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Moonraker produced science-led visual effects for the BBC’s five-part natural history series, Evolution.
The new landmark series tracks the 4.2 Billion year evolutionary history of specific modern animals. It was a privilege and a pleasure to collaborate once again with BBC Studios on this spiritual follow up to the hugely successful Earth.
79 minutes of photoreal VFXComprising of 242 different shotsWith over 20 different creatures brought to lifeAnd a total of 118,629 individual CGI frames
The scientific research underpinning Evolution involved collaborating more than 600 scientists worldwide, contributing expertise to the storytelling, scripts and visual effects
Broadcaster: BBC Studios Science Unit, NOVAPresenter: Chris PackhamCreative Director for Moonraker: Graham StottVFX Supervisor: Graham StottVFX Producer: Hannah LewisVFX Line Producer: Rosanna Thorn-LeesCompositors: Ryan McGrath, Phil Wray, Amy Reid, Evgeny Shpilivoi,
John Clayton, Olly Hagar3d Artists: Ryan Harrington, Danny Price, Callum Wain, Francois Pons,
Paul Cousins, Nicolas Evain, Rebecca Ferguson, Tom CowlishawTitles: Alex DilworthDesign: Stu Humphrey, Sam Gardner, Millie LisneyStoryboard: Elizabeth Schuh
Executive Producer for BBC: Rob Liddell, Andrew CohenSeries Producer for BBC: Alice Jones
VFX Producer for BBC: Jay Balamurugan
Episode Directors: Fleur Bone, Laura Mulholland, Ross Kirby,
Tom Hewitson, Clementine Cheetham
Moonraker created the title sequence for “Destination World Cup 2026,” a six-episode deep dive into a career-defining chapter for footballers Weston McKennie, Marc Cucurella, and Harry Wilson.
Moonraker VFX created the explainer maps for the BBC series Tiger Island.
Tiger Island follows a team of film-makers and big cat experts in Nepal, beginning an expedition following two tiger mothers and their cubs, on an extraordinary island full of potential dangers. They’re equipped with the latest drone technology, stabilised zoom lenses and remotely triggered cameras; allowing them to reveal new insights into tigers’ previously hidden lives.
Broadcaster: BBC
Executive Producer: Roger Webb
Series Producer: Matthew Wright
BBC Production Manager: Helen Wallbank
Production: Alex Briggs
VFX Supervisors: Olly Hagar, Graham Stott
Technical Director: Tom Downes
VFX Compositor: Amy Reid
Graphic Design: Alex Dilworth, Millie Lisney
Moonraker created the title sequence for “Destination World Cup 2026,” a six-episode deep dive into a career-defining chapter for footballers Weston McKennie, Marc Cucurella, and Harry Wilson.
Filmed over an unprecedented five years, Kingdom demanded a visual language that could match its “Game of Thrones” style drama and epic scale. Our team was responsible for creating the series titles and map graphics of the Luangwa National Park’s landscape.
To help the audience understand and navigate the complex, shifting territories of the Nsefu sector, we developed a suite of bespoke map graphics, which acted as storytelling tools designed to illustrate the constant flow of territorial movement as well as illustrating the seasonal changes and their impact on the four families.
It was a blast collaborating with Wildstar Films on Underdogs. Narrated by Ryan Reynolds this hilariously anarchic series follows the heroic underdogs of the natural world, misfits only Mother Nature could love.
Underdogs celebrates these unconventional characters revealing their superpowers from bold hygiene choices, unsavory courtship rituals, devious camouflage techniques and suspect parenting skills.
Moonraker provided a diverse sweep of graphic design and traditional VFX solutions, working across the series on numerous key sequences including the titles and brand identity.
Broadcaster: National Geographic
Production Company: Wildstar Films
Directors: Tom Stephens, Gary Smith, Lucy Wells, Kim Bartholomew
Series Producers: Dave Denny, Rachael Kinley
Narrated by: Ryan Reynolds
Executive Producer: Dan Rees
Production Manager: Vic Ribeck
Executive VFX Producer: Scott Metcalfe
Creative Director: Alex Dilworth
Illustration: David Whittle
2D Supervisors: Olly Hagar, Carl Chittenden
VFX Producer: Ella Askew
Junior VFX Production Coordinator: Mike Clarke
Moonraker created the title sequence for “Destination World Cup 2026,” a six-episode deep dive into a career-defining chapter for footballers Weston McKennie, Marc Cucurella, and Harry Wilson.
Filmed over an unprecedented five years, Kingdom demanded a visual language that could match its “Game of Thrones” style drama and epic scale. Our team was responsible for creating the series titles and map graphics of the Luangwa National Park’s landscape.
To help the audience understand and navigate the complex, shifting territories of the Nsefu sector, we developed a suite of bespoke map graphics, which acted as storytelling tools designed to illustrate the constant flow of territorial movement as well as illustrating the seasonal changes and their impact on the four families.
“My lifetime has coincided with the great age of ocean discovery. Over the last hundred years, scientists and explorers have revealed remarkable new species, epic migrations and dazzling, complex ecosystems beyond anything I could have imagined as a young man. In this film, we share some of those wonderful discoveries, uncover why our ocean is in such poor health, and, perhaps most importantly, show how it can be restored to health. This could be the moment of change. Nearly every country on Earth has just agreed, on paper, to achieve this bare minimum and protect a third of the ocean. Together, we now face the challenge of making it happen.”
– Sir David Attenborough
The powerful documentary film from Silverback Films and Open Planet Studios was released as a global cinema event from May 8 (2025), coinciding with David Attenborough’s 99th birthday. The film will be available globally on National Geographic, Disney+ and Hulu from June 8.
