How I Spent Five Years Making a Solo 3D Film
Maxim Gehricke spent five years creating his solo 3D short film SEN. Here’s how he did it without funding, team, or sleep.
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World VFX Day 2025: Global Line-Up ahead!
Framestore hosts World VFX Day 2025 live from London. Free talks, panels and meet-ups unite global VFX artists for one day only. And now you can see who the speakers are!
World VFX Day 2025: Global Line-Up Revealed
WētāFX, ILM, Framestore, Adobe and more join World VFX Day 2025 this December, streaming live from London.
Framestore Opens Up Oz: Wicked FX Webinar with Evan Peignet
FX Lead TD Evan Peignet explains Framestore’s Wicked magic—from Glinda’s bubble to Munchkin crowds—in a live online event.
Framestore Brings Spike Jonze and James Gunn to the Table—Virtually
Framestore’s collaboration with Spike Jonze and James Gunn reveals the dynamics between directors and animators in CGI filmmaking.
Got you a Present!
“Present” stands for “Photoreal
REaltime Sentient ENTity”. During FMX 2022, Manne Öhrström, Global Head of Film Software at Framestore, delivered a talk about the Present project, where machine learning translates high-end film character rigs into real-time. A conversation with Manne Öhrström – and with Epic Game’s Research and Development Technology Producer, Emelia Fiell.
The FMX programme is online
With 50 days to go until FMX, there's just enough time to go through the programme and see what you want to see on site - She-Hulk, 1899 or even Dave McKean? (Yes, that's the one!). Early Bird tickets are still available until tomorrow!
Kaleidoscope | VFX Breakdown
Can the robbery succeed with bees? VFX house Framestore supplies bees and pump guns - and starts a little fire ... for the Netflix series Kaleidoscope.
How did the Moon of Shame scene from Thor come about?
Method Studios do it in monochrome: visual effects on the moon - and with ridiculously low gravity. How did visual effects supervisor Pete Dionne & team manage that?
Framestore kills Tom Cruise
Review: In DP 06:2014, we looked to London - and to the effects of sci-fi gem "Edge of Tomorrow", in which Tom Cruise dies a thousand deaths.
Magical effects
Review: In DP 05:07, Harry Potter 5, to which eleven studios contributed effects, was enchanting. These included heavyweights such as DNEG, ILM, Framestore and MPC.
Andrew Schlussel on VFX Education
Andrew Schlussel discusses VFX education and talent development roles at Netflix, Framestore, Pixar, MPC and DreamWorks Animation.
Framestore Design Studio Reel Showcases Commercial and Title Work
Framestore’s Design Studio reel presents work spanning advertising, title sequences, data visualisation and animation for international brands.
Wacom Career Days Runs Online
Wacom Career Days offered nine online sessions with presentations, discussions, portfolio reviews and career advice for digital artists.
FMX Spotlight Explores Framestore’s Lovecraft Country Creatures
Framestore’s Grant Walker and Stephen Nixon discussed creature design, asset building and animation for HBO’s Lovecraft Country.
The Witcher Studios Shared VFX Breakdowns
One of Us, Platige Image, Framestore and Cinesite showed creatures, environments, battles and magic from The Witcher season one.
Watchmen VFX Vendors Shared Breakdowns
Mackevision, Hybride, MARZ, Framestore, BUF and Outpost shared visual-effects work from HBO’s 2019 Watchmen series.
The Witcher – Netflix | VFX Breakdown
Toss a Coin to Framestore: In the new VFX breakdown, the studio shows its work on the new Netflix series “The Witcher”!
Spider-Man: Far From Home | VFX Breakdowns
Several major VFX studios worked on Spider-Man: Far From Home. These are their new VFX breakdowns!
Hollywood to your Home – Making-of Panasonic demo advert
To demonstrate the features of the new Panasonic 4K HDR display, the "Hollywood to your Home" advert shows four scenes in the style of classic Hollywood genres. The project was the first of the Directors Duo that we realised in cooperation with Framestore Pictures.
animago CONFERENCE Programme at a Glance
Who, when, what, where? Here we have the schedule for this year’s animago CONFERENCE on September 7 and 8.
King Arthur: VFX Breakdown by Framestore
Fresh breakdown from Framestore: In this VFX breakdown, the studio shows its work on scenes from "King Arthur: Legend of the Sword"!
animago CONFERENCE Highlights 2017
Just under one month until the animago AWARD & CONFERENCE! We already have plenty of program items to announce for this year's conference at Munich's Gasteig. Here is the overview.
New “Guardians of the Galaxy 2” TV Spot
The new "You're Welcome" TV spot for the second part of Marvel's "Guardians of the Galaxy" has been released.
animago Pictures 2016: CONFERENCE
The two-day conference programme at animago was packed with presentations by Industrial Light & Magic, Framestore, Digital Domain, Pixar, Disney Animation Studios, and many more speakers. Here are a few impressions from the talks.
20 Films in the Running for the VFX Oscar
The 88th Academy Awards will take place in February 2016. Here are the 20 feature films that are currently contenders for an Oscar in the “Best Visual Effects” category.
Animated Christmas Cat by Framestore
Christmas is directly easier to bear with animated-cat content—above all, “Mog” is considerably cooler than the Edeka commercial with the suffering grandpa.
animago Images 2015: CONFERENCE
There was a lot going on at the animago CONFERENCE 2015: Speakers from The Mill, Pixar, Weta Digital, Illumination Mac Guff, Trixter, Pixomondo, MPC and many other studios were there with exciting presentations. Here are the photos.
“Knowhere” Reel from Framestore
For “Guardians of the Galaxy”, Framestore created its most complicated environment to date. Here is the breakdown reel of the “Knowhere” environment.
Animation Day
Next week, on February 25, Animation Day will take place at HFF Munich. Anyone who does not yet have a free ticket should quickly secure one.
Matte Painting and Concept Art Showreel
Tony Andreas Rudolph is a 3D matte painter and concept artist from Vancouver, Canada, and has already worked for companies such as Framestore, MPC, Scanline, and Trixter.
Framestore and McLaren Group Are Partners
The result of the partnership between Framestore and McLaren Group is the establishment of a McLaren Animation studio.
Texture Tutorial with Mari
And the shark, it has teeth... In this tutorial at NAB 2011, Framestore artist Jesse Flores showed how he textured sharks with Mari for a Snickers commercial.
Framestore Integrates IKinema into Motion Capture Pipeline
IKinema announced today that Framestore in London has integrated IKinma technology into its motion capture production pipeline.
Hereafter, Harry and Hindenburg
High-end with passion: As part of the Munich Film Festival, MedienCampus Bayern, in cooperation with filmtoolsConsult, presented the 14th ANIMATION MEETING on June 30 at Munich’s Gasteig and brought along three fantastic projects.
MAXON Congratulates Framestore on VFX Oscar Nomination for “The Dark Knight”
MAXON’s BodyPaint 3D texturing software supported the transformation of hero Harvey Dent into the villain “Two-Face.”
Framestore Computer Graphics Director Mike Milne Receives Lifetime Achievement Award
The honor was presented as part of the Royal Television Society Craft & Design Awards.
VI-910 3D Scanner Used on “The Golden Compass”
Konica Minolta's 3D Laser Scanner Helped Framestore CFC Turn Models into 3D Characters
Autodesk Tools Power Oscar-Nominated Work
Visual-effects Oscar winner The Golden Compass was created using Autodesk technology.
BodyPaint 3D Textures The Golden Compass
Framestore CFC used BodyPaint 3D to texture the bears, armour, environments and digital doubles in The Golden Compass.