Featured Projects
- LAW ABIDING CITIZEN
- DISTRICT 9
- ORPHAN
Image Engine Fuels Explosive Action For Law Abiding Citizen
Image Engine completed over 70 shots for the revenge thriller Law Abiding Citizen, starring Gerard Butler and Jamie Foxx. The Image Engine team, led by Visual Effects Supervisor Simon Hughes, worked with production Visual Effects Supervisor Raymond Gieringer and director Gary Gray to develop a range of visual effects to complement the explosive action. The scope of challenges involved the film’s key sequences and ranged from CG augmentation to 2D artistry.
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"Blomkamp Selects Image Engine as Lead Visual Effects Vendor on “District 9"

Image Engine has completed 311 visual effects shots for “District 9”, the feature film debut from director Neill Blomkamp. Image Engine’s workload focused the studio’s efforts on creating 100% digital aliens that populate an area of Soweto, South Africa known as “District 9”. In addition, Image Engine developed the alien mother ship, digital helicopters and digital Casspir troop carriers, as well as delivering miscellaneous shots with computer-generated gore and compositing tasks.
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You’ll Never Guess Image Engine’s Secret

In January 2009, Image Engine answered the call from Visual Effects Supervisor Richard Yuricich to discuss a package of shots that covered a broad and interesting mix of film compositing tasks. Image Engine jumped at the opportunity. Be it digital matte painting, driving composites, snow addition or burning down a children’s tree house with a helpless boy on the roof… Image Engine had the skills and talent to rise to the challenge. View More
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE | IMAGE ENGINE | FEBRUARY 28th, 2010 | VES
Los Angeles, CA - 28th February 2010 -- Image Engine took home the Award for Outstanding Compositing in a Feature Motion Picture at this year’s 8th Annual VES Awards.
Despite facing some stiff competition in their category, District 9 managed to fend off two entries from Avatar and one from Sherlock Holmes, to take their place at the podium. Shervin Shoghian, Hamish Schumacher and Simon Hughes stepped up to receive the award at the ceremony on Sunday night.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE | IMAGE ENGINE | FEBRUARY 2, 2010 | The Oscars
Image Engine, the lead VFX studio to work on District 9, celebrates the announcement today from The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences that District 9 is one of the three nominees for Achievement in Visual Effects at the 82nd Academy Awards®.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE | JANUARY 21, 2010 | British Academy of Film and Television Arts
Vancouver, BC. Canada. January 21, 2010 – In a week of awards buzz for the film, it was announced today that District 9 has been nominated for the Special Visual Effects award at this year’s Orange British Academy Film Awards.
Image Engine continue to accumulate reasons to celebrate this week, as their work for District 9 makes it to the shortlist of five films to be up for the prestigious BAFTA award.
This news follows the announcement earlier this week that Image Engine are also nominated in three categories at the industry VES Awards this year, and their inclusion on the shortlist for the coveted Oscar® nomination, to be announced in February.



