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Darling VFX

VFX & Post-Production
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Founded
2019
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11-50
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About Darling VFX

Darling VFX is a Toronto-based visual effects, colour grading and post-production studio founded in 2019. Its work spans commercial advertising, broadcast television and digital branded content, combining digital compositing, computer-generated imagery, animation and finishing for Canadian and international campaigns.

The studio brings together VFX artists, colourists, CG specialists, motion designers and producers. Its capabilities cover commercial projects from image creation and manipulation through colour grading, online editing, conforming and final mastering for multiple distribution platforms. Visual effects and colour are central to its offering, supported by 3D modelling, animation, motion graphics and title design.

Commercial work

Darling’s portfolio covers automotive, financial services, consumer goods, retail, sports entertainment and betting campaigns. Its credited work includes effects, colour and CG contributions, with individual projects identifying the artists responsible for those disciplines. This combination of services allows the studio to contribute several elements of a campaign’s final visual treatment.

Selected projects include theScore Bet’s Deli, Hollywood Casino’s Pool, TD Bank’s Class in Session and Scene+’s Make Every Route Scenic. Other credits include Audi’s The Earth is Flat, OLG’s Why Wait, Canada Soccer’s Manifesto and FanDuel’s We All Speak Footy. The studio has also contributed to Destination Vancouver’s Recouver in Vancouver and Hammock Goals, alongside campaigns for Visa, Scotiabank, Petro-Canada CareMakers and Dare Foods.

Darling operates as an independent Canadian studio from a dedicated creative facility in Toronto. Its production spaces support visual effects, colour grading, CG animation and client review, bringing these disciplines together within a single studio.

More about Darling VFX

Leadership and artists

  • Paul Binney is Partner and Lead VFX Artist; Tory Osler is Partner and Managing Director.
  • Stephanie Hickman and Kristen Van Fleet serve as Executive Producers.
  • The reported artist roster includes colourists Patrick Samaniego, Kassi Bellamy and Tricia Hagoriles; lead VFX artists Joel Osis and Steve McGregor; and CG/motion designers Lev Bravo and Jon Hutton.

Production tools

The studio's creative suites support Autodesk Flame, DaVinci Resolve colour grading and 3D computer graphics workflows.

Agency collaborations

Darling has collaborated with Bensimon Byrne, Diamond, Publicis, Rethink, TBWA and VML on advertising production. Reported project credits identify agency partners alongside the studio's individual VFX, colour and CG contributors.

Notable credits

13 credits
  • theScore Bet — Deli
  • Hollywood Casino — Pool
  • TD Bank — Class in Session
  • Scene+ — Make Every Route Scenic
  • Audi — The Earth is Flat
  • OLG — Why Wait
  • Destination Vancouver — Recouver in Vancouver
  • Destination Vancouver — Hammock Goals
  • Canada Soccer — Manifesto
  • FanDuel — We All Speak Footy
  • Visa x Scotiabank x FIFA — Make Traditions
  • Petro-Canada CareMakers — Debby
  • Dare Foods Whippet — Sweet Escape

Offices

Where Darling VFX is based

1 location

  • Toronto office

    Headquarters
    1352 Dundas St W, Toronto, ON M6J 1Y2, CanadaToronto, Ontario, Canada

    Company headquarters and primary creative studio, with suites for visual effects, colour grading, CG animation and client review.

    studio@hellodarling.tv+1 416-588-5656
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