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Tantrum Studio

VFX & Post-Production
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Founded
2008
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11-50
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About Tantrum Studio

Tantrum Studio is an artist-driven visual effects, animation, colour grading and post-production boutique based in Toronto, Ontario. Established in February 2008, it began as a creative design and animation initiative associated with TOPIX and developed into a studio offering integrated visual effects and finishing. Its work spans commercials, broadcast packages, branded content, music videos, film titles and experiential installations.

The studio brings together design, animation and post-production capabilities for projects requiring both stylized imagery and photorealistic integration. Its visual effects work includes compositing, cleanup, rotoscoping, matte painting, CG integration and on-set visual effects supervision. Animation capabilities cover character animation and motion design, alongside 3D modelling, rigging, texturing and lighting. These disciplines support advertising and other short-form productions from visual development through finished imagery.

Finishing and visual production

Colour grading and online finishing form a substantial part of Tantrum’s offering. The studio handles conforming, versioning, timeline management, colour-space transformations and quality control for broadcast and digital delivery. Bringing these services together allows animation, effects and colour work to contribute to the final presentation of a campaign. Its broader production offering also includes live action, architectural projection mapping and immersive VR and AR content.

Tantrum works with North American advertising agencies and commercial production companies across consumer brands, public institutions and nonprofit campaigns. Its portfolio includes national advertising, character-driven commercial work and visual content designed for large public displays. This range connects its design background with the technical demands of contemporary commercial post-production.

Selected projects include visual effects and finishing for IKEA’s 50th Anniversary – Rams Nest, colour and online finishing for Special Olympics Canada’s Joy Is Gold, and visual effects and online work for the Terry Fox Foundation’s Finish It. Beyond advertising, the studio contributed to the opening titles for Guillermo del Toro’s Crimson Peak in collaboration with IAMSTATIC and TOPIX, and created architectural projection content for Canada’s Wonderland’s Wonder Mountain.

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Leadership

  • Dominik Bochenski is identified as owner, Creative Director and Colorist.
  • Victoria Holt serves as Executive Producer, and Rebecca MacKillop is identified as a Producer.

Production methods and operating model

The studio’s pipeline combines Foundry Nuke, Autodesk Maya and DaVinci Resolve, with Nuke Studio also used for finishing and delivery. Its Tantrum AI division explores AI-assisted finishing workflows.

A permanent creative and production roster is supplemented by project-specific contract compositors and 3D animators. US commercial representation is handled independently through ATRBUTE.

Industry recognition

Applied Arts’ 2025 awards listing for OLG’s Thrift Drop credits Tantrum Post, Dominik Bochenski and Victoria Holt for post-production and visual effects.

Notable credits

24 credits
  • IKEA — 50th Anniversary – Rams Nest
  • OLG — LOTTO MAX Thrift Drop
  • OLG — LOTTO 6/49 Find Your Possible
  • Special Olympics Canada — Joy Is Gold
  • Terry Fox Foundation — Finish It
  • CAA South Central Ontario — Slow Down, Move Over
  • Aquamar — Break Free from Chicken Sanity
  • Ontario Power Generation — Superpowers
  • Sephora — Pretty Badass 60
  • Buckley's — Nothing Haunts Like a Nasty Cold
  • FIFA World Cup / Aramco — World Cup Commercial & BTS Breakdown
  • Crimson Peak — opening titles, in collaboration with IAMSTATIC and TOPIX
  • Canada's Wonderland — Wonder Mountain Projection Mapping
  • Air Canada — Tyler's Walk
  • Air Canada — Pond
  • Air Canada — Ticket to Dream
  • Kellogg's — Cereal Celly
  • Ford — Orb
  • Pillsbury — Best Day Ever
  • Simons — Dress Yourself
  • Public Mobile — Café
  • Kruger — Love Is Messy
  • Rust-Oleum — Colour Spark
  • TD Bank — Rollercoaster

Offices

Where Tantrum Studio is based

1 location

  • Toronto offices

    Headquarters
    Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    About this office

    **Office** Status: active Headquarters Address: 540 College Street, Suite 200, Toronto, Ontario, M6G 1A6, Canada Email: victoria@tantrum.studio Phone: +1 416-351-7777 Sole active studio and overall headquarters, housing production suites, colour grading bays, compositing workstations, leadership and administration. --- **Office** Status: inactive / historical Address: 35 McCaul Street, Toronto, Ontario, M5T 1V7, Canada Opened: 2008 Former founding premises shared with TOPIX at Tantrum’s launch in 2008. Tantrum subsequently consolidated operations at College Street; its departure year is not supplied.

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