VFX Artist Services

Our Saudi VFX artists use Foundry Nuke / Nuke Studio for compositing. They use SideFX Houdini for FX simulations — sand, fire, water, and destruction, key for desert action. They also use Autodesk Maya, ZBrush, Substance Painter / Designer, Marvelous Designer, and Blender. Unreal Engine 5 drives virtual production at NEOM XR Lab LED Volume and Pixomondo Riyadh LED Volume (Brompton processor pipeline). Manga Productions Riyadh is a Saudi-Japan anime JV with Toei Animation. It made Future Folktales and Saud Rises. It runs its own 2D / 3D anime VFX pipelines (Genga / Douga / digital compositing in Toon Boom Harmony + AE). Recent global VFX-heavy work split between in-country and Dubai. Kandahar (Gerard Butler 2023 AlUla + NEOM $43M dir. Ric Roman Waugh) used desert action, car integration, sky replacement, crowd duplication, and fire elements. Desert Warrior (Anthony Mackie 2024 AlUla dir. Rupert Wyatt) used wide AlUla CG world-building. Dubai partners include Filmworks Dubai, Image Nation Abu Dhabi, and TwoFour54. Work then flows on to global VFX houses (DNEG, MPC, Framestore via fly-in supervisors).

We handle heritage VFX too. We made Diriyah Al-Turaif UNESCO 2010 First Saudi State reconstruction visuals. We built Hegra / Madain Salih UNESCO 2008 Nabataean monument projections. We did Jeddah Al-Balad UNESCO 2014 period restoration briefs. These came from National Museum of Saudi Arabia Riyadh, King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture (Ithra) Dhahran, and Ministry of Culture archives. Render-farm capacity sits at NEOM Bajdah Studios and Pixomondo Riyadh. We also use AWS Bahrain region (Saudi region planned) and Google Cloud Saudi region. These meet NDMO (National Data Management Office) data-residency rules for sensitive material. Talent comes from Effat University Jeddah (first Saudi women's film school program), King Saud University Riyadh, and Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University. Manga Productions runs in-house training. A NYU / USC / AFI / UCLA / Gnomon / Falmouth / NFTS UK Saudi alumni pipeline feeds in too. On compliance, we cover the Saudi Authority for Intellectual Property (SAIP). We handle GCAM type G/PG/PG12/PG15/R15/R18 and GOSI payroll sign-ups. There is 15% VAT and Saudization Nitaqat quotas (5% rebates uplift on Cultural Development Fund's 40% cash rebates). The workweek runs Sunday-Thursday. Ramadan needs all-night 9pm-2am render oversight. There is zero personal income tax, which draws senior VFX relocations. There is no domestic Saudi VFX union. Global VES / Animation Guild IATSE 839 work runs via Dubai EPS bureaus (Entertainment Partners ME).