How Framestore Brought to Life Some of Their Creatures https://cgmeetup.com/news/how-framestore-brought-to-life-some-of-their-creatures-1024 . Gabriela Salmeron is Framestore’s Head of Grooming and Creature FX, and has ten years’ experience delivering the highest-quality visuals for high-profile advertising projects, TV series, immersive experiences and blockbuster films. | CGMeetUp
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How Framestore Brought to Life Some of Their Creatures https://cgmeetup.com/news/how-framestore-brought-to-life-some-of-their-creatures-1024 . Gabriela Salmeron is Framestore’s Head of Grooming and Creature FX, and has ten years’ experience delivering the highest-quality visuals for high-profile advertising projects, TV series, immersive experiences and blockbuster films. | CGMeetUp
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How Framestore helped make the creatures and cinematography of ‘Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age’ feel so real --> Today on the Befores & Afters podcast, we’re chatting about 'Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age' with Framestore and production side visual effects supervisor Russell Dodgson. Listen in here: https://beforesandafters.com/2026/01/07/how-framestore-helped-make-the-creatures-and-cinematography-of-prehistoric-planet-ice-age-feel-so-real/ | Befores & Afters
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How Framestore helped make the creatures and cinematography of ‘Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age’ feel so real --> Today on the Befores & Afters podcast, we’re chatting about 'Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age' with Framestore and production side visual effects supervisor Russell Dodgson. Listen in here: https://beforesandafters.com/2026/01/07/how-framestore-helped-make-the-creatures-and-cinematography-of-prehistoric-planet-ice-age-feel-so-real/ | Befores & Afters
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New creatures. New era. From executive producers Jon Favreau and Mike Gunton, Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age, produced by BBC Studios Natural History Unit, marks a bold new chapter in natural history filmmaking, combining science, artistry and storytelling on an epic scale. Led by Production-Side VFX Supervisor Russell Dodgson, Framestore’s global teams worked hand-in-hand with palaeontologist Darren Naish to reimagine the world of the Ice Age. Together, they brought its vast frozen landscapes and
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New creatures. New era. From executive producers Jon Favreau and Mike Gunton, Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age, produced by BBC Studios Natural History Unit, marks a bold new chapter in natural history filmmaking, combining science, artistry and storytelling on an epic scale. Led by Production-Side VFX Supervisor Russell Dodgson, Framestore’s global teams worked hand-in-hand with palaeontologist Darren Naish to reimagine the world of the Ice Age. Together, they brought its vast frozen landscapes and
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The final season of His Dark Materials features some of the most ambitious VFX you’ll see on the small screen, from photoreal creatures - real and imagined - to incredible environments and epic battles. A huge congratulations to Russell Dodgson, Damien Stumpf and the teams in London, Montreal and Mumbai whose beautiful, brilliant work has seen the show nominated for its THIRD Special, Visual and Graphic Effects BAFTA. Here’s hoping we add a third award to our collection! #vfxbyframestore #hisdar
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The final season of His Dark Materials features some of the most ambitious VFX you’ll see on the small screen, from photoreal creatures - real and imagined - to incredible environments and epic battles. A huge congratulations to Russell Dodgson, Damien Stumpf and the teams in London, Montreal and Mumbai whose beautiful, brilliant work has seen the show nominated for its THIRD Special, Visual and Graphic Effects BAFTA. Here’s hoping we add a third award to our collection! #vfxbyframestore #hisdar
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Check out Framestore's brilliant VFX breakdown of its CG creatures from Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, including Cosmo the Spacedog, Lylla the otter, and baby Rocket Full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HVpWQ8mnmc | CGchannel
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Check out Framestore's brilliant VFX breakdown of its CG creatures from Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, including Cosmo the Spacedog, Lylla the otter, and baby Rocket Full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HVpWQ8mnmc | CGchannel
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Check out Framestore's VFX breakdown of its CG creatures from Avatar: The Last Airbender, including Appa the sky bison and Momo the flying lemur Watch the full video on Framestore's website: https://www.framestore.com/work/avatar-last-airbender-season-1 | CGchannel
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Check out Framestore's VFX breakdown of its CG creatures from Avatar: The Last Airbender, including Appa the sky bison and Momo the flying lemur Watch the full video on Framestore's website: https://www.framestore.com/work/avatar-last-airbender-season-1 | CGchannel
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Check out Framestore's breakdown of the sequence from Wicked: For Good where Elphaba frees the caged animals - for which the studio created over 100 species of CG creatures. Watch the full video on the Framestore YouTube channel (also shows look dev and animatics): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byBxiUy6yqI | CGchannel
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Check out Framestore's breakdown of the sequence from Wicked: For Good where Elphaba frees the caged animals - for which the studio created over 100 species of CG creatures. Watch the full video on the Framestore YouTube channel (also shows look dev and animatics): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byBxiUy6yqI | CGchannel
