Cinergy Creative
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- Founded
- 2000
- Employees
- 1-10
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About Cinergy Creative
Cinergy Creative is an independent boutique visual effects, animation and broadcast design studio based in Topanga in the Greater Los Angeles area. Established around 2000, it creates imagery and design packages for scripted television, unscripted programmes, feature films and entertainment brands. Its work spans photorealistic effects, character and environmental animation, main title sequences and network identity projects.
Visual effects and animation
The studio provides visual effects supervision, 3D modelling, dynamic effects simulation and compositing. Its animation work includes stylized 2D imagery, photorealistic 3D characters and environments, and custom game visuals created for television narratives. These capabilities support both effects integrated into live-action footage and sequences built around animated environments.
Television credits include visual effects across seasons three through eight of The Chi, along with work on City on Fire, Shooter, Queen of the South, Mayans M.C., Blood Drive and American Crime. Its wider television portfolio includes Burn Notice, Angie Tribeca, Code Black and The Riches.
Titles, graphics and branding
Main title design and broadcast graphics form another substantial part of the studio’s practice. Cinergy develops concepts, art direction, typography and graphics toolkits for television series and films. Its portfolio includes Project Runway and several related series, Under the Gunn, Born This Way, Hotel Hell and The Amazing Race. It has also produced graphics for DC’s Legends of Tomorrow and branding work associated with Monday Night Football.
Beyond programme graphics, the studio’s entertainment identity projects include work for Hello Sunshine and 20th Century Fox Television Studios. These projects extend its design practice from individual productions to broader studio and broadcast identities.
Film and attraction work
Feature-film projects include creature and visual effects for Monster Night, title design and visual effects for The Dead One, VFX and animation for Phat Girlz, and visual effects for Re-Kill. The studio has also applied its CGI and animation capabilities to themed attractions and educational exhibits, including motion ride visual design for Discovery Cube’s Eco Heroes.
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Leadership and operating model
The studio is headed by Creative Director Leslie Allen and Producer Elizabeth Lough. Its core team is supplemented by project-based freelance visual effects artists, animators and technical specialists.
Production methods
For television productions where commercial video game licensing is cost-prohibitive, Cinergy creates custom game environments using Unreal Engine and specialized 3D pipelines. Its technical facilities include an in-house GPU/CPU render farm and motion capture integration capabilities.
Creative history
Leslie Allen co-directed the 2006 horror comedy Monster Night with Lorenzo Doumani. The film was also released as National Lampoon’s Trick or Treat.
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Where Cinergy Creative is based
- Los Angeles County, California, United States
Topanga offices
HeadquartersAbout this office
**Office** Status: active Headquarters Phone: (310) 455-2490 Current operational headquarters in Topanga, publicly presented under the broader Los Angeles geographic label. A current studio street address is not established. --- **Office** Status: inactive / historical Address: 21925 Altaridge Drive, Topanga, CA 90290, USA Historical residential studio facility. The report records the principals' ownership from 2004 until June 2023; it does not establish an exact office closure year.
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