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Recom Farmhouse

VFX & Post-Production
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Founded
2007
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11-50
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About Recom Farmhouse

Recom Farmhouse is a CGI and creative retouching studio producing still and moving imagery for advertising, editorial and commercial campaigns. Its direct creative and production operations are centred in London and New York, with additional client representation in Los Angeles. The studio combines photographic craft, digital image making and technical production support, with particular experience in automotive visualisation, luxury imagery and complex photographic integration.

Founded in London in 2007 by Christoph Bolten, the business began as Farmhouse Post and incorporated in 2008. A partnership with the German RECOM network in 2009 brought the Recom Farmhouse name and connected the studio with an international network of independently operated creative businesses. Its subsequent expansion to Brooklyn established a permanent North American production presence.

From concept to finished imagery

The studio's work spans full CGI production, photographic retouching, digital environments and compositing. It develops images entirely in 3D or integrates digital vehicles, products and environments with photographed subjects. Creative direction, concept exploration, look development and lighting development support projects from their early visual stages through final delivery.

For motion campaigns, Recom Farmhouse provides CGI animation, visual effects, motion compositing, colour grading and cinemagraphs. Its production support extends onto shoots through technical supervision, photographic consultation, HDR capture, material reference capture and on-set retouching. These capabilities connect photographic production with the requirements of subsequent digital work.

The company also develops production systems for campaigns requiring numerous formats, markets or product variations. These include automated image pipelines, asset management and interactive 3D product configurators, alongside preparation of imagery for print and digital out-of-home use.

Commercial and creative work

Automotive and mobility projects form a substantial part of the portfolio, complemented by work in fashion, luxury goods, consumer technology, retail and travel. Supported projects include British Airways' Windows and Reflections, Mercedes-Benz's Grow Up, BMW's 7 Series global launch imagery and Philips' CT scanner campaign. Its practice also extends into fine-art photography and publishing collaborations, applying its image-making expertise beyond commercial advertising.

More about Recom Farmhouse

Photographic methods and technology

  • The studio approaches CGI through analogue photographic characteristics, studying lens aberrations, film grain, light interaction and material physics.
  • Its capture infrastructure includes proprietary material-capture systems, custom lighting rigs and multi-spectral HDR devices for recording micro-textures and complex surface reflectance.
  • The reported software pipeline includes Maya, V-Ray, Houdini, Clarisse and Blender, with ACES colour management and GMG proofing. The research also describes TISAX-accredited environments for confidential pre-release vehicle work.

Collaborative production

The studio describes collaboration with autonomous RECOM sister studios as supporting round-the-clock production capacity while retaining a boutique, artist-driven operating approach.

Its MAD LOVE production platform showcases personal fine-art explorations developed with photographers, extending these collaborations beyond commissioned advertising and into photography publishing.

Campaign recognition

The British Airways campaigns produced with Uncommon Creative Studio received Cannes Lions, D&AD Pencils, One Show and Creative Circle recognition. These distinctions are attributed to the campaigns rather than presented as standalone awards to the studio.

Notable credits

12 credits
  • British Airways — Windows and Reflections
  • Mercedes-Benz — Grow Up
  • BMW — 7 Series Global Launch
  • Renault — Defy The Limits / Filante
  • Philips — CT Scanner Campaign
  • VOTH Foundation — Maserati Desert Series
  • Canoo — Midlander Electric Vehicle
  • McDonald's — OOH Advertising Series
  • Clemens Ascher — There Is No Release From The Brain Police
  • Nick Meek — Unreliable Memories
  • Alessandra Kila — A Partial History
  • Thomas Brown — Volume Of Light

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3 locations

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