Pre-Production & Virtual Production

We provide a wide range of pre-production services including:

• Storyboarding

• Concept Development

• Previsualization (Previs) & PostVis

• Virtual Production Planning

From early creative development through production planning, we help filmmakers design shots before cameras roll. Our on-site Vicon motion capture stage and Unreal-powered virtual production pipeline enable real-time previs, performance capture, and rapid iteration before moving into final VFX.

Visual Effects

At our core, we're visual effects artists. Since 2013, DFFX has delivered high-end VFX across feature films, episodic television, and commercials. We specialize in:

• 3D Crowd Simulation

• Digital Doubles

• Character & Creature Animation

• Magic & Supernatural FX

• Fire, Smoke & Destruction

• Set Extensions & Environments

• Driving Comps

• Greenscreen, Plate Cleanup & Invisible VFX

We also provide on-set VFX supervision, pre-production breakdowns, bidding, and budgeting—allowing us to support productions from initial planning through final delivery.

Volumetric Capture & Animated Gaussian Splats

Our custom 54-camera capture system creates high-fidelity volumetric performances and digital doubles without the overhead of a traditional mesh-based CG pipeline.

Using animated Gaussian splats, captured talent and props can be integrated into Unreal environments, relit, composited into traditional VFX shots, or used as precise training data for AI-driven workflows.

The result: faster asset creation, authentic captured performances, and greater flexibility across traditional VFX, virtual production, and AI.

AI Integration & Machine Learning Pipelines

We approach generative AI as another tool in the VFX pipeline—not a replacement for creative control. Our custom workflows combine traditional animation and VFX techniques with Unreal, motion capture, ComfyUI, and generative models, allowing our artists to maintain greater control over camera, performance, composition, and environment.

From AI-assisted digital doubles and face work to video-to-video transformation and integrating generated elements into production plates, our focus is on combining the speed of AI with the art direction and predictability of traditional VFX.

Let's Build Something Together

Whether you're producing a commercial, feature film, episodic series, or exploring the new frontier of AI-generated content, DFFX is ready to be your creative partner. From storyboards to final pixels — or training data to real-time renders — we’d love to hear how we can support your next project.

Company Reel

Feature Films

Episodics

Commercials

Short Films

WHAT MAKES DFFX AWESOME

At DFFX, we combine the experience, quality, and infrastructure of a large VFX facility with the flexibility and personal attention of a boutique studio.

We believe every creative challenge deserves the right solution—not just the same pipeline. Our size allows us to stay nimble, scale when needed, and adapt our approach to each production's creative, scheduling, and budgetary needs.

From traditional VFX and animation to motion capture, virtual production, digital scanning, and generative AI, we're constantly exploring new tools and workflows that help us work smarter and give filmmakers greater creative freedom.

Big-studio capabilities. Boutique flexibility. Whatever it takes to get the shot!

Chad Finnerty, owner / vfx supervisor

Chad Finnerty is a veteran visual effects artist, supervisor, and studio owner with more than two decades of experience across feature films, television, animation, motion capture, and holographic entertainment. Early in his career at Digital Domain, Chad served as a Crowd Simulation Lead, Animation Lead, and Motion Capture Lead, contributing to films including Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, 2012, and the Academy Award-winning animated feature Happy Feet. He later served as Animation Supervisor at Pixomondo before co-founding Digital Frontier FX in 2013.

As Co-Owner and VFX Supervisor of DFFX, Chad has supervised work for productions including Marvel Studios' The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Fear the Walking Dead, and Resident Evil. His background in crowd simulation continues to be a particular specialty of the studio. Nearly two decades after contributing to Happy Feet, Chad and the DFFX team also contributed to Ne Zha 2, which became the highest-grossing animated film of all time worldwide.

Chad has also helped push DFFX beyond traditional film and television, supervising the digital resurrection of legendary musicians Ronnie James Dio and Frank Zappa for live holographic performances, as well as the Ronald Reagan holographic experiences permanently installed at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. Today, he leads the creative and technical direction of DFFX from concept and previsualization through final delivery.

Jaimie Lee Finnerty , owner / vfx producer

Jaimie Lee Finnerty is a veteran visual effects producer and studio owner with more than 25 years of experience across feature films, television, animation, and emerging media. Beginning her career at Digital Domain in 1999, she went on to work at leading studios including DreamWorks Animation, Sony Pictures Imageworks, Rhythm & Hues, Zoic Studios, Tippett Studio, and Method Studios. Her credits include The Matrix Revolutions, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, Transformers, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, and DreamWorks Animation's Emmy Award-winning Dragons: Riders of Berk.

In 2013, Jaimie co-founded Digital Frontier FX, where she serves as Co-Owner and VFX Producer. She oversees the studio's business and production operations, including client relationships, bidding, budgeting, scheduling, staffing, and production strategy. Under her leadership, DFFX has delivered work for productions including Marvel Studios' The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Fear the Walking Dead, Resident Evil, White Men Can't Jump, and 10 Cloverfield Lane.

Drawing on decades of experience at both large-scale facilities and an independent studio, Jaimie specializes in balancing creative ambition with the realities of schedule and budget. Working alongside Co-Owner and VFX Supervisor Chad Finnerty, she helps ensure DFFX remains nimble, collaborative, cost-conscious, and focused on finding the right solution for every production.

General Inquiries: info@digitalfrontierfx.com
Submit reels and resumes: jobs@digitalfrontierfx.com

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DFFX - LA
1633 S La Cienega Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90035
 

Phone: (310) 596-4507