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4 October 2021

Cinesite London Appoints Joce Capper as GM & Hires VFX Supervisor Rebecca Manning

2 October 2021

Superstar Six to Join The VFX & Post Talent Agency

1 October 2021

Spotlight On… Cinelab Film & Digital: Rebranding, Expanding and Leading the Way for Synergies

This month we interviewed Adrian Bull, CEO of Cinelab Film & Digital, the UK's only full-service Film Laboratory and Digital Dailies Facility.

21 September 2021

Framestore Announces Three Key Promotions in its Immersive Team

Multi-award winning creative studio Framestore is pleased to announce that Eugénie von Tunzelmann has been appointed to the newly created role of Head of VFX, Attractions whilst Lauren Anderson and Maximilian McNair McEwan join Heather Kinal as Executive Producers. This trio of promotions is a move to solidify a team of specialist experience within the Attractions offering at Framestore and set the stage for the department's growth.

20 September 2021

Britain Has the Best Creative Talent

Government celebrates success of UK creative industries with new export help announcements.

10 September 2021

MPC Episodic and Mikros VFX Join Forces

World-leading visual effects houses MPC and Mikros are pleased to announce an alliance of their episodic and film divisions. Mikros, a French company, with over 35 years in the visual effects industry, has been a Technicolor brand since 2015. The combined studios will operate under the MPC Episodic brand and will continue to offer PreProduction and VFX services to the French features and episodic market, and beyond.

7 September 2021

Envy has completed post-production on Netflix dating series Too Hot To Handle

Envy has completed post-production on Netflix dating series Too Hot To Handle, a dating show where gorgeous singles meet and mingle on the shores of paradise. But there’s a twist. To win a $100,000 grand prize, they’ll have to give up sex.

26 August 2021

Foundry renews commitment to the ACCESS: VFX mentoring programme at 2-year milestone

Foundry, the leading developer of creative software for the media and entertainment industries, today celebrates supporting over 900 mentees to VFX industry mentors as part of its two-year collaboration with the ACCESS:VFX mentorship programme for young people in the creative industries.

24 August 2021

Darren Rae Joins Cinelab as Head of Colour

Rae is one of the entertainment industry's most highly regarded Colourists, having spent over 25+ years regularly collaborating with the world's leading Directors and Cinematographers.

20 July 2021

Framestore is proud to be nominated for its VFX work on The Crown and Lovecraft Country at this year’s Emmys

Lovecraft Country (HBO/Monkeypaw Productions) was nominated for the Outstanding Special Visual Effects In A Season Or A Movie category, while The Crown is up for the Outstanding Special Visual Effects In A Single Episode award.

5 July 2021

Freefolk Announces Return of Futurefolk Internship Scheme

The Soho-based visual effects studio's own talent-seeking initiative is back for its fourth year running.

29 June 2021

BFI SHORT FORM ANIMATION FUND 2021 OPENS APPLICATIONS

Awarding up to £120,000 each for bold and ambitious projects, the fund includes up to £50,000 each for two immersive projects, in partnership with StoryFutures Academy.

28 June 2021

BFI launches new screen industry skills review for UK pipelines

The UK-wide review in close collaboration with industry aims to tackle the barriers for future growth and competitiveness for emerging and current skills in production & virtual production of HETV and film.

22 June 2021

Freefolk bring robots to life for new Skoda campaign

Freefolk used their award-winning VFX and post-production mastery to bring robotic characters to life for Skoda’s Purrs electric, Grrrs attitude UK TV spot, to showcase the brand's new all-electric Enyaq iV SUV.

Salamandra.uk Share an SME’s Journey to Success

This year animation company salamandra.uk is celebrating 7 years of success, with an expanding team and a look back at their biggest achievements.

15 June 2021

ANNECY PANEL SHINES SPOTLIGHT ON UK ANIMATION INDUSTRY

Animation UK, BFC, BFI, Lupus Films, Jellyfish Pictures, Sixteen South, Wild Child Animation and Film London discuss resilience, landscape, and new funding opportunities for UK animation at the virtual edition of the international film festival Annecy.

Freefolk Film & Episodic provide Skillful VFX for ‘Pennyworth’ Season 2

The visual effects team provided over 300 shots for the second series of crime drama Pennyworth, lead by Steve Murgatroyd, Freefolk VFX Supervisor and Meg Guidon, VFX Executive Producer.

14 June 2021

LOCKSMITH ANIMATION’S FEATURE FILM ‘THAT CHRISTMAS’ TO BE SIMON OTTO’S DIRECTORIAL DEBUT

Renowned Head of Character Animation on How to Train Your Dragon Film Series To Direct Feature Based on Christmas Children’s Book Series by Writer/Director Richard Curtis.

9 June 2021

CINESITE NAMES ANTONY BLUFF EXECUTIVE PRODUCER AT LONDON STUDIO

Anthony Bluff will be based in Cinesite London, working across the service studio’s US and international film, TV and SVOD production clients.

BFI ‘See Yourself Onscreen Challenge’ back for 2nd year in a row

Pan-industry initiative led by the BFI’s Young Audiences Content Fund unveils the second year of ‘See Yourself on Screen Challenge’, calling on 4-18-year-olds to create TV shows for the future