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Framestore Limited(The)

Framestore | We are Framestore. Extraordinary images, extraordinary talent.

Framestore is a Bafta and Oscar-awarding winning creative studio that offers a range of visual effects, production, direction and post production services to its film and integrated advertising clients. It is famous for its VFX work for films such as Gravity, Harry Potter and Avatar, its CGI recreation of Audrey Hepburn for Galaxy and its pioneering virtual reality (VR)

CRN
01972029
Founded
1985
Age
40

Overview

Legal name
FRAMESTORE LIMITED(THE)
Region
London
Registered address
28 CHANCERY LANE
LONDON
ENGLAND
WC2A 1LB
Insolvency history
No

Corporate ownership

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Company events

Reference milestones and recent Companies House filing stream events.

6 events
02 Jan
2027

Confirmation statement due

Confirmation Due

Next confirmation statement due date

30 Sep
2026

Accounts due

Accounts Due

Next accounts due date

19 Dec
2025

Confirmation statement filed

Confirmation

Last confirmation statement made up date

31 Dec
2024

Accounts filed

Accounts

Last accounts made up date

09 Oct
2024

Accounts With Accounts Type Full

Accounts PDF pending

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Published 10 Oct 2024 06:15

17 Dec
1985

Incorporated

Inception

Company registered at Companies House

Public funding

4 awards
First funded
2015
Funded years
2015, 2017, 2019, 2021
Age at first award
29 years

Projects

2021 Collaborative R&D Lead participant

Agile Scalable Virtual Production

1 May 2021 to 31 Jan 2022

Awarded
£250,000
Total cost £499,999

Virtual production (VP) is a term that describes any aspect of modern filmmaking that employs real-time technology to move some element of pre-production, shooting or post-production into a shared virtual space. Currently these techniques are primarily reserved for a small number of big-budget Hollywood movie productions with the ability to invest large a...

2019 Collaborative R&D Lead participant

FIRA Toolset: Fast Immersive Rigging and Animation

1 Apr 2019 to 30 Sep 2020

Awarded
£229,788
Total cost £459,576

"A key factor holding back the projected growth of immersive content is the quality of character, creature and performance animation currently enabled by real-time engines. This challenge is immense, because as well as capturing the creative vision of Producers, engaging narrative content must contain rich and nuanced facial expressions, body dynamics, ge...

2017 Collaborative R&D Lead participant

Productivity Optimised Pipelines for Digital Production (ProDip)

1 Jun 2017 to 30 Nov 2018

Awarded
£230,302
Total cost £460,604

Productivity Optimised Pipeline for digital production (ProDip) is an 18 month collaborative project addressing key needs in the digital production industry (including CGI for films, games, augmented & virtual reality) of rapid motion capture (including detailed facial expression and body movements) with improved and more efficient production pipeline pro...

2015 Collaborative R&D

CISE: Creative Industries Security Environment

1 Dec 2015 to 28 Feb 2017

Awarded
£74,371
Total cost £148,742

CISE is a one-year project designed to create a cross-industry digital security environment with an extensible, pluggable framework, to protect the UK’s companies making movies, TV, commercials, games, on-line and immersive media. The goal is to create a ‘digital immune system’ for media companies, which will constantly watch for and warn against both int...

Product types

Collaborative R&D