DOCUMENTARY PRODUCTION & POST PRODUCTION VISUAL EFFECTS, ANIMATION & MOTION GRAPHICS

Documentary, factual and specialist factual entertainment productions utilise reconstruction, explanation, visualisation,  mapping and dramatisation which animation, visual effects, motion graphics and to an extent generative AI content are exemplary to illustrate, illuminate and extend story telling by bringing impossible,  otherworldly or seemingly improbable events, encounters and moments to life. Documentary and factual entertainment are authenticity based and journalistic and scientific best practices, by working with relevant researchers and scientists, using and checking latest research and in some cases being a part of that research using LiDar or physical models as bases for visualisation. We have developed a wide documentary practice working on medical series such as BBC Human Body, BBC Horizon documentaries, music and arts feature documentaries  as well as streaming VOD epsiodics and series across Archeology, Arts, Politics, Ecology and Environment, Engineering, Travel and Tourism, Astronomy, near and deep Space films and reconstructions. Having a research practice, a scientific and arts education background with  deep understanding of technology and tools has enabled a natural curiosity in understanding how things work interpretively through visual effects, animation and graphics has enabled the development of many skills and specialities focussed on factual.

For No Good Reason feature documentary

For No Good Reason theatrical documentary collaboration undertaking digital post production to bring together the multi media sources, animations  and archive for grading and finishing with director Charlie Paul and producer Lucy Paul at Itch Film. The documentary was a 10 year odyssey charting the motivations, recollections and reflections of the prolific artist Ralph Steadman on his life, his art, his illustrations, his books, his stories, his friends and the antics they got up to and with his collaborators over his life time  including Hunter S. Thompson, William Burroughs, Terry Gilliam amongst many. Narrated by Johnny Depp.

Shut Up and Play the Hits feature documentary

Shut Up and Play the Hits theatrical documentary  completed digital post production for directors Will Lovelace and Dylan Southern and production company Pulse Films for this feature length Sundance acclaimed documentary following the break up of LCD Soundsystem. The film follows the build up and post  final concert crash at New Yorks Madison Square Garden, features extensive live footage and the creative destruction of a band at the height of their popularity and talent. The  film was graded by colourist Simone Grattarola with online and  VFX by David Kiddie. 

Les Miserables Feature film directed by Tom Hooper, undertaking CGI aerial pull back shot from the Barricades in the Commune in  Paris to reveal the environs of the city in 1749 and the congregation of the forces preparing to overcome the partizans, undertaken with Visual effects supervisor Jonathan Privett and Hayden Jones and lead animator Andy Hargreaves. Also completed clean up and removal of all radio mics used on set for live singing undertaken by a team of compositors including Johnny Hicks, Brian Carbin and Dave Kiddie.


Cherrywood Cannon Short Film   VFX production for director Charlie Paul, producer Lucy Paul at Itch Film interpreting Ralph Steadman's much loved book and illustrations with VFX artist Marcus Wood (excerpt).

The Line: Saudi Arabia’s City of the Future in NEOM documentary investigates through the voices of architects, designers, urbanists and stakeholders what's is really the realities and intentions defining the future  linear vertical city.  The project is potentially a first step in revolutionising how architects organise future urban living on a time of over population and climate crisis. Carl Grinter and the ORKA and Three Wise Monkeys team completed animation, visual effects and graphic animation for director Ben Hume-Paton, exec producer Adel Karim & AR with Clare Burns, writer David Woods and editor Ben Unwin for OR Media.

Svengali feature film VFX production and post production for director John Hardwick, producers Martin Root & Rob Small for Universal with colourist Simone Grattarola, VFX artists David Kiddie & Brian Carbin.

28 Weeks Later feature film  directed by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo & featuring multiple blood splatter, zombie crowd replications, muzzle flashes & spatters, clearing of London streets of people & cars.

Unknown Feature film directed by Jaume Collett-Serra featuring VFX shots for epic van explosion sequence, car off bridge into water, epic car chase through streets, tram addition  and removal of car stunt rigs and safety bars &  lines.

Bohemian Rhapsody feature film VFX shots supplier  for close up performance shots retouching prosthetics, adding lighting interactions to stage shots for DNEG VFX Supervisor Paul Norris.

American Assassin feature film VFX shots supplier for previz & post viz helicopter shots, fight scenes in penthouse apartment requiring compositing of background, rig removals, blood splatters to DNEG.

Hewlett Packard "This Poker-Playing AI Could Change the World" content documentary film.

Pradaxa-Praxbind "John Knight Story" 2 minute documentary Atrial Fibrilation Pharma case study film directed by Joe Marcantonio and  produced by Carl Grinter involve involved researching and locating a subject and AF sufferer John Knight and filming his story.

 Hewlett Packard "Accelerating the Car of the Future" content documentary film

Janssen "Why Compromise" Pharma film directed by Laurie Castelli highlighting oncology downsides that can be overcome with refined drug prescription with CG & Flame compositing from Brian King.