Kalos Studios
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- 2016
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About Kalos Studios
Kalos Studios is an independent boutique visual effects, design, and virtual production studio based in Vancouver, British Columbia. Established in 2016, it creates effects for feature films, episodic television, streaming productions, commercials, and digital media. Its work spans conspicuous character and supernatural effects as well as invisible adjustments that support continuity and integrate practical photography with digital elements.
The studio’s services extend from concept art and digital set design through production planning, on-set supervision, technical data acquisition, and final compositing. Virtual production capabilities include real-time visualization and camera integration. Its post-production work encompasses tracking, matchmoving, rotoscoping, clean plate preparation, CG integration, and blue- and green-screen compositing. Environment work includes digital matte paintings, set extensions, and projection backgrounds, while simulation capabilities cover destruction, water, smoke, fire, and atmospheric effects.
Selected production work
For Child’s Play (2019), Kalos enhanced Chucky’s practical animatronic head and eyes, combining facial tracking, digital eye replacement, and cleanup work. On Night Hunter, the studio created panoramic road backgrounds for a green-screen car chase set in a snowy landscape. These projects demonstrate its combination of character enhancement and environment integration.
Its episodic work includes finishing effects for the final season of Silicon Valley, atmospheric effects and invisible work for The Now, and supernatural creature enhancements for Are You Afraid of the Dark?: Curse of the Shadows. For the first two seasons of Superman & Lois, its contributions included energy effects and destruction simulations. Film credits also include The Princess Switch 3: Romancing the Star, with actor replacements, split takes, compositing, and set extensions, and Murder Mystery 2.
Kalos combines a physical Vancouver production base with remote collaboration across British Columbia and Canada. Its boutique operating model draws on a core team and freelance artists to accommodate production demands, supporting both locally based and distributed work.
More about Kalos Studios
Founders
The studio was founded by visual effects supervisor Armand Vladau and compositing supervisor Joon Lee, also credited as Seung-Joon Lee. These are supported founding and production roles; the report does not establish separate current executive titles.
Production methods
A published KeenTools case study describes a compositor-led approach using FaceTracker and FaceBuilder directly inside Foundry’s Nuke. Procedural tracking, eye-replacement setups, and geometric deformation rigs enabled compositors to complete photorealistic shots with fewer departmental handoffs.
The studio’s environment work has included 16K-resolution panoramic projection plates. Its recruitment material also identifies a toolset encompassing Houdini, Maya, Redshift, Arnold, and Mantra.
Recruitment practices
Published recruitment material accepts full-time and freelance applications. A remote compositor posting states a preference for British Columbia or Canadian residents and requires legal entitlement to work in Canada.
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Where Kalos Studios is based
- 440 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, British Columbia V6B 1L1, CanadaVancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Vancouver office
HeadquartersCompany headquarters and physical production studio, supporting a distributed Canadian production workflow.
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