Lumiere Studios
- Open roles
- 0
- Founded
- 2006
- Employees
- 1-10
- Offices
- 2
About Lumiere Studios
Lumiere Studios is a British animation, motion-graphics and visual-effects production house working across commercial, broadcast, experiential and technical content. Its work combines stylised 2D and 3D animation with simulation, compositing and design for screen-based campaigns, live activations and branded communications.
Animation, design and visual effects
The studio produces character animation, motion graphics, typography, broadcast idents, opening titles and product visualisation. Its visual-effects services include live-action integration, set extension, rotoscoping, clean-up and compositing, while its simulation work covers photorealistic liquids, smoke, splashes and particle-driven effects.
Lumiere also creates technical explainers, infographics, packshots and product teardowns for clients that need complex products or processes communicated visually. For experiential campaigns, it develops hologram assets, projection-mapped content and anamorphic 3D digital-out-of-home displays.
Selected work
Projects credited to the studio include:
- WhatsApp x Mercedes-AMG live anamorphic 3D content
- A promotional hologram activation for Netflix's 3 Body Problem
- A holographic projection for Paramount+'s Halo
- Main title sequences for European Poker Tour EPT 20, PokerStars PSPC and The Big Game
- Commercial animation and fluid-simulation work for Crown Paints, Dalda, Tanqueray and Fisherman's Friend
- A hologram installation for Samsung's Rio Olympic Games activity
- 3D visualisation for Crossrail and technical infographics for Vitavox
The studio's portfolio also includes documentary reconstruction visual effects, music-video animation, television commercials and global brand films. Its capabilities serve advertising and commercial production, television and streaming, live events, consumer technology, food and beverage, gaming and esports, and healthcare visualisation.
Lumiere Studios operates with a flexible distributed production approach, supporting projects that range from concise social content to high-impact broadcast and immersive installations.
More about Lumiere Studios
Founders and technical practice
- Duncan Burch and Gavin Lester founded Lumiere Studios and are listed as its directors and persons with significant control.
- The studio has collaborated with Next Limit Technologies for more than fifteen years, testing beta releases and pipeline tools for the RealFlow simulation engine. This relationship has informed its commercial liquid, splash and environmental-effects simulation work.
Production model
Lumiere Studios describes its working structure as a dual-office and remote-hybrid model, supported by a distributed crew in the UK and internationally.
Notable credits
16 creditsOffices
Current and former locations of Lumiere Studios
- Apsley House, Waterloo Lane, Chelmsford, Essex, CM1 1DB, United KingdomChelmsford, England, United Kingdom
Chelmsford office
HeadquartersMain operating studio and headquarters under the company's dual-office/work-from-home model.
- 51 Grenville Road, Braintree, Essex, CM7 2PP, England, United KingdomBraintree, England, United Kingdom
Braintree office
Registered corporate office.
- 11 Lower John Street, Soho, London, W1F 9TY, United KingdomLondon, England, United Kingdom
London office
Former officeFormer studio location used during the company's first decade.
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