Pixomondo

Pixomondo (PXO) is an Academy and Emmy award-winning international visual effects and virtual production company with studios in Los Angeles, Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, and London.

In 2005, the company first began working in the entertainment business by producing the visual effects for the German television film Atlantropa - Der Traum vom neuen Kontinent.

[7] In June 2021 PXO closed its Beijing and Shanghai offices[8] and by September had announced a new London division that will offer virtual production services.

[10] In September 2020, PXO announced it began construction on a virtual production studio in Toronto, Canada, with Mayfair backing the new venture with a significant new financial commitment.

PXO assembled a team of technical partners for the studio that included Epic Games' Unreal Engine, LED manufacturer ROE Visual, Nvidia, and Brompton Technology among others.

[12] In July 2021, PXO, in a partnership with Canadian TV and film equipment rental business William F. White International, opened a second virtual production studio in Toronto.

[13] In November 2021, Netflix announced it partnered with PXO on a custom-built virtual production facility in Vancouver for its live-action adaptation of Avatar: The Last Airbender.

[16] PXO also provided the animation for Short Treks' "The Girl Who Made the Stars" and "Ephraim and Dot," both of which premiered on December 12, 2019.

Martin told Forbes Magazine that they wanted to depict the dragons as "living animals with just enough expressions to understand their feelingsā€¦similar to the emotional connection with pets.

"[19] The key to grounding these mythical creatures, which do not exist in real life, was to give Drogon, Rhaegal, and Viserion real-world animal counterparts the audience could identify with.

[20] Martin's team met with the show's VFX Supervisor Joe Bauer at the start of each season to discuss new design elements, as the dragons were maturing and growing.

Some of that work can be found in the New York's Times Square attraction, National Geographic Encounters, where PXO brought to life underwater ecosystems including 150 artificially intelligence-driven creatures ranging from sea lions to sharks to jellyfish via exclusive VR technology.

PXO also brought to life Aerosmith's infamous "wings" logo on stage, which unfolded to signal the band's arrival at the top of the show.

Additionally, Pixomondo's 20-minute visual media pre-show took the audience through the band's historic journey, beginning with Woodstock all the way to the present, and included abstract imagery, as well as the iconic Aerosmith van.

[26] The company's work on Aerosmith's Las Vegas Residency earned PXO a 2019 Knight of Illumination Award (KOI-USA) nomination in the Best Concert Video Content category.