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HELLSQUAD + 9iFX.
LET’S MAKE SOME MOVIE MAGIC.

Whatever the creative vision, 9iFX has the experience and skillset to add a touch of movie magic to your scripted project. We are proud to partner with Writers, Directors and Producers to bring their creative vision to life. Here’s a taste of what we can do.

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FILM REEL

WHO WE ARE.

9IFX IS A FULL SERVICE POST PRODUCTION AND VISUAL EFFECTS BOUTIQUE, CREATING AWARD WINNING WORK FOR FILM, TV & BRANDS. 

Our team started in episodic and longer form content before branching out into the commercial realm. Our talented team has experience working on everything from blockbuster features & hit tv shows, to indie films and award winning shorts. This page features a mix of some of the horror genre projects our team has worked on over the years, both as 9iFX and together as a team prior.

We love a good scifi flick. VFX can add the perfect level of believable to any scene – from creature morphs, to a swarm of flies, to post apocalyptic scenes – we can pull off the desired look.

10

Years in business

300+

Projects & Campaigns

100,000,000+

Eyes on our work

75+

Happy Partners

MEET THE TEAM.

Michael Miller
EP/Studio Founder

Tracey Miller, MBA
Managing Partner

Eric Reed
3D Lead

Jeff Nelson
Comp Supervisor

Jen Sorensen
Producer

Celeste Leizer
Head of VFX

Chris Hackett
TD/Post Supervisor

Anthony Barcelo
Lead Compositor

James Chick
Senior Compositor

SEE OUR PLAYGROUND.

Located in Portland Oregon, 9iFX offers a state of the art studio with over 4800 sqft of space 

  • High-speed fiber optic internet connection
  • In-house render farm
  • Fully loaded work stations
  • Core team of senior artists
  • Threadripper CG simulation suites
  • Established remote workflow system
  • Secure product handling
  • 3D scanning and digital prop replication
  • Product photography station
  • Conference and meeting rooms for creative brainstorming
  • Retro gaming lounge
The 9iFX command center with several large monitors, speakers, microphone, desks, a whiteboard, and art on the walls. The 9iFX lounge with blue and yellow furniture, urban-style street art on the wall, a large tv monitor, and a desk with computer. The 9iFX foyer with black furniture, charcoal brick walls, yellow details, and a circular shelf displaying awards. Detail of six gold award statuettes.

Our skills

Post Production

  • Production
  • Supervision
  • Creative Direction
  • Editing
  • Color Grading/Finishing
  • DI Conform
  • Titles
  • Sound
  • Dialog Editing
  • Sound FX & Design
  • Music Composition
  • 5.1 mix

Visual Effects

  • Keying
  • Matte painting
  • Digital environments
  • Set extensions
  • Crowd replication
  • VFX Supervision
  • Motion Capture Data Cleanup
  • VFX simulation – particles/fluids
  • Roto/paint
  • “Clean it up in post”

Animation

  • CG Animation
  • 2D Animation
  • VR animation
  • 2D/3D Motion Graphics
  • Animated title graphics
  • Facial tracking/animation
  • Classical animation
  • 3D asset Creation/Modeling
  • CG Creatures

Everything else

  • Projection mapping
  • AR development
  • CAD Conversion
  • Web GL Conforming
  • Real-time environments
  • Print/Graphic Design
  • Kiosk/Expo booth design
  • 3D Scaning/product digitization

OUR AWARDS

  • The Telly Awards: 43rd Annual Gold Winner badge
  • The Telly Awards: 43rd Annual Silver Winner badge.
  • The Telly Awards: 42nd Annual Silver Winner badge
  • The Telly Awards: 41st Annual Silver Winner badge
  • The Telly Awards: 43rd Annual Bronze Winner badge
  • IDA Design Awards Gold Winner
  • Prix Ars Electronica 2022 badge

Word on the street

Michael Miller and the entire team at 9iFX were just awesome. We had a tight delivery schedule and specific VFX requirements. Michael met with me immediately with a smile on his face, samples on his laptop, and a very reasonable bid. Their work was the highest quality and everyone on our producing team was thrilled. Anything we asked for, they could deliver quickly and at a reasonable cost. From roto work to skydive silhouettes to complicated webpage motion graphics inserted over our computer screens, they nailed it every time. I’d use them again in a heartbeat. Oregon should be proud of this very talented VFX team.

KELSEY TUCKER, Director, “The COmpetition”

THE THEORY INC.

OUR FILMOGRAPHY

Work SampleS

GRIMM
NBC

9iFX’s own Michael Miller was the on-set VFX Supervisor & Lead Compositor on NBC’s Grimm for five years before starting 9iFX. That’s where he met CG Lead Eric Reed. Michael and Eric have been working together since 2010.

SUPERVISOR REEL
CELESTE LEIZER

When Celeste Leizer isn’t moonlighting with the 9iFX team to help us out with larger projects, she’s busy working on blockbuster features at some of the largest VFX studios on the planet. An alumni of NBC’s Grimm, Celeste has been working with the 9iFX team on and off for over a decade, and loves coming back to work with us when the right project strikes. This is her reel.

COMP LEAD REEL
ANTHONY BARCELO

Anthony has a long and illustrious career working on some of hollywood’s biggest VFX heavy features. From Star Wars, to Power Rangers, to multiple movies in the MCU, he’s done it all. 9iFX is excited to have him on board to dive into our indie film projects. 

The Cleansing Hour
FEATURE FILM

9iFX was pleased to work on the VFX for this short horror film – winner of 12 national and international film festivals! It was so successful that it was later remade into a full length feature film.

They Found Hell
FEATURE FILM

 9iFX was excited to create spooky fog and perform some complex compositing and rig removal for this SyFy Original film.

The Competition
FEATURE FILM

9iFX stepped in to deliver a variety of visual effects for this feature: animating a sexy CG avatar, reconstructing Thora Birch’s face in order to paint out bad reflections, cleanup and rig removal, and matte painting.

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MASKS OF DESIRE
Short FILM

9iFX was brought on to this short film to provide digital sets, set extensions, fire simulations, and other mystical VFX.

SPACE BITCH
SHORT FILM

This short film had a couple of oopses on set that 9iFX was brought in to clean up. Including this scene where we removed the face covering reflections of the camera and crew from the main character’s helmet.

The Flash
THE CW

Back in the early days of 9iFX, we were asked to do some effects for The Flash on the CW, including this clone shot.

Z Nation
SYFY ChANNEL

Who loves a good cheesy zombie series? 9iFX had the joy of “gorifying” and infecting this TV series for SyFy.

Nathan’s Kingdom
FEATURE FILM

This film had an ambitious goal to tell its lore featuring tower like columns made of millions of orcs reaching to the heavens, falling angels, and a war of gods in the clouds – winner of 12 national and international film festivals! While the film itself was more of a drama than a horror flick the stylized effects we created for it had a decidedly hellish look and feel to them.

VH1
RuVeal Campaign
for Rupaul’s Drag Race

9iFX got to werk, providing full creative development, onset supervision, and full post production, including VFX, motion graphics, and 3D digital sets for this record breaking social campaign.

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You Are Not Alone
FEATURE FILM

There is nothing like an independent horror flick; we love working on them! That’s why we were all a buzz to take on all of the visual effects shots in this feature. We completed over 75 creepy crawly VFX shots for this project.

THE EMMYS
KEY ART ANIMATION

9iFX was thrilled to provide the previs, modeling, texturing, animation, and final delivery of these ultra-high resolution files at 60 frames per second for the Key Art for 69th annual Emmy Awards.

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