A Perspective Built Through Experience

A successful VFX project is not only about creating great images. It is about making the right decisions early, controlling risks, protecting the budget, maintaining the schedule, and ensuring clear communication between production, creative teams, and vendors.

This is where Le Kilab brings value.

For nearly 30 years, I have worked across every level of the visual effects industry: artist, VFX supervisor, studio owner, VFX director, department builder, and production-side supervisor. Few professionals have experienced both the vendor side and the production side at this level.
Because I have managed artists, supervised productions, negotiated bids, built pipelines, run a VFX company, and delivered large-scale international projects, I understand the challenges faced by every stakeholder involved in the process.

My role is not simply to supervise visual effects.
My role is to support productions make informed decisions before problems become expensive.

Le Kilab VFX Productions support

  • Early Risk Identification
    Detecting technical, budgetary, scheduling, or creative risks before they impact production.
  • Technology & Workflow Guidance
    Helping productions evaluate and integrate emerging technologies such as virtual production, LED volumes, AI-assisted workflows, and new production methodologies when they provide practical value to the project.
  • Vendor Management & Strategy
    Helping productions select the right vendors, evaluate bids, and make informed decisions through extensive experience with vendor capabilities, workflows, strengths, and limitations.
  • Budget & Cost Control
    Providing realistic VFX evaluations, identifying hidden costs, and ensuring that creative ambitions remain achievable within production constraints.
  • On-Set VFX Supervision
    Supporting directors and crews during shooting to secure the material required for successful post-production while avoiding costly reshoots.
  • Production-to-Vendor Communication
    Acting as a bridge between creative teams, production management, and VFX facilities to ensure everyone works toward the same objectives.
  • End-to-End Project Understanding
    From development and preparation through final delivery, I understand the entire production lifecycle and the impact of each decision on the final result.

A Unique Perspective

Founding and operating his own VFX studio for seven years gave Christophe an understanding of how facilities estimate, organize, bid, and deliver projects.
Later, building and leading VFX departments within major companies provided him with extensive experience in scaling teams, designing workflows and pipeline management solutions, supervising complex productions, and integrating emerging technologies and AI-assisted tools into production and visual effects workflows.

This combination of production-side and vendor-side experience allows him to anticipate challenges that often remain invisible until they become costly problems.

Having worked extensively on both sides of the industry,
permits to understand the priorities, constraints and expectations of both productions and VFX vendors.

His objective is to align both sides to achieve the best creative and financial outcome.

In 2025, Christophe received a nomination as Overall VFX Supervisor at the PIDS Genie Awards for Best Visual Effects in a Series for his work on The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon - Season 2.

The commitment remains the same on every project: helping productions deliver ambitious visual effects work with confidence, efficiency, and reliability.

WORK EXPERIENCE

  • 2025
    Lead VFX supervisor
    - Emily in Paris season 5 | US TV show - Netflix -
    - Apres la fin French TV show - France TV
    R&D Pipeline LE KILAB creation.

  • 2023 - 2024
    Lead VFX supervisor
    - The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon season 2 | US AMC TV show
    Genie Awards PIDS Enghien - Best Visual Effects - Series 2025 - nomination

  • 2022
    VFX supervisor
    - The New Look | Apple TV+
    - Les Derniers Hommes | Feature Film - Director: David Oelhoffen - Production: Galatee

  • 2021
    LTT VFX supervisor - French TV series
    On-set VFX supervisor - Serpent Queen - US Lionsgate TV show

  • 2019 - 2020
    Cinesite Montreal VFX supervisor on Halo TV show

  • 2013 - 2019
    Umedia VFX VFX supervisor / VFX director
    VFX supervision from preparation to delivery, including on-set supervision. Workflow and pipeline supervision, roadmap management for R&D and TD teams, support for other supervisors, and creation of the DI department.

  • 2013
    EuropaCorp VFX supervisor
    3 Days to Kill - Director: McG - on-set VFX supervision.
    Les Invincibles - Director: Frederic Berthe - VFX supervision from preparation and shooting to final delivery.

  • 2012
    EuropaCorp VFX supervisor
    A l'Aveugle - Director: Xavier Palud - VFX supervision from preparation and shooting to final delivery.
    Partizan Midi Minuit - VFX supervisor for commercials.
    Georges Melies School - Nuke and VFX supervision teacher.

  • 2011
    EuropaCorp Studio creation - VFX supervisor
    VFX studio creation. Feature film VFX preparation for Taken 2. VFX supervision for A l'Aveugle.
    ARTFX - On-set supervision and stereoscopy teacher.

  • 2010
    WAM Publicis CGI & VFX supervisor
    CG team creation, CG pipeline creation, and on-set supervision.
    BUF Compagnie / Gang Films - VFX producer for stereoscopy commercial Carte Noire.
    Digital District - VFX supervisor on feature films and commercials.

  • 2003
    I founded Escape Studio, a VFX studio of around 30 people, working mainly on commercials and feature films.

  • 2000
    Mac Guff Ligne Generalist artist / CG supervisor

  • 1997
    BUF Compagnie Generalist artist