Stockyard
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- Founded
- 2024
- Employees
- 1-10
- Offices
- 1
About Stockyard
Stockyard is a boutique visual-effects, CGI, animation and motion-design studio founded in late 2024. Working across commercial post-production, it combines creative development, on-set visual-effects supervision and finishing capabilities with a Bozeman-based creative hub and a distributed network of specialist collaborators across the United States.
Its work spans the journey from early visual planning through final delivery. The studio develops concepts, visual systems and previsualization, then supports productions with technical creative direction, compositing, motion tracking and plate integration. Its CG and 3D capabilities include modelling, texturing and shading, simulations, animation, environments, lighting and rendering.
Post-production capabilities
- Visual effects and clean-up: compositing, keying, roto and matte work, sky replacements and object removals
- Animation and design: 2D and 3D animation, motion graphics, typography, infographics, logo animation and UI design
- Finishing: editing, colour grading and sound design
- Creative development: concept work, creative direction, technical strategy, digital and web design, brand guidelines and iconography
Stockyard serves advertising and brand campaigns as well as sports, outdoor recreation, consumer goods, optics, automotive, action-sports, entertainment and live-event work. Its portfolio includes visual-effects, CG, motion-design and post-production projects for Adidas, Arc'teryx, LMNT, Leica Sports Optics, Oakley, Sig Sauer, the NFL, Oregon Ducks, Fox Racing and Live Nation.
The studio works closely with Mission Ranch Studios on integrated commercial productions: Mission Ranch handles live-action production, while Stockyard provides dedicated VFX, CGI, animation and technical post-production. The companies are legally and functionally distinct, but their collaboration can carry projects from concept and filming through visual finishing and delivery.
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Leadership and operating approach
Stockyard's managing partners are visual-effects artist Josiah Schwahn, commercial director Chase DeOpsomer, VFX supervisor Will Bachman and Annika Danenhauer. Ruel Smith is Executive Creative Director, and Jonathan Crabtree leads business operations.
The studio describes its approach as pairing creativity with execution, with deliberate attention to tooling, implementation, workflow refinement and production processes. Its name draws on historical stockyards as places where raw materials are assembled and prepared—an analogy for refining creative ideas, 3D assets, animation and live-action plates into finished imagery.
Shared production history
Stockyard and Mission Ranch Studios spent more than two years converting an old woodshop into their full-time studio and production facility. Although they collaborate on commercial pipelines, the businesses retain distinct legal structures, specialties and branding.
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Where Stockyard is based
- 130 North Rocky Creek Road, Bozeman, MT 59715Bozeman, Montana, United States
Bozeman office
HeadquartersPhysical core creative studio with distributed remote operations across the United States.
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