The original building was a flame-retardant fabric workshop, providing fire protection for the airline industry. The “floating” conference room, surrounded by glass Updated modernism The spaciousness of the facility opens to an open horizon. The firm had designed Framestore’s previous spaces in New York’s SoHo district. The base around the “pit”ĭHD Architecture + Design joined forces with RAC Design Build to transform an aerospace workshop into a post-production facility.
We asked them to kick off our “cribs” series highlighting cool places to work in our industry. More recently, they have made the move into virtual reality. This branch of the company is mainly focused on advertising production and post. The facility in Culver City opened in May, 2013. This is a photographic peek inside the crib that is Framestore, a visual effects and post-production house with offices in London, Montreal, New York and this one, in the Culver City area of Los Angeles.
Be sure to check out our #MadeInFrame series premiere where we look at another VFX darling, Ingenuity Studios (who did the work on another 2018 Oscar-winning film, Get Out.) We’re honored to have been given the opportunity to go in and give our readers a peek inside one of Hollywood’s powerhouse VFX houses. Since the time we first published this back in August of 2016, Framestore’s VFX supervisor Rich Hoover won the 2018 Oscar for Blade Runner: 2049.
