Curated

Curated is a visual effects studio creating work for feature films, episodic television, streaming productions and commercials. Founded in New York City in fall 2017 as PowerHouse VFX, it adopted its current name in July 2025. The rebrand continued the existing studio's business, leadership and portfolio under a new public identity.

The studio combines a boutique creative approach with production capabilities across North America. Its work ranges from seamless compositing to photorealistic environments, digital matte painting, creature and character imagery, and effects simulations. Destruction, fluids and atmospheric effects form part of that technical scope, alongside visual effects designed to integrate into photographed scenes.

From supervision to final delivery

Curated provides on-set and in-studio visual effects supervision, CG supervision, 3D computer animation and digital compositing. Its services also encompass environment look development, technical animation, motion graphics, title design, pre-visualization and conceptual art. These capabilities support projects from early visual planning through the creation and integration of finished effects shots.

Its production workflows connect with Company 3's dailies, color grading and finishing services. This relationship places visual effects within a broader post-production process, allowing the studio's work to connect with the subsequent stages of image finishing. Curated serves both major studio productions and independent features, as well as episodic projects for broadcast and streaming platforms.

Development and continuity

The company began through a strategic alliance and co-location with post-production provider Sixteen19. Company 3 acquired both businesses in August 2019. Curated subsequently expanded its production presence beyond its founding market, opening its first Canadian studio in 2022 and adding a Western Canadian studio in 2024.

The July 2025 rebrand formalized Curated's position as the dedicated visual effects brand within Company 3 Studios Inc. Its current operating model brings together five North American production hubs and remote pipelines, retaining the studio's focus on tailored visual effects while connecting its artists and production teams with a wider post-production infrastructure.