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7 May 2025

BlueBolt delivers Victorian London environments for A Thousand Blows

Led by VFX Supervisor Richard Frazer, BlueBolt delivered 125 VFX shots for the first season of the Disney Original series.

15 April 2025

BlueBolt strengthens tech team

Tom Mawby has been promoted to CTO, Ben Starkey to Head of Systems and Priam Sampaio has joined the studio as Head of Pipeline.

25 March 2025

BlueBolt craft haunting VFX for Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu

The work was led by overall VFX Supervisor Angela Barson and BlueBolt VFX Supervisor David Scott.

13 December 2023

BlueBolt does battle in Toulon and Paris for Ridley Scott’s Napoleon

Led by VFX Supervisor Henry Badgett, BlueBolt delivered 126 VFX shots to support Ridley Scott’s epic depiction of the rise and fall of Napoleon Bonaparte.

14 September 2023

BlueBolt brings VFX to the adventures of The Great season 3

As the lead VFX studio, BlueBolt has delivered work on all three series of MRC/Hulu’s hit satirical comedy drama show.

11 July 2023

Spotlight on…BlueBolt: VFX journey through the years

This month, we interviewed Richard Frazer, VFX Supervisor, and Tracy McCreary, Managing Director of BlueBolt, to learn more about their VFX journey on The Last Kingdom and their studio's evolution.

21 June 2023

BlueBolt delivers fierce VFX for feature-length finale of The Last Kingdom

The studio created the VFX for all five preceding seasons of the Netflix series, delivering more than 3500 shots.

27 April 2023

BlueBolt expands senior management team

The London-based VFX studio welcomes Tracy McCreary, Henry Badgett and Nic Birmingham onto its Board of Directors.

25 January 2023

BlueBolt delivers futuristic VFX for Amazon’s sci-fi series The Peripheral

Vast Neoclassical sculptures, a transformed London cityscape and swarms of bees are just some of the incredible visuals put together by the team.

25 May 2021

BlueBolt strengthen team with promotion of Lucy Tait to Finance Director

The award-winning visual effects studio BlueBolt has announced the internal promotion of Lucy Tait, to the position of Finance Director.

28 April 2021

Bluebolt creates Seamless VFX for The Irregulars

BlueBolt announces their involvement in the new Drama Republic supernatural crime series, The Irregulars, streaming on Netflix from March 26.

6 April 2021

BlueBolt Promote Tracy McCreary to Managing Director

BlueBolt announces the internal promotion of Tracy McCreary from Executive Producer to Managing Director.

7 January 2021

BlueBolt Deliver Majestic VFX for ‘The Great’ series

The award winning facility delivers over 300 shots for the series, created by The Favourite co-writer, Tony McNamara and produced by MRC Television for Hulu.

19 February 2020

BLUEBOLT bring the drama with VFX FOR SKY’S COBRA

The Soho-based VFX studio BlueBolt was sole visual effects vendor for the new Sky original production, COBRA.

15 January 2019

BlueBolt appoints Jonathan Barson as Chief Operating Officer

London based VFX specialist BlueBolt expands its management team with the addition of Jonathan Barson to a newly created role of Chief Operating Officer.

10 December 2018

BlueBolt founders win WFTV Barclays Award for Business

Lucy Ainsworth-Taylor and Angela Barson have won the 2018 Barclays Business Award at this year’s Women in Film and TV awards at the London Hilton Park Lane. This prestigious award is given to visionary females whose business acumen and financial results impressed the judging panel.