LUXX Studios

LUXX Studios was a Stuttgart-based visual effects and computer animation studio founded in 2006 by Andrea Block and Christian Haas. Its work spanned German and international productions, combining digital environments, character and creature animation, simulation, and compositing for cinema, television, commercials, and game cinematics.

The studio provided visual effects support from on-set supervision through post-production. Its capabilities included concept development, storyboarding, modeling, texturing, rigging, lighting, shading, matchmoving, and digital matte painting. This combination supported both effects sequences integrated into live-action footage and fully computer-animated work.

Film and animation work

LUXX contributed visual effects to White House Down, The Grand Budapest Hotel, and Independence Day: Resurgence. Its assignments included the opening environment sequence for White House Down and futuristic Washington, D.C. environments for Independence Day: Resurgence. Other credited work included television features, documentary series, and cinematics for Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X 2.

The studio also undertook the animation and visual effects for Manou the Swift, the independently produced animated feature released in 2019. Block and Haas co-directed the film, whose English-language voice cast included Kate Winslet and Willem Dafoe. The project marked a substantial expansion from effects services into full-length computer animation.

Operating history

The visual effects business operated through a partnership formally registered in 2010. LUXX Film GmbH was a distinct, co-managed production business supporting proprietary film development, financing, and co-production; it was not the studio's parent company.

LUXX Studios subsequently ceased commercial operations following insolvency proceedings initiated in October 2019 and the partnership's liquidation in January 2020.