Significant Others
- Open roles
- 0
- Founded
- 2015
- Employees
- 11-50
- Offices
- 3
About Significant Others
Significant Others is a boutique visual effects, design and finishing studio based in New York and Santa Monica, California. Established in 2015, it operates as the dedicated visual effects and finishing arm of creative editorial house Final Cut. Its work spans advertising commercials, brand films, music videos and documentaries, combining creative development with compositing, animation and final image finishing.
The studio’s capabilities include complex visual effects, 2D and 3D motion design, CG animation, beauty retouching, creative direction and previsualization. Finishing and online editorial services sit alongside color grading, conform and post-production supervision, allowing the team to contribute across several stages of a production. Its projects serve advertising and branding, broadcast and digital media, fashion and luxury goods, experiential marketing and independent film.
Close collaboration is central to its operating approach. Significant Others works with Final Cut’s editors and Machine’s sound designers to connect picture, editorial and audio post-production. This relationship supports an integrated production process while the studio maintains a specialist focus on visual effects and design. Its commercial work brings it into collaboration with agencies including Droga5, Wieden+Kennedy, Orchard, McCann and BBDO, and directors such as Spike Jonze and Derek Cianfrance.
The portfolio includes Coldplay’s All My Love music video, Instacart’s For Papa!, Bloomberg’s Context Changes Everything campaign and The New York Times’ The Truth Is Worth It series. Other work includes Tiffany & Co.’s holiday film featuring Amanda Seyfried, Arena Club’s The Chase, Airbnb’s Things to do that stay with you and campaigns for Etsy, Chobani, Coca-Cola and Dove. These projects encompass music performance, narrative advertising, product imagery and documentary-led storytelling.
In September 2025, the studio formally launched its West Coast outpost, Significant Others LA, extending its New York operation with permanent local creative leadership in Santa Monica. Expedia’s BEX campaign marked the LA studio’s debut.
More about Significant Others
Leadership and creative team
- Final Cut USA President and Founder Stephanie Apt established the studio with the recruitment of Dirk Greene as Creative Director. Greene is now identified as Executive Creative Director and Partner.
- Thomas “Thom” Reimerink, formerly a co-founder of Little Farm Productions, leads the West Coast creative team as Creative Director and Partner.
- Alexandra Leal is Head of Production, and Phil Brooks is Head of Design.
- VFX Supervisor and Flame Artist Phil Apostol joined in 2022 from Therapy Studios.
Production tools and partnerships
The studio uses Autodesk Flame and Nuke for finishing and compositing. Its international partnership with Copenhagen-based BaconX augments the New York and LA teams with 3D animation, CGI and color grading capabilities.
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Where Significant Others is based
- 118 W 22nd St., 7th Floor, New York, NY 10011, United StatesNew York, United States
New York office
HeadquartersCompany headquarters and East Coast studio, co-located with Final Cut NY.
- Los Angeles, California, United States
Los Angeles office
- 1669 19th Street, Santa Monica, CA 90404, United StatesSanta Monica, California, United States
Significant Others LA
Opened 2025
West Coast studio inside Final Cut LA; formally launched with permanent local creative leadership in September 2025.
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