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george clooney
25th January 2021

The Midnight Sky Panel

Last week the Visual Effects Society hosted a panel on Netflix's The Midnight Sky, featuring Director George Clooney, VFX Supervisor Matt Kasmir & Framestore VFX Supervisor, Chris Lawrence. The group talked about creating digital faces, the use of LED panels and pre-vis, and how technology has changed over time. The full recording is currently available to watch on the VES Facebook page.

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a red squirrel standing in a superhero position
19th January 2021

Flora & Ulysses

Say hello to our latest superhero.

Based on New York Times bestselling author Kate DiCamillo's children novel Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures, the film follows 10-year-old Flora (played by Matilda Lawler) and her journey in protecting her superhero CG squirrel named Ulysses. 

Directed by Lena Khan (The Tiger Hunter) and produced by Academy Award nominee Gil Netter (Life of Pi, The Blind Side) the film is set to release on Disney+ February 19th.

Have a look at the new trailer below.

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army of the dead
8th January 2021

Army of the Dead Trailer

Catch a first look into Zack Synder’s zombie heist movie Army Of The Dead, featuring some gruesome VFX by our team in Montreal.

Directed by Zack Snyder (Dawn of the Dead), the film follows a group of soldiers as they plot a heist on a Las Vegas casino during a zombie plague. 

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george clooney using hand gestures while talking
5th January 2021

The Midnight Sky VFX

VFX Supervisor Chris Lawrence joins George Clooney and Production VFX Supervisor Matt Kasmir to talk about Framestore's work on the zero gravity death scene and more from George Clooney’s The Midnight Sky.

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sully the astronaut
30th December 2020

The Midnight Sky in The Hollywood Reporter

Based on the science-fiction novel by Lily Brooks-Dalton, a lone scientist in the Arctic races to contact a crew of astronauts returning home to a mysterious global catastrophe in the upcoming feature film The Midnight Sky.

Read all about how our team's VFX artistry helped tell the story of this sci-fi epic on loneliness and redemption here.

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season's greetings postcard
17th December 2020

Happy Holidays 2020

We don’t need to dwell on how challenging this year has been.

Instead we wanted to express the biggest of thanks to all our clients, collaborators, friends and colleagues whose dedication and support has allowed us to create work that has such an impact.

As we come to the end of 2020, we hope that you have a wonderful festive season and that you keep yourselves and your families safe. 

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15th December 2020

VES Panel: VFX in 2021

Tune into Visual Effects Society's panel hosted by Foundry to discuss 'VFX in 2021: What Works, Who Works & What’s Changing Forever,' featuring Framestore Creative Director and VFX Supervisor, James Rogers.

During the discussion, James notes that “Change brings opportunity. [Thanks to remote working] now there is more of an appetite to embrace new techniques that can be part of the workflow and make you more efficient – a little icebreaker that 2020 provided."

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bifa shortlisted film his house
9th December 2020

BIFA Shortlist

We're thrilled that His House has been shortlisted for Best Effects at the 2020 BIFAs - the British Independent Film Awards - with VFX Supervisor Pedro Sabrosa sharing the nomination with special effects supervisor Stefano Pepin. The effects nomination is one of a whopping 16 overall nominations which include categories for director Remi Weekes and actress and actor Wunmi Mosako and Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù. 

Read more about our work on the Netflix film here

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cg animated uterus
7th December 2020

Immortal Awards 2020

We are beyond thrilled that the #WombStories campaign film which Framestore delivered the animation for has been immortalised by Little Black Book and the Immortal Awards. 

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side view of concept art of three mermaids facing an alligator that has a person in its mouth
7th December 2020

The Art of Design

Our Art Department celebrate their 10 year anniversary.
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The shoggoth from Lovecraft Country, with a white Insider logo overlaid on top in the bottom right hand corner
4th December 2020

Insider x Lovecraft Country

Grant Walker, our VFX Supervisor on Lovecraft Country and Framestore's Joint Head of CG spoke to the team at Insider so they could put together a deep dive on how we brought to life the Shoggoth for HBO's Lovecraft Country; from design and modelling through to on-set reference stunt performers and final composition.

You can watch the video below and you can read more about our VFX work on the show here.

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17th November 2020

VFX Storage

PostPerspective talks to our Director of Global Systems & Infrastructure Technology, Beren Lewis about how we manage storage systems
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