Foxtrot X-Ray was thrilled to be able to contribute some VFX to The 8th Day, mostly in the realm of day-for-night conversions.

In keeping with tradition, Foxtrot X-Ray will again have a strong presence at our premiere hometown film event - the Phoenix Film Festival.

In order to make the deadline for their world premiere at Sundance 2025, filmmakers Meera Menon and Paul Gleason enlisted Foxtrot X-Ray’s help to complete a handful of VFX shots for their zombie apocalypse drama Didn’t Die.

Foxtrot X-Ray provided 110 visual effects shots for this indie comedy-drama based on writer/producer/star Devin Sidell’s real-life experiences after a positive BRCA-1 diagnosis. The film boasts an impressive and accomplished team both in front of and behind the camera, including director Marianna Palka, executive producer Joanna Kerns, producer Amy Byer Shainman, and a cast that includes Jaime King, Lesley Ann Warren, Michael Roark, Barry Bostwick.

Foxtrot X-Ray collaborated with Fictive Media, providing visual effects support for their work on the game trailer for the zombie survival game 7 Days: Blood Moons.

Here's our version of one of Top Gear's great car segments, using a Ferrari F12 Berlinetta and created entirely in Unreal Engine and Cinema 4D. Additional tools used were MadGoat Studios' Cinematic Car Rig in Unreal, Redshift for the C4D renders, a very light Nuke pass for some optical effects, and DaVinci Resolve for the edit and final color.

Between projects, the Foxtrot X-Ray team put together this full CG whiskey commercial using C4D, XParticles, JangaFX LiquiGen, Unreal Engine, and splash elements from The Pixel Lab, with compositing in Nuke and color/edit in DaVinci Resolve.

As we’ve done for the last several years, this year Foxtrot X-Ray continued its support of the Phoenix Film Festival by again creating an animated opening bumper to kick off every screening at the festival. This year’s theme was a play on the “Barbenheimer” phenomenon, putting the festival’s “Camerahead” mascot into a world inspired by the 2023 hit movies Barbie and Oppenheimer.

As a fun little exercise in between projects, the Foxtrot X-Ray team decided to challenge ourselves with bringing a photoreal 3D-animated version of our mascot “Victor” to life, taking a stroll through Downtown Phoenix.