Maere Studios is a

visual effects Visual effects (sometimes abbreviated as VFX) is the process by which imagery is created or manipulated outside the context of a live-action shot in filmmaking and video production. The integration of live-action footage and other live-action fo ...

, design, and

animation Animation is a filmmaking technique whereby still images are manipulated to create moving images. In traditional animation, images are drawn or painted by hand on transparent celluloid sheets to be photographed and exhibited on film. Animati ...

studio founded by

Nicholas Ashe Bateman Nicholas Ashe Bateman is an artist, filmmaker, actor and the founder of the award-winning visual effects, design and animation company Maere Studios. As a writer and director, his acclaimed debut feature film - the microbudget '' The Wanting Mare ...

. The studio was initially formed by Bateman to make the

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feature film '

The Wanting Mare ''The Wanting Mare'' is a 2020 science fiction fantasy film written and directed by Nicholas Ashe Bateman. Plot In a post-apocalypse, post-apocalyptic realm called Anmaere, an annual drive ships wild horses from a rundown city called Whithren to ...

'. The studio has done the visual effects for over 25 films for such as 'The Green Knight', '

Peter Pan & Wendy ''Peter Pan & Wendy'' is a 2023 American fantasy adventure film directed by David Lowery from a screenplay he co-wrote with Toby Halbrooks. Jim Whitaker served as producer on the Walt Disney Pictures and Whitaker Entertainment production, bas ...

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Knock at the Cabin ''Knock at the Cabin'' is a 2023 American apocalyptic psychological horror film written, directed and produced by M. Night Shyamalan, who wrote the screenplay from an initial draft by Steve Desmond and Michael Sherman. It is based on the 2018 ...

', 'Y2K, '

An Almost Christmas Story ''An Almost Christmas Story'' is a 2024 animated short film directed by David Lowery, who produced and co-wrote alongside Alfonso Cuarón. Plot A young owl named Moon unexpectedly finds himself in a Christmas tree destined for Rockefeller Ce ...

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', 'Caddo Lake', and the music video for

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's song
Funny Girl
. in 2024, Maere Studios designed and did all visual effects for the short film '

'which premiered on

Disney+ The Walt Disney Company, commonly referred to as simply Disney, is an American multinational mass media and entertainment industry, entertainment conglomerate (company), conglomerate headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios (Burbank), Walt Di ...

. The animated short was a co-production between Maere Studios,

Disney Television Disney Television may refer to: * Disney Television Studios, the main television studio of The Walt Disney Company * Disney Television Animation, Disney's studio for animation made for television. * Disney Branded Television, a sector overseeing ...

Alfonso Cuaron Alphons (Latinized ''Alphonsus'', ''Adelphonsus'', or ''Adefonsus'') is a male given name recorded from the 8th century (Alfonso I of Asturias, r. 739–757) in the Christian successor states of the Visigothic Kingdom in the Iberian Peninsula. I ...

Esperanto Filmoj Esperanto Filmoj is a Mexican-American film and television production company based in Sherman Oaks, California. It is owned by film director Alfonso Cuarón. The name was coined by Guillermo del Toro, who calls cinematography "the new Esperant ...

, and Titmouse, Inc.

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