Our Team
Who We Are
Big Foot Studios began in 2020 as Big Foot Foley. Shane Rees, with a background in Foley, decided to return to the craft after a hiatus of several years. He teamed up with Javier Gonzalez and Tim McCann to focus on providing Foley for film and TV, maintaining a small, boutique approach.
Shortly after launching, the COVID pandemic hit, prompting them to broaden their horizons and start working with video game companies. Their first major project was Horizon Forbidden West, a massive undertaking where they completed the Foley for 24 hours of cutscenes in just 9 months.
During this time, they decided to expand their services, adding editing and mixing to their offerings. They later included technical audio implementation and were more recently responsible for all the sound design, Foley, and sound implementation for the remaster of the video game Until Dawn.
SHANE REES
STUDIO DIRECTOR
Shane Rees started in the postproduction audio world of Film & TV 30 years ago when he worked at Sharpe Sound Studios. From there he has gone on to become a Foley Artist, a Teacher, an Entrepeneur, a Father and a Bee Keeper. After a hiatus from the world of audio production Shane started Big Foot Foley in 2020, which is now Big Foot Studios.
TIM McCANN
Foley Artist
Tim McCann is the fast drumming man! After many years playing in bands and being the essential time keeper, the drummer, Tim decided to go back to school to pursue Sound Design. He naturally took to Foley and has never looked back. As one of our main Foley Artists, Tim excels at creative props!
JAVIER GONZALEZ
Senior Foley Artist
Javier comes to Big Foot from Guadalajara Mexico where he started his Sound Design studies. He started out as a Sound Designer and mixer before becoming a full time Foley Artist in Mexico, working on different projects for clients like Netflix and Amazon. He moved to Vancouver to be a founding member of Big Foot Studios.
HUGH WIELENGA
SENIOR SOUND DESIGNER
Hugh Wielenga is an Emmy-nominated Sound Designer from Vancouver, BC, recognized for his extensive work in the motion picture and video game industries. He began his career in 2015 after graduating from Vancouver Film School & has contributed to notable projects such as Amazon’s Invincible and Sony’s Until Dawn: Remastered.
SAWYER KING
Technical Audio Artist
Sawyer started his journey into sound by going to university for Economics. However not being satisfied he decided to take school for Sound Designing and realized the analytical part of economics helped him find his truie passion as a technical audio artist for video games. With experinece in Wwise, FMOD Unreal and Unity as well C++, C# and Python he definitely made the right choice.
VAUGHN WAGNER
Sound Designer
Vaughn has a natural connection to sound, having grown up as the son of a professional Foley artist. His real interest and passion for audio didn't truly ignite until his late teenage years, when he began making music, recording, and helping friends with the sound for their films. From there, his focus shifted toward video games. After completing his studies at the Vancouver Film School’s Sound Design program, he jumped straight into the gaming world, doing audio—and he’s never looked back.
