Framestore CFC

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Framestore CFC is the largest digital visual effects company in Europe. Based in London, it was formed in 2001 by a merger between the Computer Film Company and Framestore, which had previously been separate parts of the Framestore Group of companies. The company works across several different areas of the media: feature films, commercials, music videos, DVD design/authoring and television programmes.

In 2004 the company set up an office in New York's SoHo district to serve the US advertising market.

1 History
- 1.1 Computer Film Company
2 Current projects
3 Past projects
4 See also
5 External links

[edit] History

[edit] Computer Film Company

The Computer Film Company was one of the first digital film special effects companies. Founded in London in 1984, CFC developed its own technology of digital film scanning, compositing and output devices. The latest generation of the scanning technology is the Northlight film scanner. Theo Wade Brown was responsible for the scanner's physical and mechanical design.

CFC was founded by Dr Mike Boudry, who had previously worked on integrated circuit engraving techniques, and significant technical contributions were also made by Wolfgang Lempp (now CTO at Filmlight) and Neil Harris (who was also part of the team to design the Lightworks editing system).

CFC's achievements in film have been recognized throughout the industry, and have led to CFC being awarded two Scientific and Technical Academy Awards, in 1994 (received by Mike Boudry) for innovation in film scanning and in 1995 for compositing.

In 2000, CFC completed Europe's first Digital Intermediate on the stop animation film Chicken Run. The Digital Lab at Framestore is now the largest DI facility in Europe.

They have also been highly commended for their work in advertising contribution. The most notable campaign of recent years has been the Guiness campaigns.

Directors who have worked with CFC include Danny Boyle, Tim Burton, Joel Coen, Neil Jordan, Stanley Kubrick, Nick Park, John Woo and Robert Zemeckis.

As of 2001, CFC was credited with work on over 140 films.

Framestore-CFC also create the visual effects for Impossible Pictures' 'Walking With...' series. The first; 'Walking With Dinosaurs' was greenlit in July 1996. Framestore's longform department has recently completed 'Prehistoric Park' for Impossible pictures and ITV and is working on a project called 'Primeval' which aired on ITV1 in 2007. As of February 2008, new episodes of Primeval are still being produced.

One of the earliest videos they worked on was the video Take on Me by the band a-ha.

In 2008 Framestore-CFC won their first Oscar for "best VFX in a feature film" for the picture The Golden Compass, they also won the BAFTA the same year for the same film.