Creators of Digital Worlds

STARNO is a Montreal, Canada based VFX boutique studio that focuses primarily on photo realistic digital environment work for several industries. With STARNO's along your side, you will find talent and expertise to support your every need. Including Digital Matte Painting, Concept Art, Compositing, Key Art, Poster Art, Skybox, CG Environment, Promotional art and Advertisement. With over two decades of experience and a solid reputation, the founder and his team offer unmatched service and high-end quality in four distinct industries...



Film & Episodic

Providing full range Visual Effects services as VFX main vendors or helping VFX Studios with a focus on Matte Painting, CG Environments, Previz and Postviz Concept Art, Backdrop, Cyclorama and Compositing

Gaming Industry

Offering mostly hyper-realistic digital environment services such as Skyboxes, Matte Painting and CG Environment, Concept Art, Key art / Poster art, for Cinematics, Loading screens, In-Game and VR projects

Advertising

We manage the entire process of Visual Effects from A to Z for Ads projects such as TV Commercials, Prints, Web, Magazines, Social Medias

Experiences

We produce high-quality photographic or stylized visual content for projects including VR - Virtual Reality, AR - Augmented Reality, MR - Mixed Reality and Virtual Production using mostly Unreal Engine

Our Projects

Noteworthy Projects Completed from 2015 to 2021

our office

STARNO headquaters in Montreal, Canada

our office

STARNO in action




Who loves to work with us

Our clients are typically Visual Effects / VFX Studios, Film Productions, Game Studios, Advertising Agencies and Architecture Agencies. Together we collaborate to work on projects for companies such as :

regency entertainment    netflix    nbc    sony pictures    paramount television    abc    ubisoft    amazon studios     appletvplus    warner Brother Games Montreal    eidos montreal     canal plus    mels montreal    rodeo fx     les films seville    Sony Television    Activision     starz


Superior results

We take pride in the work we do for our clients. We produce results rapidly and have one of the fastest development cycles in the industry. We invite you to browse our portfolio for a sample.

Professional experience

We have a wealth of knowledge and experience. Our team has more than 35 years of combined experience under our belts in our respective areas of expertise. Each of us brings a unique perspective to the table.

Availability

We work with companies of all shapes and sizes and recognize no two projects are the same. We make ourselves available for questions and schedule regular progress calls to check-in and make sure we’re all on the same page. And we’re always available via email.

Time Management

Managing your project's scope is about maximizing your budgeted time, money and resources to carry out the necessary steps on the way to reaching your goal.



We are proud of these numbers

570 Projects done
1944 Shots & Images created
6 Years as a team
209 Happy clients

More than 25 years of experience

Frederic St-Arnaud is a business entrepreneur and a Visual Effects artist of more than 20 years of experience. As a successful and renowned talented artist, Frederic focused since 1998 primarily on digital Matte Painting (also known as Matte Art or Digimatte), set extension and concept art in the film industry building a strong reputation in the VFX community. He founded his own VFX company in 2015 named STARNO and today, he still continues to work with passion in the industry accompanied by his team of faithful artists.

His film credits include over than 70 feature films such as The Amazing Spiderman, Sin City, Elysium, The Lone Ranger, Pacific Rim, Resident Evil, Terminator Salvation, Babel, Silent Hill, The Golden Compass which won the best Visual Effects oscar at the 2008 Academy Awards. [IMDB Frederic Profile] and [Linkedin Frederic Profile]

Our Office

OUR SKILLS

MATTE PAINTING

MATTE PAINTING

Matte paintings (Matte arts) are used to create virtual sets. We use this term when we create an entire set using mostly photo manipulation and 2.5D techniques.
SET EXTENSION

SET EXTENSION

A set extension is the digital extension of an existing set or a part of a set built especially for a project using generally the same techniques than matte painting.
CG ENVIRONMENT

CG ENVIRONMENT

CG Environment is the application of computer graphics to create full 3 dimensional sets in visual effects / VFX (films) and video games.
CONCEPT ART

CONCEPT ART

A concept art is a form of illustration where the main goal is to convey a visual representation of an idea for use mostly in games and films or other media before it is put into the final product.
COMPOSITING

COMPOSITING

Our compositing services: Seamless Integrations, Rotoscopy, Chroma Key, Camera Mapping, Tracking and Camera match move, Color Grading and Matte Key.
SKYBOXES

POSTER | KEY ART

The term Key Art is used to describe an artwork used to advertise a film, stage production or tv series or a game. Key art is the art of high end illustration for marketing campaigns, including movie posters.
SKYBOX

SKYBOX | CYCLO

A skybox and a cyclo is a method of creating backgrounds to make a computer and video games level look bigger than it really is. We can also apply these techniques to VR (virtual reality) and VFX projects.
BACKDROP

BACKDROP

Also called back-cloth, a backdrop is a painted cloth hung at the back of a set or a stage as part of the scenery. Today, backdrops are digitally painted and then printed on canvas for multiple purposes.
Contact Us

How to reach us

starno studio

STARNO.net has stopped to operate since September 2021. This website and the media social sites will remain open but STARNO.net team will no longer be available for projects. Please use Linkedin.com private messages in case you want to reach out Frederic St-Arnaud. Thanks for your understanding.