Atomic Arts/Visual Effects / The Escapist

Atomic has created the visual effects on many interesting projects. We have experience working on feature films, shorts and of course tv drama, documentaries and television commercials. We are used to working with directors and helping to make their ideas come alive on screen. Using dynamic 3d animatics and carefull shot planning along with on-set shot supervision we can seemlessly blend live action and CGI. Atomic is proud to count many US channels, all the UK terrestrial channels, and many UK advertising agencies amongst an ever increasing list of its satified clients.

The Escapist

The Escapist, a feature film directed by Rupert Wyatt, starring Brain Cox, Joseph Fiennes, Seu George, Damian Lewis and Liam Cunningham, premiered to great acclaim at Sundance film festival in January 2008. The director, and a long term collaborator with Atomic, Rupert Wyatt, approached us very early on. From the start we worked closely with him pre-visualising scenes, for example building the entire prison location in CG so that he could test camera moves, thus saving a great amount of expensive shooting time.

We then on-set supervised all the complex shots, both on location in Ireland and underneath London, and then back in the studio. The shots were transferred to digital and sent to Atomic Arts where the 3d and matte layers were created virtually. Finally all compositing was done and the finished work transferred back to film.

In total Atomic Arts completed over 100 effects shots, including recreation of entire virtual sets, addition of fire & rain, and countless additions, replacements and fixes. The film premiered in the UK on 20th June 2008. You can see the trailer if you click here.