RISE | Visual Effects Studios

RISE | Visual Effects Studios is a Berlin-founded visual effects and digital animation studio operating principally through RISE FX GmbH. Founded in 2007 by Sven Pannicke, Robert Pinnow, Markus Degen, and Florian Gellinger, the company creates high-end visual effects for feature films, episodic television, streaming series, commercial work, and specialized media production.

Its work spans the full production process, from early script analysis, VFX breakdowns, concept art, previs and technical visualization through on-set supervision, data capture, asset creation, simulation, compositing, and finishing advisory. RISE’s capabilities include photorealistic digital environments, digital matte painting and set extension, creature and character work, stereoscopic 3D, and large-scale effects involving fire, smoke, water, oceans, explosions, cloth, hair, fur, and atmospheric phenomena.

Technical Craft

The studio is noted for procedural VFX workflows using Houdini and Nuke-based compositing pipelines. Its in-house capabilities also include high-resolution LiDAR scanning, photogrammetry, spatial surveying, HDRI acquisition, modelling, texturing, shading, lighting, and look development. These disciplines support both detailed environment reconstruction and complex, effects-driven imagery.

Screen Credits

RISE has contributed to major film and television productions including Avengers: Endgame, Avengers: Infinity War, Black Panther, Captain Marvel, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, The Last of Us, Fallout, Stranger Things, Dark, Megalopolis, The Matrix Resurrections, Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore, and Babylon Berlin.

Recent and forthcoming credits identified in the research include Ironheart, Daredevil: Born Again, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, The Lost Bus, Heads of State, The Fantastic Four: First Steps, Fallout Season 2, The Last of Us Season 2, Babylon Berlin Season 5, and The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping.

Alongside its VFX work, the founders established RISE Pictures for original film and television IP development and co-production. The company maintains integrated production facilities in Germany and the United Kingdom.