Zoic Studios

(Founder, Executive Creative Director) Chris Jones (Founder, Executive Creative Director) Tim McBride (CFO / COO) Andrew Orloff (Executive Creative Director)http://www.zoicstudios.com/#/creations/latest/

Zoic Studios is an American visual effects company based in Culver City, California, specializing in visual effects for feature films, episodic television, commercials, video games, advertising design, and interactive online media, the company has separate sister facilities in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and New York City. The company provides R&D, software development, UI/UX design, and consulting for public and private clients. It is composed primarily of creative artists, producers and engineers. It has also developed a proprietary technology Z.E.U.S. - Zoic Environmental Unification System, which was used for the production of Once Upon a Time, allowing actors to view the virtual world before acting in it.

The studio has been awarded an Emmy award for work on CSI.

History

Zoic Studios was founded by four partners in 2002, Andrew Orloff, Loni Peristere, Chris Jones, Tim McBride. It began as a 15 person company working out of the Sunset Gower Studios lot. The first project of Zoic Studios was creating visual effects for the television series Firefly.

In September 2002, the company moved to Culver City, California, where they employed 150 employees.

In 2006, Zoic founded Zoic BC Launches in Vancouver British Columbia.

In 2016, Zoic opened an East Coast studio in NYC's Hell's Kitchen neighborhood.