For SHEBA® Hope Reef Framestore Pictures' Director, Murray Butler delivered a visual underwater masterpiece with a hard-hitting environmental message.

The 90-second film follows the journey of a tropical Chromis fish from tragedy to hope as it weaves through an area of the Indo-Pacific, passing over a devastated coral reef and on towards a healthy reef bed, which serves as a bittersweet reminder of what’s at stake.

The biggest challenge that the team faced was being able to display and render all the geometry including the huge amount of polygons, points and assets. In one shot alone the team had over eight million individual assets.

So - are you ready to play Is it Fake?

Win or lose, we hope you are impressed by the work of many different artists and skills bringing these scenes to life. From modellers, riggers, groom, lighting, simulations, look dev and animators to compositors, producers, creature FX, environment, paint & roto artists and many others collaborating with other film crafts to realise a director’s vision.

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