About Chapeau

We free brands and creators to innovate with confidence.

Chapeau aims to uplift content. Integrating traditional film techniques efficiently with technology, UX and design, our signature multidisciplinary approach delivers innovative content, products, and experiences for brands and customers.

Nurturing our own evolution.

Chapeau’s reputation for pristine execution has a diverse legacy. What began well before 2000 as a love of communicating through visual arts, sciences, music and tech grew by 2013 into Chapeau FX, a nimble white label post-production and visual effects solution for agencies and brands. Our curiosity and taste for innovation enabled us to design & integrate in-house models for creative expansion and research & development across video production channels.

Launched in 2019, Chapeau Studios represents our organic evolution from visual effects & animation specialists to full-blown content and technology producers. Formed on foundations in design, engineering, film, and the digital revolution, Chapeau confidently embraces the roles of technology in an increasingly integrated content production landscape.

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Building bridges between creative and technology.

Deep capabilities in high-end film & video content, digital design, and engineering enable Chapeau to be a category-defining creative studio. Chapeau is uniquely positioned to combine visual effects, editorial, design, photography, and story development fluidly with experience design, web development, and software & app engineering.

Chapeau is a leading tech-forward collaborator for brands, retailers, content producers, production companies, creative agencies, experience designers, game developers, and digital innovators alike.

We make what ifs into what's next.

Projects like our new virtual production incubator require inventive, interdisciplinary solutions to future-facing problems. At the same time, we remain loyal students of the fundamentals of beautiful imagery: framing, contour, shadow, and light.

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What We Do

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We're Focused On The Future

Virtual Production

Pairing real-time backgrounds with new, camera-driven environmental elements provides in-camera VFX, enabling materials and lighting variables to track with camera. With this semi-immersive XR setup comes the possibility of real-time changes and near-final shots right from set.

Privacy & Confidentiality

We believe in privacy and in the need to protect new products & ideas.

Your project and assets are secure in our lockdown facility, and we’d never leak your sex tape to the internet.

Ethical Engagement

We champion growth and happiness, and value integrity, quality, and transparency.

No work excites us like purpose-driven work, because life is too short not to care.

Prototyping & Iteration

Curiosity and dedication to continual evolution keep Chapeau elbow-deep in research & development.

Our experience bringing diverse projects from seed to flower is propelled by a habit of early prototyping and meaningful iteration.

Voice Activation

Speak it into existence.

From tech to companionship to amplifying otherwise-unheard perspectives, Chapeau believes whole-heartedly in a voice revolution.

Experiencing Design

The quality of your content defines your brand, and Chapeau aims to uplift both, in any context.

Our passion for design & development extends from traditional media into experiences on-device, at retail touchpoints, through brand and event activations, and into tools designed to increase inspiration, loyalty, and efficiency.