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Atomic Arts

VFX & Post-Production
Open roles
2
Founded
1994
Employees
201-500
Offices
4

About Atomic Arts

Atomic Arts is a visual effects, animation and virtual-production studio founded in London in 1994. Working across feature films, episodic television, streaming productions and commercials, it combines creative development, on-set supervision and post-production for filmmakers and production partners.

Its work spans the VFX process from concept design, storyboards, pre-visualization and technical visualization through compositing, paint and prep, matchmoving, modelling, texturing, rigging, lighting and rendering. The studio also creates CGI characters, creatures, digital doubles, environments, digital matte paintings, set extensions and complex effects simulations including water, fire, pyro, destruction and particle work.

Production approach

Atomic Arts supports projects from planning through delivery, with services including sequence planning, post-visualization and on-set VFX supervision. Its virtual-production capability includes real-time camera-performance rehearsal, rapid revisions to digital assets and sets, editorial playback, and digital pre-shooting passes.

The company also incorporates internally developed machine-learning tools into selected production tasks. Supported applications include continuity fixes, face replacement, digital-double generation, costume and wardrobe adjustments that preserve actor performances, and background replacement using models operated on local secure infrastructure.

Selected work

Its credited screen work includes:

  • The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
  • Stranger Things
  • Game of Thrones
  • True Detective: Night Country
  • Alien: Romulus
  • The Creator
  • Nosferatu
  • John Wick: Chapter 4
  • Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
  • The Batman
  • The Martian
  • Rocketman

Atomic Arts' production teams include visual-effects artists, supervisors, software developers and machine-learning engineers. The studio works with major film and streaming productions as well as independent cinema, bringing together traditional VFX craft, real-time workflows and technical pipeline development.

More about Atomic Arts

Founding and global expansion

Atomic Arts was founded by Brooke Lyndon-Stanford and Justin Cornish. In December 2016, former MPC Head of VFX Clwyd Edwards joined the founders to establish the company's Indian operations.

Connected production infrastructure

The company describes a unified, MPAA/TPN-approved secure technical infrastructure linking its UK, Indian and North American hubs. Its production pipeline uses Maya, Houdini, Nuke and Unreal Engine alongside internally developed artificial-intelligence agents and machine-learning models for tasks including continuity matching, digital-double creation, automated asset management, face replacement and wardrobe modification.

Notable credits

14 credits
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
  • Stranger Things
  • Game of Thrones
  • True Detective: Night Country
  • Alien: Romulus
  • The Creator
  • The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
  • Nosferatu
  • John Wick: Chapter 4
  • Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
  • The Batman
  • The Martian
  • Rocketman
  • Rise of the Planet of the Apes

Offices

Where Atomic Arts is based

4 locations
  • London office

    Headquarters
    14 Rathbone Place, Fitzrovia, London W1T 1HT, United KingdomLondon, England, United Kingdom

    Global corporate headquarters, creative leadership, client relations, and core UK VFX boutique.

  • Atomic Studios

    MFAR Silverline Tech Park, KEB Colony, Industrial Area, Hoodi, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560048, IndiaBengaluru, Karnataka, India
    About this office

    Atomic Studios 18,000 sq ft shooting and capture floor for real-time virtual production, Unreal Engine rehearsals, machine-learning engineering and camera-performance capture.

  • Mumbai office

    6C - Tech Web Centre, New Link Road, Anand Nagar, Jogeshwari West, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400102, IndiaMumbai, Maharashtra, India

    Main international VFX production facility for digital prep, compositing and 3D CGI; registered office of Atomicarts VFX Private Limited.

  • Los Angeles office

    854 5th Street, Santa Monica, CA 90403, USALos Angeles, California, United States

    North American production liaison and client-services branch serving the Los Angeles market.

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