ALTERED FX

ALTERED FX is an independent creative direction, visual effects and 3D animation studio founded in 2021 by filmmaker and animation director David Weinstein, who serves as CEO and Creative Director. Based operationally in the Atlanta metropolitan area, the remote-first studio brings together globally distributed specialists for cinematic, character-driven work across games, entertainment and branded productions.

The studio works from early creative development through final delivery, combining script-to-screen direction, storyboarding, animatics, previs, sequence design and pitch visualization with 3D asset creation, animation, visual effects and on-set supervision. Its capabilities span character and creature modeling, texturing, look development, rigging, keyframe and motion-capture animation, photorealistic grooming, cloth and hair simulation, lighting, shading, compositing, virtual production and real-time Unreal Engine cinematics.

Production Focus

ALTERED FX creates AAA game cinematic trailers, in-game cutscenes, commercial campaigns, feature and episodic work, and media for theme-park and dark-ride experiences. Its production pipeline uses tools including Autodesk Maya, SideFX Houdini, Maxon Redshift, Foundry Nuke, Yeti and Epic Games' Unreal Engine.

The company has worked with publishers and entertainment companies including Activision, Gearbox Software, Toys for Bob and Disney. Its credited work includes cinematic campaigns for Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, Call of Duty: Black Ops 7, Call of Duty: Mobile and Call of Duty: Warzone Mobile, alongside look-development work for Borderlands 4 and the announcement trailer for Spyro: A Realm Beyond.

Original Development

Alongside commissioned production, ALTERED FX develops original intellectual property. The studio is the primary animation and visual-effects production partner for Azureus: The Animated Series, building specialized pipeline tools and performance-capture workflows for the action-adventure project. Core leadership also includes co-owner and Visual Effects Supervisor Adam Coggin and Executive Producer Mariam Price.

As a cloud-native production house, ALTERED FX uses a flexible, remote-first model rather than a conventional large physical studio footprint, assembling specialist CG, animation, rigging and compositing talent around individual productions.