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DNEG

Logo used since 2025
Formerly	Double Negative(1998–2014)
Industry	Motion picture, TV, Animation
Founded	1998; 27 years ago (1998)
Headquarters	160 Great Portland Street,Fitzrovia,London W1W 5QA United Kingdom
Number of locations	9
Key people	Namit Malhotra (CEO)
Services	Visual effects Computer animation Stereo conversion
Parent	Prime Focus Limited[1]
Website	dneg.com

DNEG (formerly known asDouble Negative and stylized asD N E G) is a British-Indianvisual effects,computer animation andstereo conversion studio that was founded in 1998 inLondon, and rebranded as DNEG in 2014 after a merger with Indian visual effects company Prime Focus.^[2]

The company has won sevenAcademy Awards for its work on the filmsInception,Interstellar,Ex Machina,Blade Runner 2049,First Man,Tenet andDune.^[3] In addition, DNEG has also won BAFTA awards forInception,Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2,Interstellar,Blade Runner 2049,Tenet,Dune andBlack Mirror's "Metalhead",^[4] andVisual Effects Society awards for its work on films such asThe Dark Knight Rises,Sherlock Holmes,Inception,Interstellar,Dunkirk,Blade Runner 2049,Altered Carbon,First Man,Chernobyl,Last Night In Soho,Foundation andDune.^[5] It has also receivedPrimetime Emmy Awards for its work onDreamkeeper,Chernobyl andseason 3 ofStar Trek: Discovery.^[6]

DNEG is headquartered inFitzrovia,London with additional locations inVancouver,Mumbai,Los Angeles,Chennai,Montréal,Mohali,Bangalore,Toronto, andSydney.^{[7][8][9][10]}

Double Negative first opened its doors in 1998 inLondon. Founded by a small group of industry professionals, including Peter Chiang (Senior VFX Supervisor), Matt Holben (Joint MD), Alex Hope (Joint MD) andPaul Franklin (Senior VFX Supervisor),^[11][12][13] it has grown from a small team to 8,000 members of staff worldwide.

Over the years, DNEG has worked on over 200 movies and developed working relationships with a number of leading directors. Its first project wasPitch Black, released in 2000. Since then, DNEG's work can be seen in recurring franchises likeHarry Potter,Fantastic Beasts, theMarvel Cinematic Universe,James Bond,Jason Bourne,Fast and Furious,Mission: Impossible and theDC Extended Universe.^[14] DNEG has worked on award-winning projects such asInception,Interstellar,Ex Machina,Dunkirk,Blade Runner 2049,Black Mirror – Metalhead,Altered Carbon,First Man,Chernobyl,Tenet,Star Trek: Discovery (Season 3), andDune.^[15][16][17]

DNEG's visual effects work has been honored with seven Academy Awards, seven BAFTAs, eighteen Visual Effects Society Awards and three Primetime Emmy Awards.^[6]

In July 2014, Indian visual effects company Prime Focus World merged with Double Negative;^[18][19] the merged company was rebranded as DNEG.^[20]

In August 2021, UK-based firmNovator Capital Advisors invested $250 million in Prime Focus Limited, DNEG's parent company. This deal boosted CEO and Prime Focus founderNamit Malhotra's stake in the parent to 70% from 35%, and as the owner of Novator, Icelandic billionaireThor Björgólfsson received a 15% stake in DNEG.^[21]

On January 25, 2022, DNEG announced its entry into a definitive business combination agreement with Sports Ventures Acquisition Corp. (Nasdaq: AKIC). Subject to customary closing conditions, which were expected in the first half of 2022, the combined public company would be named DNEG.^[22][23] DNEG called off the merger and public listing in June 2022, with CEO Malhotra vowing to expand further.^[24]

In 2009, Double Negative opened its Singapore office,^[25][26] and closed it in March 2016.^[27][28]

Following the 2014 merger with Prime Focus World, DNEG announced the upcoming opening of aMumbai branch.^[29] Since 2014, DNEG has opened new facilities inVancouver,Los Angeles,Chennai,Montréal,Mohali,Bangalore andToronto.

