Koala FX
VFX
At KoalaFX, we’re building for what’s next. That mindset keeps us focused on innovation, efficiency, and proving that a tight, high-performance team can outperform outdated traditional pipelines. Every film professional working with KoalaFX is a top priority: from independent auteur cinema to blockbusters.
Our Philosophy.
Every core member at KoalaFX can build pipelines, write scripts, and develop automation that genuinely improves quality or saves time. We’re not trying to scale for scale’s sake. We believe quality is quantity and KoalaFX’s set up enables the company to be agile and diverse, making sure any story makes it to the wide audience in the best possible way. We approach our craft as filmmaking, using the technology as a mastered tool but not the essence.
Our Values.
What makes us different is that at our core, we’re filmmakers. We understand visual storytelling from a creative point of view, this shapes how we solve every creative and technical challenge. Audiences don’t go to cinemas for technically perfect tracking or great compositing—they go for emotional experiences.
Our Foundation.
KoalaFX was founded in 2019 by filmmakers Dasha Sherman (CEO, Managing Director) and Menelaos Pampoukidis (CEO, Creative Director/Head of VFX) as a way to provide creative VFX solutions to filmmakers. Both Menelaos and Dasha, came from film-directing backgrounds, sharing four Master’s degrees in Film-Directing between them.
From day one, we believed VFX could be done differently – focused on storytelling, not just effects, with a tight, exceptionally capable core team that works smarter, faster, and more sustainably. Today that belief looks less like vision and more like foresight.
The Evolution.
Before KoalaFX, Dasha (at 24) worked as a Post Production Producer at Phenomen Films on DAU, where she oversaw post-production for 13 feature films, 4 series, and 700 hours of interactive digital content. Menelaos began at DAU as a VFX artist and soon grew into a VFX Supervisor, developing unique training techniques that enabled small teams to deliver high-end results.
KoalaFX started as a 2D studio, compositing, clean-up, and digital makeup. Within just a few years, we evolved into creating full CG worlds: complex creatures, entire CGI environments. We’ve integrated innovative technologies and AI tools not as novelties but as force multipliers that amplify what skilled artists can achieve.
Starting from tiny projects, we managed to become solo VFX vendors on films like: Brutalist, Fall, One Life, Love at First Sight, Trap House, Gator Geek and many more. Currently KoalaFX’s team is working on multiple projects including a well – known franchise called 47 Meters Down: The Wreck.
That’s what we are here for: to use the incredible advanced and innovative technology to enable Stories to be Experienced.
Primary Activity: VFX
Mastered
Training
Mastered empower talented, ambitious and diverse creators to succeed in the new world of work.
We teach the technical skills that employers need right now. Connect mid-level and senior talent with mentors to take them to the next level. Coach managers to improve their confidence in leading in creative environments. Help makers find lifelong collaborators. Support career returners with their job search. Connect jobseekers with hiring partners with open job positions. We do all of these things, and more, in our mission to help creators succeed.
Primary Activity: Training
