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Declined by Athanelar 4 months ago.
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Submission declined on 9 March 2026 by TheObsidianGriffon (talk). This draft's references do not show that the subject meets Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion for organizations and companies. The draft requires multiple published secondary sources that:
Declined by TheObsidianGriffon 6 months ago.
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Comment: Still far too much reliance on (a) talking about what the founder did before founding this business (but notability is not inherited); (b) information from non-independent sources such as interviews and articles by business associates (which I think the Trusted Partner Network source is).Most businesses cannot have Wikipedia pages, and it is not a reflection on the quality of the business but only on the degree to which it has been discussed by reliable independent sources. I'm not seeing that here. M kuhner (talk) 05:59, 22 August 2026 (UTC)
- Comment: Passing namedrops of projects your company has been involved in do not confer any notability, nor does any other routine reporting of your regular business activity. Please read and digest WP:CORPDEPTH as well as WP:BOSS. Athanelar (talk) 06:07, 14 May 2026 (UTC)
| Type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Visual effects |
| Founded | 2018 |
| Founder | Lindsay Adams |
| Headquarters | Marrickville, Sydney, Australia |
| Key people | Lindsay Adams (Founder & VFX Supervisor) |
| Website | future-associate |
Future Associate is an Australian visual effects (VFX) company founded in 2018 and based in Marrickville, Sydney, New South Wales. The studio provides visual effects for film and television productions for Australian and international clients.[1]
History
[edit]Future Associate was founded in 2018 by visual effects supervisor Lindsay Adams, who had previously worked at visual effects studios including Industrial Light & Magic, Weta Digital, MPC, Animal Logic, and Rising Sun Pictures.[2] Adams's credits prior to founding Future Associate include Mad Max: Fury Road, The Avengers, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1, and Happy Feet.[2] Adams received a Visual Effects Society Award nomination for Outstanding Compositing in a Photoreal Feature for Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) at the 14th Annual VES Awards.[3]
The studio was established after Adams was offered the opportunity to work on the pilot for the HBO series Watchmen, work his then-employer declined to take on. Adams left his position to pursue the project independently, returning to Sydney to assemble a crew for the production.[1] The studio grew to 20 staff members, prompting a move to a larger facility in Marrickville.[1] Discussing the early growth of the studio, Adams noted the closure of Method Studios Sydney — which laid off approximately 200 staff — as a factor that increased the local talent pool available to the new company.[1]
In late 2024, Adams purchased a former smash-repairs workshop in Marrickville and rebuilt it as a 750-square-metre production facility with on-site render and storage infrastructure and solar power with battery backup.[4]
Operations
[edit]Future Associate works in computer-generated imagery (CGI), including CG environments, character animation, digital doubles, creature effects, crowd simulations, and fire and water simulations.[5] The company is a member of Ausfilm and has been assessed at Gold level under the Motion Picture Association's Trusted Partner Network content-security programme.[4]
In a 2026 interview with the Law Society Journal, Adams said the studio operated around 35 desks, ran generative artificial intelligence models locally on its own GPU hardware rather than on external servers, and had delivered more than 200 shots on Mortal Kombat II.[6]
Selected filmography
[edit]Film
[edit]- The Bluff (2026) — Amazon MGM Studios[7]
- Mortal Kombat II (2026)[8]
- Dangerous Animals (2025)[9]
- Monkey Man (2024) — Universal Pictures[10]
- In Vitro (2024)[11]
- The Equalizer 3 (2023) — Sony Pictures[12]
- Dark Harvest (2023) — Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer[13]
- The Portable Door (2023)[14]
- Elvis (2022) — Warner Bros. Pictures[15]
- Three Thousand Years of Longing (2022)[16]
- The King (2019) — Netflix[17]
Television
[edit]References
[edit]- 1 2 3 4 5 Failes, Ian (1 October 2019). "How to Start a VFX Studio". VFX Voice. Retrieved 2026-03-11.
- 1 2 "Visual effects veteran Andrew Robinson joins Future Associate as Executive Producer". Campaign Brief. 18 March 2019. Retrieved 2026-03-11.
- ↑ "VES Awards: 'Star Wars', 'The Martian' & 'The Walk' Among Nominees". Deadline. January 12, 2016.
- 1 2 "Future Associate: Building Content Security In from Day One". Trusted Partner Network. 11 June 2026. Retrieved 2026-07-06.
- ↑ "Future Associate — Member Profile". Ausfilm. Retrieved 2026-03-11.
- ↑ Silva, Francisco (July 2026). "Builder of Worlds". Law Society Journal. Law Society of New South Wales. pp. 114–119.
- ↑ Frei, Vincent (2026-04-02). "The Bluff: How Future Associate Crafted Invisible VFX to Build Environments and Action". The Art of VFX. Retrieved 2026-04-07.
- ↑ "Mortal Kombat II". The Art of VFX. Retrieved 2026-03-31.
- ↑ Brady, Tara (5 June 2025). "'I couldn't resist the fact that the sharks weren't the monsters': Sean Byrne on making the thriller Dangerous Animals". The Irish Times. Retrieved 2026-07-06.
- ↑ "Monkey Man". The Art of VFX. Retrieved 2026-03-31.
- ↑ "VFX House Future Associate's CG skills on show in In Vitro". Ausfilm. Retrieved 2026-03-11.
- ↑ "The Equalizer 3". The Art of VFX. Retrieved 2026-03-31.
- ↑ "Future Associate craft a spine-tingling monster for MGM's Dark Harvest". Ausfilm. Retrieved 2026-03-11.
- ↑ "Future Associate conjures up VFX magic for The Portable Door". Ausfilm. Retrieved 2026-03-11.
- ↑ "Elvis". The Art of VFX. Retrieved 2026-03-11.
- ↑ "Three Thousand Years of Longing". The Art of VFX. 23 May 2022. Retrieved 2026-03-11.
- ↑ "The King". The Art of VFX. 24 October 2019. Retrieved 2026-03-11.
- ↑ "Future Associate brings dreams to life in Boy Swallows Universe". Ausfilm. Retrieved 2026-03-11.
- ↑ "Future Associate lights a fire under Heartbreak High". Ausfilm. Retrieved 2026-03-11.
- ↑ "Nautilus – VFX Breakdown by Future Associate". The Art of VFX. Retrieved 2026-03-11.
- ↑ "Watchmen". The Art of VFX. Retrieved 2026-03-31.
External links
[edit]Category:Visual effects companies of Australia Category:Film production companies of Australia Category:Companies based in Sydney Category:Companies established in 2018 Category:Marrickville
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