Zoic Studios is an American visual effects company based in Culver City, California, specializing in visual effects for feature films, episodic television, commercials, video games, advertising design, and interactive online media, the company has separate sister facilities in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and New York City. The company provides R&D, software development, UI/UX design, and consulting for public and private clients. It is composed primarily of creative artists, producers and engineers. It has also developed a proprietary technology Z.E.U.S. - Zoic Environmental Unification System, which was used for the production of Once Upon a Time, allowing actors to view the virtual world before acting in it.
The studio has been awarded an Emmy award for work on CSI.
History
Zoic Studios was founded by four partners in 2002, Andrew Orloff, Loni Peristere, Chris Jones, Tim McBride. It began as a 15 person company working out of the Sunset Gower Studios lot. The first project of Zoic Studios was creating visual effects for the television series Firefly.
In September 2002, the company moved to Culver City, California, where they employed 150 employees.
In 2006, Zoic founded Zoic BC in Vancouver, British Columbia.
In 2016, Zoic opened an East Coast studio in NYC's Hell's Kitchen neighborhood.
List of notable works +Type of mediaYearName of workNoteTelevision2002Firefly2002The Twilight Zone2004Battlestar Galactica2007Mad Men2008Breaking Bad2008Fringe2008True Blood2009V2010The Walking Dead2011Falling Skies2011Game of Thrones2011Once Upon a Time2014The Flash2016The Good Place2017Future Man2017The Defenders2017A Series of Unfortunate Events2018Chilling Adventures of Sabrina2018Cloak & Dagger2019The Boys2019Lucifer2022The OrvilleFeature film2004Spider-Man 22004The Day After Tomorrow2004Van Helsing2009District 92009Zombieland2010Red2011Limitless2014Big Eyes2015Avengers: Age of Ultron2015Hot Tub Time Machine 22016Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny2016Keeping Up with the Joneses2018The Ballad of Buster Scruggs2025The Wizard of Oz at SphereImmersive version of the 1939 film
References
External links
Archived list of works on the studios website