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ENGINE ROOM

Engine Room, also known as Engine Room Hollywood and Engine Room VFX is an American creative arts studio that provides visual effects (VFX), live action production, and motion graphic design services to the film, television and media industries. It is located in Los Angeles.

HISTORY Founded in 2001 by visual effects supervisor and cinematographer Dan Schmit (owner), together with executive producer Michael Caplan, the company maintains clients at major movie studios, television networks, and advertising companies. Their visual effects and motion graphic design work can be regularly seen on television programs The Mentalist, Through The Wormhole with Morgan Freeman, Mike and Molly, Key & Peele, Make It Or Break It, Jessie, and Jane By Design. In motion pictures they have collaborated with auteur directors Tom Ford, Rob Reiner, Floria Sigismondi, Richard LaGravanese, and Nick Cassavettes.

The company hosts a unique live action production unit, which produced the Emmy Award winning Show Open of the Super Bowl XXXIX broadcast in 2005 for Fox Sports. Schmit directed a theatrical teaser for the motion picture The DaVinci Code, winning a prestigious industry Key Art Award in 2006. They have produced national commercials for clients including Reynolds, Scotties, Horizon Milk, Sony, Tylenol, and Target.

The company has an evolving business model. In 2004 it employed fifty people in its CG (computer graphics) artist-based facility. The model shifted in 2008 embracing a virtual off-site workforce, instead focusing their physical studio on project management. Developing web-based project tools and an artist-recruiting site, www.radarhollywood.com, they presently contract work to individual CG artists globally. Their off-site digital pipeline methods were recognized in 2011 by the Los Angeles Times, in an in-depth article investigating the creation of the visual effects for the feature film, Soul Surfer.