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Company type | Private |
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Industry | Visual effects, Advertising, Experience, Animation |
Founded | 2006Montreal, Canada | , in
Founder | Sébastien Moreau |
Headquarters | 99 Prince Street, Montreal, Quebec , Canada |
Number of locations | 6 |
Key people | Sébastien Moreau (president & VFX supervisor) |
Number of employees | 900 |
Subsidiaries | Mikros Animation |
Website | rodeofx |
Rodeo FX is a high-end visual effects and creative company offering services in visual effects, advertising, animation, and experiential. [1] The company currently has studios in Montreal, Quebec City, Toronto, Vancouver, Paris and Los Angeles.
Rodeo FX was founded in 2006 in Montreal, Canada, by Sébastien Moreau and started producing visual effects for feature films in 2007. In 2013, the company started producing visual effects for television for the first time, creating over 150 visually altered shots for the fourth season of the HBO fantasy series Game of Thrones . [2] In early 2014, it expanded outside of Montreal for the first time, opening an office in Quebec City, which now employs 35 animators and VFX-artists. [3] In December 2014, following its acquisition of the VFX company Hatch FX, Rodeo FX opened an office in Los Angeles. According to Jordan Soles, Rodeo's vice president of technology and development, the step was taken to bring the company closer to the studios, directors and the film development process itself. [4] In November 2017, the company announced the opening of a new office in Munich, Germany, to establish a hub for the visual effects market in Europe, but has since moved to their European office to Paris, France as of June 2023. [5] On March 27, 2025, it was announced that Rodeo FX would acquire Mikros Animation, after Technicolor Group filed for bankruptcy. [6]
The studio's VFX work has been rewarded on many occasions, including an Academy Award and BAFTA for their work on the Golden Compass as well as many Visual Effects Society Award for visual effects; these included two for the television series Game of Thrones and four for motion pictures. The company has also received three Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Effects for its participation in the TV series Game of Thrones as well as three HPA (Hollywood Professional Association) Awards for the same series. [7] [8] [9]
The following list of awards and nominations for Rodeo FX lists accolades that have been presented to a team containing at least one employee of Rodeo FX.
Year | Nominated work | Award | For | Result |
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2007 | The Golden Compass | VES Award | Outstanding Visual Effects in a Visual Effects-Driven Motion Picture | Nominated |
Academy Award | Best Visual Effects | Won | ||
2008 | BAFTA Award | Best Special Visual Effects | ||
2009 | Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull | VES Award | Best Single Visual Effect of the Year (For "Valley Destruction") | Nominated |
Outstanding Matte Paintings in a Feature Motion Picture | ||||
The Day the Earth Stood Still | Best Single Visual Effect of the Year (For "Newborn Klaatu") | |||
2011 | Rango | CFCA Award | Best Animated Film | Won |
Hollywood Film Award | Best Animation | |||
LAFCA Award | Best Animated Film | |||
NBR Award | Best Animated Film | |||
SFFCC Award | Best Animated Feature | |||
WAFCA Award | Best Animated Feature | |||
2012 | Academy Award | Best Animated Feature | ||
Annie Award | Best Animated Feature | |||
BAFTA Award | Best Animated Film | |||
VES Award | Outstanding Animation in an Animated Feature Motion Picture | |||
Critics' Choice Award | Best Animated Feature | |||
OFCS Award | Best Animated Film | |||
Source Code | VES Award | Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Feature Motion Picture | Nominated | |
2013 | The Amazing Spider-Man | VES Award | Outstanding Virtual Cinematography in a Live Action Feature Motion Picture | |
Pacific Rim | Hollywood Film Award | Best Visual Effects | Won | |
2014 | On/Off | Maverick Movie Award | Best VFX | |
Pacific Rim | BAFTA Award | Best Special Visual Effects | Nominated | |
VES Award | Outstanding Visual Effects in an Effects Driven Feature Motion Picture | |||
Annie Award | Outstanding Achievement, Animated Effects in a Live Action Production | Won | ||
Enemy | Canadian Screen Award | Achievement in Visual Effects | Nominated | |
Game of Thrones | Creative Arts Emmy Award | Outstanding Special Visual Effects (Episode "The Children") | Won | |
2015 | VES Award | Outstanding Visual Effects in a Visual Effects-Driven Photoreal/Live Action Broadcast Program (Episode "The Children") | ||
Birdman | Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Feature Motion Picture | |||
2016 | The Walk | VES Award | Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Photoreal Feature | Nominated |
2018 | Game of Thrones | VES Award | Outstanding Effects Simulations in an Episode, Commercial, or Real-Time Project (Episode "The Dragon and The Wolf") | Won |
its third consecutive HPA Awards for Game of Thrones in the "Outstanding Visual Effects – Television" category