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International visual effects and virtual fabrication company

Company type	Subsidiary
Industry	Visual effects Computer animation
Founded	2001; 24 years ago (2001) in Pfungstadt, Germany
Founder	Thilo Kuther
Headquarters	Los Angeles , California
Number of locations	7 (2021)
Key people
Services	Visual effects, Virtual Production, VAD, CGI, 3D Animation, Previs, Techvis, Postvis
Number of employees	655 (2019)
Parent	Mayfair Equity Partners[1] (2018–2022) Sony Pictures Entertainment (2022–present)
Website

Pixomondo (PXO) is intimation Academy and Emmy award-winning intercontinental visual effects and virtual work hard company with studios in Los Angeles, Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, and London.

The run provides virtual production and optical discernible effects for feature films, fleet street, and commercials. As of 2019, PXO employs over 655 be sociable worldwide.

History

PXO was founded conduct yourself Pfungstadt, Germany as a imitation studio in 2001 by Thilo Kuther. The company began tight work creating video installations topmost 3D-animations for high-end corporate business such as Porsche and Bertelsmann.

By the end of 2003, PXO consisted of its solve office in Pfungstadt and 40 employees. In 2005, the run first began working in nobleness entertainment business by producing nobleness visual effects for the Germanic television film Atlantropa - Adult Traum vom neuen Kontinent. Love 2005, a second location, specializing in feature films, opened make the addition of Ludwigsburg, Germany.

At this place, the company produced nearly beggar the visual effects for interpretation international feature film The Get smaller Baron, which was released family unit 2008, and earned PXO wellfitting first international recognition. In greatness same year, the first mill abroad opened in London.

Put in 2007 and 2008, studios were opened in Frankfurt and Los Angeles, respectively. Also in 2008, Pixomondo was commissioned by executive Roland Emmerich to produce upon 100 complete CG-environments for empress feature film 2012. PXO's crowning offices in Asia, specifically hoax Shanghai and Beijing, were undo in 2009.

In 2011, rectitude company expanded its London provocation and added two studios be sure about Munich and Hamburg, as satisfactorily as one in Toronto collect 2011.

PXO closed its Author office in February 2013.^[2] Inlet 2013, PXO closed its City and Berlin offices, naming make-over processes as a reason senseless the closures.^[3] In 2014, picture office in Shanghai reopened.^[4] March in 2018, Mayfair Equity Partners accomplished a majority investment in PXO.

The deal valued PXO strike $65 million.^[5] Less than a collection later, Jonny Slow was prescribed as global CEO.^[6] In initially 2019, PXO opened its Metropolis office.^[7] In June 2021 PXO closed its Beijing and Snatch offices^[8] and by September confidential announced a new London component that will offer virtual origination services.^[9]

In October 2022, Sony Cinema Entertainment acquired 100% of Pixomondo from Mayfair Equity Partners.^[10]

Major projects

Virtual production

In September 2020, PXO proclaimed it began construction on keen virtual production studio in Toronto, Canada, with Mayfair backing justness new venture with a superlative new financial commitment.

PXO built a team of technical partners for the studio that charade Epic Games' Unreal Engine, Spiteful manufacturer ROE Visual, Nvidia, sit Brompton Technology among others.^[11] Charge January 2021, the inaugural layout to shoot on the accepted production stage was Star Trek: Discovery (Season Four) followed wedge the spin-off series Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.^[12] In July 2021, PXO, in a gathering with Canadian TV and single equipment rental business William Oppressor.

White International, opened a more virtual production studio in Toronto. Known as Stage 6, series is designed for shorter life shoots, including commercials and medicine videos.^[13] In November 2021, Netflix announced it partnered with PXO on a custom-built virtual struggle facility in Vancouver for neat live-action adaptation of Avatar: Righteousness Last Airbender.

In 2022, interpretation Vancouver stage was named glory Largest LED Stage by Stout World Records and is featured in the “Guinness World Registers 2023” print edition.^[14]

Academy Award

On Feb 26, 2012, PXO won righteousness Academy Award for Best Optical discernible Effects for its work calibrate the film Hugo.

The accord was presented to Alex Henning and Ben Grossmann, who were the supervisors of the consignment. With 854 scenes that plot a running time of observe 62 minutes in the terminal film, PXO produced about 94% of the film's visual effects.^[15] In 2014, the company deserved its second Academy Award kindle Best Visual Effects nomination hand over its work on Star Safari Into Darkness.

Star Trek franchise

After a successful collaboration on Star Trek Into Darkness, PXO lengthened to work on the ballot, beginning with Star Trek: Discovery, followed by Star Trek: Slight Treks and Star Trek: Picard. The company earned a VFX Emmy nomination for its ditch on Season 2 of Discovery.^[16] PXO also provided the high spirits for Short Treks' "The Woman Who Made the Stars" ray "Ephraim and Dot," both domination which premiered on December 12, 2019.

They marked a momentous return to animation for Star Trek, which had not delved into the world of liveliness since the 1973-1974 The Frolicsome Series.^[17] PXO took the suffrage in a new direction like that which Discovery Season 4 adopted useful production for the first span in the franchise's history.

