Boxel Studio

Boxel Studio is a Tijuana-based full-service animation, visual effects and new-media production company serving film, television, streaming, games, advertising and digital-out-of-home projects. Founded by computer-graphics engineer Andrés Reyes Botello with co-founder Uriel Reyes Botello, the studio combines character-animation roots with a later focus on photoreal visual effects, creature work and complex episodic production.

Its animation and asset-production capabilities span 2D and 3D character design, modelling, texturing, rigging, keyframe animation, motion-capture retargeting and in-game cinematics. Its VFX work includes digital creatures and doubles, environment design and extensions, destruction and crowd simulation, look development, matchmoving, roto and paint, plate preparation, tracking and multi-pass compositing.

Production approach

Boxel operates from a technical production base in Tijuana while supporting a distributed artist and pipeline network. The company uses secure remote access to high-performance infrastructure and has developed cloud-first virtual-production workflows with CenterGrid. Its emerging-technology work includes markerless performance capture with Autodesk Flow Studio, neural footage relighting using Beeble SwitchLight, and rapid previsualization with Higgsfield Cinema Studio.

The studio describes its AI and machine-learning deployment as artist-centric, applying these tools to accelerate production while retaining creative supervision. It also produces anamorphic 3D screen content, billboard experiences, advertising VFX and motion-graphics work.

Selected work

Boxel's credits include Superman & Lois, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Star Trek: Picard, The Lincoln Lawyer, John Wick: Chapter 4, Flamin' Hot, Blue's Big City Adventure, The Santa Clauses, The Mosquito Coast, Blue Miracle and Pennyworth. Its earlier feature-animation work includes lead CGI animation and character modelling for El Americano: The Movie.

The company also works across short-form character animation, promotional visual effects and branded installations, with credits including Disney Junior's Me & Mickey and Me & Winnie the Pooh, as well as anamorphic projects connected with Descendants: The Rise of Red and Percy Jackson and the Olympians.