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1 February 2021

Vine FX Deliver Seamless VFX for BBC’s ‘The Serpent’

The Cambridge-based visual effects company announced their delivery of 500 shots for The Serpent, BBC One’s new eight-part mini series.

28 January 2021

Timeline TV new broadcast app keeps TV on air

Timeline Television has developed a bespoke broadcast app to allow productions to continue filming and broadcasting safely and remotely.

27 January 2021

Framestore announces FUSE to redefine VFX workflows with real-time technology

FUSE (Framestore Unreal Shot Engine) will see the Oscar-winning creative studio produce a film entirely using an innovative new VFX pipeline built around Unreal Engine.

26 January 2021

Moonraker VFX offer breath-taking perspective of planet Earth with pioneering satellite tech

The Bristol-based VFX studio Moonraker VFX created visuals for A Perfect Planet, the 2021 five-part earth science series presented by David Attenborough.

22 January 2021

Artem create strange and special props for The Great

The special FX specialists were tasked with creating a selection of models and props for the Russian period drama satire series The Great.

14 January 2021

ONE OF US CREATE POST-APOCALYPTIC VFX FOR ‘THE MIDNIGHT SKY’

Soho based VFX studio, One of Us share their work on director George Clooney’s melancholy post-apocalyptic sci-fi series, The Midnight Sky for Netflix.

11 January 2021

UK Screen Alliance strengthens Covid-19 guidance on client attendance at post houses

The guidance for safe working in Post Production and VFX during the COVID-19 Pandemic has been strengthened to account for new government regulations introduced in January 2021 to control a new and more infectious strain of the coronavirus.

8 January 2021

Axis Studios recreate Elizabethan London for Sky One’s A Discovery of Witches

Experienced visual effects team made a historically accurate recreation of the English capital for Sky Productions' and Bad Wolf's gripping second season of the period fantasy series.

7 January 2021

BlueBolt Deliver Majestic VFX for ‘The Great’ series

The award winning facility delivers over 300 shots for the series, created by The Favourite co-writer, Tony McNamara and produced by MRC Television for Hulu.

VFX SUPERVISOR ARTEMIS OIKONOMOPOULOU JOINS CINESITE LONDON

Visual effects and On-Set supervisor with 20 years’ experience brings her creative vision to the studio where she started her career

CAKE TO DISTRIBUTE NEW RAGDOLL SERIES B.O.T. AND THE BEASTIES

The kid's entertainment and animation specialist is working with Ragdoll Productions to distribute the new preschool 2D animated series.

1 January 2021

Freefolk’s Curious VFX for The Third Day

The award winning visual effects facility delivered 80 shots for the Sky / HBO drama miniseries, during lockdown.

16 December 2020

Spotlight On… Artem: The Pioneers of Practical SFX

This month, we talk to Mike Kelt, Chair and Co-Founder of Artem, an industry-leading physical special effects company equally as happy to build things as it is to blow them up. For over 30 years Artem has been making models, building animatronics, simulating weather, and doing whatever it takes to bring directors’ imaginations to life.

15 December 2020

Applications open for free Nuke Compositing course with Victor Perez

Nuke Compositing for Film Professionals taught by award-winning senior VFX artist Victor Perez (The Dark Knight Rises; Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows; Lés Miserables) delivered by DV Talent, supported by The Foundry, and funded by ScreenSkills Film Skills Fund.

10 December 2020

Fifty Fifty Provide Picture-post for Rugby Doc Everybody’s Game

Fifty Fifty Post provided colour grade and online work for client Doc Hearts, for Amazon Prime Video Sport’s documentary about growing diversity within the Rugby Union.

8 December 2020

THE PRODUCTION GUILD ANNOUNCES WINNERS OF 2020 INNOVATION AWARDS IN ASSOCIATION WITH WARNER BROS. STUDIOS LEAVESDEN

Commended productions include ‘First Day: On Set’, ‘Jurassic World: Dominion’, ‘War of the Worlds’ & ‘The Pursuit of Love’.

2 December 2020

Salamandra.uk: 20 Awards in 2020

Accolades Galore For Female Led Animation Studios, Salamandra.uk, an SME on the rise.

30 November 2020

MAGIC LIGHT PICTURES REVEAL ZOG AND THE FLYING DOCTORS CHRISTMAS IDENTS FOR BBC ONE

Magic Light Pictures are providing festive family treats to BBC audiences from the animated world of Julia Donaldson & Axel Scheffler, in idents running up to the premiere of Zog and the Flying Doctors.

27 November 2020

Artem SFX provides the hot seat for the Graham Norton show’s Big Red Chair

Working with client So Television, special effects specialists Artem provided the new Big Red Chair rig for the new season of the BBC's hit talk show The Graham Norton Show.

24 November 2020

DNEG connect science and the silver screen with release of new black hole imagery

The multi-award-winning visual effects and animation company's visuals created for Christopher Nolan’s 2014 film ‘Interstellar’ correspond to the first image of an actual black hole.