Yafka

23/07/2024

We are happy to announce that Yafka's visual effects work will be featured in Athina Rachel Tsangari's latest film, 'Harvest', which has been selected for competition at Venice Film Festival! La Biennale di Venezia
Athina is one of our all-time favorite directors, a true auteur and visionary, and it's an honor to have collaborated with her on this project.

Starring Harry Melling, Caleb Landry Jones, Rosy McEwen and Frank Dillane, the film is set in a medieval English village that comes under threat when a trio of outsiders arrive.

Venice Film Festival competition title 'Harvest,' by Athina Rachel Tsangari, is one of three films at the festival represented by the Match Factory.

01/07/2024

We are thrilled to announce our fifth Ελληνική Ακαδημία Κινηματογράφου / Hellenic Film Academy Award for VFX! Our work on 𝗜𝗡𝗦𝗜𝗗𝗘, produced by Heretic Films, starring Willem Dafoe, and directed by Vasilis Katsoupis, earned this recognition, shared with Martin Jurado of LAVAlabs Moving Images.
We were also proud to be nominated for The Invisible Fight, directed by Rainer Sarnet and produced by Neda Films, another project close to our hearts. A special thanks to producer Giorgos Karnavas of Heretic Films for accepting the award on our behalf.

17/04/2024

Job well done at Yafka for Fallout 1st season! We completed over 500 VFX shots here in our offices in Athens! Took a whole year but it was well worth it. 1st time we watched and celebrated the finished work altogether. Everybody including the dog did their bit! Here is the full list of everyone involved.

Vaso Ladia, Antonis Kotzias, Aspa Papageorgiou, Maria Vardaki, Lena Mitropoulou, Kostas Tsakonas, Giorgos Melesanakis, Angeliki Galeridi, Nikolas Kanellopoulos, Xenophon Philippoussis, Antonis Nikolaou, Franscesca Camposano, Alexia Theophilopoulou, Isabella Kyriazi, Iasonas Meidanis, Pantelis Anastasiadis, Giannis Koulelis, Nassos Vakalis, and Carmina the dog!

07/03/2024

Yafka was responsible for around 500 VFX shots. Set extensions, blood, explosions, digital doubles, and much more. Its one of those projects that connects with the kid in us, connects with the reason we all started doing this in the first place. We are looking forward to see the show on April.

Based on one of the greatest video game series of all time, Fallout is the story of haves and have-nots in a world in which there’s almost nothing left to ha...

15/01/2024

Here is our latest Yafka showreel covering 2021-2023 period. Some of the international projects seen are Westworld season 4(HBO), Debris (NBC), Cathago (Kan 11), The Righteous Gemstones season 3(HBO), The Invisible Fight. We also included work we did on a few local productions.

03/11/2023

"The Strangest Estonian Black Metal Kung Fu Movie You’ll See This Year, Guaranteed"
Yafka was responsible for all the VFX, more than 200 shots including CG monasteries, flying monks, flying cars, set extensions, plus much much more. Now screening at our beloved Thessaloniki International Film Festival

Rainer Sarnet's kitschy genre mash-up 'The Invisible Fight' combines zany martial arts comedy with a Orthodox monk's religious conversion.

04/10/2022

Good news for Willem Dafoe psychological thriller "Inside". We had a great time working with the fantastic people at Heretic and Vasilis Katsoupis. More than 50 VFX shots were awarded to Yafka including matte paints, set extensions, and clean ups.

Bankside represented filmmakers in the deal.

25/07/2022

Yafka was once again privileged to work as one of the leading visual effects studios for the creation of VFX for HBO's Westworld season 4.
500 VFX shots were awarded to us. Blood and other fluids, Set extensions, Green screens, Explosions, impossible clean-ups, and much more!
Cant wait to show you what we did in our new show-reel coming up in fall 2022.

Westworld is a dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the future of sin. Subscribe to tvpromosdb on Youtube for more Westworld season 4 ...

18/05/2022

We feel privileged to have worked with one of our all time favorite directors Panos H. Koutras for his feature film DODO, Cannes Premiere 2022!
Lidar scans, drone photogrammetry, 360 HDRIs were captured by our team on site and then delivered to the Paris based VFX studio Digital District TM.
In addition we were assigned as Yafka to do several shots including CG feathers, digital birds flying, green screens and several painful clean ups!

https://www.festival-cannes.com/en/films/dodo

30/03/2022

This one we were as excited to work on as we are now waiting to watch it on our screens. We were trusted to complete several demanding visual effects work including matte paints, digital doubles, CG wounds and more. Check out the trailer for Apple TV+ and Moss’s newest project, Shining Girls.

First trailer for Shining Girls starring Elisabeth Moss.

13/09/2021

Yafka has recently completed an epic shot for SEE season 2. We are really excited to be involved in a such a huge production. More will follow soon!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTVWaNwTRaE

SEE is set in a brutal and primitive future, hundreds of years after humankind has lost the ability to see. Season 2 premieres August 27 on Apple TV+ https:/...

08/09/2021

DAVE FXX is one of the shows we really love to watch. We were thrilled when we were called a few months back to assist in several emergency shots. Nearly everyone of our crew were involved for a quick turnaround. We did not have a chance to work on the awesome trailer but here it is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaWFLEaIdU8

DAVE premiers June 16th on FXX and the next day on Hulu