IIn 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: DNEG for Star Trek: Discovery (Season 3), their Episodic team won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Visual Effects in a Single Episode.

The award-winning sequence saw the USS Discovery hurtle through a wormhole into the 32nd century, blending large-scale FX simulation with detailed model work and compositing precision.

DNEG artists built and lit every element of the ship’s chaotic journey: volumetric distortions, debris fields, and refractive energy layers all animated in physically-based renders. Inside the cockpit, subtle lens aberrations and interactive lighting sold the violent transition between time periods.

The result wasn’t just spectacle, it was emotion through simulation: a visual metaphor for being torn between centuries and selves.

That’s what great VFX does. It makes the impossible feel inevitable.