Watchmen VFX Breakdown by Framestore

Watchmen VFX Breakdown by Framestore

Calling on its vast experience with comic book and effects-driven work, Framestore is thrilled to have worked with HBO to deliver VFX for Watchmen, the series created by Damon Lindeloff.

Framestore was tasked with the creation of a specific super-power effects for the season finale and a new manifestation of the seminal cobalt creator Dr. Manhattan. The team explored and developed the different component parts of the energy effects to visualise the scene.

Framestore’s internal art department undertook the initial visual development for the sequence, of which Martin Macrae, Head of Art Department at Framestore said: ‘There are visuals of Doctor Manhattan’s powers all the way through the Watchmen novel and it’s a character that’s always associated with a blue glow of nuclear energy. We wanted to keep that canonical underlying motif but design something that feels fresh and engaging in this new embodiment of the character.’ ​

Source: Framestore

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