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UPP

UPP

VFX & Post-Production
Open roles
1
Founded
1994
Employees
51-200
Offices
4

About UPP

UPP is a Prague-based visual effects and post-production studio operating as Universal Production Partners, a.s. Established in 1994, it works across feature films, television, streaming productions, advertising and film-restoration projects, combining creative supervision with an end-to-end finishing pipeline.

Its visual-effects work includes concept development, previs, VFX supervision, digital compositing, matte painting, CGI environments, character and creature animation, and complex simulations for water, atmospheric effects, pyrotechnics and destruction. The studio also supports productions with VFX element shoots, practical effects integration and miniature work.

Production and finishing capabilities

UPP pairs its VFX departments with post-production services spanning editorial, digital intermediate, color grading, sound post-production, sound design and audio mixing. Its advertising operation provides conception, finishing and multi-platform mastering for commercial work.

The studio has also developed virtual-production and performance-capture capabilities. Its Milín facility supports motion capture, facial performance capture, 3D scanning, LED-volume work and live-action VFX production. UPP’s archival work uses high-resolution film scanning and restoration workflows for film-heritage partners.

Screen work

Selected film and television credits include Blade Runner 2049, All Quiet on the Western Front, Barbie, Extraction 2, Conclave, Nosferatu, Five Days at Memorial, Raised by Wolves, Carnival Row, Das Boot and Children of Dune.

UPP operates from Prague and works with regional group facilities in Central Europe. Its work spans international studio productions, European cinema, streaming series, commercial campaigns, archival restoration and interactive-media projects.

More about UPP

Leadership and history

  • Viktor Müller is a co-founder, CEO and VFX Supervisor; Ing. Vít Komrzý is a co-founder and Chairman of the Board of Directors. Jan Malíř is listed as a board member.
  • UPP developed from an early digital-graphics pioneer in post-communist Central Europe into a long-running VFX and post-production operation.

Capture and restoration infrastructure

  • The Milín facility includes a 405-square-metre performance-capture stage with 108 Vicon optical cameras, a 27-square-metre LED volume, Manus Quantum Metagloves and stereo facial-capture headcams.
  • Its archival department uses an ARRISCAN XT 6K wet-gate scanning workflow for restoration projects with the National Film Archive and the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.

Recognition

  • The research credits UPP’s work with an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects for Blade Runner 2049, and identifies Viktor Müller as the film’s VFX Supervisor.
  • The studio’s listed recognition also includes Television Academy Emmy Awards for Five Days at Memorial and Children of Dune.

Notable credits

10 credits
  • Blade Runner 2049
  • All Quiet on the Western Front
  • Barbie
  • Extraction 2
  • Conclave
  • Nosferatu
  • Five Days at Memorial
  • Raised by Wolves
  • Carnival Row
  • Children of Dune

Offices

Where UPP is based

4 locations
  • UPP Prague

    Headquarters
    Žitomírská 7/489, 101 00 Prague 10, Czech RepublicHlavní město Praha, Czechia

    Headquarters and main studio complex for visual effects, post-production, editorial, grading, 3D scanning and production management.

  • Milin Studio

    11. května (areál ZD) / č.p. 44, 262 31 Milín, Czech RepublicMilín, Středočeský kraj, Czechia

    Motion-capture and virtual-production facility with performance-capture, LED-volume, VFX element-shoot and miniature capabilities.

  • UPP Hungary

    István út 16, 1041 Budapest, HungaryBudapest, Hungary

    Full-service digital production branch providing visual effects, compositing and regional support for film productions.

  • UPP Slovakia

    Grösslingová 4, 811 09 Bratislava, SlovakiaBratislava, Bratislavský kraj, Slovakia

    Production and client-representation branch servicing visual-effects and post-production workflows.

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