Produced by Plimsoll for Netflix, Animal follows the world’s most magnificent creatures, capturing never-before-seen moments from the heart-warming to the outrageous.
Moonraker provided title design and VFX work on the project including visualising an octopus’ point of view and dolphins using echolocation to hunt.
The Earthshot Prize: Repairing Our Planet produced by Silverback for the BBC is an inspiring landmark documentary series that gives us reason to hope for a brighter future on Planet Earth through the five “Earthshots” introduced by Prince William.
Moonraker were commissioned to produce some of the VFX for the series bringing the solutions to the Earthshots to life in vivid and seamless shots and sequences.
Produced by Plimsoll for Netflix, Animal follows the world’s most magnificent creatures, capturing never-before-seen moments from the heart-warming to the outrageous.
Moonraker worked on the title design and episodic maps for this remarkable story of Africa’s most iconic queens produced by Nutopia.
Jada Pinkett Smith narrates a groundbreaking docu-drama series exploring the untold stories of powerful women.
Season 1: Njinga, a warrior queen who defied expectations to lead her nation. Moonraker worked with Nutopia to develop a bold aesthetic for the series which was recently nominated for 12 Daytime Emmy Awards including the category for Main Titles & Graphic Design.
Broadcaster: Netflix
Production Company: Nutopia
Executive producer: Maxine Watson, Ben Goold
Line Producer: Kirsty Urquhart, Isobel Ricketts
Art Direction: Alex Dilworth
Motion Graphics: Sam Gardner, Matt Denne, Laurie Gibbs
Production: Alex Briggs, Lucie Stepney
2D Supervision: Olly Hagar
Moonraker worked on the title design and episodic maps for this remarkable story of Africa’s most iconic queens produced by Nutopia.
Moonraker crafted hyperlapse sequences for Queens, bringing the fascinating world of Leafcutter ants to life. We organised and sequenced thousands of images, transforming the ants’ frenetic leaf-trimming and carrying activity into dynamic and mesmerising scenes.
Broadcaster: National Geographic, Disney+ and Hulu
Narrator: Angela Bassett
Production Company: Wildstar Films
VFX Supervisors: Carl Chittenden, Olly Hagar
VFX Producers: Lucie Stepney and Ella Stewart
Spanning seven continents and filmed over three years, Incredible Animal Journeys looks at a planet on the move, putting viewers right into the action of epic migrations that animals make across our planet in search of food, shelter and a mate.
Moonraker produced series and episode titles, as well as creating stunning cut scenes visualising the migration patterns of animals as they travel across the globe.
Broadcaster: National Geographic, Disney+ and Hulu
Narrator: Jeremy Renner
Production Company: Plimsoll Productions
VFX Supervisor: Olly Hagar
VFX Producers: Ella Stewart, Alex Briggs
Houdini FX: Senzo Studio
Gladiators examines the killer secrets and ingenious tactics of nature’s toughest fighters, breaking down their battles moment by moment to reveal unseen bravery and amazing survival strategies.
Using a range of VFX techniques, Moonraker produced super slow-motion graphic effects and animated freeze frames for the four-part series, drastically slowing down time to capture up close and rarely seen details.
Broadcaster: Love Nature, Sky Nature
Directors: Amabel Adcock & Will Benson
Production Manager: Jolene Filmer
Executive Producers: Ruth Roberts & Martin Williams
Narrator: Sean Bean
Composer: Raphaelle Thibaut
Moonraker Creative Direction: Graham Stott
Motion Graphics Artists: Sam Gardner & Tim Hawkins
The Secrets to Civilisation’ delves into the forces that cause civilisations to rise and fall. In each episode the interplay between peoples, landscape and climate are explored, unraveling the complex web of forces shaping the destiny of societies.
Moonraker employed an array of visual techniques and cutting-edge CGI to craft captivating cut-scenes as well as thrilling bird’s-eye views, transporting audiences to ancient cities and environments from the distant past.
The series focuses on three major transformative periods in world history: the collapse of Bronze Age civilisations from 1200 BC, the rise of classical civilisation during the 1st millennium BC and the events leading up to the end of the Roman Empire in 476 AD.
Moonraker worked in close collaboration with a team of expert advisors to ensure historical accuracy and Secrets to Civilisation benefits greatly from the recent explosion in data about our planet’s past, offering a fresh perspective on the ancient world.
Broadcaster: History Channel
Production Company: Impossible Factual
VFX Supervisor: Simon Clarke, Graham Stott
VFX Producers: Scott Metcalfe, Hannah Lewis
Moonraker were honoured to work on Planet Earth III, a living global brand with an established visual identity over 15 years, it was a privilege to be entrusted again with evolving the narrative for the next step of the journey.
Titles
It was important for us to acknowledge and celebrate the visual grammar of the previous two Planet Earth title sequences, while introducing a small but significant evolution. Planet Earth III introduces our human footprint into the iconic end resolve for the first time.
There have been many advances in Moonraker’s Earth imaging capabilities since we worked on Planet Earth II back in 2016. We are constantly developing our imaging data in order to maintain unparalleled levels of detail. This enabled us to reveal and present our planet with a hugely significant uplift from the previous series.
Watch on BBC One or iPlayer, new episodes available every Sunday.
Presented by David Attenborough
Broadcaster: BBC
BBC Series Producers: Matt Brandon, Jonny Keeling
BBC Executive Producer: Michael Gunton
BBC Line Producer: Bronwen Thomas
Creative Director for Moonraker: Graham Stott
Technical Director for Moonraker: Tom Downes
Titles: Graham Stott, Alex Dilworth
Compositors: John Clayton, Ryan McGrath
Digital Matte Paint: Marek Solowiej
VFX Producer: Scott Metcalfe
VFX Line Producer: Rosanna Thorn–Lees
Moonraker created the graphic design and VFX content for this four part documentary series directed by Oscar winning director James Reed for Keo Films. It follows the fortunes of Chimpanzees in Ngogo, Uganda as they navigate complex social politics, family dynamics and dangerous territory disputes.
Moonraker worked closely with James to develop an elegant approach to captioning that would aid the storytelling within the films. Some rarely seen behaviour was captured on location, via mobile phone. This was processed through our VFX pipeline, enabling it to sit well alongside the bespoke footage shot with high resolution equipment.
Broadcaster: Netflix
Production Company: Keo Films
Director: James Reed
Series Producer: Calum Webster
Moonraker Creative Directon: Alex Dilworth
Motion Graphics Artist: Matt Denne
VFX: Olly Hagar, Łukasz Grzelak, John Clayton
Production: Lucie Stepney, Alex Briggs
