Fin Design + Effects

Fin Design + Effects is an Australian visual effects, animation and design studio founded in Sydney in 2001. Commonly known as FIN or FIN VFX, it creates photoreal visual effects, character and creature animation, digital environments, and simulation-led work for feature films, episodic and streaming productions, and commercial advertising.

The studio’s work spans the production process, from on-set and post-production VFX supervision through concept design, modelling, texturing, rigging, animation, creature FX, compositing, Flame finishing and colour grading. Its teams also deliver set extensions, digital doubles, crowd work, hard-surface modelling, look development, and dynamic effects including water, fire, smoke and destruction.

Screen and advertising work

FIN has contributed to projects including The Creator, Alien: Romulus, M3GAN, M3GAN 2.0, Elvis, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, Thor: Love and Thunder, Extraction 2, I Am Mother, Nautilus, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, Murderbot and Lost in Space. Its commercial portfolio includes campaigns for Adidas, Kia, Birds Eye, Tourism Australia, Mercedes-Benz, Heineken, Pepsi, Nike and Suncorp.

Connected Australian production network

The company operates an Australian studio network across Sydney, Melbourne, Ballina, the Gold Coast and Adelaide. Its Sydney headquarters houses central production management, executive functions and core pipeline infrastructure. Melbourne joined the network in 2019, while FIN Ballina was created through the 2024 acquisition and rebrand of Cumulus VFX. A purpose-built Gold Coast facility opened in 2025, followed by an Adelaide production hub in 2026.

FIN’s multi-site workflow is built around USD, Solaris, Houdini and Maya, alongside proprietary in-house automation tools that support collaboration between its Australian studios. In 2023, Arenova Capital acquired the business; FIN subsequently became part of Dream Machine Group while retaining its brand identity, management team and creative autonomy.