Franklin is a Apple limited TV series (8 episodes) chronicling Benjamin Franklin’s journey to France to lobby the French government to support the American bid for independence.

The story explores one of the greatest gambles of Franklin’s career, played by Michael Douglas, as he outmaneuvers British spies and French informers all while engineering the Franco-American alliance of 1778.

The work One Of Us completed included lots of DMP/Environments across several sequences featuring Brittany coast and Le Havre Harbour.

The studio also created a variety of CG animals including horses as well as 14 CG stag shots. There were other sequences where we rendered and composited CG crowds and 2D crowd enhancements. And lastly, were the many in camera candles that needed replacing and plate cleanups!

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Director Tim Van Patten on Shooting and Posting Apple TV+’s Franklin

“What we did was stuff we do all the time, and One of Us did it so beautifully. You really feel it’s all seamless, which is always the goal, and they delivered. Everybody delivered — the special effects, the visual effects, even the title sequence, all of that.”

Credits

Studio
Apple Studios
Director
Timothy Van Patten
Visual Effects Supervisor
Ludovic Fregé
Visual Effects Producer
Stephanie Dubois
Visual Effects Line Producer
Céline Marsais
Visual Effects Production Coordinators
Flora Pommellet-Papadakis, Samuele Pasquali
CG Supervisors
Alban Orlhiac, Mark Robinson
2D Supervisor
Kazia Bouladoux
Animation Supervisor
Seng Lau