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ZERO VFX
Company type	Private
Industry	Visual effects and advertising
Founded	2010
Founders	Brian Drewes, Sean Devereaux, Marc Sadeghi
Headquarters	Boston, Massachusetts
Website	ZERO VFX

ZERO VFX is a visual effects and creative studio with offices in Boston, Massachusetts and Venice Beach, California. Co-founded by Brian Drewes, Sean Devereaux and Marc Sadeghi in 2010,^[1] the company works on feature film and commercial projects.^[2]

History edit

ZERO VFX was founded in 2010 by Brian Drewes, Sean Devereaux and Marc Sadeghi.

ZERO VFX developed Zync in 2011,^[3] a cloud based rendering tool for VFX and was sold to Google for an undisclosed sum in August 2014.^[4]^[5]

With headquarters in Boston, the company opened a second office in Venice Beach, California in November 2015.^[6]

ZERO VFX was the original developer of Zync, a cloud based rendering tool geared towards the visual effects industry with support for The Foundry's NUKE, Autodesk Maya, Solid Angle's Arnold and Chaos Group's V-Ray.^[7] Zync was sold to Google for an undisclosed sum in August 2014.^[8]

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