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The Twilight Saga: Bella’s Journey

The Twilight Saga: Bella’s Journey is a dark ride that (as the name suggests) attempts to tell the take in the entire story of the Twilight Saga franchise. The ride is in Lionsgate Entertainment World, in Zhuhai, China. All of the ride’s visual and audio media was directed by Gavin, alongside the creative team at Thinkwell group.

Featuring animatronics, rich scenic design and perspective warped media screens, guests take on the role of Bella Swan, and experience her emotional journey throughout the Twilight Saga. From falling in love to a huge vampire vampire and tumbling down an icy mountain.

The team at Framestore built digital doubles of the movie characters and used a blend of hand animation and motion capture to bring them to life. We commissioned a full cinematic score for the ride which was performed by a one hundred piece orchestra, and we also directed all of the sound design and voice over performance.

The Twilight Saga: Midnight Ride

Gavin directed this VR motorbike ride for Lionsgate Entertainment world in Zhuhai, China, working alongside Thinkwell Group. The ride is loosely based on the events of Twilight: Eclipse, which has the riders teaming up with Jacob Black, as they race through the forest with the black pack of werewolves drawing out the evil newborn vampire army.

The ride won a Thea award for outstanding achievement and was one of the first full scale high throughput VR attraction in the world which gives riders agency of thier actions. Riders have full control of thier bikes, being able to seek out different paths through the forest, discovering hidden jumps and tunnels, and choose how to avoid the attacking vampires.

Artists and developers across Framestore’s London, New York and Montreal studies were involved in this major project.

Pearl Quest

Our first theme park ride! Jason and I creative directed this ride at Framestore for Wanda Group.

The ride is in Qingdao, China and is based on an ancient legend about a young god called Nezha and his battle with the 4 dragons of the oceans.

It was a 3 year project, during which the team at Framestore designed all of the characters and environments, wrote the script, created many storyboards and pre-vis iterations, commissioned the original musical score and sound effects, and created all of the animation and VFX.

More information here: https://www.framestore.com/work/wanda-group

The Time Portal

This was a surprise project… Some people came to our time machine show in our garage all those years ago, years later they work at an agency and want to replicate the show for a larger audience to promote Stella Artois’ sponsorship of the the Wimbledon tournament. So they asked us if we could that.

We said sure (but this time got to collaborate with the immersive theater company Les Enfants Terribles to make this happen). It was quite a huge task to plan our an immersive experience that runs across multiple builds on multiple floors with timed audiences that think they are the only group in the show. It was all themed around a whimsical version of old London, with a blend of real and fiction characters including Jack the Ripper, Scrooge, Faggin, Queen Victoria and a whole host of circus performers, street traders and mischievous young scamps.