Onyx Visual Effects
- Open roles
- 0
- Founded
- 2021
- Employees
- 11-50
- Offices
- 2
About Onyx Visual Effects
Onyx Visual Effects is a California-based, cloud-first visual effects studio founded in 2021 by visual effects supervisor John Stewart and co-founder Chapel Folger. Operating as Stewart VFX, Inc., the company provides end-to-end creative and technical VFX workflows for episodic television, streaming originals and feature films.
Built around high-performance cloud infrastructure and secure remote pipelines, the studio combines creative supervision with scalable production delivery. Its work spans concept design and previsualization through on-set supervision, digital environments, animation, FX simulation, crowd duplication, compositing and production scope management.
Creative capabilities
- Photorealistic environment creation, matte painting and CG integration
- Destruction and other complex simulation work
- Deep rendering and compositing for high-volume episodic delivery
- On-set VFX supervision and technical pipeline development
- Remote, cloud-based production infrastructure supported by specialized freelance artists
The studio's credits include Paradise, Mean Girls, Lessons in Chemistry, Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, The Last Voyage of the Demeter, Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, Spirited, Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty, WeCrashed and Pam & Tommy.
Onyx VFX served as the sole visual effects vendor for both seasons of Hulu's Paradise. Across the series, it delivered nearly 1,000 shots, including digital mountain environments, seismic destruction, complex matte paintings and simulation sequences. Its work on the Season 2 finale, “Exodus,” received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Special Visual Effects in a Single Episode.
With production hubs in Los Angeles and New York, Onyx Visual Effects supports clients across major streaming, television and theatrical productions while maintaining a flexible model that pairs California-based leadership and supervisors with specialized remote talent.
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Leadership and operating model
- John Stewart is Founder and CEO, with experience in on-set visual effects supervision, custom color-science pipelines and AI-assisted production workflows.
- Chapel Folger is Co-Founder, Executive VFX Producer and CFO; the report notes prior leadership experience at Walt Disney Imagineering and Universal Creative.
- The creative team includes VFX Supervisors John L. Weckworth and John Brennick, and CG Supervisor Evan Underwood.
Onyx VFX uses a flexible production structure that combines a core California-based roster of supervisors, producers and technical leads with specialized freelance artists and compositors as project schedules require.
Notable credits
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Where Onyx Visual Effects is based
- Los Angeles, California, United States
Los Angeles Operating Base
About this office
Primary operational management base and California employment center; the saved Sherman Oaks entry represents this Los Angeles operational hub.
- New York, United States
New York Production Hub
Secondary production and client liaison hub.
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