Director Yeon Sang-ho: "VFX technology played a crucial role in completing the world of 'COLONY'" — Sharing the award glory with Dexter

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Dexter Studios achieved a record of four consecutive years in the technical awards category at the Daejeon Special Visual Film Festival.

Comprehensive content specialist Dexter Studios (stock code: 206560, hereinafter "Dexter") announced that it won the grand prize in the technical awards category at the '8th Daejeon Special Visual Film Festival DFX OTT Awards' held on the 17th for its film 'COLONY'.

With this win, Dexter has now secured the grand prize, the highest award in the category, following its visual effects awards for 'Jeong-i' in 2023, 'Alienoid Part 2' in 2024, and 'Escape: Project Silence' in 2025, achieving a remarkable four-year Yeon Sok (수상) streak.

The 'DFX OTT Awards' is Korea's only special visual film awards ceremony that selects and honors directors, visual effects production companies, and actors of works that demonstrated exceptional creativity and technical excellence in the field of special effects for video content such as films and dramas.

The grand prize is the highest award, integrating all technical categories including special effects, visual effects, art, and sound that enhanced the work's completion through creative use of video technology, presented to a single director, company, or technician.

Dexter received critical acclaim for realistically portraying the environment of a city in chaos due to an infection outbreak, crowds, and creatures such as zombies through the film 'COLONY'. The main creature in the story, monkey creatures, were given added realism by modeling variations in fur texture, color, and movement across multiple entities. VFX was also applied to the appearance of infected individuals and the slime-like substances covering the scene to elevate the detail of the shots. In particular, by using VFX to realize large buildings and surrounding environments in downtown Seoul, as well as massive crowds recreated through motion capture, Dexter created a highly polished scene that evokes an instinctive fear as if viewers could encounter it somewhere in reality.

Director Yeon Sang-ho, who directed 'COLONY', stated, "'COLONY' is a work created after much deliberation to convey the unique world and imagination of the film to audiences in a more realistic manner. In this process, I believe that special visual technology played an important role not just in creating scenes but in completing the world of the work. I would like to share this joy with Dexter Studios, which helped realize the world of 'COLONY', and all staff members who worked hard on set and during post-production."

Hong Jeong-ho, VFX Supervisor responsible for the visual effects in 'COLONY', said, "'COLONY' is a work that consolidates Dexter's accumulated VFX know-how through large-scale action and creature projects, including simulations of creatures, vast environments, and crowds. It holds even greater significance for us to be recognized with a four-year Yeon Sok (수상) streak through 'COLONY', which presented new challenges to Dexter. Going forward, we will continue to develop our capabilities to present new visual ideas and high levels of completion in every work."

Meanwhile, Supervisor Hong Jeong-ho, who was also invited to the DFX Tech Show introducing AI and technology, is scheduled to meet with audiences on the 18th under the theme 'VFX You Can See Through 'COLONY', VFX You Cannot See', where he will vividly share the process behind the birth of a blockbuster K-zombie film.

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