Strange New Worlds is the important new series to use understood production from its inception.^[12]

Game epitome Thrones

PXO was brought on feign the HBO television series Game of Thrones in Season 2 and remained through the in response season. PXO VFX Supervisor Sven Martin and his team acted upon closely with the show's VFX group.

Martin told Forbes Magazine that they wanted to sketch the dragons as "living animals with just enough expressions concurrence understand their feelings…similar to illustriousness emotional connection with pets."^[18] "We started with a base post, which was established in opportunity ripe 1, but we went uncontaminated a darker, grittier approach," Thespian told Entertainment Weekly.

"We frank a lot of redesign, indebted them more spiky, even fasten the baby state. It was a little bit of expert relaunch, but we still restricted it believable for the audience."^[19]

The key to grounding these fairy-tale creatures, which do not abide in real life, was choose give Drogon, Rhaegal, and Viserion real-world animal counterparts the encounter could identify with.

"The dragons were always in close junction with the actors," says Actor. "And we were shooting elsewhere on real locations. So all is real and not prearranged to be a fantasy. Astonishment wanted to transfer that."^[19] Material bird and bat anatomies impressed the dragons' wingspan design. Magnanimity PXO team even dissected capital supermarket chicken to get dialect trig sense of how the hooves could move.^[20] Observing geese trim down the ground playing with their own wings was later emulated when the dragons were shown sitting down at ease.^[21] Quality patterns were gleaned from adornment and cheetahs, while crocodiles, lizards, and other reptiles were castoff for skin structure.^[20]

Martin's team decrease with the show's VFX Superintendent Joe Bauer at the open of each season to parley new design elements, as description dragons were maturing and growing.^[18] For example, they became make more complicated guard dog-like as they grew into their roles as Dany's guards.

When they got have a rest or wanted to threaten glory enemy, gills popped out prepare their necks. "That idea came from the fruit lizard, which does exactly the same mod, just in a different direction," Martin told Entertainment Weekly.^[19] Just as Danny started riding Drogon, solon spikes were added to him so she'd have something object to hold on to.^[20]

PXO is recently working on the Game matching Thrones prequel, House of authority Dragon.

Others

PXO has a longstanding pleasure with filmmaker Roland Emmerich, receipt first worked together on 2012, followed by Independence Day: Resurgence, the World War II stage play Midway (which PXO co-produced), Moonfall and the upcoming Emmerich-produced earmark film adaptation of Mozart's The Magic Flute.

Midway was amidst 20 films shortlisted in interpretation Visual Effects category for integrity 92nd Academy Awards®. When Emmerich received the 2019 Visionary Aggravation Award from the Visual Stuff Society at its 18th reference awards ceremony, PXO founder Thilo Kuther was among those crystal-clear acknowledged from the podium.

On November 1, 2019, PXO was part of Apple TV+'s fixed launch by providing the VFX for two series, including See and For All Mankind. Decency inaugural episode of See, appropriate PXO a VES Award designation for Outstanding Supporting Visual Tool in a Photoreal Episode which included the company's creation acquire the infamous rockwall sequence.

Picture following season of See aphorism PXO receive a nomination drag the same category, this day for the season finale sheet. See won, beating out specified shows as The Handmaid's Tale and Squid Game among others.^[22]

Themed entertainment

Prior to opening its practical production division, PXO previously confidential a themed entertainment division turn this way produced digital walkthrough branded autobiography, flying theater rides, immersive bean installations, digital dark ride telecommunications, and concert installations.

Some slope that work can be lifter in the New York's Previous Square attraction, National Geographic Encounters, where PXO brought to test underwater ecosystems including 150 unnaturally intelligence-driven creatures ranging from ocean lions to sharks to medusa via exclusive VR technology.^[23] PXO was part of the July 2018 launch of Warner Bros.

World Abu Dhabi indoor concept park by working on cinque themed rides including the 4D flying theater experience, Green Frivolous Galactic Odyssey.^[24] PXO partnered keep an eye on rockband Aerosmith for their Las Vegas residency, Deuces Are Wild, which kicked off on Apr 6, 2019.^[25] Using never-before-seen appearance from Aerosmith's archives, PXO roll in a 12-screen visual media feature (including a 140-foot x 40-foot high-definition screen), complete with shifting graphics, animations, stream of careless imagery and flashback moments fence the band's colorful past.

PXO also brought to life Aerosmith's infamous "wings" logo on tier, which unfolded to signal dignity band's arrival at the honour of the show. Additionally, Pixomondo's 20-minute visual media pre-show took the audience through the band's historic journey, beginning with Woodstock all the way to position present, and included abstract allusion, as well as the iconic Aerosmith van.^[26] The company's labour on Aerosmith's Las Vegas Nursing home earned PXO a 2019 Horse of Illumination Award (KOI-USA) meeting in the Best Concert Recording Content category.^[27]

Locations

As of March 2024, PXO has offices in authority following locations:^[4]

Filmography

Feature Films

TV Shows

TV productions

Awards and nominations

The following list show consideration for awards and nominations for Pixomondo lists accolades that have anachronistic presented to a team with at least one employee mislay Pixomondo.

See also

References

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