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Digital Frontier FX

VFX & Post-Production

Big-studio capabilities. Boutique flexibility. Whatever it takes to get the shot!

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About Digital Frontier FX

Digital Frontier FX is an independent visual effects, virtual production and animation studio based in Los Angeles, California. Founded in 2013 by Chad Finnerty and Jaimie Lee Finnerty, the boutique works across feature films, episodic television, streaming productions, advertising and live entertainment. Its production capabilities encompass photorealistic imagery, character animation and effects that integrate with live-action photography.

The studio supports projects from early planning through finished visual effects. Pre-production services include storyboarding, concept development, previsualization and postvisualization. On-set supervision, technical breakdowns, bidding and budgeting connect that planning with production and delivery. Its virtual production work incorporates motion capture, real-time iteration and Unreal Engine-based in-camera visual effects.

Animation and visual effects

Digital Frontier FX specializes in crowd generation, digital doubles and photorealistic creature and character animation. Its effects work includes fire, smoke, fluids, destruction and supernatural imagery, alongside environments, set extensions and driving composites. Compositing services cover green-screen extraction, clean plate reconstruction, rotoscoping, matchmoving and deep compositing.

The studio's film credits include Spider-Man: No Way Home, Thor: Love and Thunder, Greyhound, The Suicide Squad, Wonder Woman and 10 Cloverfield Lane. For Ne Zha 2, its reported contributions span fire, destruction, creature animation, character effects, crowds, lighting and compositing. Television work includes The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Fear the Walking Dead, Resident Evil and Fire Country.

Performance beyond the screen

The company also creates digital performances for concerts, theatrical productions and museum experiences. Its holographic work includes recreations of musicians and historical figures, extending its character and digital-double capabilities into live and interactive settings. Alongside traditional production, the studio develops volumetric capture and artist-directed machine learning workflows for integrating captured performances, face replacements and digital doubles into real-time environments and conventional visual effects shots.

More about Digital Frontier FX

Leadership

  • Chad Finnerty is Co-Owner and Visual Effects Supervisor. His earlier roles included crowd simulation lead and animation supervisor at Digital Domain, followed by work at Pixomondo.
  • Jaimie Lee Finnerty, also identified as Jaimie Lee Jota-Finnerty, is Co-Owner and VFX Producer, overseeing bidding, client management, budgeting and operations. Her production management background includes Digital Domain, Sony Pictures Imageworks, Rhythm & Hues, Tippett Studio and Method Studios.
  • Ahmet Zappa serves as Chief Creative Officer, focusing on creative property development and live entertainment partnerships.

Production methods and operating model

  • The proprietary 54-camera multi-rig capture system produces animated Gaussian splats that can enter Unreal Engine or traditional VFX shots without conventional polygon meshes.
  • The reported toolset includes Houdini for effects simulation and Nuke for deep compositing. ComfyUI and LoRAs support controllable, artist-directed face, double and video-styling workflows.
  • The studio maintains a boutique core team and scales production with additional artists and contractors during peak delivery cycles.

Live entertainment collaboration

The partnership with Eyellusion involved Chad Finnerty supervising digital performance recreations for worldwide holographic concert tours, connecting the studio's digital character production with live entertainment delivery.

Notable credits

32 credits
  • Ne Zha 2
  • Spider-Man: No Way Home
  • Thor: Love and Thunder
  • White Men Can't Jump
  • Spirited
  • Greyhound
  • The Suicide Squad
  • Wonder Woman
  • The Meg
  • 10 Cloverfield Lane
  • Spectral
  • The Princess
  • Live by Night
  • The Falcon and the Winter Soldier
  • A Series of Unfortunate Events — Season 3
  • Fear the Walking Dead
  • The Walking Dead
  • Resident Evil
  • Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan
  • Fire Country
  • The Flash
  • Siren
  • Stargirl
  • Queen Sugar
  • The Man Who Fell to Earth
  • Hemlock Grove
  • Most Dangerous Game
  • Guilty Party
  • Ronnie James Dio Hologram World Tour
  • The Bizarre World of Frank Zappa
  • Ronald Reagan Hologram Experience
  • Happier Than Ever: A Love Letter to Los Angeles

Offices

Where Digital Frontier FX is based

2 locations

  • Los Angeles office

    Headquarters
    1633 S La Cienega Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90035, United StatesLos Angeles, California, United States
    About this office

    Current headquarters and production stage, housing creative offices, production suites, a virtual production volume, Vicon motion capture and a 54-camera volumetric capture rig.

    (310) 596-4507
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  • Marina del Rey office

    Marina del Rey, California, United States

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