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We are proud to be nominated for our VFX work on The Crown and Lovecraft Country at this year’s Emmys. 

Lovecraft Country (HBO/Monkeypaw Productions) was nominated for the Outstanding Special Visual Effects In A Season Or A Movie category, while The Crown is up for the Outstanding Special Visual Effects In A Single Episode award. 

We're thrilled to announce that the Bodyform/ Libresse #Wombpainstories campaign has been named a Grand Prix winner in the Health and Wellness category at this year's Cannes Lions Awards. The project has also won the following at the ceremony:

Gold Lion · Branded Content & Entertainment: Film, TV and Online Film Content
Silver Lion · Film Craft: Direction
Silver Lion · Film Craft: Use of Music / Sound Design

We're proud to announce that Libresse #Wombstories has been recognised with a total of 9 D&AD Pencil Awards, including the prestigious and rarely awarded Black Pencil for Art Direction, Film and the Yellow Pencil for Animation.

Florence Green and Marnie Pitts who have both worked on numerous feature films, commercials, and immersive experiences at Framestore gave an interview with the folks at Adobe Substance Magazine about how they used Substance across the Sky Mo’s Best Bud commercial and the LEGO Drive What You Love commercial. They also spoke about what makes being a Texture Artist for VFX and Animation so enjoyable.

The Little Black Book spoke in depth with Framestore’s Global Real-Time director, Karl Woolley, and Framestore's Creative Technologist Johannes Saam, about their groundbreaking work using deepfake technology to bring football prodigy Kiyan Prince back to virtual life and to raise awareness to help stop knife violence.  

Framestore Pictures’ Director, Murray Butler and Framestore’s VFX Supervisor, Grant Walker sat down with the Little Black Book to discuss the creative and technical mastery behind their ambitious work on the SHEBA Hope Reef campaign. 

Read the full article here on the Little Black Book site.

Framestore’s Karl Woolley has spoken with IBC365 about the technical journey of bringing back Kiyan Prince, the schoolboy football prodigy who was tragically killed, and how this work has helped showcase how deepfakes can be used for great causes.

Read the full interview here on the IBC365 website.

We're thrilled to be working on sci-fi thriller Moonfall which tells the story of a mysterious force knocking the moon from its orbit around Earth and sending it hurtling on a collision course with life as we know it. 

Directed by Roland Emmerich (Independence Day) the film stars Halle Berry, Patrick Wilson, John Bradley and Michael Peña, Charlie Plummer, Kelly Yu, Eme Ikwuakor, Carolina Bartczak and Donald Sutherland.

The film was released in theaters on February 4, 2022.

Framestore is honored to be nominated as a 2021 ‘VFX Company of the Year’ finalist by the Ad Age Creativity Awards. The prestigious awards “recognize excellent work, outstanding people, creative companies and exceptional production in marketing, advertising and tech," with finalists selected by some of the industry's greatest talent.

Framestore was proud to win this year’s BAFTA Television Craft Award for Special, Visual and Graphic Effects for His Dark Materials - the second year running the creative studio has brought home the award. 

The work took in 1400 shots and drew upon the expertise of some 450 Framestore staffers, from VFX experts and animators through to producers, engineers and editors. This season saw the worlds of Lyra Silvertongue and Will Parry expand in exciting new ways, with the heroes encountering new friends, new daemons and new dangers.

Framestore used deep fake technology in a ground-breaking anti-knife campaign to bring back Kiyan Prince, the schoolboy football prodigy who tragically died after being stabbed 15 years ago, as a virtual footballer. All money raised by the campaign will go towards The Kiyan Prince Foundation, the charity set up by Kiyan’s father to raise awareness about knife-crime.