Scanline VFX

Scanline VFX

Company type	Subsidiary
Industry	Visual effects
Founded	1989;35 years ago (1989), in Munich, Germany
Headquarters	Vancouver , Canada
Number of employees	1,200+ (2021)
Parent	Netflix
Website	www.scanlinevfx.com

Scanline VFX is a global visual effects and animation company founded 1989 in Munich. The studio was led by VFX Supervisor Stephan Trojansky. The company has 7 locations including Munich, Stuttgart, Los Angeles, Vancouver, Montreal, London, and Seoul. ^[1]

Scanline has recently completed work on films from the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) such as Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019), Black Widow , Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings and Eternals (all 2021), and films based on DC Comics such as Zack Snyder's Justice League , The Suicide Squad (both 2021) and The Batman (2022). They have also worked on Terminator: Dark Fate , Gemini Man (both 2019), Godzilla vs. Kong , Free Guy and Don't Look Up (all 2021).

In terms of television, Scanline has worked on Game of Thrones season eight (2019), Shadow and Bone (2021-), Foundation (2021-), Cowboy Bebop (2021) and Stranger Things season four (2022).

In November 2021, Netflix announced that it would acquire Scanline with plans for it to operate as a standalone business working with a variety of clients. ^{[2] [3]} The acquisition closed in the first quarter of 2022. ^[4]

Accolades

Scanline is responsible for the development of its proprietary fluid effects software, Flowline. Scanline was the sole developer of Flowline and in 2008, was the recipient of a Scientific and Technical Achievement Academy Award for the software. ^[5]

In 2010, Scanline was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects for its work on Clint Eastwood's Hereafter , for which it was the sole visual effects vendor. ^[6]

Scanline received a BAFTA nomination for Best Special Visual Effects in 2010 for its work on Iron Man 3 ^[7] as well as a second Academy Award nomination for Best Visual Effects in 2014, for Captain America: The Winter Soldier. ^[8]

In 2010, Scanline won its first Visual Effects Society Award for Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Feature Motion Picture for Hereafter. ^[9] Scanline has two Emmy Awards for Outstanding Special Visual Effects to its credit for its work on Season Four ^[10] and Season Eight ^[11] of Game of Thrones as well as an HPA Award for Outstanding Visual Effects ^[12] and a Visual Effects Society Award for Outstanding Created Environment for episode The Iron Throne. ^[13]

Film and television awards

Year	Project	Award	For	Result
2020	Game of Thrones - The Iron Throne	VES Award	Outstanding Created Environment	Won
2019	Game of Thrones - The Bells	Emmy Award	Special Visual Effects	Won
		HPA Award	Outstanding Visual Effects - Episodic	Won
2010	Captain America: The Winter Soldier	VES Award	Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Motion Picture	Won

Completed projects

• 300
• 2012
• 300: Rise of an Empire
• 6 Underground
• A Good Day to Die Hard
• American Renegades
• Ant-Man and the Wasp
• Aquaman
• Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
• Battleship
• Ben-Hur
• Between Two Ferns: The Movie
• Bird Box
• Black Panther
• Black Widow
• Blackhat
• Bumblebee
• Captain America: The Winter Soldier
• Captain Marvel
• Charlie's Angels
• Cosmos: Possible Worlds
• Divergent
• Exodus: Gods and Kings
• Eternals
• Furious 7
• Game of Thrones
• Gemini Man
• Geostorm
• Godzilla
• Godzilla vs. Kong
• Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
• Gulliver's Travels
• Hereafter
• Hotel Lux
• Immortals
• In the Fade
• In the Heart of the Sea
• Independence Day: Resurgence
• Into the Storm
• Iron Man
• Iron Man 3
• Jim Button and Luke the Engine Driver
• Joker
• Journey 2: The Mysterious Island
• Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
• Justice League
• King Arthur: Legend of the Sword
• Kong: Skull Island
• Looper
• Luther
• Man of Steel
• Midway
• Moonfall
• Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
• Pan
• Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
• Point Break
• Pompeii
• Poseidon
• Power Rangers
• Rampage
• Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
• San Andreas
• Spider-Man: Far From Home
• Stranger Things
• Suicide Squad
• The Suicide Squad
• Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
• Super 8
• Terminator: Dark Fate
• The 5th Wave
• The Amazing Spider-Man
• The Apparition
• The Avengers
• The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
• The Cut
• The First
• The Ghost Writer
• The Golden Glove
• The Goldfish
• The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
• The Invasion
• The Last Airbender
• The Manny
• The Meg
• The Most Beautiful Day
• The Promise
• The Rescue
• The Shallows
• The Wolf of Wall Street
• Tomb Raider
• Transformers: The Last Knight
• Vicky and the Treasure of the Gods
• Vicky the Viking
• Welcome to Germany
• When Santa Fell to Earth  [ de ]
• White House Down
• Who Am I
• X-Men: Dark Phoenix

