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.

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.

Meet your secret weapons

Lauren Mayer-Beug

Creative Director / Director

Partner

Ben Looram

VFX Wizard

Partner / Owner

Karuna Venter

Experience Design / UX

Managing Partner / Owner

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We're Focused On The Future