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Framestore was founded in 1986 by William Sargent and Sharon Reed, along with three friends. Tim Webber joined in 1988 and led the studio's push into digital film and television, and Mike Milne started its computer-generated imagery department in 1992.
Framestore acquired the Computer Film Company, known as CFC, in 1997. CFC had been founded in London in 1984 by Mike Boudry, Wolfgang Lempp, and Neil Harris, and its first film was The Fruit Machine in 1988.
Framestore has won two Scientific and Technical Academy Awards and 14 Primetime Emmys. The studio also won the Academy Award and BAFTA for Best Visual Effects for The Golden Compass in 2008, for Gravity, and for Blade Runner 2049 in 2018.
Tim Webber served as the visual effects supervisor on Gravity, released in 2013, and the techniques he and the Framestore team developed took three years to complete. The film won Framestore the BAFTA for Best Special Visual Effects at the 67th British Academy Film Awards and the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects at the 86th Academy Awards.
Framestore is based on Chancery Lane in London and employs roughly 3,000 people, including 1,000 in London. The remaining 1,500 staff work across studios in Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, Montreal, Melbourne, and Mumbai.
Framestore's Galaxy chocolate advert used body doubles, motion capture, FACS, and the rendering software Arnold to recreate Audrey Hepburn's likeness 20 years after her death. It drew press attention both for the technology involved and for the ethical questions raised by using a person's likeness posthumously for commercial purposes.