Filmography

2000s

Year	Films	Directors	Studio(s) and Distributor(s)
2006	300	Zack Snyder	Legendary Pictures Warner Bros. Pictures
	Poseidon	Wolfgang Petersen	Warner Bros. Pictures
2007	The Invasion	Oliver Hirschbiegel	Village Roadshow Pictures Vertigo Entertainment Warner Bros. Pictures
2008	Iron Man	Jon Favreau	Marvel Studios Paramount Pictures
	The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian	Andrew Adamson	Walt Disney Pictures Walden Media Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
2009	Vicky the Viking	Michael Herbig	Constantin Film
	2012	Roland Emmerich	Columbia Pictures Sony Pictures Releasing

2010s

Year	Films	Directors	Studio(s) and Distributor(s)
2010	The Ghost Writer	Roman Polanski	StudioCanal
	Hanni & Nanni	Christine Hartmann	UFA GmbH Universal Pictures International
	The Last Airbender	M. Night Shyamalan	Nickelodeon Movies Paramount Pictures
	Hereafter	Clint Eastwood	The Kennedy/Marshall Company Amblin Entertainment Warner Bros. Pictures
	Gulliver's Travels	Rob Letterman	Dune Entertainment 20th Century Fox
2011	Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides	Rob Marshall	Jerry Bruckheimer Films Walt Disney Studios
	Super 8	J. J. Abrams	Bad Robot Amblin Entertainment Paramount Pictures
	Vicky and the Treasure of the Gods	Christian Ditter	Constantin Film
	Hotel Lux	Leander Haußmann	Bavaria Film
	Immortals	Tarsem Singh	Relativity Media Universal Pictures
	When Santa Fell to Earth  [ de ]	Oliver Dieckmann	Bavaria Film
2012	Battleship	Peter Berg	Hasbro Studios Universal Pictures
	Looper	Rian Johnson	TriStar Pictures FilmDistrict Endgame Entertainment DMG Entertainment Ram Bergman Productions
	The Avengers	Joss Whedon	Marvel Studios Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
	The Amazing Spider-Man	Marc Webb	Columbia Pictures Marvel Entertainment Sony Pictures Releasing
	Journey 2: The Mysterious Island	Brad Peyton	New Line Cinema Walden Media Contrafilm Warner Bros. Pictures
	The Apparition	Todd Lincoln	Dark Castle Entertainment Studio Babelsberg Warner Bros. Pictures (US) StudioCanal (Germany)
	Cloud Atlas	Lana Wachowski Lilly Wachowski Tom Tykwer	Cloud Atlas Productions X Filme Creative Pool Anarchos Productions Warner Bros. Pictures
	Hanni & Nanni 2  [ de ]	Julia von Heinz	UFA Fiction Universal Pictures International
	Zettl  [ de ]	Helmut Dietl	Diana-Film herbX Film Warner Bros.
2013	White House Down	Roland Emmerich	Columbia Pictures Centropolis Entertainment Mythology Entertainment Sony Pictures Releasing
	Iron Man 3	Shane Black	Marvel Studios Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
	Man of Steel	Zack Snyder	Warner Bros. Pictures Legendary Pictures DC Entertainment Syncopy Peters Entertainment
	The Wolf of Wall Street	Martin Scorsese	Red Granite Pictures Appian Way Productions Sikelia Productions EMJAG Productions Paramount Pictures
	A Good Day to Die Hard	John Moore	Giant Pictures TSG Entertainment Temple Hill Entertainment 20th Century Fox
	Snowpiercer	Bong Joon-ho	Moho Film Opus Pictures Union Investment Partners Stillking Films CJ Entertainment Bontonfilm
	Don Jon	Joseph Gordon-Levitt	Voltage Pictures HitRecord Films Ram Bergman Productions Relativity Media
	The Almost Perfect Man	Vanessa Jopp	UFA Fiction Warner Bros. ARD
	Hanni & Nanni 3  [ de ]	Dagmar Seume	UFA Fiction Universal Pictures International
	Girl on a Bicycle	Jeremy Leven	Wiedermann & Berg Filmproduktion Warner Bros.
2014	Who Am I	Baran bo Odar	Deutsche Columbia Pictures Film Produktion Wiedemann & Berg Filmproduktion Seven Pictures Sony Pictures Releasing
	The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1	Francis Lawrence	Color Force Lionsgate