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Framestore on Instagram: "Puppets, an ancient storytelling art form, bridged the divide between epic location shoots and the addition of photoreal, prehistoric megafauna by our Framestore teams in London, Montreal and Mumbai. #PrehistoricPlanetIceAge #VFX #CGI #behindthescenes"
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The Gorge Breakdown is here! Contributing to concept art, pre-production, and final VFX integration, our global teams delivered over 516 shots for the film. They crafted all the unsettling, mutated creatures that haunt the Gorge, as well as its fog-shrouded environments. Watch the full breakdown video on our website: https://www.framestore.com/work/gorge #TheGorge #VFX #CGI #CreatureDesign #VFXbreakdown #behindthescenes #beforeandafter | Framestore
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Digital Arts Review | Framestore's László Molnár details creating CG creatures
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Stags & Stripes, Creating Photoreal Characters | Framestore | FMX 2021 HIVE
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Framestore on Instagram: "New creatures. New era. Led by Production-Side VFX Supervisor Russell Dodgson, Framestore’s global teams worked hand-in-hand with palaeontologist Darren Naish to reimagine the world of the Ice Age. Together, they brought its vast frozen landscapes and remarkable megafauna that once ruled them to life, grounding every frame in scientific accuracy and the visual language of natural history filmmaking. From executive producers Jon Favreau and Mike Gunton and show runner Ma
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Lylla test footage | Framestore
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Check out Framestore's VFX breakdown of the hybrid animal/plant creatures from Apple TV sci-fi movie The Gorge Watch the full video on the Framestore YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7DjZMYV7Bw | CGchannel
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Framestore on Instagram: "Meet the GOAT 🐐. Beginning from concept art, through casting a real goat, and developing the look in animation and groom, creating Doctor Dillamond was a true pleasure for our artists. If you’d like to know more about our work on Wicked, join us on r/Movies today (7 February) at 16:00 ET / 21:00 GMT for a Q&A with Oscar-nominated VFX Supervisor Jonathan Fawkner, and Animation Supervisor Dale Newton. #Wicked #Animation #CGI #VFX #BehindtheScenes #VFXbreakdown"
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How "His Dark Materials" Used Puppets And CGI To Create Realistic Animals | Movies Insider
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The Making of CG Animals | Framestore | FMX HIVE 2023
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KineFX: Creature FX | Gabriela Salmeron - Framestore | KineFEST 2025
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Framestore on Instagram: "Nominated for a VES Award for Outstanding Visual Effects in a Special Venue Project, Universal Epic Universe’s Monsters Unchained: The Frankenstein Experiment brings stunningly lifelike, technologically groundbreaking animated figures; first-of-their-kind creations that wreak havoc throughout the ride. For your consideration: Outstanding Visual Effects in a Special Venue Project: Alan Woods, Maximilian McNair MacEwan, Jason Fox, Iris Chailloux #SpecialVenueProject #Ride
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How Framestore Created a Pepsi‑Loving Polar Bear for the Super Bowl - Media and Entertainment
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Guardians of the Galaxy: Rocket | VFX Making Of | Framestore
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Rocket's Work of Art | Framestore
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Framestore on Instagram: "🐉 #1 Movie in the World! Critics are loving How to Train Your Dragon, praising its stunning visuals, rich emotion and groundbreaking animation. “It’s the kind of immersive sensation and giddy wish fulfillment that might just have you forgetting momentarily to breathe” - Associated Press 👏 Huge shoutout to Production VFX Supervisor Christian Manz, Production Animation Supervisor Glen McIntosh and our global team of artists, producers and technologists who brought this
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Framestore on Instagram: "Making the Ice Age feel cold meant making the snow feel real. The greatest technical hurdle was ensuring the interaction between highly detailed, furry creatures and deep, fresh powder felt spontaneously real. Our FX team re-engineered our pipeline from the ground up to handle this, moving away from standard simulations to a bespoke system that could handle the density, clumping, and layering of shaggy hides. Using our proprietary FAT (Framestore Anatomy Tool) and custo
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Framestore on Instagram: "To make Prehistoric Planet feel like a true natural history documentary, we broke the rules of traditional CG. Instead of perfect, impossible camera moves, we purposely introduced "human" flaws into our virtual camera work: the shake of a heavy 1,000mm lens fighting the wind, the jitter of a hand-held operator, and the split-second hesitation while finding focus on a moving animal. These tiny data points trick the brain into believing the camera, and the creature, were
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The Invisible Art | Framestore
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Framestore on Instagram: "Every epic adventure needs a big, bad foe to face off against, and there’s none bigger or badder than the Red Death. Easily the biggest creature Framestore has ever brought to life, the Red Death is both an incredible feat of animation and an environment in her own right: cratered, mountainous, and towering over the world around her. In this short film, you’ll hear from How To Train Your Dragon Director @dean.deblois , Production VFX Supervisor @manzinivfx , Production
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Meet the real-life pup behind Superman’s CG sidekick | Framestore
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Pushing Creatures Through the PIPE with Framestore VFX - ZBrush Summit 2018
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Wicked VFX Showreel | Framestore
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