Computer animation
Art of creating moving images using computers
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| 2025 | Scheduled to work on visual effects for 'Lilo & Stitch', 'How to Train Your Dragon', and 'The Fantastic Four: First Steps' |
| 2025 | Upcoming projects include A Minecraft Movie, The Fantastic Four: First Steps, The Bad Guys 2, and In Your Dreams |
| 2025 | Framestore is set to work on visual effects for 'How to Train Your Dragon' and 'The Fantastic Four: First Steps' |
| 2024 | Planned films include Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire and Red One |
| 2024 | Framestore is scheduled to provide visual effects for 'Deadpool & Wolverine' and 'Wicked' |
| 2023 | Created visual effects for 'Barbie' and 'Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3' |
| 2023 | Continued diverse film production with Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, and The Marvels |
| 2023 | Framestore contributed visual effects to the hit film 'Barbie'. |
| 2023 | Multiple studios release computer-animated films, including The Super Mario Bros. Movie by Illumination and Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken by DreamWorks Animation, demonstrating the continued growth of the computer animation industry. |
| 2023 | The Super Mario Bros. Movie is released by Illumination, demonstrating the continued evolution and popularity of computer-animated films. |
| October 6 2023 | Reported as the animation service for DreamWorks Animation's unannounced sequel (The Bad Guys 2), set to use a mixed production model for the 2025 film. |
| June 2023 | Vulture published an article revealing that multiple animators quit Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse due to unstable working conditions at Sony Pictures Imageworks. The Animation Guild noted that despite being associated with Sony Pictures Animation, Imageworks remains a non-union workplace. |
| 2022 | Worked on the Netflix series '1899' |
| 2022 | Produced Hotel Transylvania: Transformania, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, The Sea Beast, and Thor: Love and Thunder |
| 2021 | Created critically acclaimed animated films including The Mitchells vs. the Machines, Vivo, and Spider-Man: No Way Home |
| 2021 |
Tau Films
Tau Films worked on Li Weiran's film The Yinyang Master.
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| 2021 | Framestore worked on visual effects for 'Spider-Man: No Way Home' and 'No Time to Die' |
| September 30 2021 |
Tau Films
Released 'The Battle at Lake Changjin', a significant film in Tau Films' 2021 lineup.
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| March 2021 | Academic journal published a summary of Yuzuru Hanyu's motion capture research thesis on figure skating jumps. |
| 2020 | Provided visual effects for 'Mulan' and 'Lovecraft Country' |
| 2020 | Produced Mulan and Over the Moon during the COVID-19 pandemic |
| 2020 | Two-time Olympic figure skating champion Yuzuru Hanyu graduated from Waseda University, completing a thesis that used 31 body sensors to analyze his skating jumps and explore motion capture technology's potential in improving skating technique and scoring systems. |
| 2020 | Framestore provided visual effects for the live-action 'Mulan' remake |
| 2020 | Framestore won the BAFTA TV Craft Awards for Special, Visual & Graphic Effects for their extensive work on the HBO / BBC series His Dark Materials. |
| November 2020 | Framestore acquired Deluxe's former creative assets, including Method Studios and Company 3, to expand their VFX and post-production capabilities. |
| 2019 | Began working on the TV series 'The Boys' and started visual effects for 'Avengers: Endgame' |
| 2019 | Continued film production with Men in Black: International, Spider-Man: Far From Home, The Angry Birds Movie 2, Zombieland: Double Tap, and Jumanji: The Next Level |
| 2019 | The Lion King achieved photorealistic computer animation, able to be marketed as if it were a live-action film. |
| 2019 |
Tau Films
Tau Films worked on multiple films including Crazy Alien, Primal (starring Nicolas Cage), and Skyfire (directed by Simon West).
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| 2019 | Framestore started visual effects work on 'The Boys' and 'The Witcher' TV series |
| August 2019 | Animusic website was briefly taken down and replaced with a generic template, citing a redesign in progress. |
| 2018 | Sony Pictures Imageworks produced multiple animated and live-action films including Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation, The Meg, Smallfoot, Venom, and Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse |
| 2018 | Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is released by Sony Pictures Animation, introducing groundbreaking animation styles in computer-animated films. |
| 2018 | The Third Floor, Inc. won the Visual Effects Society Award for Outstanding Virtual Cinematography in a Photoreal Project for their work on the 'Groot Dance/Opening Fight' sequence in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, with Jim Baker and Steven Lo recognized for their contributions. |
| 2018 |
Tau Films
Tau Films worked on the films Evil Nature and 2.0.
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| 2018 | Framestore won a special visual effects award at the British Academy Film Awards for their work on Blade Runner 2049. |
| 2017 |
Tau Films
Created 'WildAid: Jackie Chan & Pangolins' and 'Racing Legends at Ferrari Land'.
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| 2017 | Framestore worked on the film Darkest Hour, creating 85 historically accurate visual effects shots from their Montreal facility. |
| 2017 | Framestore created around 300 visual effects shots for the film Blade Runner 2049. |
| August 2017 | Animusic headquarters was sold to RP Solutions, Inc. |
| April 2017 | Framestore opened a third US location in Chicago, Illinois. |
| 2016 | Created visual effects for 'Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them' |
| 2016 | The Jungle Book used CGI for the majority of the movie runtime while incorporating human actors. |
| November 2016 | Shanghai-based Cultural Investment Holdings Co acquired 75% of Framestore for £112.50 million. |
| March 2016 | Epic Games demonstrated full-body motion capture live at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, rendering a scene from Hellblade in real-time through a collaboration with Unreal Engine, Ninja Theory, 3Lateral, Cubic Motion, IKinema, and Xsens. |
| 2015 | Over 700 artists move into a new 74,000-square feet headquarters in Vancouver. |
| 2015 | A diverse range of computer-animated films were released, including Pixar's Inside Out, Disney's Zootopia and Moana, Illumination's Minions, and Industrial Light & Magic's Strange Magic. |
| 2015 |
Tau Films
Produced multiple films including 'Baahubali: The Beginning', 'Everest', and created theme park experiences like 'Hogwarts Express - London' and 'The Forbidden Caves'.
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