Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets Of Dumbledore

Framestore enters awards race with nine VES and Annie nominations

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Global VFX and creative studio Framestore starts this year’s award season with nine nominations following announcements from the Visual Effects Society (VES) and Annie Awards. The projects shortlisted – Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore, Top Gun: Maverick, Beast and Slumberland – underline the company’s rich heritage in creating emotionally compelling creature performances, photo-realistic effects … Read more

VFX Oscar shortlist features three Framestore titles

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Framestore sees three films featuring its teams’ work in this year’s Oscar shortlist. The films are: Top Gun: Maverick A critical and commercial smash, the biggest film of 2022 features supporting VFX so seamless it appears effortless (hint: it wasn’t).  From faultless comp work to intricately crafted digital models, the VFX team benefited from hours … Read more

George Richmond BSC / Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore

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CREATING THE MAGIC Magizoologist Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne) returns in the latest of the Fantastic Beasts movies, the prequel-saga of the wizarding world in Britain, America, and beyond before Harry Potter’s Hogwarts career. The Secrets of Dumbledore, co-written by JK Rowling and Steve Kloves, moves the story world into 1930s Europe and Weimar Berlin with … Read more

Take a sneak peek inside the May 2022 issue of British Cinematographer

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The May 2022 issue of British Cinematographer is now here! You can find out more about the incredible interviews and articles you can expect to find inside our 111th edition now by reading on… JARIN BLASCHKE ON THE NORTHMAN In our cover story special, we talk to cinematographer Jarin Blaschke to find out more about his time lensing The Northman. He discusses investigating … Read more

Framestore announces new Mumbai VFX studio

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Oscar, Emmy and BAFTA-winning creative studio Framestore has opened the doors to its latest state-of-the-art facility – a 30,000 square-foot, purpose-built studio located at the heart of Mumbai’s creative and technological ecosystem. The new studio already houses 120 of India’s top VFX specialists working across titles such as The Matrix Resurrections, His Dark Materials, Fantastic Beasts: The … Read more