Last week saw the launch of Amazing Spectacles over at the Prime Focus HQ on Dean Street. The building looked pretty amazing (geddit) daubed with specially crafted visuals from the AS team.

For a full run down on the party, including photos, head on over to Prime Focus’ blog (or read our post below).

Amazing Spectacles make something magical appear from absolutely nothing (as they say: “a bit like Siegfried and Roy really, only without the fake tans and penchant for white tigers”), and we’ve just made their new website magically appear from our studio at www.amazingspectacles.com

They may be a brand new offering, but the team behind this animation studio are anything but rookies. Between them, their directors have worked on everything from the music video of Moby’s “Why does my heart feel so bad” to the official London 2012 Olympic bid.

Backed by one of the largest Visual Entertainment Services Groups in the world, Prime Focus we’re certain that Amazing Spectacles will continue to produce great things for many years to come.

Whoop whoop!

We’ve been working with the UK team at Prime Focus for the last 5 months developing the digital side of their global brand consolidation launch. We’ve just put the first phase live at www.primefocusworld.com.

We built in Drupal, utilising buckets of Flash and AJAX. There are gigs of slick video content to browse featuring everything from VFX for Quantum of Solace, Dragonball: Evolutions, Harry Potter and Superman Returns to Kasabian & U2 pop promos and car ads. If you’re short on time check out the house showreel, it sums up their prolific output succinctly.

At a packed Odeon in Leicester Square last night, founder Namit Malhotra announced the transformation of its global facilities into a single global company under a new Prime Focus brand. This includes the consolidation of Prime Focus London, blue and Machine (UK), Post Logic and Frantic Films VFX (USA) and Prime Focus Group in India. This enables the Prime Focus ‘global digital pipeline’ by seamlessly interconnecting the 15 Prime Focus offices around the world.

London was chosen for the first launch event, the rebrand will continue to be unveiled through launch events in Los Angeles and Mumbai. Should be noted that certain members of the Catch team are still recovering from the one last night!

We continue to work with Prime Focus on a number of other equally exciting projects based around their new launch – watch this space.

We’re proud to announce that Prime Focus (@prime_focus), one of the largest end-to-end post production services companies in the world, has chosen Catch as their digital partner.

Having worked on everything from Kasabian & U2 pop promos to high-end commercials, and films including Quantum of Solace, Dragonball: Evolutions, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix and Superman Returns amongst many others, Prime Focus have won multiple awards for their work.

With offices in India, USA and Europe the publically listed Prime Focus are a one stop service provider for producers of advertising, broadcast and feature films.

So to say we’re excited to be starting work with their team in London on a large top-secret digital project is something of an understatement.

Can’t say any more that this I’m afraid… watch this space.