Framestore

Framestore is doing the effect shots (the same team that did baby scene in Children of Men)

New Photos and Info: Spike Jonze’s Where The Wild Things Are | /Film 2008

When I first meet with Jonze, in May, he is on the top floor of a building in central London at a company called Framestore, in a room that is filled with row upon row of computer screens, the faces of various wild things frozen upon many of them.

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The studio is called Framestore and they apparently handled the Harvey Dent/Two-Face work in The Dark Knight, so they aren’t new to the big show.

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In 2000, Spruce settled at Framestore and in a decade has moved from animator to supervisor and now head of department, where he marshals teams of animators to deliver visual effects on films, TV programmes and commercials – on time and on budget.

A working life: The special effects animator Mark King 2010

Human faces are studied with equal intent, which is why most Framestore animators have a mirror on their desk so they can pull faces and watch their reflection to double-check the work they are doing on a character.

A working life: The special effects animator Mark King 2010

The Tale of Despereaux is directed by a combination of Sam Fell (Flushed Away), Gary Ross (Pleasantville, Seabiscuit), and Robert Stevenhagen (ex-animation supervisor) working under Framestore Feature Animation.

Universal's The Tale of Despereaux Mouse Movie Trailer « FirstShowing.net 2008

As much as the whole genre is stale to me with the whole talking animal thing .. the trailer actually impressed me (love the rhyming narration) and as a first outing from Framestore CFC its pretty damn good looking

The Tale of Despereaux Movie Trailer #2 | /Film 2008

Performance motion capture – or "mo-cap" – is part of that future and Framestore has embraced it by investing in a special studio as well as an in-house performer.

A working life: The special effects animator Mark King 2010

As I sit talking to Spruce I'm flanked by a foot-tall sculpture of a polar bear from The Golden Compass for which Framestore won a 2008 Academy Award for Best Visual Effects and a model of a stegasaurus from an episode of the BBC TV series Walking With Dinosaurs.

A working life: The special effects animator Mark King 2010

He and others at Framestore are obviously successful at bidding: films his team have recently completed work on include blockbuster hits such as The Dark Knight and James Bond film Quantum of Solace, as well as the first instalment of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, released last week.

A working life: The special effects animator Mark King 2010