	300: Rise of an Empire	Noam Murro	Legendary Pictures Cruel and Unusual Films Atmosphere Pictures Hollywood Gang Productions Warner Bros. Pictures
	Godzilla	Gareth Edwards	Legendary Pictures Warner Bros. Pictures
	Captain America: The Winter Soldier	Anthony Russo Joe Russo	Marvel Studios Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
	Divergent	Neil Burger	Red Wagon Entertainment Summit Entertainment Lionsgate
	Exodus: Gods and Kings	Ridley Scott	Chemin Entertainment Scott Free Productions Babieka Volcano Films TSG Entertainment 20th Century Fox
	Pompeii	Paul W. S. Anderson	Constantin Film Impact Pictures Sony Pictures Releasing
	Into the Storm	Steven Quale	New Line Cinema Broken Road Productions Village Roadshow Pictures Illumination Entertainment Warner Bros. Pictures
	The Cut	Fatih Akin	NDR Pandora Film Verleih
	Big Game	Jalmari Helander	EuropaCorp Subzero Film Entertainment Bavaria Film Partners Relativity Media
	Beauty and the Beast	Christophe Gans	Eskwad Pathé Studio Babelsberg Concorde Filmverleih
	Joy of Fatherhood	Matthias Schweighöfer	Pantaleon Films Wiedermann & Berg Filmproduktion Warner Bros.
2015	Furious 7	James Wan	MRC Original Film One Race Films China Film Co., Ltd. Universal Pictures
	San Andreas	James Wan	New Line Cinema Village Roadshow Pictures RatPac-Dune Entertainment Flynn Picture Company Warner Bros. Pictures
	In the Heart of the Sea	Ron Howard	Village Roadshow Pictures Roth Films Imagine Entertainment RatPac-Dune Entertainment Warner Bros. Pictures
	Point Break	Ericson Core	Alcon Entertainment Studio Babelsberg Warner Bros. Pictures
	Blackhat	Michael Mann	Legendary Pictures Forward Pass Universal Pictures
	Pan	Joe Wright	Berlanti Productions RatPac-Dune Entertainment Warner Bros. Pictures
	The Manny	Matthias Schweighöfer	Erfttal Film ARRI Productions Pantaleon Films Warner Bros. Pictures
	Macho Man  [ de ]	Christof Wahl	Bavaria Pictures Conrad Film Erfttal Film Universum Film (UFA)
2016	Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice	Zack Snyder	Warner Bros. Pictures RatPac-Dune Entertainment DC Entertainment Atlas Entertainment Cruel and Unusual Films
	Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children	Tim Burton	Chemin Entertainment Tim Burton Productions TSG Entertainment 20th Century Fox
	Rogue One: A Star Wars Story	Gareth Edwards	Lucasfilm Ltd. Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
	Suicide Squad	David Ayer	Warner Bros. Pictures RatPac-Dune Entertainment DC Films Atlas Entertainment
	The 5th Wave	J Blakeson	Columbia Pictures L Star Capital GK Films Sony Pictures Releasing
	The Shallows	Jaume Collet-Serra	Columbia Pictures Sony Pictures Releasing
	Ben-Hur	Timur Bekmambetov	Paramount Pictures Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures
	Independence Day: Resurgence	Roland Emmerich	20th Century Fox TSG Entertainment Centropolis Entertainment Electric Entertainment
	The Most Beautiful Day	Florian David Fitz	Pantaleon Films Erfttal Film Warner Bros.
	The Promise	Terry George	Survival Pictures Open Road Films
	Welcome to Germany	Simon Verhoeven	Wiedemann & Berg Filmproduktion Sentana Film Seven Pictures Film Warner Bros.
	The Wild Soccer Bunch 6	Joachim Masannek	Bayerische Banken-Fonds SamFilm Produktion Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
	Seitenwechsel  [ de ]	Vivian Naefe	Odeon Fiction SevenPictures Film Warner Bros.
	Antonio, in Wonderland!	Sven Unterwaldt Jr.	Bavaria Pictures 20th Century Fox
	Manhunt: Escape to the Carpathians  [ de ]	Dominik Graf	W&B Television Global Screen
