Vancouver-based Digital Alchemy Entertainment is a creative and innovative animation and visual effects studio that has grown from a two-man operation to a team of 30 artists. Its services include post, visual effects and animation for feature-length films, episodic series, commercials and corporate videos.

DA’s latest example of post and visual effects work was in Thirst, a movie by Insight Film Studios, directed by Jeffery Lando. The shop was responsible for matte paintings and visual effects compositing of an explosion aftermath.

Over its six-year history, DA has worked on more than 50 projects and partnered with the likes of Vancouver’s Rainmaker and Thunderbird Films and Australia’s Flying Bark Productions.

The studio is also expanding, which is evident from its recent project Zigby – a new animated series aimed at preschoolers scheduled to air in February 2009 – brought to DA by Thunderbird via its coproduction with Flying Bark and Big Communications (Singapore).

‘We were responsible for integral aspects of the overall look, such as concept designs, CGI modeling, storyboarding and layout design, as well as reusable animations and actions throughout the series,’ says Chris Browne, partner and creative director at DA.