BREAK+ENTER
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- 2018
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About BREAK+ENTER
BREAK+ENTER was a New York visual effects studio operating as a specialized division of Nice Shoes. Established around 2018 and formally relaunched in early 2020, it focused on feature films and episodic television. Its work combined photoreal computer graphics, digital compositing and effects supervision for productions distributed by major film studios and streaming platforms.
The studio developed a fully cloud-native production model, enabling its New York creative leadership to collaborate with artists across North America, Europe and Latin America. Remote infrastructure supported a decentralized production team working on demanding film and television assignments. This approach was central to the studio’s operating model throughout its principal period of activity.
Film and episodic work
BREAK+ENTER’s portfolio included Wendy, The Many Saints of Newark, Russian Doll Season 2, Outer Range Season 1, The Humans, Nanny and The Gilded Age Season 1. Its contributions ranged from naturalistic environmental enhancement to creature effects, simulations and historical set extensions.
For Wendy, the studio contributed creature work, water interaction simulation and environment enhancement. Its work on Russian Doll Season 2 included historical period augmentations and transitions between environments, while Outer Range involved episodic effects supervision and supernatural void look development. On The Humans, its contributions included photoreal architectural and atmospheric enhancement. These assignments illustrate a practice spanning both deliberately invisible effects and more overt visual storytelling.
The studio’s capabilities also included modeling, rigging, animation, matte painting, look development and previsualization, supported by on-set and remote post-production supervision.
Nice Shoes closed the division in December 2022. Ongoing episodic commitments and core creative personnel subsequently transitioned to Chicken Bone FX. BREAK+ENTER ceased operating under its own banner, and its former official website later lapsed.
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Historical leadership
During its operating years, the studio’s leadership included founder Ilia Mokhtareizadeh, Executive Producer and Head of Production Joyce Boll, Head of VFX Creative and Technology Dave Zeevalk, Senior VFX Supervisor Gabriel Regentin, and Creative Director Ari Rubenstein. These are historical roles, rather than current appointments.
Production infrastructure
In collaboration with Amazon Web Services and Teradici, the studio replaced on-premise rendering arrays and local workstations with GPU-accelerated Amazon EC2 instances and virtualized PCoIP environments. Its production software included Autodesk Maya, SideFX Houdini and Foundry Nuke.
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Where BREAK+ENTER is based
- New York, United States
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