Business Showcase brought to you by Screen NZ International l 29 May 2026
Dare to Make it Happen:
Cause and FX
Few entertainment environments ask more of visual effects than Sphere®.
The Las Vegas venue is the world's most technically ambitious creative canvas. A wraparound screen running at 16x16K resolution, where content is designed, built and delivered at a scale that changes everything about how the work gets done.
Cause and FX built a pipeline to meet it.
Founded in Auckland in 2011 by Greg Flannagan and Paul Dickson, Cause and FX have grown into Auckland's largest independent VFX studio. In 2023, they became the first VFX company ever inducted into the Deloitte Fast50, placing 6th nationally.
The common thread has always been the same.
Dare to make it happen.
“We love taking on a challenge, it’s what drives us out of bed each day! We always find a solution, and we often break new ground doing it.”
GREG FLANNAGAN, Managing Director
That mindset shapes everything about how Cause and FX works. The studio calls it Dare. Craft. Deliver. The courage to take on technically and creatively ambitious challenges. The craft to approach every problem with depth and genuine creative intelligence. The delivery certainty that productions rely on when the stakes are high.
Complex does not need to mean chaotic. Ambitious does not need to mean unpredictable.
Cause and FX build the kind of relationship with productions where problems get solved early, collaboration runs deep, and the work keeps moving with confidence. It served as primary vendor across both seasons of Twisted Metal for Sony Pictures Television, contributed to Chief of War for Apple TV+, worked alongside industry titans on Rings of Power for Amazon, and has delivered work for Disney, and Paramount.
The common thread is not genre, scale, or budget.
It is trust.
Sphere® sits at the pinnacle of what that trust looks like in practice. Working at 16x16K demanded a purpose-built pipeline, a team willing to solve problems nobody had solved before, and the confidence to back themselves when the challenge was genuinely new.
For Cause and FX, that is familiar territory.
The best work happens when people trust each other, get involved early, and care deeply about the craft. That belief has shaped fifteen years of growth. It will shape whatever comes next.
Or simply put, dare to make it happen.
Cause and FX is Auckland's largest independent VFX studio.
For more information visit www.causeandfx.nz
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CONTACT CAUSE AND FX
Studio 3/13 Barrys Point Road, Takapuna, Auckland
+64 9 555 0660
Greg Flannagan - Co Founder l Operator