About the studio

We make things worth looking at.

Codex Studios is a visual production company focused on photography, videography, and drone operations for brands that understand the difference a frame can make.

Founded

2025

Base

Vancouver, BC

OpCo

01 of Codex Corp

Disciplines

Photo · Video · Drone

What we do

Three disciplines. One production.

Photography

Commercial, editorial, product, event, and real estate photography. Studio or on-location. Delivered fully edited with commercial licensing.

Videography

Brand films, corporate video, social content, and commercial production. Scripted or documentary style. Full post-production and colour grade included.

Drone

Transport Canada-certified aerial operations. 4K/6K footage, stills, and cinematic sweeps. Integrated with photo and video or standalone.

We started Codex Studios because we believed production quality should be accessible without being generic. Too many brands settle for stock imagery or unreliable freelancers. We built a studio that fixes both problems.

Our crew handles photography, videography, and drone in one engagement. That means unified direction, consistent colour grading, and deliverables that actually talk to each other. No patchwork of contractors producing disconnected assets.

We don't do design work; that's Codex Digital. We don't build your website; that's Codex Labs. We capture what you've already built, or help you build the visual identity your brand deserves.

Our approach

Every frame is deliberate.

"The difference between good and great visual content is intention. Know exactly what you're trying to make the viewer feel before you pick up the camera."

We plan every shoot with the final deliverable in mind. That means understanding your audience, your channels, and the emotion your brand needs to convey, before any lights go up.

On set, we run efficient, professional operations. We respect your time and your locations. Off set, our post-production workflow is disciplined: colour grades are consistent, edits are purposeful, and delivery timelines are kept.

We don't shoot everything. We take clients whose work we can do well and whose brands we find genuinely interesting. The portfolio we're building is intentional, not exhaustive.

What we stand for

The things we won't compromise on.

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Craft over volume

We'd rather do fewer shoots and do them exceptionally than fill a calendar with mediocre work. Every engagement gets our full attention.

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Transparent pricing

Our rates are published. No quotes that require a consultation to discover a number. You know what you're paying before you call us.

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Unified delivery

Photography, video, and drone edited to the same grade, delivered at the same time. Your assets look like they belong together, because they do.

The founder

Anurag Bains, Founder and CEO

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Bains

Founder and CEO, Codex Corp

Anurag Bains founded Codex Corp with a clear thesis: the fragmentation between creative, design, development, and infrastructure teams is the single biggest obstacle to building a great brand. Instead of accepting that fragmentation as an industry norm, he built a structure designed to eliminate it.

Codex Corp is built on the belief that a client should be able to bring one brief and have it executed at every layer, from the first brand mark to the infrastructure that serves it globally. Anurag built each operating company with that end state in mind, making sure they were not just individually excellent, but natively compatible with each other.

"The best work happens when the people doing it speak the same language. That is what Codex Corp is: not a collection of vendors, but a single team that happens to be organized into four specializations."
Anurag Bains, Founder

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The ecosystem

Part of Codex Corp.

Studios is one of four operating companies under the Codex Corp umbrella. Each OpCo is distinct, and together they cover the full lifecycle of brand and technology work.

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