Distillery VFX
- Open roles
- 0
- Founded
- 2019
- Employees
- 51-200
- Offices
- 1
About Distillery VFX
Distillery VFX is a Vancouver-based boutique visual effects and post-production studio serving feature-film and episodic productions. Established in 2019 and operational from March 2020, the company combines senior VFX supervision, compositing, environment work and technical pipeline development within a compact, generalist-led production model.
The studio focuses on visual effects that integrate naturally into live-action storytelling, from large-scale digital worlds to invisible enhancements. Its artists and supervisors work across the full production process, including on-set and post-production VFX supervision, creative liaison, asset development and final-shot delivery.
Creative and technical capabilities
- Photoreal digital environments, world-building and digital matte painting
- Digital set extensions, 3D modelling, look development and lighting integration
- High-end 2D compositing and invisible visual-effects work
- Rigid-body destruction, pyro, dust, fire and atmospheric simulations
- Camera tracking, matchmoving and 3D generalist workflows
- Virtual art department processes, real-time assets and Unreal Engine development
Distillery VFX was built around an agile approach intended to reduce unnecessary pipeline complexity and enable close collaboration among cross-disciplined artists, showrunners and directors. Its custom-engineered production infrastructure supports secure remote and hybrid work while allowing teams to iterate quickly on demanding shots and sequences.
The studio's work spans premium television, streaming productions and feature films. Its credited projects include The Last of Us, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, Ahsoka, The Mandalorian, Masters of the Air, Leave the World Behind, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, The Sandman, The Green Knight, The Witcher and Stranger Things.
With a reported in-house team of around 70 artists, supervisors and pipeline specialists, Distillery VFX delivers environment-heavy, effects-driven and compositing-intensive work for major entertainment productions.
More about Distillery VFX
Leadership and operating model
Distillery VFX was established by senior VFX professionals including Matthew Lane, Greg Kegel, Jon Mitchell and Chief Technical Officer Troy Tyler. The team designed the company around a nimble, generalist-driven model and a custom-engineered pipeline rather than a heavily segmented departmental structure.
Production technology
The studio built secure remote and hybrid production infrastructure from its inception, working with Autodesk and Annex Pro on cloud-enabled production tracking and data-management workflows. Its approach supports close, rapid iteration among cross-disciplinary teams.
Recognition
In 2024, Distillery VFX received a Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Visual Effects in a Season or a Movie for its work on HBO's The Last of Us.
Notable credits
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Where Distillery VFX is based
- 40 E 5th Ave, Vancouver, BC V5T 1G8, CanadaVancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Distillery VFX Headquarters
HeadquartersOpened 2020
About this office
Headquarters and primary studio facility hosting artist suites, production leadership, generalist teams and proprietary pipeline development.
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