Allegiance Studios, the remote the B.C. VFX boutique he founded in 2015, and closing its doors, he moved on to join VFX Legion as Head of Production and partner in the new venture. Hattin works closely with the B.C. native, supervising projects managed out of both British Columbia and Los Angeles.
Dylan Yastremski, Head of Production and Partner, VFX Legion/B.C. Division
Before the launch of VFX Legion/L.A., Yastremski worked with Hattin on several projects, including the TV series Arrow, The Flash, True Blood, and Falling Skies, which received an Emmy nod in the Outstanding Special VFX category in 2013. More recently, hes lent his talents to numerous films, and episodic shows under VFX Legion's banner, such as the movie, Hardcore Henry, and the episodic series, including Madam Secretary, How to Get Away with Murder and Scandal.'
VFX Legion provides British Columbias film and television productions with access to a unique local resource thats way ahead of the curve. Fully remote since inception, our leading-edge pipeline, seamless workflow, honed protocols, and scalable collective of remote-savvy artists are well-established, adds Hattin. Without the distraction of adapting to new workflow and software, our focus remains where its always been - on applying our creative and techn
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