AUSTRALIAN VFX:
ON PAR WITH
THE WORLD
Producers who are contemplating their VFX and
post options globally – should seriously consider Australia
Australian VFX studios have had a stellar year working on some of the world’s biggest blockbusters through to critically acclaimed indie films. There is fantastic talent in Australia’s VFX industry, which is on par with other great VFX hubs around the world.
Australia’s reputation for sophisticated complex photo-real work, creating monsters, creatures and characters has been built, in part, on the back of a long history working on sequels, franchise films and TV shows like The Avengers, X-Men, Game of Thrones, Captain America, The Hunger Games, Ted, The LEGO® Movies, and the Harry Potter films.
IT MAKES FINANCIAL SENSE
If a production spends A$500,000 on VFX (or post, sound and music) it becomes eligible for a 30% rebate on every dollar spent and, depending on what Australian state (region) you are working in, there may be available an additional 5-10% on top of the 30%.
Couple this with a strong US dollar and GB pound– against the Australian dollar less than 77 cents and 61 cents respectively – and ten world-class VFX facilities, it makes financial sense to work with Australian VFX companies (or post, sound and music studios for that matter!).
Australia has long been a trusted VFX provider, however, there is an extensive range of other eligible picture and sound post services, international filmmakers can access in Australia and receive the 30% Post, Digital and Visual Effects (PDV) Offset.
This month we feature eight short documentaries taking you inside Australia’s leading visual effects studios and celebrating the teams who continue to deliver innovative and aesthetically creative solutions on high-end TV shows and global box office hits.
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Animal Logic
“One of the things we are really good at is solving creative problems for our partners...”
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ILOURA
“Our speciality in visual effects is primarily around character animation, which you can see from our work on The Spongebob Movie: Sponge out of Water, Ted and Ghostbusters. ”
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Luma
“We have teams dedicated to creature effects, creature design, conceptual work, effects design…which leverages our nimble, creative and multi-skilled artists…”
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Plastic Wax
“We’ve been privileged to work on some of the biggest titles in film, TV and gaming and we truly have no limitations”.
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Rising Sun Pictures
“We have an incredibly talented effects team and environment team that can build incredibly sophisticated simulations and transformations based on real physics”.
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Cutting Edge
“We are Australia’s largest end-to-end single service provider for VFX, post-production, 7.1 Dolby Digital sound, DI and remote operations setup”.
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Kojo
“We’ve completed over 40 feature films, 10 of which were for the US market...most recently for Blumhouse productions”.
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The Post Lounge
“We started doing visual effects on American telemovies and we have since worked on a lot of international films…”
“I can’t think of any aspect – creatures, environments, etc – that isn’t on par with the work coming out of any of the world’s main VFX hubs including London and Vancouver.”
James McQuaide, Senior Vice President of Production at Lakeshore Entertainment
