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21 March 2024

Union’s seamless VFX for Emerald Fennell’s decadent thriller Saltburn

The studio delivered VFX work on the psychological drama produced and directed by Emerald Fennell for Amazon MGM Studios.

30 January 2024

Union’s stunning VFX work for Yorgos Lanthimos’ award-winning comedy Poor Things

Union VFX delves into their involvement on the widely anticipated feature, directed by Yorgos Lanthimos.

9 January 2024

Spotlight on Union: Celebrating 15 years of expansion and collaboration

This month, we interviewed Union to hear more about the studio's growth and evolution over the last decade and a half.

28 July 2023

Union delivers electric VFX for The Power

The studio was the sole vendor on Amazon Prime Video's supernatural thriller series, where realistic electrical sparks and arcing effects were central to the plot.

11 May 2023

Union creates surreal and magical VFX for The Sandman

The Union team delivered more than 300 shots across the eleven episodes in the first season of the Netflix show.

18 April 2023

Union’s beautifully subtle VFX for Martin McDonagh’s The Banshees of Inisherin

Following their work on Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Union reunited with the acclaimed writer/director on his latest film.

30 March 2023

Union opens first international VFX facility in Montréal

The new Canadian studio will expand the services Union offers to their clients in feature film and High-End TV.

18 July 2022

Union VFX delivers dramatic VFX for Marvel Studio’s Moon Knight

Union are thrilled to announce their delivery of dramatic VFX work for Moon Knight, Marvel Studio's six-episode, Disney+ miniseries.

18 May 2021

Union Build Guantanamo for The Mauritanian

Union VFX transforms South African set builds into Guantánamo base, for The Mauritanian, the true story of Mohamedou Ould Slahi's fight for freedom after imprisonment by the U.S. Government.

30 April 2021

Union help uncover the true story of the Sutton Hoo excavation in The Dig

Union’s team delivered invisible effects to help tell the story of the most famous archaeological dig in modern British history – the discovery of the Anglo-Saxon burial ship at Sutton Hoo in 1939.

25 September 2020

Union illustrate the positive and negative impact of radium in ‘Radioactive’

London-based visual effects house Union VFX worked closely in creative collaboration with Director Marjane Satrapi on the film, providing artistic visualisations, period environments, and dramatic sequences using some SFX.

20 August 2020

Union Launch Sea Dragon in For All Mankind season finale

Union VFX re-created the largest rocket ever planned to be built, in Ronald D Moore's Apple TV+ dystopian drama For All Mankind.

14 May 2020

Union Grow CG Cannabis for The Gentlemen

Union VFX provided invisible visual effects work in Guy Ritchie's action-filled crime comedy film, The Gentlemen starring Matthew McConaughey and Hugh Grant.

5 February 2020

Spotlight On…Union VFX: Boundless ambition and bold independence for over a decade

In our first Spotlight feature of 2020, Lucy Cooper, Managing Director of the London-based visual effects company Union VFX chats with UK Screen Alliance about the greatest successes of the company, and developing landscape of the industry as we move into a new decade.

2 January 2020

Union Re-paint The Sistine Chapel for The Two Popes

Fernando Meirelles' Golden Globe-nominated The Two Popes received visual effects work from Soho based studio, Union VFX.

31 July 2018

Union bolsters management team with Lucy Cooper as managing director and Simon Hughes creative director

Union is pleased to announce the appointment of Lucy Cooper as Managing Director, and Simon Hughes as Creative Director reporting directly to Founders Tim Caplan and Adam Gascoyne.

16 March 2018

Union Add Drama to Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri

Written and directed by playwright and filmmaker Martin McDonagh, Three Billboards out-side Ebbing, Missouri is a darkly comic drama about a grieving mother’s attack on the complacency of the local police force who have failed to find her daughter’s killer.