A week prior to the industry winter break, the client for Outer Banks reached out to Chicken Bone FX concerned about a few scenes of set extension shots that would not hit the show deadline with the current vendor. We took on the work close to the start of the break and had a handful of artists take time over the break to work on shots for this project. We did a wide set extension of an ancient temple placed into a valley setting. We also grunged (maybe we made that word up) up an airport matte painting to make it look run down. It was tough, creative work that ended up really impressing the c ..read more

Chicken Bone FX Studios presents two new reels for your enjoyment.  In these reels, you can see a little sampling of what we have been working on over the last year. Visual effects include Fire/Smoke Sims, Crowds, DMP, DigiDoubles, Environments, Vehicles, Planes, Destruction, Blood, Fluids, Screen Comps, Blue Screen, Green Screen, and more, oh my!   Shows represented in no particular order for the 2022 Primary Reel: SEE Foundation The Sandman  The Queen’s Gambit  Hacks Halston     Chicken Bone FX Studios 2022 Primary VFX Reel https://chicken-bone.com/wp-content ..read more

Chicken Bone FX Hires BREAK+ENTER VFX Team BREAK+ENTER’s Closure Opens an Opportunity for Chicken Bone FX Studios   Manhattan Beach, CA —Chicken Bone FX Studios, a boutique visual effects company specializing in visual effects for high-end series television, announced today they had seized an opportunity to hire a talented team of professionals from BREAK+ENTER, a  visual effects company that was forced to shut its doors.  BREAK+ENTER was headquartered in New York City, NY where Chicken Bone FX also has an office, in addition to its headquarters in Manhattan Beach, CA.  The ..read more

Chicken Bone FX has taken its’ technology next level with pixitmedia. Source:  https://pixitmedia.com/pixitmedia-powers-cloud-workflow-at-chicken-bone-fx-studios/   Chicken Bone FX Studios has teamed up with pixitmedia and Konsistent Consulting to design a bespoke, high-performance, and intelligent data-managed solution running in the Cloud. Based on pixstor secured workstations connected by ngenea to AWS, the new agile and scalable collaborative workflow serves high-end film and TV clients, with the artistry of the best visual effects talent located anywhere in the world. Chicken B ..read more

Foundation on Apple TV Plus was a blast to work on.  It has now won two VES awards:  Outstanding Visual Effects in a Photoreal Episode for “The Emperor’s Peace” and Outstanding Effects Simulations in an Episode, Commercial, or Real-Time Project for “Collapse of the Galactic Empire.”   Check out our visual effects breakdown on Foundation. Chicken Bone FX visual effects CREDITS for Foundation: Johnny Renzulli Aaron Kupferman Alana Coddaire Alex Gitler Anthony Kramer Arissa Blasingame Arslan Naqvi Austin Blasingame Brendan Fitzgerald Chris Hart Christian Boudman Christian Pe ..read more

Chicken Bone FX’s work on SEE spanned 6 episodes of season 2. The work ran the gamut from simple paint and cleanup fixes to matte painted backgrounds, day for night conversions, CG set extensions, and crowds, to extended battle sequences with CG swords, arrows, crossbow bolts, blood sprays, decapitations, and trenches filled with fire. Over the course of the show, our scope of work increased several times, ending up more than doubling the size of our initial bid.  It was tough work, but we were happy to do it. The most complex work was in the final episode, 208, which features a climactic ..read more

What We Are Grateful For This Year We love Thanksgiving– it’s such a great time to pause, reflect, and embrace gratitude.  We’ve been doing some fun things over Slack these past few days and thought we’d share with you what we are thinking about.  Our entire company is still working remotely from home except for about four folks who like to pop into an office every now and then.  Of course, most of us worked remotely for Chicken Bone FX pre-pandemic so there’s not much of a change here.  It takes a ton of intentionality to build human connection into a fully remote organiza ..read more

Today we honor all of those who lost their lives, lost loved ones, and are still haunted either physically, mentally, or both by the events of 9/11.  This year marks the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks that took place in New York and Washington on September 11, 2001.  On that morning, 2,753 people were killed at the World Trade Center in Manhattan when two hijacked flights crashed into the iconic Twin Towers. A further 184 people died when another plane crashed into the Pentagon, and all 40 passengers and crew onboard United Airlines Flight 93 ..read more

SEE season 2 has arrived on Apple TV+ as of August 27, 2021.  In a short amount of time, it has already set a new ratings benchmark for the streamer.   Awarded the Ruderman Family Foundation Seal of Authentic Representation, See is set in a brutal and primitive future, hundreds of years after humankind has lost the ability to see.  Headlined by Jason Momoa SEE also stars Dave Bautista and Alfre Woodard.  SEE is created and written by Steven Knight who executive produces alongside Francis Lawrence, Peter Chernin, Jenno Topping, Jim Rowe, and Jonathan Tropper, who a ..read more

The Chicken Bone FX team hopes you watch two shows that premiere this week which both happen to start with an “H”– “Hacks” and “Halston!”  Yes, we are nerds and these types of anomalies tickle us.  The types of visual effects our talented artists used for these shows will be invisible to the average viewer….let’s see if you can spot them. #compositing Hacks “Hacks” premieres its first three episodes Thursday, May 13 on HBO Max. Two new episodes will be released on subsequent Thursdays until the finale on June 10.  Jean Smart headlines in this showbiz story about an aging success ..read more