London VFX house Nvizible announces its further expansion with the launch of Nvizible Belfast.
London VFX house Nvizible announced that it is expanding further with the launch of Nvizible Belfast.
As part of this expansion, former Head of Production Kris Wright has been promoted to Managing Director, with Nic Hatch taking on the role of Chairman. Hatch was the driving force behind the Belfast opening and recognized it as an area of growth in the film industry with a shortage of VFX.
“We are excited to now have a presence in Belfast,” Hatch comments. “With the demand for our services growing and by expanding our business we will be able to work more efficiently and continue to create superb VFX that exceed our clients’ expectations.”
“We are now able to bring the very best VFX work to Belfast, both feature film and high end television projects,” Wright adds. “In tandem with this growth of VFX in Belfast we are going to nurture a talent pool of local artists to work on these shows. This is something young, aspiring VFX artists in Northern Ireland have never had the chance to do before.”
"It is great news for the Northern Ireland film industry, high end VFX production was the missing piece in the jigsaw, we can now supply everything that any major production would want,” said Victoria Farley, who heads up the studio in Belfast. “I want Belfast to be part of London's success; this is really going to be a real game changer.”
Nvizible Belfast is up and running, working on Robot Overlords (Embankment Films), a project that is also in-house at the London studio. The facilities will work together with a unified pipeline and given that there isn’t the issue of different time zones, the two locations will run as one.
Paddy Eason is the VFX Supervisor on Robot Overlords and as well as Nvizible providing all the VFX, including fully CG animated robots, flying vehicles, a spitfire plane, environments and explosions, sister companies Nvizage and Ncam are also an integral part of the production. The film was shot in Northern Ireland last summer and stars Gillian Anderson and Sir Ben Kingsley.
Since its launch in 2009, Nvizible has worked on an impressive slate of projects. In the last year alone Nvizible has provided all 350 VFX on Kick-Ass 2 (Universal/Marv. Films) and has also completed work on Gravity (Warner Bros.), Captain Phillips (Columbia Pictures), Carrie (MGM/Sony), I Give It A Year (Working Title Films) and Muppets Most Wanted (Disney).
Source: Nvizible
Formerly Editor-in-Chief of Animation World Network, Jennifer Wolfe has worked in the Media & Entertainment industry as a writer and PR professional since 2003.
