CGI Artist Services

Here is how this works in practice. Our Irish CGI-artist roster covers the senior 3D-animation and digital-VFX bench at Frame Store Dublin (the Irish satellite of the London Marvel-and-Bond VFX powerhouse), Screen Scene VFX Dublin (the post-prod powerhouse with the Vikings, Foundation, Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Penny Dreadful, and Tudors CGI track). Egg Post Production Dublin VFX. Plus Cartoon Saloon Kilkenny (the Tomm Moore and Paul Young studio behind four Best Animated Feature Oscar nominations across The Secret of Kells, Song of the Sea, The Breadwinner, and Wolfwalkers), Brown Bag Films (the Octonauts and Doc McStuffins studio, now part of 9 Story Media), Boulder Media (Pixar-acquired in 2017), Jam Media, plus the broader Dublin and Belfast VFX-and-animation pipeline.

Here is the short of it. Senior CGI artists trained through IADT Dún Laoghaire animation and 3D-VFX programs, Ballyfermot College of Further Education (the senior animation feeder school), Pulse College Dublin, plus the Animation Skillnet industry-training program.

Here is the breakdown. Workflow runs Autodesk Maya 2024 (the industry-standard 3D-character-and-animation pipeline at Cartoon Saloon, Brown Bag, and Frame Store) with Arnold-and-Redshift-and-V-Ray rendering, Houdini 19.5 for procedural-and-FX simulation (cloth, hair, fluid. Pyro. Smoke, fire, water), Autodesk 3ds Max for hard-surface modeling, ZBrush for high-poly sculpting, Substance Painter and Designer for PBR texturing, Mari for film-tier texturing. Plus Cinema 4D R26 with Redshift for the motion-design CGI pipeline. Compositing-and-conform via Foundry Nuke Studio 14, Autodesk Flame for online-finishing, plus Adobe After Effects 2024.

Here is what that looks like on the ground. Render farm-and-cloud-compute via Conductor Technologies and AWS Thinkbox Deadline distributed-rendering, plus the Renderfarm.ie Irish-based GPU-and-CPU render farm. Color-and-finish hand-off through DaVinci Resolve Studio with Frame.io and Shotgun review-and-approval. Section 481 32% tax credit qualifies CGI-and-VFX spend through Irish-resident facilities, with the 40% regional uplift on named-area work. EUR Eurozone settlement with GBP NI cross-border. Animation Ireland (the industry body) plus SIPTU union coverage, English-first comms with Irish-Gaeilge Gaeltacht capacity.