Contributing as a supporting vendor to HBO’s Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty, our team handled crucial traditional compositing work, including shot retimes, meticulous cleanups, and wire removals to enhance scene realism. Additionally, we created convincing digital snow for specific environmental needs and performed numerous digital sign replacements to ensure period accuracy.
Niche VFX contributed our expertise as a supporting visual effects vendor on Goosebumps. Our work involved crafting digital environments and performing compositing to blend practical and digital shots. A significant focus was on developing dynamic FX like flickering embers, swirling smoke, intense fire, and ground-level dirt effects, all designed to enhance the film’s ethereal and action-packed atmosphere alongside the creature animation provided by MPC.
As a key supporting vendor for Netflix’s ‘Carry-On’, Niche VFX handled traditional compositing for essential elements like fire, smoke, blood, and muzzle flashes. We also delivered CG asset creation, including bus design and reskinning, alongside precise environmental modifications like sign replacement.
As the sole VFX vendor for ‘Heretic’, Niche VFX provided comprehensive support from pre- to post-production, delivering around 200 shots. Niche VFX created a fully digital butterfly, developing its look and behavior through iterative post visualization to meet the director’s vision. We specialize in detailed creature work that seamlessly integrates into the narrative.
Niche VFX provided extensive visual effects support for Neon’s ‘The Monkey’, involved from the script phase to final delivery with additional onset supervision, including shooting practical fire elements for the film’s opening melting monkey sequence. Our key responsibilities covered traditional compositing (keying, snow, blood, gore), hard surface asset creation, and environments/DMP. We also handled the creation of key CG elements and managed look development, notably defining the look and behavior of the CG hornet sequence for the film.
As one of the visual effects vendor for Neon’s ‘Longlegs’, Niche VFX focused on the integration of smoke, blood, and gore elements to elevate visual horror of the project. As an artist led team we took a unique approach for some elements, growing and filmed live maggot assets, compositing these practical assets into a key gore sequence for added realism. We also created full CG assets – the unsettling CG doll, CG eyes, the disturbing CG collapsed face effect on Nicolas Cage – and managed the look development for the film’s demonic presence.
