The Original Brickyard

A common question for Dave Waller is how he chose the name Brickyard. "It was easy – my grandfather, Jack Hines, grew up in an immigrant neighborhood in Lynn, Massachusetts called 'The Brickyard'. He was my idol, a man from humble beginnings whose values of hard work, respect, and honesty provided me with a role model that I try to live by. He studied the ways of successful people in his neighborhood like "Big Top" Jack O'Connell, "Walking Mike" Doyle, Charlie Duggan, and Tom Cogger. He blended those observations together to own and operate a Dance Hall Concession Stand, a Diner, Drugstore, Penny Arcade, even an Ice Cream Cone business. So in a sense, Brickyard VFX is a tribute to his 92 years of hard work."

In his 1986 edition of Brickyard Stories, historian Carl Carlsen described the original neighborhood as “... a magical place – a neighborhood composed of diverse racial and ethnic groups where everybody got along, helped each other out, and felt part of one big family. This too was a place from which heroes came - athletic heroes, political heroes, heroes in many spheres of human activity who rose to prominence, and sometimes fame, from humble beginnings."

"The neighborhood has traditionally provided a home to Boston's immigrants; it was the first rung of the ladder of success, the place where the American Dream began. In the years before the Great Depression, these people brought to Lynn Old World values and New World aspirations.”

Our Philosophy

At Brickyard, our community is always on our minds. That's why we do little things to make it better every day – like sponsoring local charities, purchasing American and locally made goods, as well as supporting our fellow small businesses. Brickyard is also committed to recycling, reusing, and resource saving.

We belong to trade groups such as VES, MPC, and FILMA that support our craft industry and support media and entertainment-friendly legislation.

Through our internship program, we strive to educate and expose our interns to a professional post-production house, allowing them to see a project from start to finish. We've helped over a hundred of these young filmmakers gain professional experience in our industry.

It's all part of our core philosophy that everyone is connected, and it’s the choices we make that determine who we really are. Thanks for choosing us – we couldn't do it without you!

Virtual Color Grading

Brickyard proudly offers Virtual Color Grading services through our partnership with Company 3 / E-Film and Deluxe Entertainment. This allows New England clients to supervise color grading sessions remotely over an encrypted fiber channel in real-time. Our built-in theater can comfortably accommodate twelve people using the Dolby PRM-4220 studio reference monitor calibrated by Company 3 technicians. Changes will happen instantaneously from their screen to ours here at Brickyard. Virtual sessions originate from Co3 Los Angeles, Detroit, Chicago, Atlanta, New York, and London.

Pacific

The magnificent Brickyard Pacific Works was founded in 2004 by Mssrs. Patrick Poulatian and Steve Michaels, industry leaders in the visual effects trade along with their partners from the Atlantic Works. Their philosophy, as in the aforementioned Atlantic shop, is to offer only the finest products and service, to which many hundreds of satisfied customers can happily attest. At first, every detail in process and method was painstakingly duplicated from the original Atlantic Works, but as their own success quickly multiplied, the Pacific Works became an innovator in its own right and now offers a full compliment of post-production services operated by some of the most talented artists in the nation. The physical plant is so well-appointed that its often the location for music videos and gala events serving the community at large. Like its sister operation, The Pacific Works proudly offers American made Visual Effects for Television, Film and Internet. Design, Editing, CG, Compositing, Digital Finishing, Color-Correction, Titling, Re-Lighting, Rotoscoping, Data Conversions, Standards Conversions, Previsualization, Logo Animation and Camera Tracking are all within our area of expertise. We also offer digital delivery / trafficking services to upload directly to distributors. In sum: Brickyard Makes Moving Images.

Atlantic Works

Prominent among the noteworthy manufacturing establishments in the United States is that of Brickyard VFX. These Brickyard Atlantic Works were established in 1999 by Dave Waller, who engaged in all manner of visual effects. The studio refined its processes and added new employees of extraordinary skill. The demand for Brickyard’s products increased as their reputation became more extended, and the growing business expanded to its present Atlantic Works in the heart of Boston’s historic Leather District. The appointment of Amy Appleton to Executive Producer and of Bill Goodell to EP of Brickyard FilmWorks has further enabled the firm to execute astonishing visual effects for the most demanding entertainment, advertising and corporate clients the world over.

None but a higher class of worker are employed, women and men who are willing to have their merits measured by their success; workers of that order of intelligence and innovation who can appreciate the fact, so often overlooked by too many of the ordinary mechanics of the present time, that “nothing is so successful as success” and this cannot be achieved by employer or employee without the co-operation of both; and this striking characteristic is observed in every department of this manufactory.

One of the leading instrumentalities in the establishment of the enviable reputation these workers have acquired is the severity of the test to which their effects are subjected before they are allowed to leave the factory. Not content with ordinary means, management has implemented a process assuring each and every product delivered upholds the good name of Brickyard.