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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. 

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.

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.

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. 

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.

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. 

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.”

We're thrilled to announce that Framestore has been nominated for 12 awards at the upcoming VES Awards, a programme that recognises and honours the most outstanding visual effects work of the year and honours the artists who created them.

A huge congratulations to all our colleagues and clients on the nominations.

After a tough year for everyone, this is recognition that we know means a lot. Especially seeing as all of the projects we've been nominated for were delivered by our teams of artists from home.

Grant Bolton and Alberto Aguado join the Framestore engine team as Lead Technical Director and Principal Engineer, becoming key players in our latest innovative real-time projects.

As game engine technology is used more than ever in the media production industries to create faster VFX workflows and virtual production toolkits, the new appointments to the team demonstrate8 the creative studio’s commitment to hiring the best in the business when it comes to real-time expertise. 

The shortlist for the 2021 ‘Best Visual Effects’ Academy Award includes two titles featuring Framestore’s world-class VFX work. They are:

- The Midnight Sky (featuring Framestore VFX Supervisor Chris Lawrence and Animation Supervisor Max Solomon) 

- Mulan

Framestore is delighted to see four films featuring its work place on today’s BAFTA longlist for the ‘Special Visual Effects’ award.

They are: 

The Midnight Sky

Mulan

The Secret Garden

Wonder Woman 1984