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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

4 June 2021

Fitzrovia post announces a senior promotion within its creative department

Fitzrovia Post Production, the sound design & audio facility based in London, has announced Cécile Janet's promotion to Audio Lead in their creative department.

3 June 2021

Spotlight On… Bait Studio: Flexible, Buoyant, Boutique Visual Artists who have Clients hooked

This month we interviewed Peter Rogers, Managing Director of the Cardiff-based visual effects company Bait Studio - discussing views on the current state of the UK VFX industry, the challenges of the past year, as well as their impressive credits and award-winning work.

1 June 2021

A Productions clinches Broadcast Awards win for ground-breaking ‘JoJo and Gran Gran’

The first UK pre-school animation that centres around a black British family, based on creator Laura Henry-Allain MBE's children's books and animated by A Productions, won big at the British television awards.

AMAZON PRIME VIDEO UK HELPS FUND POST PRODUCTION APPRENTICESHIPS

Apprentice post-production operators start training as part of a UK Screen Alliance programme with the support of Amazon Prime Video UK

AARDMAN GIVES NEW PRE-SCHOOL SERIES ‘THE VERY SMALL CREATURES’ THE GREEN LIGHT

Bristol-based British animation powerhouse Aardman has announced it has greenlit a brand-new pre-school series The Very Small Creatures.

CAKE SIGNS NEW SEASON OF KIRI AND LOU WITH CBEEBIES

Following the series’ strong premiere on CBeebies last year, the children's TV channel has pre-bought the latest season of the popular stop-motion animated show.

29 May 2021

Fitzrovia post bolster team with new hire Adrian Walter

London-based sound design & audio post-production facility Fitzrovia Post have made a new addition to their team, appointing Adrian Walter as new Senior Dubbing Mixer and Supervisor of Animation Productions.