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Method Studios is a visual effects company launched in 1999 in Los Angeles, California with facilities in New York, Atlanta, Vancouver, San Francisco, Melbourne, Montreal, and Pune. The company provides production and post-production services including conceptual design, look development, on-set supervision, 3D animation/CGI, matte painting, AR/VR, compositing and finishing.[1]
Some commercial and feature projects produced by Method Studios have been recognized by award bodies such as the Visual Effects Society (VES) and Association of Independent Commercial Producers (AICP).[2][3] Some Method staff have been invited to speak at industry conferences such as SIGGRAPH, NAB, Collider and the VES Production Summit.[4][5]
Affiliations[]
In late 2010, Method Studios was acquired by Deluxe to form part of the Deluxe Entertainment Services Group Inc. This group includes other companies specializing in post-production such as Company 3 (color grading) , Encore (TV post-production and visual effects), and Beast (editorial). Method Studios co-locate with both Company 3 and Beast in Atlanta, share facility space with Company 3 in Los Angeles and New York, and share facility space with Encore in Vancouver.[6] In 2018 Deluxe Entertainment Services Group Inc. acquired the award-winning VFX studio Atomic Fiction, and joined it with Method Studios.[7]
In November 2020 it was announced that Method Studios, along with Company 3 and several of Deluxe's other creative businesses, would be acquired by Framestore.[8]
Clients[]
Method Studios has collaborated on feature films with many top studios such as Warner Bros., Twentieth Century Fox, Walt Disney Studios, Marvel Studios and Paramount. In terms of commercial production, the company maintains working relationships with many award-winning directors such as Noam Murro, Tom Kuntz, Jake Scott, Nicolai Fuglsig and Mark Romanek. Commercial clients include Verizon, DirecTV, Kia Motors, Microsoft, Bridgestone, Chrysler and Canon through agencies David&Goliath, Grey, Goodby, Silverstein & Partners, Twofifteen and TBWA/Chiat Day and many more.[9]
Filmography[]
2000's[]
| Year | Films | Director(s) | Studio(s) and
Distributor(s) |
Budget | Gross |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Changeling | Clint Eastwood | Universal Studios | $55 million | $113.4 million |
| 2009 | Watchmen | Zack Snyder | Warner Bros. Pictures | $130-138 million | $185.3 million |
| Angels & Demons | Ron Howard | Sony Pictures | $150 million | $485.9 million | |
| Invictus | Clint Eastwood | Spyglass Entertainment
Warner Bros. Pictures |
$50-60 million | $122.2 million |
2010's[]
| Year | Film | Director | Studio(s) and
Distributor(s) |
Budget | Gross |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | I'm Here | Spike Jonze | Absolut Vodka | N/A | N/A |
| A Nightmare on Elm Street | Samuel Bayer | New Line Cinema
Platinum Dunes Warner Bros. Pictures |
$35 million | $117.7 million | |
| The Sorcerer's Apprentice | Jon Turteltaub | Jerry Bruckheimer FilmsWalt Disney Pictures | $150 million | $215.3 million | |
| Salt | Philip Noyce | Di Bonaventura Pictures | $110-130 million | $295.3 million | |
| Let Me In | Matt Reeves | Relativity Media | $20 million | $24.1 million | |
| Red | Robert Schwentke | Di Bonaventura Pictures | $60 million | $199 million | |
| 2011 | The Green Hornet | Michael Gondry | Original FilmSony Pictures | $120 million | $229.2 million |
| Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides | $million | $million | |||
| Tree of Life | $million | $million | |||
| X-Men: First Class | $million | $million | |||
| Captain America: The First Avenger | $million | $million | |||
| The Ides of March | $million | $million | |||
| Contagion | $million | $million | |||
| Tower Heist | Brett Ratner | $million | $million | ||
| The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 | $million | $million | |||
| J. Edgar | $million | $million | |||
| Jack and Jill | $million | $million | |||
| New Years Eve | Garry Marshall | $million | $million | ||
| Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance (Iloura) | Neveldine & Taylor | $million | $million | ||
| The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | David Fincher | $million | $million | ||
| Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close | $million | $million | |||
| 2012 | Man on a Ledge | $million | $million | ||
| This Means War | McG | $million | $million | ||
| Wrath of the Titans | $million | $million | |||
| The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! | Peter Lord | $million | $million | ||
| Dark Shadows | Tim Burton | $million | $million | ||
| Men in Black 3 | Barry Sonnenfeld | $million | $million | ||
| Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter | Timur Bekmambetov | $million | $million | ||
| Ted (Iloura) | Seth MacFarlane | $million | $million | ||
| Looper | $million | $million | |||
| Argo (Iloura) | $million | $million | |||
| Flight | Robert Zemeckis | $million | $million | ||
| Cloud Atlas | $million | $million | |||
| 2013 | Beautiful Creatures | $million | $million | ||
| A Good Day to Die Hard | $million | $million | |||
| Iron Man 3 | $million | $million | |||
| After Earth (Iloura) | $million | $million | |||
| White House Down | $million | $million | |||
| The Wolverine (Iloura) | $million | $million | |||
| Riddick | $million | $million | |||
| Thor: The Dark World | Alan Taylor | $million | $million | ||
| The Hunger Games: Catching Fire | Francis Lawrence | $million | $million | ||
| The Wolf of Wall Street | Martin Scorsese | $million | $million | ||
| 2014 | The Monuments Men | $million | $million | ||
| Robocop | $million | $million | |||
| Divergent | Neil Burger | $million | $million | ||
| A Million Ways to Die in the West (Iloura) | Seth MacFarlane | $million | $million | ||
| Transformers: Age of Extinction | Michael Bay | $million | $million | ||
| Guardians of the Galaxy | James Gunn | $million | $million | ||
| Hercules | Brett Ratner | $million | $million | ||
| Into the Storm | $million | $million | |||
| The Maze Runner | $million | $million | |||
| Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb | Shawn Levy | $million | $million | ||
| 2015 | Jupiter Ascending | $million | $million | ||
| The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water (Iloura) | Paul Tibbitt | $million | $million | ||
| Mad Max: Fury Road (Iloura) | $million | $million | |||
| San Andreas | $million | $million | |||
| Ted 2 (Iloura) | Seth MacFarlane | $million | $million | ||
| Ant-Man | Peyton Reed | $million | $million | ||
| The Walk | Robert Zemeckis | $million | $million | ||
| 2016 | Deadpool | Tim Miller | $million | $million | |
| Captain America: Civil War | $million | $million | |||
| Star Trek Beyond | $million | $million | |||
| Ghostbusters (Iloura) | Paul Feig | $million | $million | ||
| Voyage of Time | $million | $million | |||
| Deepwater Horizon (Iloura) | $million | $million | |||
| Doctor Strange | $million | $million | |||
| Allied | Robert Zemeckis | $million | $million | ||
| Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them | $million | $million | |||
| 2017 | Ghost in the Shell | $million | $million | ||
| Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 | James Gunn | $million | $million | ||
| King Arthur: Legend of the Sword | $million | $million | |||
| Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales | $million | $million | |||
| Okja | $million | $million | |||
| Transformers: The Last Knight | $million | $million | |||
| Spider-Man: Homecoming (Iloura) | Jon Watts | $million | $million | ||
| Blade Runner 2049 | $million | $million | |||
| Thor: Ragnarok (Iloura) | Taika Waititi | $million | $million | ||
| Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (Iloura) | Jake Kasdan | $million | $million | ||
| Bright (Iloura) | $million | $million | |||
| 2018 | Black Panther | $million | $million | ||
| A Wrinkle in Time | $million | $million | |||
| Pacific Rim: Uprising | $million | $million | |||
| Tomb Raider (Iloura) | $million | $million | |||
| Avengers: Infinity War | Anthony and Joe Russo | $million | $million | ||
| Deadpool 2 | $million | $million | |||
| Ant-Man and the Wasp | $million | $million | |||
| Skyscraper (Iloura) | $million | $million | |||
| Christopher Robin (Iloura) | $million | $million | |||
| Crazy Rich Asians (Iloura) | $million | $million | |||
| A.X.L. (Iloura) | $million | $million | |||
| The Predator | $million | $million | |||
| Outlaw King | $million | $million | |||
| Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald | $million | $million | |||
| The Christmas Chronicles | Clay Kaytis | $million | $million | ||
| Aquaman | $million | $million | |||
| Welcome to Marwen | Robert Zemeckis | $million | $million | ||
| 2019 | Velvet Buzzsaw | Netflix | $million | $million | |
| Triple Frontier | $million | $million | |||
| John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum | $million | $million | |||
| Godzilla: King of the Monsters | $million | $million | |||
| Rim of the World | $million | $million | |||
| Men in Black: International | $million | $million | |||
| Spider-Man: Far From Home | Jon Watts | $million | $million | ||
| Ad Astra | $million | $million | |||
| Ford v Ferrari | $million | $million | |||
| The Laundromat | $million | $million | |||
| It Chapter Two | Andy Muschietti | $million | $million | ||
| Terminator: Dark Fate | $million | $million | |||