	Friend Request	Simon Verhoeven	Wiedemann & Berg Filmproduktion Seven Pictures Film Two Oceans Productions Warner Bros. Pictures
2017	Power Rangers	Dean Israelite	Lionsgate Films Temple Hill Entertainment SCG Films
	Geostorm	Dean Devlin	Warner Bros. Pictures Skydance Media Electric Entertainment Warner Bros. Pictures
	Kong: Skull Island	Jordan Vogt-Roberts	Legendary Pictures Tencent Pictures Warner Bros. Pictures
	Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2	James Gunn	Marvel Studios Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
	Renegades	Steven Quale	EuropaCorp Studio Babelsberg Universum Film
	Justice League	Zack Snyder	Warner Bros. Pictures DC Films RatPac-Dune Entertainment Atlas Entertainment Cruel and Unusual Films
	King Arthur: Legend of the Sword	Guy Ritchie	Warner Bros. Pictures Village Roadshow Pictures Warner Bros. Pictures
	Transformers: The Last Knight	Michael Bay	Paramount Pictures Hasbro Studios
	Teenosaurus Rex  [ de ]	Leander Haußmann	Constantin Film
	Bullyparade: The Film	Michael Herbig	Herbx Film Warner Bros. Pictures Germany
	In the Fade	Fatih Akin	Bombero International Warner Bros. Film Productions Germany Pathé Warner Bros. Pictures Germany
2018	Tomb Raider	Roar Uthaug	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Warner Bros. Pictures GK Films Square Enix
	The Meg	Jon Turteltaub	Gravity Pictures Di Bonaventura Pictures Warner Bros. Pictures
	Black Panther	Ryan Coogler	Marvel Studios Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
	Aquaman	James Wan	Warner Bros. Pictures DC Entertainment DC Films RatPac Entertainment
	Ant-Man and the Wasp	Peyton Reed	Marvel Studios Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
	Rampage	Brad Peyton	New Line Cinema Warner Bros. Pictures
	Bird Box	Susanne Bier	Bluegrass Films Chris Morgan Productions Netflix
	Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom	J. A. Bayona	Amblin Entertainment Legendary Pictures The Kennedy/Marshall Company Perfect World Pictures Universal Pictures
	Balloon	Michael Herbig	StudioCanal
	Bumblebee	Travis Knight	Allspark Pictures Di Bonaventura Pictures Tencent Pictures Paramount Pictures
	Jim Button and Luke the Engine Driver	Dennis Gansel	Warner Bros. Film Productions Germany Malao Film Studio Babelsberg Rat Pack Filmproduktion Constantin Film Michael Ende Productions
	Hot Dog	Torsten Künstler	Pantaleon Films Warner Bros.
2019	X-Men: Dark Phoenix	Simon Kinberg	20th Century Fox Marvel Entertainment TSG Entertainment Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
	6 Underground	Michael Bay	Skydance Bay Films Netflix
	Captain Marvel	Anna Boden Rylan Fleck	Marvel Studio Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
	Gemini Man	Ang Lee	Skydance Jerry Bruckheimer Films Fosun Pictures Alibaba Pictures Paramount Pictures
	Spider-Man: Far From Home	Jon Watts	Columbia Pictures Marvel Studios Pascal Pictures Sony Pictures Releasing
	Joker	Todd Phillips	Warner Bros. Pictures Village Roadshow Pictures Bron Creative Joint Effort DC Films
	Terminator: Dark Fate	Tim Miller	20th Century Fox Skydance Media Tencent Pictures TSG Entertainment Lightstorm Entertainment Paramount Pictures
	Midway	Roland Emmerich	Summit Entertainment Centropolis Entertainment AGC Sudios Lionsgate
	Between Two Ferns: The Movie	Scott Aukerman	Funny or Die Billios Productions Netflix
	The Golden Glove	Fatih Akin	Bombero International Warner Bros. Film Productions Germany Pathé Film Warner Bros. Pictures
	Charlie's Angels	Elizabeth Banks	Columbia Pictures Perfect World Pictures 2.0 Entertainment Brownstone Entertainment Sony Pictures Releasing
	The Goldfish	Alireza Golafshan	Wiedemann & Berg Filmproduktion Sony Pictures Releasing

