Meet the Team
Toni Pykäläniemi
Co-Founder & Visual Effects Supervisor
Toni is an Emmy Award-winning visual effects supervisor and CG artist.
After starting his career in the early 2000’s as a generalist he has worked in multitude of roles leading him to supervise high-end shows like The Boys and Star Trek Discovery.
During his career Toni had a chance to work on high profile movies and tv-shows at various companies around the world, first as a compositor and later focusing more on CG and conceptual and visual development. When Toni is not leading a team or looking into new workflows he’s working on shots or personal projects to improve his artistic and technical skills.
Martin Gabriel
Visual Effects Producer
Martin began his career in VFX in 1995. His first major project was in Hollywood as Transatlantic VFX Coordinator for Cinesite on “Space Jam”.
He has since worked on many large scale movies as VFX Producer as well as smaller, independent and European films, episodic Television and commercials.
His involvement has included being on the production side, on location and as VFX Production consultant.
In addition, he has been responsible for the creation and development of Production Tracking Information systems.
He currently teaches VFX Production intermittently at Escape Studios.
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