Cinesite

Cinesite is an international digital-entertainment studio working across visual effects, feature animation and immersive entertainment. Founded in Hollywood in 1991 within Eastman Kodak’s Entertainment Imaging division, it began by demonstrating digital film scanning, digital-intermediate mastering and the Cineon workflow. Its London visual-effects operation opened in 1994, and a management buyout led by Antony Hunt established Cinesite as an independent commercial enterprise in 2012.

Today, Cinesite delivers work for feature films, television and streaming series, location-based entertainment, video-game cinematics and advertising. Its visual-effects offering spans concept art, digital assets, on-set and remote supervision, modelling, texturing, rigging, creature and character animation, digital doubles, set extensions, crowd work, lighting and compositing. The studio also creates complex fluid, cloth and pyrotechnic simulations, CG environments, stereoscopic conversion, digital mastering and restoration.

Animation, visualisation and immersive work

Cinesite’s feature-animation teams provide end-to-end computer-animated production, including visual development, character design, layout, shading, animation and rendering. Its visualisation and virtual-production capabilities include previs, tech-vis, post-vis, in-camera visual effects and performance capture. For immersive projects, the company develops high-resolution media and attractions including theme-park and dark-ride experiences.

The company operates directly under the Cinesite brand in London, Montreal and Vancouver. Its wider creative collective includes separately branded studios, allowing the group to bring together complementary VFX, animation, performance-capture and virtual-production expertise while those businesses retain their own identities.

Selected work

Cinesite’s reported credits include The Golden Compass, Avengers: Endgame, Avengers: Infinity War, No Time to Die, Skyfall, A Haunting in Venice, The Fall Guy, World War Z, The Addams Family, Riverdance: The Animated Adventure, The Witcher, Band of Brothers, True Detective: Night Country and The Bourne Stuntacular. Its work has been associated with Academy Award, BAFTA, Emmy, BIFA and Visual Effects Society recognition.

Alongside production, Cinesite develops multi-site pipeline capabilities using high-performance cloud architecture and runs the TechX exploration initiative for generative-AI research.