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21st May 2021

Kiyan Prince Makes Headlines

Industry press covers Framestore's use of deep fake technology in a ground-breaking anti-knife campaign.
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20th May 2021

SHEBA® Hope Reef Press

Framestore delivered a visual underwater masterpiece in a 90-second advert which showcased SHEBA®’s HOPE Reef – a man made reef built as part of the worlds-largest reef restoration programme. Framestore Pictures’ Director, Murray Butler and Framestore’s VFX Supervisor, Grant Walker created three complex-CG underwater environments, for the project and worked with leading coral biologist Professor David Smith to create a stunningly accurate depiction of what the reef will look like in five years time when the coral has fully re-grown.

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4th May 2021

New Trailer Revealed for 1899

We're thrilled to get our first look at the highly anticipated show 1899, the new series from Jantje Friese and Baran bo Odar who brought us DARK. The eight episodes follow the mysterious circumstances around the voyage of an immigrant ship, with passengers from different backgrounds and nationalities united by their hopes and dreams for a new future.

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28th April 2021

Award Nominations 2021

Framestore is proud to have been nominated for the Special, Visual & Graphic Effects’ BAFTA TV Craft Awards for its work on His Dark Materials and The Crown. Huge congratulations to both teams that delivered such great work on these two shows. 

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15th April 2021

Virtual Production x VFX Voice

VFX Voice recently featured Framestore's Alex Webster and Tim Webber in a piece exploring the adoption of virtual production in a post-pandemic world.

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13th April 2021

Machine Learning in VFX Voice

Framestore Senior Creative Technologist Johannes Saam and VFX Supervisor Theo Jones spoke to VFX Voice about the future of machine learning, its potential to facilitate pipeline efficiency and support art direction. 

Our team partnered with software developers Weightshift for a research project designed to shorten the animation process and minimize time-consuming tasks, the benefit of which can be seen in the photoreal creatures of Lady and the Tramp and His Dark Materials. 

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7th April 2021

VES Awards 2021

We are delighted to have taken home a fantastic total of five VES Awards at the 2021 ceremony last night for our recent work across both film and television.

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1st April 2021

The Midnight Sky in IndieWire

Framestore VFX Supervisor Graham Page and Animation Supervisor Max Solomon sat down with IndieWire to discuss the Oscar-nominated VFX work of George Clooney's post-apocalyptic drama The Midnight Sky.

When creating the 'Ballet of Blood' sequence which features an injured astronaut inside an airlock, the team were presented with a unique challenge. With so much CG blood in the scene, it made sense to replace much of the environment, including the other characters, which were all added back in by hand.

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26th March 2021

British Arrows Wins 2021

We are absolutely thrilled that we took home two British Arrows Awards from the 2020 awards ceremony - which took place virtually, of course. 

First up our CG team won a Silver Craft Award for CGI for their stunning work on the fully-CG nature-inspired film 'Hummingbird' for drinks brand Purdey's. The award went to Jules Janaud, Matthew Thomas and Philip Child. 

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9th March 2021

Academy Award Nominations 2021

Framestore is proud to be nominated for the Best Visual Effects’ Academy Award for its work on The Midnight Sky.

Framestore VFX Supervisor Chris Lawrence and Animation Supervisor Max Solomon join Production VFX Supervisor Matt Kasmir and Special Effects Supervisor Dave Watkins on the ticket for this year’s VFX Oscar.

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4th March 2021

Annie Award Nominations

We're delighted to share the news that Framestore has been nominated for two Annie Awards

Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made (Disney+) has been nominated for Best Character Animation - Live Action for our work on Total, the 1,500 pound polar bear. 

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3rd March 2021

VFX Post-Covid in CR

Lottie Cooper, Managing Director for advertising and immersive spoke to Creative Review this week to talk about how a creative studio like Framestore moved to a working from home set up and how she thinks a post-covid world will impact the industry. 

Talking in the article 'How the VFX industry will thrive post-Covid', Lottie spoke about the impact of the last year, explaining “our productivity didn’t dip much, apart from the time it took to get crew online. We were really pleased at the number of projects we delivered remotely to schedule.”

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