Studio Element
- Open roles
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- Founded
- 2005
- Employees
- 11-50
- Offices
- 2
About Studio Element
Studio Element is a Québec City post-production and visual effects studio founded in 2005 by Jean-François Dugal and Éric Denis. Its work spans feature films, episodic television, advertising, music videos, and immersive cultural experiences. The studio brings creative editing, image finishing, and visual effects together across projects ranging from narrative productions to museum installations.
Picture post-production and visual effects
The studio provides offline creative editing, online conform, and color grading, alongside VFX supervision and compositing. Its visual effects capabilities include CG character creation, matte painting, and digital environment construction, supported by on-set supervision, previs, postvis, and motion design. These services connect work undertaken during production with the subsequent development and finishing of screen imagery.
Color grading takes place in calibrated projection and grading suites. Beyond creative image work, Studio Element handles delivery, versioning, mastering, and technical quality control. Its broader capabilities also include digital archival work and tape transfer or digitization, supporting both new productions and existing audiovisual material.
Work across screen formats
The studio's feature-film work includes editing and color grading for Katak le brave béluga and Félix et le trésor de Morgäa, as well as editing, grading, and VFX for Nelly et Simon : Mission Yéti. Other projects include television and web series, commercial campaigns, and music videos, with its contribution varying according to each production's needs.
Immersive and interactive media form another part of its practice. The studio creates and finishes visuals for exhibitions and experiential displays, extending its post-production capabilities into cultural environments beyond conventional cinema and television presentation.
Over its history, Studio Element expanded into Montréal before consolidating its physical operations in Québec City. A management and ownership succession in September 2026 brought longtime team members into executive leadership, while the founders continued contributing through specialist creative roles.
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Leadership and continuity
- General Director Laurie C. Laberge had spent 17 years at the studio by her September 2026 appointment, progressing from technical coordination through project management and post-production producing.
- Thierry Roussel-Garneau serves as VFX Supervisor. Co-founders Jean-François Dugal and Éric Denis continue as Special Projects Producer and Colorist, respectively.
- René Caron leads post-production workflow optimization.
Production collaboration
Production Element was founded in 2013 by Dugal and Denis as a separate production vehicle to develop, produce, and market original film and television content internationally. TORQ Le Groupe also acts as a major commercial client, adding a production relationship to its investment role.
Industry participation
The studio maintains ties with the Bureau du cinéma et de la télévision du Québec and the Table de concertation de l'industrie du cinéma et de la télévision de la Capitale-Nationale.
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Where Studio Element is based
- 200, rue Lalemant, suite 15, Québec (QC) G1K 0C2, CanadaQuébec City, Quebec, Canada
Québec City office
HeadquartersAbout this office
Overall headquarters and sole current physical studio, housing editing suites, a color grading theater, technical direction, and VFX workstations.
- Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Montreal office
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