Jellyfish Animation

Jellyfish animation studio started off as a two man band in 2001, but grew to become a multi award winning animation company that has employed over 150 artist across three different London studios. Jellyfish animations produce high end visual effects and animations for feature films, T.V, long term animations and motion graphics. They also operate and provide a post visualisation service to large companies and features.

As for their T.V team, they have been on the seen for over fifteen years and have produced such shows Black Mirror, Outlanders, Planet Dinosaur and Inside the Human Body. These T.V shows have earned them such awards as BAFTAs, EMMYs and VES.

There work on Black Mirror was an exciting challenge for them because of what they had to produce in the show. Automated drone insects was there project, this was where they had to create thousands of tiny robotic bees with a collective intelligence. They updated classic horror imagery and technology to realise their contemporary dystonia. Their goal was to create realistic moving bees but feature that where ultimately robotic like, this was achieved with in 3d softwares and compositing softwares in 4k resolution.

http://jellyfishpictures.co.uk/

On there site they show a VFX breakdown of how they created the bees and how they imported them into the real world. After watching the Black Mirror episode you get a real feel of how realistic the bees are portrayed, this shows how good the animators and vfx artists are within Jellyfish animation studios are. The bees really give the audience a sense of fear when they start to attack the other characters in the show, just how like a normal person would react when a bee is near them, however the team at Jellyfish upped the fear by making the bees robotic because the bees would explode when they have reached the target.