The Division is Candyshop’s advanced CGI and visual effects department, launched in 2018 to take on the industry’s most demanding creative challenges.
We specialize in 3D animation, simulations, creature work, environments and high-end compositing for commercials, film and digital media.
Led by VFX Director Hashem Alshaer, the team brings world-class craft to every project.
With over 20 years of experience across visual effects, CGI, advertising, design and animation and collaborations with studios like Weta Digital, ILM and Digital Domain,
Hashem has helped shape The Division into a department that delivers at the highest level.
Our artists work across the full CGI pipeline: from concept art and pre-visualization through modeling, rigging, simulation and final compositing.
Every shot is shaped by experienced hands, backed by modern tools, and finished with the precision that ambitious projects demand.
The Land of possible
Our extra Services
3D Animation
Computer animation is essentially a digital successor to the stop motion techniques using 3D models, and traditional animation techniques using frame-by-frame animation of 2D illustrations. We can do all, 3D animation, Stop motion animation, and 2D animation, and we can also mix them all to create much more stylized results!
VFX (Visual effects)
Our main area of specialization, where all the magic happens! Visual effects is the art of mixing computer generated images with live footage seamlessly, and it is the technique which made it possible for movies such as The Lord of the Rings and Avengers to come out amazingly like they are now.
Our visual effects Division team includes some of the most established VFX artists and directors in this domain!
Digital CHARACTER DOUBLE
Body and head replacement techniques vary between simple 2D compositing techniques and complicated 3D or 2D mesh wrapping. Tracking and match moving is always required for such shots.
We use a variety of techniques to achieve these kinds of effects using complicated tracking and animation tools to match the real actor’s movement with the character double.
Liquids
On a niche area of visual effects, CG liquids is one of most established services we do for feature films, movies and commercials, our CG liquids have a particular look and behave like real fluids for large scale scenes such as oceans and flood scenarios, and for small scale scenatios such as food, water, sauce, milk, tea, fruits and chocolate are some of the elements we used to collide and splash against each other to create extremely slow motion beauty shots.
CG Effects
Effects such as destruction, explosions and fire work are some of the most requested effects in recent feature filmsand commercials. Our visual effects team is specialised in destruction scenarios, fire, smoke and particles.
Creatures and Animals
If you can dream the creature, we can make it come to life. The team also specializes in the creation of animals with lifelike realism from the intricate movement of the animal, to the skin and hair, no detail is over looked. The team has created work for feature films and high-end commercials.
We design and execute creatures starting from conceptual sketch to sculpting and modeling the creature, rigging and skinning, setting up its flesh system and muscles to the final texture, and finally the fur and the hair.
Concept art
Our creative & art team is specialized in providing full creative & visual development services including creative brief, conceptual art, style frames, color studies, as well as later production stages such as 3D Animatics & 3D Pre-visualization to bring your ideas to life, with craft and clarity.
VFX Supervision
Our 3D VFX supervisors will be on set during the shooting, to support the director’s team, and to provid guidance at every step. It is an essential matter for production to ensure collecting all the needed information before entering post-production.
