Hollywood, without doubt, dominates the global film market. It makes the most expensive, most profitable and most seen films. So it’s easy to forget that a lot of Hollywood productions use technical expertise from the UK.
This ranges from the regular cast and crew; the actors and cinematographers and script writers and editors and sound recordists, etc through to the effects departments.
When you think of movie visual effects you may assume they’re all done in the US. You may have heard of companies like Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), started by George Lucas, creator of Star Wars, or Digital Domain, started by James Cameron, director of Terminator and Avatar.
What you probably don’t realise is that a lot of effects work is done in the UK too, because we’re a big player in the effects market (and the video games market).
The Guardian has an interesting article discussing the work done by some of Bournemouth University’s graduates who worked on Avatar.
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