2020s

Year	Films	Directors	Studio(s) and Distributor(s)
2020	NightLife
	Jim Button and the Wild 13	Dennis Gansel	Rat Pack Filmproduktion Warner Bros. Film Productions Germany Jänsch & Meyers Filmproduktionsgesellschaft Malao Film Michael Ende Productions Global Screen
	The Wrong Missy
	The Rescue
2021	Black Widow
	Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
	The Suicide Squad
	Godzilla vs. Kong
	Eternals
	Don't Look Up
	Tides
	Reminiscence
	Blood Red Sky
	Free Guy
	The Battle at Lake Changjin
2022	Moonfall
	The Gray Man
	The Adam Project
	The Batman
	Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
	Slumberland
	Black Adam
	Rheingold
	A Thousand Lines
	Me Time
2023	Shazam! Fury of the Gods
	The Flash
	Creation of the Gods I: Kingdom of Storms
	Meg 2: The Trench
	Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom
	Nyad
	Spy Kids: Armageddon
	Rebel Moon Part One: A Child of Fire
2024	Rebel Moon Part Two: The Scargiver
	Atlas
	Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F
	Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire

Upcoming Projects

Year	Films	Directors	Studio(s) and Distributor(s)
2024	Joker: Folie À Deux

TV Series

Year(s)	Name of Series	Network
2011	Moby Dick	TMG
2011	Game of Thrones	HBO
2015	Line of Separation	ZDF
2016	Stranger Things	Netflix
2018	The First	Hulu, Channel 4
2020	Cosmos: Possible Worlds	National Geographic
2021	Cowboy Bebop	Netflix
	Lisey's Story	Apple TV+
	The Nevers	HBO
	Foundation	Apple TV+
	Blackout	Joyn
	Shadow and Bone	Netflix
	Kitz	Netflix
2022	Andor	Disney+
2023	Yu Yu Hakusho	Netflix
2024	3 Body Problem	Netflix
	Avatar: The Last Airbender	Netflix

References

1. "About". scanlinevfx.com. Retrieved 2020-03-13.
2. "Netflix to Acquire Scanline VFX, Effects Studio That Has Worked on Stranger Things,Cowboy Bebop,Eternals and More". Variety. 22 November 2021. Retrieved 2021-11-22.
3. "Bringing More VFX Magic to Our Members With the Acquisition of Scanline VFX". Netflix Media Center (Press release). Retrieved 2021-12-15.
4. "Netflix Q1 2022 SEC filing". US SEC Edgar filings. Retrieved 2023-07-31.
5. "The 80th Scientific & Technical Awards 2008". oscars.org. 8 October 2014. Retrieved 2020-03-13.
6. "The 83rd Academy Awards 2011". oscars.org. 7 October 2014. Retrieved 2020-03-13.
7. "Film | Special Visual Effects in 2014". awards.bafta.org. Retrieved 2020-03-13.
8. "The 86th Academy Awards 2014". awardsdatabase.oscars.org. 7 October 2014. Retrieved 2020-03-13.
9. "9th Annual VES Awards". visualeffectssociety.com. 11 March 2019. Retrieved 2020-03-13.
10. "66th Emmy Awards Nominees and Winners". emmys.com. Retrieved 2020-03-13.
11. "71st Emmy Awards Nominees and Winners". emmys.com. Retrieved 2020-03-13.
12. "2019 HPA Awards". hpaonline.com. Retrieved 2020-03-13.
13. "18th Annual VES Awards". visualeffectssociety.com. 19 February 2020. Retrieved 2020-03-13.

External links

• Official website