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16 February 2021

Escape Studios, ScreenSkills and Epic Games partner to help retrain UK film and High-end TV production

The UK screen industry skills and training bodies are working with Epic Games to create a series of free online workshops for freelancers and furloughed film and HETV workers.

15 February 2021

OUTPOST SECURE PRIVATE EQUITY INVESTMENT, APPOINTS NEW CHAIR ROBIN SHENFIELD

Visual effects studio Outpost VFX has secured a multi-million-pound investment from funds managed by YFM Equity Partners (YFM), and appointed Robin Shenfield as new Chair of the board.

AARDMAN GREENLIGHTS NEW CGI SERIES, LLOYD OF THE FLIES, FOR CITV

Aardman has greenlit a brand-new comedy series for 7- to 11-year-olds called Lloyd of the Flies.

11 February 2021

Framestore bolsters technology team with real-time appointments

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

10 February 2021

New national standards to ensure UK is leading in world-class virtual production

Screenskills to develop UK virtual production training standards, with help of industry representatives from UK Research and Innovation, Epic Games, Ntropic, Sky Studios and UK Screen Alliance.

5 February 2021

BFI OFFICIAL 2020 STATISTICS REVEAL £2.84bn film and HETV production UK spend after months of suspended production

Figures published by the BFI’s Research and Statistics Unit display the industry's significant economic recovery despite the impact of the pandemic.

3 February 2021

CAKE SIGNS DEAL WITH RAI FOR PABLO

Leading kids’ entertainment specialist CAKE, has signed a deal with Italian public broadcaster Rai for the first season of ground-breaking pre-school animated series Pablo.

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.