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Zoic Studios
Company typePrivate
IndustryVisual effects
Founded2002
Headquarters3582 Eastham Dr., Culver City, California, USA
Key people
Loni Peristere
(Founder, Executive Creative Director)
Chris Jones
(Founder, Executive Creative Director)
Tim McBride
(CFO / COO)
Andrew Orloff
(Executive Creative Director)[1]
Number of employees
150
Websitezoicstudios.com

Zoic Studios is an American visual effects company based in Culver City, California.[1] They specialize in visual effects for feature films, episodic television, commercials, video games, advertising design and interactive online media.[2]

It is an advanced visualization company focused on the intersection of big data, narrative, design and emerging technologies. They provide R&D, agile software development, UI/UX design, and consulting services for a diverse range of clients, both public and private.[3]

History

Loni Peristere talking about Virtual Production in Television at FMX 2012.

Zoic Studios, the Emmy Award-winning[4] visual effects company based in Culver City, California has separate sister facilities in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada[5] and New York City.[6] It is a studio of creative artists, producers and engineers.

Zoic Studios was founded by five partners in 2002 and began as a 15 person company working out of the Sunset Gower Studios lot. Their first project was creating visual effects for the action-western-science fiction television series Firefly.[7]

In September 2002, they moved to Culver City, California, where the company has grown to house 150 employees.[8]

In 2006, Zoic founded Zoic BC, in Vancouver, British Columbia.[9] In 2016, Zoic opened their first East Coast studio in NYC's Hell's Kitchen neighborhood.

Zoic has created visual effects for such TV shows including Sweet Tooth, Underground Railroad, For All Mankind, Superman & Lois, Mosquito Coast, WandaVision, The Right Stuff, The Haunting of Bly Manor, The Stand, Helstrom, Fargo, The Boys, Stargirl, Space Force, NOS4A2, Ozark, Amazing Stories, Godfather of Harlem, Wu-Tang: An American Saga, Good Place, Warrior, The Twilight Zone, Deadly Class, The Walking Dead, The Flash, Cloak & Dagger, Cobra Kai, The Orville, The X-Files, Zoo, When We Rise, Quarry, The Exorcist, Timeless, True Detective, Homeland, Banshee, Breaking Bad, The 100, 24, Sleepy Hollow, Sarah Connor Chronicles, Pan Am, Lucifer, Eureka, CSI, CSI Miami, Criminal Minds, Constantine, Californication, Angel, Firefly, Mad Men, Once Upon a Time,[10] Maniac, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Manifest, Legion, Friends from College, Strange Angel, DC's Legends of Tomorrow, Santa Clarita Diet, Imaginary Mary, Iron Fist, Game of Thrones, The Defenders, Good Behavior, Future Man, The Get Down, Arrow,[11] The 100, Hemlock Grove, Wayward Pines, The Man in the High Castle,[12] A Series of Unfortunate Events, Homeland, Falling Skies, True Blood, V, Fringe, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Battlestar Galactica and feature films which include Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Big Eyes, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, Hot Tub Time Machine 2, Keeping Up with the Joneses, District 9, Zombieland, Spider-Man 2, The Day After Tomorrow, Van Helsing, Fast & Furious, Red and Limitless.[13]

References

  1. ^ "Zoic Tears Up London for 24: Live Another Day Super Bowl Spot". Studio Daily. 7 February 2014.
  2. ^ Los Angeles Times (8 October 2014). "'Once Upon a Time' effects are part of a legacy for Orloff, Zoic Studios". Los Angeles Times.
  3. ^ "From Film FX To The U.S. Department of Defense: Inside Zoic's Revolutionary Lab | Ghostarchive". ghostarchive.org. Retrieved 2024-02-13.
  4. ^ "Zoic Studios wins Emmy for VFX in CSI". 24 August 2010.
  5. ^ "Hollywood North: Vancouver's Zoic Studios brings rain of Emmy nominations to Falling Skies". Archived from the original on 2013-10-28.
  6. ^ "ZOIC OPENS NEW YORK STUDIO, ADDS EP COLLEEN BACHMAN". STASH. 2016-02-09. Retrieved 2017-08-16.
  7. ^ Phillips, Jevon (2014-10-08). "'Once Upon a Time' effects are part of a legacy for Orloff, Zoic Studios". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 2024-02-13.
  8. ^ "Zoic Studios: About Zoic". Zoic Studios. Retrieved 2024-02-13.
  9. ^ "Zoic BC Launches in Vancouver". Animation World Network. Retrieved 2024-02-13.
  10. ^ "'Once Upon a Time' effects are part of a legacy for Orloff, Zoic Studios". Los Angeles Times. 8 October 2014.
  11. ^ "ARROW: Best of VFX by Zoic Studios". 8 December 2016.
  12. ^ "How Designers Created a Nazi-Run World in 'The Man in the High Castle'". Wired. Archived from the original on 2016-08-09.
  13. ^ "With Zoic Studios (Sorted by Popularity Ascending)". IMDb. Retrieved 2023-03-31.

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