In this series, we’re highlighting world-class studios where artists trained by Ganz and Andrew have gone on to work.

Each post celebrates the incredible work these studios have created over the years, the same kind of productions our graduates now help bring to life.

Today: Digital Domain whose team, led by VFX Supervisor Nikos Kalaitzidis, delivered more than 347 shots for Free Guy (2021).

Over 254 artists helped build the film’s digital playground from replacing actors with digidoubles to creating entire CG cityscapes inside Free City.
The studio also crafted 87 gameplay shots that defined the in-game world’s stylised aesthetic, blending references from GTA V, Fortnite, and Apex Legends into one cohesive visual tone.

Their signature achievement: The Oner, a seamless, ten-shot hybrid of live-action and full-CG mayhem that opens the film. Digital Domain combined motion-capture, wire work, digidoubles, and environment rebuilds to create an unbroken, 2,600-frame sequence that set the tone for the story.

To bridge performances and pickups, they even used their proprietary AI system, Charlatan, a neural-rendering tool that replaces faces without reshoots, one of the earliest major studio uses of ML in a Hollywood blockbuster.

The result is a film where spectacle feels playful, not synthetic, proof that the future of visual effects belongs to artists who understand both craft and code.