VFX Companies Get Animated

Cinesite started off collaborating with Sony Pictures Animation and the Jim Henson Company on The Star (2017) and has gone on to launch The Addams Family franchise with MGM Studios. Eamonn Butler, Head of the Animation Division at Cinesite points out the uniqueness of the animation process when compared to making visual effects for live-action.

The biggest difference is that with visual effects we will be staffing according to the type of shots that we’re going to deliver for a movie but we’re not making the whole thing. In animation you’re making everything, so you start with story and editorial, go into building assets [modeling, texturing] and finally animation.