Time for Season Two
The first three episodes of The Wheel of Time S2 arrive on Prime Video today! Amazon have given us a sneaky peek at the new series, featuring some magical VFX from VFX Supervisor Patti Llaguno and the LDN team, as well as essential pre-production from FPS (led by Michelle Blok).
ONE PIECE drops its final trailer ahead of series launch ⛵️
Take to the seas! The journey to find the ONE PIECE begins. Our VFX teams in NYC and LDN helped bring Eiichiro Oda’s masterpiece to life in the live action update to the beloved manga series.
Stream all 8 episodes of ONE PIECE now on Netflix!
Apple TV+’s Invasion season 2 episode 2 drops
Season 2 of Invasion officially landed last week, with new episodes dropping every Wednesday on Apple TV+. You can see our LDN and NYC studios’ stellar VFX in episode 1, and be sure to catch episode 3 next week for some more out of this world work from the Framestore team.
Press
Netflix’s live-action ONE PIECE adaptation receives glowing first reviews
The results are in… and the live-action adaptation of ONE PIECE is already a hit with critics and fans alike.
Check out some of the initial praise on The Direct, MovieWeb and Vulture.
Bringing ONE PIECE’s VFX to life
ONE PIECE co-showrunner Steven Maeda and showside VFX supervisors Victor Scalise and Scott Ramsey spoke with AWN to explain the VFX approach that was taken in order to do justice to the series, and to the fans – and shouted out Framestore for our work on the show.
Go further in-depth here.
LBB | Content That Connects: Mike McGee’s Greatest Risks Led to the Greatest Rewards
LBB, in association with Comcast Technology Solutions, chatted with Mike McGee, co-founder and CCO of Framestore, about the alchemy of crafting work that connect with audiences, the machine learning-fuelled evolving landscape of VFX, and what aspiring VFX creatives need to know.
Read the full interview here.
Awards
Elvis rocks at the APDG Awards
This past weekend at the APDG Awards, our work on Elvis took home the award for 3D Design! VFX Supervisor Josh Simmonds accepted the award on behalf of the Framestore VFX team.
The annual APDG Awards celebrates excellence and creativity of Australian production designers in various fields of visual media. Congrats to everyone involved on this exciting honour – including VFX Supervisor Glenn Melenhorst on his nomination in the same category for Lyle Lyle Crocodile.
In other news
MTL has celebrated its tenth-year anniversary! Watch the video commemorating these milestones, their success and their journey.
ONE PIECE takes over the Santa Monica pier for premiere
The ONE PIECE premiere, hosted at the Santa Monica pier in California, dazzled audience members as the evening closed with a bespoke drone show featuring characters from the show.
To the fair!
LDN‘s editorial, production and IA teams ventured to a fairground in Canary Wharf this week. Jack Hubbard claimed the overall impressive win on the games, with an honourable mention for Sapphire Taylor, shooting all the targets & winning 3 pink bears.
Montréal hosts film club
A group of movie buffs gathered together Thursday night to watch a movie in the MTL studio. The conversations were engaging, and attendees even took part in pre-movie trivia! These sessions are going to repeat every two weeks, with a new film chosen by the club members.
A quick reminder that the US and CAN have a public holiday on Monday!
That’s all folks for this week!