We quickly earned a reputation as a company with the experience, scope of talent, creative ingenuity, and tight management that could be relied upon to deliver digital effects that elevated visual stories beyond the asks of productions.
Since opening our doors, every television series that worked with Legion has returned season after season through show finales. The ongoing relationships built with production studios attest to the advantages of working with a visual effects company vested in a remote culture from inception.
At the onset of COVID-19 remote workflow became mandatory, and the tangible brick-and-mortar visual effect facilities housed in large upscale spaces with an abundance of workstations manned by in-house artists became irrelevant. In the new norm, where the capabilities of recently adapted remote business models are bound to vary, Legion sets the bar.
Conceived as a fully remote company, Legion’s unprecedented nine years of experience creating end-to-end effects for dozens of feature films and hundreds of television episodes provides remote capabilities with a range of advantages that the industry is just beginning to discover.
Co-founder and Senior VFX Supervisor, James David Hattin, brings over 25-years of experience helming visual effects teams for blockbuster movies and high-profile series. The tech-savvy creative is the architect of Legion’s groundbreaking remote pipeline.
A year in the making – integrating the state-of-the-art technology of the day, off-label applications, and workarounds – the pipeline introduced a breakthrough in remote collaboration. While some studios augmented core in-studio teams with home-based talent, the technology required to enable WFH artists to collaborate remotely had yet to be developed. Legion’s ability to enable talent based at any location to work as a single unit – with the accessibility associated with teams under the same roof – was a game-changer.
Artists are the heart of visual effects – and the impetus for developing remote technology with the unique ability to work collaboratively with an infinite number of artists based anywhere in the world, bringing together some of the best talent in the industry.
From the beginning, artists have remained Legion’s top priority. The focus on creating a virtual workspace with an intuitive workflow enables talent to work in concert with a depth of interaction that inspires creativity. Launched a decade ahead of the curve, our distinctive, artist-driven remote culture provides a stand-out creative experience that remains key to our success in attracting and retaining top-caliber artists – and delivering extraordinary visual effects.
Legion began curating a team of talent culled from the vast pool of top-tier visual effect artists residing beyond commuting distance in 2013, before launching our Burbank studio. The limitless scale and caliber of a fully integrated workforce – coupled with the efficiency of a pioneering company culture – redefined the visual effects landscape.
Years before the ability to work remotely was a necessity, Legion had the vision to see the benefits of a WFH visual effects business model – and the resolve to build a pipeline from scratch. Free from the pull of a pre-existing infrastructure, solely focused on developing an approach to visual effects that better served the needs of productions, we pushed technology to its limits, and continue to evolve over the years.
The process of upgrading technology and security and expanding our capabilities is ongoing. Our collective of senior artists continues to grow as talent spreads the word about their experiences working with Legion and what sets our artist-driven approach apart from the crowd.
Legion’s remote teams have brought the increasingly ambitious visions of directors and showrunner to life for almost a decade – And we will continue to create digital effects that elevate visual stories, streamline productions, and get the most production value out of every budget long after working remotely is required.