Bastiaan Koch

Bastiaan Koch is an artist and filmmaker with a sixteen-year track record of delivering outstanding work at many of the world’s top studios including LucasFilm’s Industrial Light & Magic, Netflix, DNeg, MPC, Cinesite, and now, FuseFX/Pitch Black.

Throughout Bastiaan's career, he has been fortunate to be part of 3 Oscar-winning and 5 Oscar-nominated VFX teams. In 2020, he sold an original sci-fi series to Netflix based on a pilot he wrote and directed. As a WGAW member, Bastiaan has honed his storytelling skills and developed a deep understanding of the creative process and how visual design best serves the narrative.

At FuseFX, Atlanta, Bastiaan leads a team of global artists to deliver cutting-edge visual effects for concurrent film & TV projects. His "love-leadership" style of nurturing artist ability, his passion for cinematic storytelling, and his experience as an artist, director, writer, executive producer, and client, have enabled him to build strong trusted relationships with his team, partners, and clients, resulting in successful collaborations, repeat business — and of course, incredible stories.

Bastiaan recently completed Class of 09” (Hulu), the season finale for Succession (HBOmax) and Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind in Epcot at Walt Disney World. Currently, Bastiaan is VFX Supervising A Man in Full (Netflix) and developing various other properties through Marauder.

Bastiaan Koch is an award-winning VFX Supervisor on the FuseFX Atlanta team with over 16 years of experience. Prior to joining FuseFX, Bastiaan was a part of 3 Oscar-winning and 5 Oscar-nominated VFX teams at LucasFilm in San Francisco, CA. Credits include Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Ready Player One, and multiple Transformers movies, to name a few.

As a VFX Supervisor, his most recent experience includes the upcoming shows; The Last Thing He Told Me, Class of 09 (Hulu), and A Man In Full (Netflix).

In creating his own Sci-Fi series with Netflix, Bastiaan knows how to keep an indie mindset no matter the scale of a project and understands how important it is for VFX to serve the story's narrative.

2004

Maya Comprehensive 

Escape Studios - London 

2001-2004 

BA - Industrial and Product Design 

Middlesex University - London