Clean Plate FX
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About Clean Plate FX
Clean Plate FX is an independent boutique visual effects and post-production studio based in Los Angeles, California. It specializes in 2D compositing, invisible effects and digital beauty retouching for television, streaming productions, feature films and commercial campaigns. Its work addresses both creative visual requirements and practical problems discovered during production or editorial, with an emphasis on fast turnaround.
Beauty retouching and digital de-aging form a central part of the studio’s practice. Its cosmetic work includes softening facial wrinkles, reducing neck folds, refining facial features and adjusting body contours. The approach emphasizes subtle changes that preserve a natural appearance on screen. Alongside these enhancements, the studio handles cleanup tasks intended to make production equipment, unwanted reflections and other distractions disappear from finished footage.
Compositing and production fixes
Clean Plate FX creates clean plates, removes wires and rigs, paints out unwanted elements and replaces green-screen backgrounds. Its compositing services also encompass split screens, fluid morphs, speed changes and monitor burn-ins. Reflection removal can address crew, cameras and lighting visible in glasses, sunglasses or mirrors.
The studio’s broader visual effects offering includes set extensions, digital set decoration, wardrobe clearance fixes, CGI animation and asset creation. It also produces atmospheric and action elements such as smoke, fire, confetti, blood and muzzle flashes, combining these capabilities with editorial repairs and quality-control fixes.
Its television work includes rapid compositing fixes, reflective-surface cleanup and scene enhancements. Live and episodic comedy projects have involved green-screen stage transformations and atmospheric smoke effects. Feature-film and advertising assignments extend the same cleanup and compositing capabilities to longer-form storytelling and brand campaigns. Across these markets, the studio combines cosmetic refinement with practical shot repair, supporting productions that need visual changes integrated into existing footage.
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Leadership and production model
- Visual effects artist and producer Eric Levy co-owns and operates the studio. The report does not establish its founders.
- The boutique core team scales with specialized project artists. Client non-disclosure agreements mean cosmetic retouching work is rarely publicly credited.
Technology and artist tools
- Published technical demonstrations show a beauty pipeline that uses EMOCA to extract 32-bit UV facial unwraps for Adobe After Effects. Custom automation, including AutoComp, applies consistent beauty passes without generative AI.
- The studio uses SplineWarp for subtle facial and body adjustments.
- Levy also develops commercial productivity tools for artists, including Extendo, an After Effects edge-extension tool distributed through Plugin Play and Gumroad.
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Where Clean Plate FX is based
- Los Angeles, California, United States
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