Netflix has acquired Scanline VFX to cover its special effect tasks. The move, announced earlier this week, was announced by Netflix’s VP of Studio Operations, Amy Reinhard. The terms of the deal, expected to finalize in Q1 of 2022, were not disclosed.
Through the acquisition, the company hopes to invest in Scanline’s pipeline, infrastructure and workforce to advance the streamer’s virtual production. The company is credited with producing special effects work for the platform's recent series “Cowboy Bebop” as well as scenes from the third season of “Stranger Things.”
Founded in 1989, the company is led by Stephan Trojansky, a VFX supervisor who is known for his proprietary fluid rendering system, Flowline, and won a Scientific and Technical Oscar for it in 2008. The company has offices in Vancouver, Montreal, Los Angeles, London, Munich, Stuttgart and Seoul. The acquisition of Scanline comes after Peter Jackson’s Weta Digital VFX tech division was sold to Unity for a $1.625 billion price tag.
Though the business has been purchased by Netflix, all operations belonging to its will remain as a standalone business. The company recently contributed to “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings,” “Game of Thrones,” “Godzilla Vs. Kong” and “Zack Snyder’s Justice League.” Most recently, Scanline was behind the interstellar landscape seen in “Cowboy Bebop,” the vampires in “Blood Red Sky” and the exploding underground reactor seen at the conclusion of “Stranger Things 3.” The company is also working with Netflix on other upcoming titles such as “Don’t Look Up,” “The Gray Man,” “Slumberland,” “The Ada Project” and “Stranger Things 4.”
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