BFX Recruitment Day

As a budding young creative, connecting with the industry is essential in setting up your future career path. 

During this event you will have the opportunity to speak with and hear from many of the UK’s leading companies about what they are looking for in a future employee, their company culture, and ask any queries you might have. 

Brenda Ximena Roldan-Romero, animator at Blue Zoo and alumna of Bournemouth Universities National Centre for Computer Animation, has said “My degree didn’t just prepare me in the knowledge of my work but also in being able to network, with team mates, lecturers, and making connections along the way during the BFX Festival and from visiting speakers.”

Recruiters attending the 2023 BFX Festival are detailed below. 

Thursday 23rd November – Hilton Bournemouth

Axis Studios

Axis is a multi award winning animation and VFX studio.

We’ve built a global reputation for creating commissioned and original entertainment experiences in Film, Television, Games and Theme Parks.

Axis Studios is building on our track record of creating narratively compelling work in animated entertainment & VFX, to originate and deliver groundbreaking content of the highest quality that engages audiences worldwide.

Playground Games

Playground Games was established in 2010, bringing together some of the most experienced and talented developers from the UK industry, with the vision to create genre-defining titles for a global audience. Since then, we’ve created four critically-acclaimed, award-winning hits; our Horizon games have garnered more than one hundred awards and have been played by many millions of fans.

Today, Playground has two world-class studios in Leamington Spa. In our original HQ, we continue to support and grow the huge, vibrant Horizon community. In our new studio on the other side of town, we are excited to be developing Fable, a new beginning for the legendary franchise.

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Friday 24th November – Talbot Campus

BlueBolt

BlueBolt is an award-winning, independent visual effects studio based in London. Our talented team has been crafting exceptional images for film and episodic productions since 2009 with credits including Robert Egger’s upcoming Nosferatu; Ridley Scott’s Napoleon; The Peripheral (Amazon) and The Last Kingdom (Carnival Films/ Netflix).

Blue Zoo Animation

Since starting the studio in London in 2000, Blue Zoo has grown to become one of the leading animation studios in the UK. Our ethos is to build a positive workplace environment which is supportive of all talent and celebrates difference. We’re incredibly proud that Blue Zoo is the first major animation studio in the world to receive B Corporation certification, using the power of animation for good. We are also really happy to be a “Broadcast Best Places to work in TV” workplace several years in a row, voted on by our staff.

Black Kite

Black Kite Studios is an independent creative studio offering world class visual effects and design. We are a talent first technology inspired studio.

Our community is home to a collective of world-class talent. A group of artists, creators designers, producers and technologists that have come together to make exceptional artistic visual content.

Dimension Studio

Dimension is a leader in virtual production and immersive storytelling, specialising in the creation of high quality virtual realities, virtual humans and visualisation. We are transforming filmmaking and pioneering immersive entertainment.

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Industrial Light & Magic
London ACM Siggraph Ltd

London ACM SIGGRAPH is a local non-profit, volunteer organization run and made up of local professionals. We host events for the Computer Graphics community in London, reach out to other communities and aim to promote contact and information exchange.

Other Skies

Other Skies is a Solent University student start-up on the journey to becoming Maritime’s Go-To 3D Studio.

Outpost VFX

Outpost VFX was founded with a vision to build a people-first culture where everyone feels valued, respected and empowered to create stunning visual effects. Since opening our first studio ten years ago, we’ve grown to be a vibrant global team with bases in Montreal, Mumbai, Bournemouth and London. Our latest projects include Silo, Foundation Season 2, Wheel of Time Season 2, The Hunger Games : Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

Playground Games

Playground Games was established in 2010, bringing together some of the most experienced and talented developers from the UK industry, with the vision to create genre-defining titles for a global audience. Since then, we’ve created four critically-acclaimed, award-winning hits; our Horizon games have garnered more than one hundred awards and have been played by many millions of fans.

Today, Playground has two world-class studios in Leamington Spa. In our original HQ, we continue to support and grow the huge, vibrant Horizon community. In our new studio on the other side of town, we are excited to be developing Fable, a new beginning for the legendary franchise.

Space Ape Games

We’re Space Ape, and we create mobile games that delight the world.  

We started in 2012 with an idea: the best way to make games is to give people the space to pursue their passions. The idea worked. So far, we’ve released seven globally successful titles, tens of millions of people have played our games, and we’ve partnered with Supercell.

Union VFX

Union is an independent visual-effects facility founded in 2008 by Adam Gascoyne and Tim Caplan to provide a creative service for feature film and television productions.

Headquartered in Soho, London with a sister studio in Montréal, Quebec, Union is founded on a culture of originality, innovation and collaboration. Exceptional supervisors, producers and artists share their experience and passion for filmmaking and storytelling to produce imaginative solutions, quick turnarounds and stunning results.

The studio’s regular clients number some of the world’s top filmmakers, who return to Union time and again as a trusted technical partner and creative ally. The team works closely with clients throughout every phase of the creative process, from VFX design and previs to CG animation, digital makeup effects – gore is a particular Union talent – compositing and matte painting. Core specialties include CG environment work and invisible effects.

Union is proud to have been the sole visual effects studio behind many prestigious film projects, including Three Billboards Outside, Ebbing Missouri, Florence Foster Jenkins, T2: Trainspotting, 127 Hours, Black Sea, The Two Popes, Radioactive, The Dig, Stan & Ollie, Mamma Mia! Here we go again, The Gentlemen, Empire of Light and The Banshees of Inesirin.

Episodic projects include Moon Knight, Trust, The Third Day, The Irregulars, Pistol, The Undoing, Happy!, The Crown, Outlander, For All Mankind, The Wheel of Time and The Sandman.

A significant highlight on the Union roster saw the company joining Danny Boyle’s creative team to deliver the short films for the London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony.

As part of Access: VFX, the team are passionate about promoting diversity and inclusion in the VFX industry.

Union is also a member of UK Screen, the trade association that represents our industry.

Union is TPN audited and fully set up to work remotely.

Untold Studios

We are a BAFTA, EMMY and GRAMMY nominated studio, shaping culture through Music, TV and Advertising. We develop original programming, produce music and advertising content and craft world-class VFX, all enabled by next-generation technology.