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REALTIME Animation Showreel

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As the trusted partner for world-renowned games companies for over 20 years, we have the experience, expertise and passion to deliver engaging and immersive trailers for upcoming releases.

With specialist creative teams working with the latest CGI tools, we create cutting-edge visual communications that captivate audiences, engage viewers and inspire belief. Whether it’s an online marketing trailer or TV commercial, we’ll create fantastic digital worlds that deliver tangible real life results. REALTIME Animation Showreel

Through individual and team expertise, our highly adaptive production pipelines add efficiency, quality and transparency to our creative processes.

With seamless visual effects, cutting edge in-game cinematics and compelling storytelling, we help immerse gamers in fantastical digital worlds. Our cutting-edge visuals and engaging storytelling can set moods, create emotional connections and drive a storyline forward – all while helping to bring digital worlds to life. This can be combined with character design, helping to inspire belief further and turn players into fans.

As well as pre-rendered footage, we also deliver in-engine, live action and 2.5D solutions; all created by the same highly skilled team. Our highly adaptive production pipelines ensure an efficient, high quality and transparent creative process. REALTIME Animation Showreel

Realtime are CGI, animation and VFX specialists, with a focus on gaming, automotive and broadcast. We go the extra mile to create cutting edge content capable of transporting the viewer. Whether we are immersing gamers in distant alien worlds or placing buyers in the driving seat of their perfect car, we don’t just make visuals, we craft belief.

 

War of the Worlds

War of the Worlds VFX

Our VFX and CGI Supervisors and our team of Lead Art Directors, Concept, Environment and Animation Directors are able to board a project at any stage. Starting with storyboards and concepts for characters and environments, through to developing character sculpts, animation tests and previs.

We can also support productions with on-set shoot Supervision and postvis work, alongside CGI asset creation, compositing and FX work. War of the Worlds VFX

Angie Wills VFX Producer on Year Million said: “Realtime are a great team of folk to work with. They got the brief straight off and worked a targeted and quick turnaround for the tight episode deliveries necessary. Communication was clear and precise. On a multi-vendor show, where we were dealing with hundreds of shots in a very compressed time frame that’s a must on top of delivering some top-notch shots! Look forward to working with them again soon.”

Building on 23 years of experience in CGI, VFX and animation production for the Automotive and Games sector has helped Realtime build an efficient Visual Effects pipeline. We are now utilising the VFX expertise we have gained in the games and automotive sectors in the television and film industries. War of the Worlds VFX

With two UK studios, Realtime are able to tackle large scale episodic TV series or feature films. We have delivered series for the BBC, National Geographic and UKTV and are currently working on episodic series for Sky, BBC America and HBO.

 

Year Million

VFX for TV/Broadcast

It was great to work with Stephen Coren (VFX Supervisor), Angie Wills (VFX Producer) and the team at Radical. They were very swift with feedback and gave great direction to turn the shots around quickly. We’re looking forward to working with them (hopefully) in the near future! VFX for TV/Broadcast 

“Realtime are a great team of folk to work with. They got the brief straight off and worked a targeted and quick turnaround for the tight episode deliveries necessary. Communication was clear and precise. On a multi-vendor show, where we were dealing with hundreds of shots in a very compressed time frame that’s a must on top of delivering some top-notch shots! Look forward to working with them again soon.” Angie Wills – VFX Producer

We were commissioned by Radical Media to create a range of VFX shots for their Production ‘Year Million’, a six-part documentary for National Geographic Television. The series explores humanity’s potential journey into the coming millennia and into the Universes that exist beyond our own

We produced a wide variety of shots of varying levels of complexity, all delivered at 3K. The team quickly got to grips with the brief which explored future technologies and mans’ exploration beyond Planet Earth.

Radical were able to supply us plates ready to work with for the majority of the shots, which helped speed up the process.  However, we did need to create alien creatures and a galaxy from scratch – which we very much enjoyed! VFX for TV/Broadcast

The team modelled and animated the ‘programable matter ‘shots creating a flexible and intelligent material that could, in theory, mould and adapt itself to deal with the changing needs of Planet Earths environment. We also created universe and worm hole sequences, as well as animating fictional life forms on distant planets.

Mummies Alive

Full CG Characters

A little look behind the scenes look at the recent work we did for the six part documentary series “Mummies Alive”.

Tony Prosser explains the influence tax breaks for the broadcast sector have had on the work we’re doing at our Manchester-based studio.

Realtime worked with leading UK production company Impossible Factual and Canadian company Saloon Media – on the ambitious 6 x 1 hour series Mummies Alive, produced for UKTV, Smithsonian Channel and History Channel.

Working with Impossible’s creative team and animation director Christian Johnson, Realtime’s in-house artists created all the detailed historical reconstruction sequences for the series, using animation to depict everything from the Wild West and Iron Age Ireland to the Incan Empire. Full CG Characters

Realtime were tasked with developing a series of different characters within tight time constraints, using a number of software solutions including Max, V-Ray, Hair farm, Krakatowa, Ray fire, Particle flow, FumeFX and Houdini – all part of Realtime’s production pipeline. We performed a motion capture session for each episode at Europe’s largest motion capture studio, Audiomotion in Oxford. Full CG Characters

Working with 3D scan experts Ten-24, who used a custom built rig incorporating 100 DSLR cameras to scan real faces, the process captured character meshes and texture information to be edited in house. Realtime were then able to apply sub-surface shaders to create an accurate representation of skin, and the textures for each character. Taking the animation for this broadcast project to the next level, Realtime’s use of cutting edge technology allowed it to create a truly emotional connection with the audience.

Our VFX and CGI Supervisors and our team of Lead Art Directors, Concept, Environment and Animation Directors are able to board a project at any stage. Starting with storyboards and concepts for characters and environments, through to developing character sculpts, animation tests and previs. Full CG Characters

We can also support productions with on-set shoot Supervision and postvis work, alongside CGI asset creation, compositing and FX work.

 

Doors Productions

VFX for Film REALTIME

REALTIME were approached by Kuwait based Doors productions to create a short sequence for their film based on the life of Dr. Saleh Alojairy. With live action plates supplied by Doors Productions, REALTIME created a short VFX sequence that showed the camera passing through space as it dramatically re-enters the earth’s atmosphere before showing a desert sandstorm. All VFX were created by our in-house team using Houdini and AFX.

VFX for Film REALTIME

Our VFX and CGI Supervisors and our team of Lead Art Directors, Concept, Environment and Animation Directors are able to board a project at any stage. Starting with storyboards and concepts for characters and environments, through to developing character sculpts, animation tests and previs.

We can also support productions with on-set shoot Supervision and postvis work, alongside CGI asset creation, compositing and FX work.

Angie Wills VFX Producer on Year Million said: “Realtime are a great team of folk to work with. They got the brief straight off and worked a targeted and quick turnaround for the tight episode deliveries necessary. Communication was clear and precise. On a multi-vendor show, where we were dealing with hundreds of shots in a very compressed time frame that’s a must on top of delivering some top-notch shots! Look forward to working with them again soon.”

Building on 23 years of experience in CGI, VFX and animation production for the Automotive and Games sector has helped Realtime build an efficient Visual Effects pipeline. We are now utilising the VFX expertise we have gained in the games and automotive sectors in the television and film industries.

With two UK studios, Realtime are able to tackle large scale episodic TV series or feature films. We have delivered series for the BBC, National Geographic and UKTV and are currently working on episodic series for Sky, BBC America and HBO.