Scanline VFX is a visual effects company with offices in Los Angeles, Vancouver and Munich. The company is well known for its proprietary, in-house fluid effects software Flowline, which is used in various fluid effects like water and fire. Scanline was sole developer for Flowline, for which it received a 2008 Scientific and Technical Achievement Academy Award. In 2010, the company was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Achievement in Visual Effects for its work on director Clint Eastwood's "Hereafter", for which it was the sole visual effects vendor. The company works mainly in feature films and TV movies, and offers VFX, 3D animated features and post-production services.

The Los Angeles studio opened in 2007,under President and VFX Supervisor, Stephan Trojansky. Trojanksy was one of the recipients of the 2008 Scientific and Technical Achievement Academy Award for the development of Flowline, as well as an Oscar nominee for "Hereafter".

Scanline VFX/Los Angeles is currently working on "Journey 2: The Mysterious Island", "Battleship", and director Tarsem's "Immortals". Past credits include Roland Emmerich's "2012", "300", "Hereafter", and "Super 8", on which it created the highly regarded train crash sequence, in collaboration with ILM.

History

Scanline VFX was founded in 1989 by Stefanie Stalf, Thomas Zauner and Peter Claridge. Later moved its office to the Bavaria Film Studios near Munich. In 2007, the company opened an office in Los Angeles.

Company offerings

• With their sister company Scan&Record35, CA Scanline Gmbh. offer full film services for "digital lab", including scanning, grading and film recording.
• Scanline VFX is also known for its in-house software, Flowline. This software is a 3D package enhancement (for instance 3dsmax or Maya), offering a variety of tools for fluid simulations, dynamics or particles.

Claim to fame

Their photorealistic scenes for a dam breaking sequence and an airplane crash, competed with well-known American visual effects companies at the international Siggraph's visual effects awards. Recently, Flowline's Developer Team won the Academy Technical Achievement Award. In 2011 Scanline VFX was a winner of the VES Society Award for Best Supporting Visual Effects in a Feature Film. 3 key members of Scanline VFX Los Angeles, Stephan Trojansky, Bryan Grill, and Joe Farrell were nominated for an Academy Award for Best Achievement in Visual Effects for their work on Clint Eastwood's "Hereafter."

Recent projects

• 2012
  2012 (film)
  2012 is a 2009 American disaster film directed by Roland Emmerich. It stars John Cusack, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Amanda Peet, Oliver Platt, Thandie Newton, Danny Glover, and Woody Harrelson. It was produced by Emmerich's production company, Centropolis Entertainment and was distributed by Columbia Pictures...
  
  
• The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
  The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
  The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian is a 2008 epic fantasy film based on Prince Caspian, the second published, fourth chronological novel in C. S. Lewis's epic fantasy series, The Chronicles of Narnia. It is the second in The Chronicles of Narnia film series from Walden Media, following The...
  
  
• Iron Man
  Iron Man (film)
  Iron Man is a 2008 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name. Directed by Jon Favreau, the film stars Robert Downey, Jr. as Tony Stark, an industrialist and master engineer who builds a powered exoskeleton and becomes the technologically advanced superhero, Iron...
  
  
• The Invasion
  The Invasion (film)
  The Invasion is a 2007 science fiction thriller film starring Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig, directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel, with additional scenes written by the Wachowski brothers and directed by James McTeigue....
  
  
• Lissi und der wilde Kaiser
  Lissi und der wilde Kaiser
  Lissi und der wilde Kaiser is a German animated film released in 2007. It is a comedy parody of the Sissi films.The plot concerns a yeti who makes a pact with the devil to kidnap the most beautiful girl in the world...
  
  
• 300
  300 (film)
  300 is a 2007 American fantasy action film based on the 1998 comic series of the same name by Frank Miller. It is a fictionalized retelling of the Battle of Thermopylae. The film was directed by Zack Snyder, while Miller served as executive producer and consultant...
  
  
• Poseidon
  Poseidon (film)
  Poseidon is a 2006 disaster film directed by Wolfgang Petersen, the third film adaptation of the novel The Poseidon Adventure written by Paul Gallico, and a loose remake of the 1972 film of the same name. It stars Kurt Russell, Josh Lucas and Richard Dreyfuss. It was directed by Wolfgang Petersen...
  
  
• Hui Buh The Castle Ghost
• The wedding party
• Traumschiff Surprise - Periode 1
  Traumschiff Surprise - Periode 1
  Raumschiff Surprise - Periode 1 is a German movie made in 2004 by Michael Herbig. As a spiritual successor to Der Schuh des Manitu, Raumschiff Surprise - Periode 1 is based on a recurring skit from Herbig's TV show Bullyparade, "Unser Raumschiff", a spoof of the 1960s American television series,...
  
  
• Bibi Blocksberg and the Sectret of the Blue Owls
• About the Looking for and the Finding of Love
• Revenge of the Teenage Zombies
• Manitou's Shoe Der Schuh des Manitu
  Der Schuh des Manitu
  Der Schuh des Manitu is a 2001 German parody of western films. Directed by Michael Herbig, it is a film adaptation of the Winnetou sketches from his Pro Sieben television show Bullyparade.-Background:...
  
  
• The Flying Classroom
  The Flying Classroom
  The Flying Classroom is a 1933 novel for children written by the German writer Erich Kästner.In the book Kästner took up the predominantly British genre of the school story, taking place in a boarding school, and transferred it to an unmistakable German background...
  
  
• Bibi Blocksberg 1
• Bunny Guards Vs. The Forces of Evil
• What to Do in Case of Fire
  What To Do In Case Of Fire
  What to Do in Case of Fire? is a German film directed by Gregor Schnitzler. It premiered in November 2001 at the German film festival Kinofest Lünen and was released to theaters in 2002...
  
  
• More Ants In The Pants

External links

• http://www.scanline.de (National English/German)
• http://www.scanlinevfx.com (international English)