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.

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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