In November 2022, DNEG announced plans to open a location inSydney,Australia, where itsVFX and animation divisions will work. The new studio was scheduled to open in 2023 inPyrmont and would be headed by VFX supervisorAndrew Jackson. It lead the visual effects forGeorge Miller'sFuriosa: A Mad Max Saga.^[30][31]

On January 29, 2024, DNEG updated its logo and branding.^[32]

DNEG started as a visual effects (VFX) studio specialised in VFX forfeature films. Over the years its offering expanded to include VFX andanimation for feature film and television, and stereo conversion.

In 2013 the company launched its Episodic VFX team dedicated to the creation of VFX fortelevision, OTT andstreaming providers and designed to allow content producers and networks access to DNEG's team and infrastructure for non-theatrical projects.^[33][34]

DNEG Animation

Logo used as of 2025
Formerly	DNEG Feature Animation (2014–2021)
Company type	Division
Industry	CGI animation
Founded	April 11, 2014; 10 years ago (2014-04-11)
Website	www.dneg.com/animation

DNEG Animation (formerly known asDNEG Feature Animation) was founded in April 2014 as DNEG Feature Animation after DNEG formed a deal withLocksmith Animation, with Tom Jacomb leading the studio.^[35] It provides animation services alongside IP creators and filmmakers for both feature and episodic animated projects. Early in its development in 2018, it produced a series of shorts featuring aQueen's Guard soldier with a giant pencil. Its first feature film wasRon's Gone Wrong, co-produced with Locksmith Animation,20th Century Animation andTSG Entertainment for20th Century Studios, released in 2021, which won for "Best Longform" at the British Animation Awards.^[36][37][38] It also released the short filmMr. Spam Gets A New Hat in 2021, directed by Academy Award-winning filmmakerWilliam Joyce, which won 'Best Animation' at 2021 New York Shorts International Film Festival, 'Best Animated Short' atCleveland International Film Festival, 'Best Animation' at LA Shorts Festival, 'Best Animated Short' at Cordillera International Film Festival and 'Best 3D Narrative Short' at SPARK ANIMATION 2021. With the trailer release ofMr. Spam Gets A New Hat in October 2021, and by early 2022, the studio was renamed to DNEG Animation. The studio then worked on theNetflix television specialEntergalactic, created byScott “Kid Cudi” Mescudi andKenya Barris and released in September 2022.^[39][40]

The studio's next feature film released wasNimona, an adaptation of thewebcomic of the same name byND Stevenson forNetflix andAnnapurna Pictures, released in June 2023; in the production ofNimona, DNEG would take over animation fromBlue Sky Studios after the company was shut down by then-ownerThe Walt Disney Company before their production was completed.^[41] It was followed byUnder the Boardwalk forParamount Animation, which was released in October of that year.^[42][43][44]The Garfield Movie, for which DNEG is a producer alongsideAlcon Entertainment forSony Pictures, was released in May 2024.^[45] It was followed byThat Christmas, a co-production withNetflix Animation and Locksmith Animation for Netflix, released in December of the same year.

Projects currently in production include an adaptation ofThe Cat in the Hat (2026) withWarner Bros. Pictures Animation,Bad Fairies (2027) with Locksmith Animation, Sketchshark Productions and WBPA,The Angry Birds Movie 3 withRovio Entertainment andSega Sammy Group, and an adaptation ofThe Great Gatsby.

DNEG ReDefine was launched in 2019 to provide creative visual effects and animation services both to expanding international markets and to filmmakers and streaming companies.^[46][47][48]

DNEG Stereo (formerly known asPrime Focus World) was the first in the world to convert a full Hollywood film from 2D to 3D and has since become one of the largeststereo conversion companies in the motion picture industry.^[49]

DNEG Virtual Production is a global, end-to-end virtual production service. It offers filmmakers and content creators access to a full range of real-time production services – from script breakdown, through development / pre-production, production and post-production, to final picture delivery. DNEG Virtual Production has delivered virtual production services forAndy Serkis'Venom: Let There Be Carnage,Keneth Branagh'sDeath on the Nile andDavid Leitch'sBullet Train.^[50][51]

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