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Some of the notable projects added to our BOTfolio were Avatar: Fire and Ash, Stranger Things S5, Lilo & Stitch, A Minecraft Movie, Jurassic World Rebirth, F1, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, Wicked: For Good, Wednesday S2, The Last of Us S2 and The Witcher S4.

A leadership offsite designed to reflect on the journey so far, recalibrate priorities and prepare for what lies ahead.

Srikanth S, our Sr. Tech Supervisor presented a case study at VIEW Conference 2025: Directing GenAI Tools for Real-World Productions.

BOT VFX Toastmasters Club held its official Charter Ceremony, formally establishing the club and its commitment to communication, leadership and personal growth.

BOT VFX was received the Recognition Award for Energy Management at the 2nd Edition of the Corporate Excellence Conference & Awards, Chennai -- for our commitment to sustainability, efficiency and responsible energy use.

Best VFX Feature (International) for Bad Boys. Back-to-back years, back-to-back wins.

AYON, the most robust open-source pipeline tool was integrated into S2

From a mutant multiverse to a musical phenomenon, 2024 was a big year on screen! BOT VFX contributed to Deadpool & Wolverine, Wicked, Sonic the Hedgehog 3, Pachinko S2, Rebel Ridge, Skeleton Crew, Senna, Bad Boys: Ride or Die, Knuckles and EXPATS S1.

Four powerhouse additions to the BOT roster: Caine (VFX Supervisor), Achal (DFX Supervisor), Krishnakant (Creative Head) and Siva Sankar (Comp Supervisor).

We welcomed Wētā FX and Rodeo FX to our Chennai office, that delivered great conversations, shared expertise and the kind of creative synergy that reminds us why industry connection actually sticks.

At the National Wellness Conference, We won the Innovative Wellness Initiative Award at Welcon’24 by NHRD - for our internal program, BOT Circles!

BOT VFX earned its first-ever Emmy nomination for All The Light We Cannot See, that was among 10 films shortlisted for VFX Oscars.

Three wins! Best Studio of the Year, Best VFX Shot for 'To Catch a Killer' and the Women in VFX Award for Shaswati Chowdhury, our Head of Learning & Development.

We launched a podcast! Catch BOTCast on Spotify - where the team behind the frames gets candid about craft, culture and everything in between.

We worked on Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, Barbie, Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, The Last of Us, Extraction 2, Shadow and Bone S2, Secret Invasion, To Catch a Killer and The Flash.

Tiny tales, big craft. BOT Shorts is our in-house creative initiative where our own team gets behind the camera, making short films that are pure movie magic.

Our CIO, Anoop joined the panel discussion on How Technology is Transforming VFX.

We set up a new office space in Coimbatore!

15 years of culture, creativity and the people who make it all happen! BOT Fest 2023 was a celebration of everything we've built and everyone who built it.

BOT Squad is our dedicated unit built around the Power of Collaboration. By partnering with the best in the business, BOT Squad amplifies what we can do and who we can do it with.

3 for 2023! In the international category, Best VFX Shot & Best VFX TV Serial (International) for The Peripheral and Best VFX in Animation (International) for Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio.

BOT planted its flag in Hyderabad in early 2023, opening a brand new delivery centre.

Two BOT VFX projects took home Academy Awards this year - Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio won Best Animated Feature Film and Avatar: The Way of Water won Best Visual Effects.

The year kicked off the right way with the leadership team stepping away from their desks for a little rejuvenation.

BOT VFX worked on Avatar: The Way of Water, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio, Andor, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Stranger Things S4, The Gray Man, The Peripheral and 1923.

Our team headed to Hyderabad for the VFX Summit, joining panel discussions, winning awards and connecting with the next generation of VFX talent who stopped by our booth.

We expanded our footprint with new offices in Pune and Chennai — more space, more talent, more of what we do best!

2nd consecutive year with four projects recognised at the Emmys! The Book of Boba Fett took home the award for Outstanding Special Visual Effects. Foundation, Stranger Things and The Witcher were also nominated under the same category.

Dune took home the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects. Other nominated projects. Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings and Spider-Man: No Way Home also were nominated in the same category.

Three projects we contributed to, delivered at the VES Awards 2022 — Dune won Outstanding Visual Effects in a Photoreal Feature, Foundation won Outstanding Visual Effects in a Photoreal Episode, and Spider-man: No Way Home took Outstanding Created Environment in a Photoreal Feature respectively. Foundation delivered at the Visual Effects Society Awards — winning Outstanding Visual Effects in a Photoreal Episode and Outstanding Effects Simulation in an Episode.

Our CSR initiative 'Spread a Smile' got off to a heartwarming start in 2022. The idea was simple: BOTs celebrating their birthdays by giving back instead of just celebrating.

BOT VFX worked on Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Foundation, Red Notice, The Fear Street Trilogy, Jupiter's Legacy and Lisey's Story.

Despite the pandemic, our team grew -- reaching 525 bots!

The Mandalorian Season 2 won Outstanding Special Visual Effects in a Season or a Movie and BOT VFX helped bring it to life! We also worked on the four other nominated projects — Lovecraft Country, The Boys, The Falcon & The Winter Soldier, and WandaVision.

Our in-house workflow managemnet tool - revamped and upgraded to become S2.

BOT VFX set up a new delivery centre in Pune.

