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We are a creative communications agency that builds brands and develops immersive marketing campaigns for the fields of property development, architecture and the arts.

Since being founded in 1996, we have received awards from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (Emmy® Awards), The Art Directors Club, World Luxury Award, American Design Awards, Communication Arts and The International Property Awards, and our work has been exhibited at some of the world’s most respected art institutions, such as The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), The Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo, The Art Institute of Chicago, New Museum and The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles.

www.dbox.com

FuseFX (fusefx.com) is an award-winning visual effects studio that provides visual effects services for film, television, commercials, games, and special venues.

FuseFX has emerged as a leader in Visual Effects for episodic television, as well as increasing work on commercials and feature film productions. FuseFX has over 200 employees across three studio locations: their flagship office in Los Angeles, CA, along with studios in New York City and Vancouver, Canada.

FuseFX has developed a proprietary, highly efficient pipeline. This process differentiates the company from others in the business and allows for better quality control, faster turn around of shots, allows the artists to focus on the creativity of visual effects. The company has assembled a highly experienced team of artists, supervisors, and producers with a broad range of experience in all aspects of Visual Effects. The quality of the staff also differentiates FuseFX from its competitors.

Today, FuseFX’s three locations have over 30 television shows in production simultaneously, while also servicing various commercial and feature film projects. The company has exclusively provided Visual Effects for all the major studios, and on such productions as American Horror Story, Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Criminal Minds, Sons of Anarchy, Bones, Mad Men, TURN, The Blacklist, The Magicians, The Get Down and many others.

FuseFX was founded by David Altenau in 2006 and initially provided visual effects for a few network episodic productions. In 2008, Tim Jacobsen and Jason Fotter joined the company as partners and contributed to significant expansion, opening new offices in Burbank, and adding infrastructure and personnel to service multiple major episodic television programs as well as feature films and commercials. In 2014, FuseFX opened new offices in New York and Vancouver to service local clients in those markets, currently headed by Greg Anderson and Rnadall Rosa, respectively, who lead those operations and build teams dedicated to FuseFX’s mission to provide stellar visual effects.

As a philosophy, the principals at FuseFX believe that Visual Effects offer an amazing ability to go beyond the limits of what practical production can accomplish. We strive to work with our clients to create a vision and story that could not otherwise be accomplished without the tools and talents FuseFX offers.

Huge is a global experience agency that provides business strategy, design, marketing and technology services to some of the world's largest businesses and best-known brands. Headquartered in Brooklyn, NY, the agency has more than 1,400 employees working across 14 offices throughout North America, Europe, Asia, and Latin America, and is part of the Interpublic Group of Companies (IPG).

Parachute (www.parachute.tv)is a VFX and finishing post production company based in Chelsea, NYC. We specialize in photo-realistic CGI and compositing.

Piranha is a real estate branding agency specialized in strategy, architecture visualization, content creation, mixed reality, virtual reality and distribution.

Piranha has worked with of the largest developers and architecture firms and is known for its award winning film for the World Trade Center.

The company has been an early developer of VR technologies and is developing a virtual reality platform for real estate.

www.piranhanyc.com

Phosphene (www.phosphenefx.com) is a New York-based award-winning independent design and visual effects house, led by founders John Bair and Vivian Connolly. Since its launch in 2010, Phosphene has experienced continuous growth, culminating in its expansion to 5 Hanover Square, in April 2016. 

Neoscape (neoscape.com) is a creative studio that pushes limits every day, crafting branded content and communications for clients in architecture, real estate, and beyond. Headquartered in Boston with a thriving New York studio, Neoscape is comprised of an innovative group of artists, filmmakers, designers, and programmers who love to tell compelling, visual stories that convey complex and visionary ideas. The agency’s toolset is based on 3D, film and photography, design and branding, and interactive applications. Our goal is to create meaningful and memorable experiences that bring ideas to life. We are unrelenting in our commitment to deliver the highest quality work that truly meets our clients’ unique needs and provides tangible value to their businesses.

We are an integrated production company: a one stop shop. We bring ideas to life, from concept to completion, across all media channels, for maximum creative and strategic impact.
We started in a basement in 1999. A few new people and a transatlantic expansion later, we have grown into a team of multi-skilled, creatively agile artists– and we continue to find creative, intelligent solutions for our clients. Our creative leads consult with our clients to develop full-service production solutions.

www.taylorjames.com