| Doctor Sleep | $million | $million | |||
| Jumanji: The Next Level | Jake Kasdan | $million | $million | ||
| 2020 | Birds of Prey | $million | $million | ||
| Downhill | $million | $million | |||
| Bloodshot | $million | $million | |||
| The New Mutants | $million | $million | |||
| Extraction | $million | $million | |||
| The One and Only Ivan | $million | $million | |||
| The Witches | $million | $million | |||
| The Babysitter: Killer Queen | $million | $million | |||
| Wonder Woman 1984 | $million | $million | |||
| 2021 | Mortal Kombat | $million | $million | ||
| The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It | $million | $million | |||
| The Tomorrow War | $million | $million | |||
| Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings | $million | $million | |||
| Eternals | $million | $million | |||
| 2022 | RRR | $million | $million | ||
| K.G.F: Chapter 2 | |||||
| Top Gun: Maverick |
Commercials[]
Commercial visual effects work produced by Method Studios includes Justin Timberlake's Filthy, Microsoft Surface: Combo, The Battle of Evony, Ford: Be the Guardian of Your Galaxy, and Nature Valley: Swimmer. They also did commercials for Fox NFL Sunday featuring Cleatus
Method Design[]
Method Design is a design arm of Method Studios located within their Los Angeles and New York offices. This group has completed main titles and design for feature films and episodic shows including Godless, American Horror Story, The Night Of, and El Chapo. In addition to the film and trailer markets, Method Design has also done extensive commercial design work with Method Studios' commercial visual effects and finishing teams around the world.[10]
Awards won[]
Visual Effects Society Awards
- 2013, Outstanding Compositing in a Commercial - Chevy '2012 Silverado'
- 2011, Outstanding Visual Effects in a Live Action Commercial - Halo Reach 'Deliver Hope'
AICP Awards
- 2014, VFX - GE 'Childlike Imagination'
- 2013, Animation - DirecTV 'Troll'
- 2011, VFX - Halo Reach 'Deliver Hope'
Clio Awards
- 2014, Silver winner for VFX - DirecTV 'Troll'
- 2012, Gold winner for VFX - Jameson 'Fire'
- 2007, Gold winner for VFX – Adidas ‘Carry’
- 2005, Silver winner for VFX – Sears ‘Arboretum’
London International Awards[11]
- 2013, Bronze for Music Video VFX - Deadmau5 'Professional Greifers'
- 2013, Bronze for Commercial Animation - DirecTV 'Troll'
- 2012, Silver for VFX - Kia 'Share Some Soul'
- 2011, Gold for VFX - Halo Reach 'Deliver Hope'
Australian Effects and Animation Festival (AEAF Awards)
- 2013, Commercial Animation - DirecTV 'Troll'
- 2013, Idents & Stings - SBS 'Fresh History'
- 2013, Music Videos - Deadmau5 'Professional Greifers'
- 2012, Commercial Animation - Kia 'Share Some Soul'
Hollywood Post Alliance Awards[12]
- 2014, VFX - GE 'Childlike Imagination
- 2012, Compositing - Chevy '2012 Silverado'
- 2011, Compositing - Jameson 'Fire'
CICLOPE Awards[13]
- 2014, Gold for Live Action VFX - GE 'Childlike Imagination
- 2013, Bronze for Live Action VFX - DirecTV 'Troll'
- 2012, Silver for Live Action VFX - Halo 4 'The Commissioning'
3D World
- 2011, Best use of CG in Advertising - Halo Reach 'Deliver Hope'
References[]
- ↑ About. method studios. Retrieved on October 12, 2013.
- ↑ 9th Annual VES Awards. Visual Effects Society. Archived from the original on February 2, 2012. Retrieved on October 12, 2013.
- ↑ The Art & Technique of the American Commercial. Aicpshow.com. Retrieved on October 12, 2013.
- ↑ Effects Omelet | SIGGRAPH 2012. S2012.siggraph.org (2012-08-09). Archived from the original on October 14, 2013. Retrieved on October 12, 2013.
- ↑ Stephanie GilgarExecutive Producer/Head of Production,Method Studios LAConference speaker. Collider Events. Retrieved on October 12, 2013.
- ↑ Company 3® and Method Studios Join Beast Editorial in Chicago - CHICAGO, July 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/. Prnewswire.com. Retrieved on October 12, 2013.
- ↑ Deluxe's Method Studios to Acquire Award-Winning VFX Company Atomic Fiction in Continued Global Expansion - LOS ANGELES, July 26, 2018 /PRNewswire/. Prnewswire.com. Retrieved on July 26, 2018.
- ↑ Major VFX Landscape Shake-Up: Framestore Buys Company 3, Method (4 November 2020).
- ↑ method studios. method studios. Retrieved on October 12, 2013.
- ↑ Method Design. Art of the Title. Retrieved on October 12, 2013.
- ↑ London International Awards. Liaawards.com. Retrieved on October 12, 2013.
- ↑ Hollywood Post Alliance, redefining post production™. Hpaonline.com (2012-09-01). Retrieved on October 12, 2013.
- ↑ Ciclope Festival. Ciclope Festival. Retrieved on October 12, 2013.
External links[]
- Method Studios on Internet Movie Database
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- Method Design