In March 2020, BOT VFX made a strategic pivot to work-from-home, in response to widespread shutdowns due to the global COVID-19 pandemic. By May, 65% of team members were WFH-enabled; and by June, 90%.

BOT VFX delivered on 1917, Westworld S3, Lovecraft Country, The Umbrella Academy, Star Trek: Picard, Tanhaji: The Unsung Warrior, Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey, The Call of the Wild, Black Is King and Tales from the Loop.

Dream team - BOT VFX and Scanline won two awards! Best VFX Shot of the Year (International) for Gemini Man and Best VFX in a Non-Feature (International) for Game of Thrones Season 8.

In November 2019, our longest-serving bots were rewarded for a decade of dedication with a trip to Singapore. The "Can Lah" celebration was one for the books!

BOT VFX worked on Avengers: Endgame, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, The Mandalorian, Spider-Man: Far From Home, Game of Thrones, The Irishman, Watchmen, The Boys, Gemini Man and Ad Astra.

When Cinefex (the bible of the VFX world) dedicates ink to your work, you've done something right. Their October 2019 issue cited BOT VFX for our zero-gravity work on Ad Astra.

In October 2019, BOT Academy opened a training ground where the next generation of VFX artists learn the craft before joining the team. We call the programme Build-A-Bot. Read More

In collaboration with Hybride, we won Shot of the Year (International) for our work in the film Solo: A StarWars Story.

VFX Voice's Spring 2019 issue put the global VFX industry under the microscope and BOT VFX was part of the story. Our company and CEO were cited in their in-depth focus on where the industry stands and where it's headed.

We celebrated our 10th Year Anniversary with a glittering gala event on July 7.

We worked on Avengers: Infinity War, Black Panther, Deadpool 2, Ant-Man and the Wasp, Ready Player One, Aquaman, Bumblebee, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, Solo: A Star Wars Story and Mary Poppins Returns. BOT VFX worked on Avengers: Endgame, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, The Mandalorian, Spider-Man: Far From Home, Game of Thrones, The Irishman, Watchmen, The Boys, Gemini Man and Ad Astra.

BOT VFX worked on Wonder Woman, Thor: Ragnarok, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Spider-Man: Homecoming, Justice League, Blade Runner 2049, Beauty and the Beast, Star Trek: Discovery, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets and Katy Perry's Swish Swish music video.

In early 2017, BOT's Chennai offices came together under one roof at LBR Towers.

BOT VFX worked on Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Captain America: Civil War, Doctor Strange, Deadpool, Black Sails, Allied, The Divergent Series: Allegiant, Sleepy Hollow, Falling Water and BMW Films' The Escape.

Our longest-serving team members traded the Chennai skyline for London's — a celebration trip for the people who helped build everything BOT had become.

We worked on Jurassic World, The Martian, Furious 7, Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, Ant-Man, Kingsman: The Secret Service, Chappie, In the Heart of the Sea, Point Break and Straight Outta Compton.

BOT launched a programme to recruit and integrate hearing-impaired VFX artists into our production team. A small decision with a but big meaning — craft has no barriers, and neither does BOT.

BOT's Chennai office expanded with a new annex location.

BOT VFX and Image Engine joined forces on Chappie and walked away with Best VFX in a Feature Film (International). Our very first award!

BOT VFX worked on Godzilla, Birdman, Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb, Unbroken, Divergent, Boardwalk Empire, Constantine and Crossbones.

The entire company put down their professional hats and came together for an internal short film festival.

BOT VFX acquired IT assets from Sony Imageworks India; bolstering our infrastructure and setting the stage for the growth to come.

Our studio was audited by Walt Disney!

BOT VFX worked on The Wolf of Wall Street, Elysium, Star Trek Into Darkness, Saving Mr. Banks, After Earth and Identity Thief.

There's a hundred of us!

With some of the biggest players in VFX - DNEG, Scanline, Digital Domain, Hybride, Rodeo and more.

Our office in Chennai moved into a new and bigger office space!

Paramount and Deluxe audited our studios as well.

We grew to a team of 80 bots!

BOT VFX worked on John Carter, Les Misérables, Flight and Eureka.

BOT VFX worked on Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, Water for Elephants, Conan the Barbarian, Horrible Bosses and Jack and Jill.

Roto, Paint & Matchmove departments together worked on John Carter - a mammoth of a project!

Our facility underwent IT security audits and assessments by major studios - Fox Studios, Paramount, Deluxe, Disney Marvel. Warner Bros and Sony Pictures.

We worked on The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader and Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief.

Started a new department - Matchmove; with the joining of Govardhan AB

We got a new name! The studio rebranded from Rotobotic to BOT VFX — a name that was sharper, simpler and built to last.

Launched ShotBot — our very own workflow management tool!

We had the honour of having Invictus as our very first film that we contributed to, followed by Where the Wild Things Are.

As data transfering and IT systems got complicated, Mathew Sunil joined us to bring order to the chaos.

Our Founders set the bar high for our very first project - delivering ride-film support for Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey at Universal Studios, Orlando.

Recruited our first Producer - Hetal Jain and 4 Roto artists (including Rajesh Babu & Ravi Selvan)

Hitesh Shah, Sreyans Bardia and Deepak Bohra founded Rotobotic - what would become one of the most trusted VFX studios.