Gradient Effects
- Open roles
- 0
- Founded
- 2006
- Employees
- 11-50
- Offices
- 3
About Gradient Effects
Gradient Effects is a visual effects and digital animation studio founded in 2006. Based in Los Angeles, it serves feature films, episodic television, premium streaming productions and commercial advertising. Its work combines visual artistry, procedural computer graphics and software engineering, bringing creative development and technical production into a connected pipeline.
The studio operates through production offices in Los Angeles and Montreal, with a European studio presence in Frankfurt am Main. Its distributed production model supports work across film and episodic formats. Alongside its visual effects operation, Gradient Effects collaborates with sister company Gradient Pictures on projects that connect live-action production with post-production, extending its involvement from principal photography through finished visual effects.
Creative and technical capabilities
Gradient Effects provides visual effects production and supervision, digital compositing, concept design and look development. Its animation capabilities include character modeling, rigging and creature design, while its effects work encompasses environmental simulations, photorealistic dynamics and particle systems. Pipeline engineering supports the integration of these disciplines across production.
Digital facial work is another area of focus. The studio develops proprietary technology for de-aging, facial reshaping and cosmetic alterations, including its Shapeshifter system. These capabilities complement its broader character and effects work, allowing it to undertake both conspicuous visual transformations and subtle adjustments to photographed performances.
Film and episodic work
Its feature credits include Avengers: Age of Ultron, Doctor Strange, Thor: Ragnarok, Guardians of the Galaxy, Spider-Man: No Way Home and The Revenant. Other film work includes Mortal Kombat, Doctor Sleep and The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It.
Television and streaming credits include The Righteous Gemstones, Stranger Things, Game of Thrones, Watchmen, Invasion and Star Trek: Discovery. Together, these projects reflect a production practice spanning character animation, simulation, compositing and performance-focused digital alterations.
More about Gradient Effects
Founder and technical background
- Co-founder and visual effects supervisor Olcun Tan is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. His background includes software development and work at DreamWorks Animation and European facilities, with experience in rigid-body dynamics and procedural simulation.
Production technology
- Shapeshifter continuously tracks facial geometry in source footage, enabling alterations without motion-capture markers or full-head digital replacements. The system was used to de-age John Goodman by thirty years for The Righteous Gemstones and to perform subtle character alterations on The Revenant.
Internal development
- In 2013, the studio established SCRTLB (Secret Lab) as an internal feature film division focused on high-end visual effects and animation for major Hollywood productions.
Notable credits
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Where Gradient Effects is based
- 6382 Arizona Circle, Los Angeles, CA 90045, USALos Angeles, California, United States
Los Angeles office
HeadquartersGlobal headquarters and primary studio facility, including the internal SCRTLB feature film division.
- Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Montreal office
International production branch.
- Frankfurt am Main, Hessen, Germany
Frankfurt am Main office
European regional studio presence. No street address is established for the Frankfurt facility.
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