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23rd October 2020

HPA Awards Nominations

The HPA Awards have announced their nominations for the 15th Annual HPA Awards and we're proud to have three nominations across our recent work in film and television. We'd like to congratulate all of our artists and friends who have been nominated for their outstanding work. The HPA Awards will be held on November 19th.

Our nominations are as follows:

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21st October 2020

Den of Geek Loves Lovecraft

Den of Geek went for a double whammy, publishing two articles about Framestore's work on HBO's Lovecraft Country.
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6th October 2020

Jingle Jangle

We are thrilled to see the release of the first trailer for Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey, a musical adventure and a visual spectacle worked on by our teams in Montreal and London. From the imagination of writer-director David E. Talbert, the feature film reminds us of the strength of family and the power of possibility.

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2nd October 2020

Art meets AR

For a piece on Little Black Book, Creative Director Henry Trotter was asked what he considers some of the most exciting projects where art meets augmented reality, along with other tech-heads and art-heads from the advertising world.

Henry talked about Apple's Vritual Art Tour which was developed in partnership with the New Museum in New York and featured work by six different artists.  

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10th September 2020

Designing theme parks

In our next installment on the Blooloop blog, concept designer Yoan Vernet wrote about how our art department has to approach creating designs specifically for theme parks. 

He spoke about the immediacy that visuals have to have when incorporated into the world of a theme park and how he has to always remind himself where the visuals will ultimately end up. 

Read Yoan's blog post on the Blooloop website here

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17th August 2020

AEAF Awards 2020

We are excited to share that Framestore was the recipient of several 2020 AEAF Awards, including two Gold and one Silver across television, title and commercial work. 

Congratulations to all teams and partners involved in these amazing projects.
 
Gold TV Series - HBO/BBC - His Dark Materials

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14th August 2020

SIGGRAPH: Previewing Framestore’s Fibre

Behind the scenes of the studio’s dynamics solver.
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Iorek the armored bear from His Dark Materials
31st July 2020

His Dark Materials - Virtual Production

Series VFX Supervisor, Russell Dodgson, spoke to Before and Afters about the virtual production process.
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Iorek the armored bear from His Dark Materials
30th July 2020

How virtual production was used to make ‘His Dark Material’s’ big bear fight

Virtual production is clearly a hot topic in visual effects right now, and it’s been making its mark in several television shows.
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20th July 2020

2020 BAFTA Win

Framestore is extremely proud to have won the BAFTA in Special, Visual and Graphic Effects for its work on His Dark Materials at the 2020 British Academy Television Craft Awards.

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19th July 2020

ACCESS:VFX West Coast Launch

Framestore is pleased to support the launch of the U.S. West Coast chapter of ACCESS:VFX.
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15th July 2020

Body of Work: Framestore bears (a lot of) bears

Befores and Afters breaks down some of our brilliant bears.
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