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Joint Head of CG for Advertising, TV & Immersive at Framestore and 'Escapee'

Grant’s career commenced upon completion of a Computer Animation Degree at Swansea Metropolitan University. He then trained with Escape Studios, gaining a placement at The Mill in 2006.

He joined Framestore in 2009 as a Senior Technical Director specialising in creature asset build, and has played a huge role in some of Framestore's biggest projects, including the recreation of Audrey Hepburn for Galaxy/Dove, the orcs in Coca-Cola Siege, and VES- and BAFTA- nominated Black Mirror episode Playtest.

After a nine-month stint in Film, Grant returned to Advertising to create Sheldon the Snail for Freesat – earning him his first of many VES nominations. Grant went on to become senior CG Art Director in 2015, a role in which he led the design of characters and environments across London’s Integrated Advertising CG work, later stepping into the role of VFX Supervisor on Sainsbury’s Mog’s Christmas Calamity. Now Joint Head of CG, Grant is involved in a wealth of work across Framestore’s Advertising division, ensuring the highest standards of creature and character design are upheld.

Lauren is the Senior Resourcer at Blue Zoo and recruits for several departments across the studio, working closely with hiring managers to identify the most suitable and awesome talent to join them. She also leads on presenting at virtual recruitment events, provides the team with regular recruitment statistics, and continues to implement their hiring system.

Nikola is a Generalist 3D Artist with 10 years of versatile experience. He started off in higher education as an engineer but pivoted to interactive media after a couple of years. Nikola's professional baby-steps were making models, animations and VFX for music videos and movies. After that, he ventured into architectural and product visualization for some time, but then transitioned into graphics and web design. He was making interactive art installations in parallel, for most of the time, but found his happy place eventually - as a game artist at Nordeus.

Apart from his day job, Nikola invests a lot of time in personal projects and collaborations with companies like Substance, SideFX, Adobe, Nvidia...

The Internet and communities help him grow every day so he tends to give back as well. Nikola is a Member of the International Board of Advisors at the View Conference and a regular speaker at various others.