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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.

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.

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.

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. 

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.