Current company Crafty Apes
Entertainment Providers · 361 employees · Los Angeles, California, United States
Crafty Apes® is a full-service visual effects and post-production company started in Los Angeles, with additional studios in Atlanta, New York/New Jersey, London, Montreal, Vancouver and Australia. Founded in 2011 by three visual effects veterans, Chris LeDoux, Tim LeDoux, and Jason Sanford, we now have over 500 talented artists and production staff working to build and share in Crafty's success. Beginning as a VFX (visual effects) studio for film and TV, Crafty Apes has grown to include a talented roster of creative supervisors and production management professionals that offer a full suite of VFX and post-production services, including on-set supervision, VFX consultation, and high-end CG and previsualization services.
Its capabilities include 2D and 3D CGI, digital asset creation, lidar scanning, Mocap (motion capture), rotoscoping, modeling and texturing, rigging, composting, digital matte painting, animation, lighting, FX (effects) and CFX (Character Effects) and the development of new machine learning and artificial intelligence tools for VFX production and post-production workflows.
Crafty Apes' work can be seen on fan-favorite and critically acclaimed films such as The Creator, The Holdovers, Justice League: The Snyder Cut, Spider-Man: No Way Home, The Menu, and Violent Night, as well as top episodic series including The Bear, Only Murders in the Building, The Walking Dead: Dead City, and Foundation, to name a few. Past credits include: La La Land, Hidden Figures, Doctor Strange, The Batman, Where the Crawdads Sing, Ghostbusters: Afterlife, The Conjuring 3, Army of the Dead, Clint Eastwood’s Cry Macho, Mulan, Coming 2 America, Jumanji 2, Captain America: Civil War, Deadpool 2, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Into the Woods, 12 Years a Slave, American Hustle, Stranger Things, The Last of Us, Star Trek: Picard, The Orville, Barry, Westworld, The Staircase, Moon Knight, Peacemaker, The Underground Railroad, Cobra Kai, Star Trek: Discovery...
