FEATHER
- Open roles
- 0
- Founded
- 2015
- Employees
- 11-50
- Offices
- 1
About FEATHER
FEATHER is an independent, artist-led post-production studio founded in Toronto in 2015. Widely known and credited as Studio Feather, it brings together visual effects, colour grading and motion design for commercial advertising agencies, directors and consumer brands across North America. Its design-driven approach connects conceptual art direction with technical post-production, supporting projects from visual development through picture finishing and delivery.
Creative and finishing capabilities
The studio's visual effects work includes CGI integration, compositing, clean-up, rig removal, screen replacements, set extensions and beauty work. Concept art and visual development complement these capabilities, including world-building for seamless continuous-take campaigns. Its finishing services encompass online editorial, conforming and versioning.
Colour grading covers both commercials and long-form productions. Motion design spans 2D and 3D animation, graphic design, titles, animated typography and brand motion systems. Together, these disciplines support work intended for television broadcast, streaming and social media, as well as music videos, short films and public service campaigns.
Selected work
FEATHER's portfolio includes President's Choice's Possible Lives Here, directed by Henry Scholfield, and Crown Royal's Always Been Here. Other projects include FENTY x PUMA's POV: You're a Smurf, WhatsApp's 7 Sent, Nissan's Delivering Thrills and Destination Ontario's We Stand.
Its commercial work also includes campaigns for DoorDash and the NHL, McDonald's Canada, Zevia, Canadian Club, Partake, Adidas, Collective Arts and Kohler. These projects reflect the studio's work across advertising, branded motion and music-related visual production.
More about FEATHER
Founders and leadership
- Co-founders Julian van Mil and Sara Windrim lead the studio. Van Mil is President and Creative Director / Lead VFX Artist; Windrim is Partner and Managing Director.
- The reported leadership team also includes Executive Producer Emily Goldberg and Head of VFX Colin Cunningham, alongside colourists Kevin Wu and Tricia Hagoriles.
Production infrastructure
FilmLight Baselight colour suites and Flame finishing setups are supported by custom AWS cloud pipeline integrations. The report describes these integrations as enabling simultaneous real-time deliveries in multiple aspect ratios for television and social campaigns.
Recognition
FEATHER received an ADC Awards Silver Cube and a CICLOPE VFX nomination for its visual effects on President's Choice's continuous-take campaign Possible Lives Here, directed by Henry Scholfield.
Collaboration and community
The studio collaborates with sister company Oso Audio to coordinate picture finishing, visual effects and motion graphics with sound and music production. Its community activity includes pro-bono creative post-production and hosting industry gatherings such as the Toronto Motion Meetup.
Notable credits
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Where FEATHER is based
- 12 Ossington Ave, 3rd Floor, Toronto, ON M6J 2Y7, CanadaToronto, Ontario, Canada
Toronto office
HeadquartersAbout this office
Overall headquarters and dedicated third-floor studio with Baselight colour-grading suites, online VFX finishing rooms and collaborative motion design spaces.
Open roles
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