About
A production company for the way pictures are made now.
antiqueRobots develops, produces and finishes film and television across live action, animation, visual effects and AI-assisted production.
We were built as one company rather than a chain of vendors. Development, shoot, effects and finishing sit under a single producing team, which means decisions get made once and nothing falls through the gap between suppliers.
Founders
Founder
Doug Aarniokoski
Director and producer with more than 25 years of premium television and feature work, and producing-director leadership across entire seasons.
Directing · Producing · Producing-director leadership · Episodic creative leadership
Full biographyFounder
Jason Zimmerman
Emmy and VES Award-winning supervisor with more than 25 years leading visual effects for feature film and premium episodic television.
Visual effects leadership · Virtual production · AI production workflows · Creative technology
Full biographyLeadership
Led by senior filmmakers, producers and supervisors.
antiqueRobots is run by senior filmmakers, producers, supervisors and production specialists whose work spans the whole of a picture.
- Directing
- Producing
- Development
- Production management
- Visual effects
- Virtual production
- AI workflows
- Animation
- Editorial
- Post production
The experience behind the studio
- A core team that has worked together for more than a decade.
- Extensive premium film and television experience across features and episodic slates.
- Five Star Trek series and a feature, delivered on budget and on schedule.
- Emmy-winning work, with multiple Emmy and VES nominations.
- Roots on the vendor side, as the artists who build the shots.
- Senior directing and producing leadership at season level.
- Experience running simultaneous productions without diluting supervision.
- Fluency across AI, virtual production and visual effects workflows.
A decade working side by side means this team solves problems without a meeting, and reads creative intent quickly instead of spending the schedule on translation.
Production infrastructure, embedded department options and the vendor network are described on the studio and services pages.