Vancouver, Canada

Mythos North

Guiding the Art of Story

A Canadian premium animation and VFX studio specialising in organic environments, character systems, and the pipeline infrastructure that brings both to life.

Discover the Studio

The Studio

Built on craft.
Driven by story.

Mythos North is a Vancouver-based creative studio founded on over a decade of production experience across the world's leading animation and VFX pipelines. We work at the intersection of artistry and technical rigor — delivering environments, character groom systems, and surfacing that hold up at the highest production standard, built on a pipeline we designed ourselves.

10+
Years in production
20+
Feature & series credits
6
Major studios
CA
Vancouver based

What We Do

Studio Services

Environment Modelling
Large-scale organic environment builds, terrain generation, vegetation systems, and procedural scatter workflows optimised for feature animation pipelines.
Surfacing & Lookdev
Production surfacing in Arnold, Mari, and Katana. Shader development, texture pipeline management, and lookdev workflows built for downstream rendering.
Groom & CFX
Hero character hair, fur, and feather systems in Xgen and Yeti. Cloth and dynamic rig simulation. Expression-driven groom pipelines for animated features.
Pipeline & Tooling
Custom Maya pipeline tools in Python/PyQt — asset publish, validation, shader management, renaming, LOD standin export, and path remapping utilities.
Vegetation & Foliage
SpeedTree, Maya PFX, and MASH-driven foliage systems. Set dressing at scale for feature animation — instancing, complexity management, and downstream optimisation.
Cross-Dept Integration
Asset hand-offs, pipeline troubleshooting, and QA between Modelling, Rigging, FX, Lookdev, and Layout. ShotGrid/Flow coordination across production departments.
In Active Development

Building the Mythos North
Production Pipeline

We are building a full in-house Maya production pipeline from the ground up — covering every stage of the Modelling, Surfacing, and Groom asset lifecycle. Every tool is authored in Python with PyQt/PySide interfaces, designed around asset validation, metadata conventions, and QA-gating that protects downstream department workflows. The pipeline also includes GFBuild, a proprietary Maya plugin for procedural groom and foliage construction with curve-based guide connectivity for hair, fur, and grass simulation workflows.

Asset Save & Publish Model QC Turntable System Shader Preset Manager LOD Arnold Standin Export Mesh & Texture Renamer Universal Path Remapper GFBuild Plugin Curve Extraction Strand Builder nHair Wire Animation XGen Simulation Integration

Production Credits

Selected Work

Unicorn Academy S1 & S2
Netflix · Mainframe Studios
Groom & Foliage Artist
Ariel
Disney+ · ICON Creative Studios
Senior CFX Artist
Barbie
Mainframe Studios
Groom & Foliage Artist
100% Wolf
Double Negative (DNeg)
Creature FX Grooming Artist
Tinker Bell & Legend of the Neverbeast
Disney · Prana Studios
Creature FX & Foliage Artist
Planes 2
Disney · Prana Studios
Creature FX & Foliage Artist
My Little Pony Movie
Boulder Media
Final Layout Artist
Swan Princess
Sony Pictures · Assemblage Entertainment
Groom Department Lead

Get in Touch

Let's make something together.

Based in Vancouver, BC. Available for production work, pipeline consulting, and studio collaboration.

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