StaticVFX
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- Founded
- 2014
- Employees
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About StaticVFX
StaticVFX is an independent, artist-owned visual effects and animation studio based in Bucharest, Romania. Founded in 2014, it works across international feature films, episodic television, streaming productions and commercial advertising. Its work spans photoreal effects, digital environments, character animation and the supporting visual effects that help establish a production’s setting.
The studio offers a production workflow extending from creative development and proof of concept through asset creation, animation, lighting, rendering and final compositing. On-set supervision, VFX supervision, directing and art direction connect its digital production work with the creative and practical requirements of filming. Its capabilities include character modeling and rigging, creature animation, hard-surface hero assets, set extensions, crowd generation and simulations involving water, fluids and pyrotechnics.
Film and episodic work
For Dongji Rescue, StaticVFX designed and built the hero vessel Lisbon Maru and contributed layout, set extensions, crowds, water simulation and compositing. The project combined a large digital ship asset with ocean effects and environmental work. Its contribution to Netflix’s Troll encompassed more than 170 photoreal visual effects shots, while Subteran involved more than 240 shots.
Other supported credits include The Swarm, To Catch a Killer, Bird Box: Barcelona, Under Paris, Spy/Master, The World to Come, The Contractor and Hackerville. These projects cover marine and creature effects, period environments and supporting visual effects for contemporary features and series.
Advertising and digital reconstruction
Commercial work includes Monday.com’s Work Without Limits campaign for Super Bowl LVI, alongside projects for Lexus, Aqua Carpatica, Samsung and other consumer brands. The studio also works on animated shorts and special venue brand experiences.
Its cultural heritage work includes Attractive Romania, a project comprising more than 80 fully computer-generated historical reconstruction films produced in Unreal Engine. This extends the studio’s environment-building capabilities into digital reconstructions as well as entertainment production.
More about StaticVFX
Leadership
- Alin Dumitru is Co-founder and VFX Executive; Liviu Dinu is Co-founder and VFX Supervisor. Their earlier careers included work in London and Vienna and experience at Ubisoft.
Production pipeline and operating practices
- The studio uses Ynput’s open-source AYON platform to manage a pipeline integrating Maya, Houdini, Nuke, ZBrush, Mari, Substance 3D, V-Ray, Arnold, AWS Deadline and Unreal Engine.
- Its production model combines a core in-house team with increased capacity during peak feature and episodic delivery.
- The report describes dedicated dailies and calibrated screening facilities, an isolated server room and high-bandwidth fibre connectivity.
- In 2026, the studio obtained Amazon Content Security clearance and was reported as ISO 27001 compliant. Its Trusted Partner Network assessment was still in progress.
- The studio reports using Romania’s film production and VFX cash rebate scheme, offering up to 30%, when partnering with international production houses.
Recognition and technical detail
- In 2026, StaticVFX was nominated at the 24th Annual Visual Effects Society Awards for Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Photoreal Feature for its work on Dongji Rescue.
- The production’s digital Lisbon Maru vessel measured 140 metres and used textures spanning 240 UDIMs.
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Where StaticVFX is based
- Grigore Manolescu Street, No. 7a, 5th Floor, Sector 1, 011231 Bucharest, RomaniaBucharest, Romania
Bucharest office
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Overall headquarters and sole production studio. The saved city-level location represents this operating facility; the registered corporate seat is a separate legal address.
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