Painting Practice

Award winning design studio for film, tv, commercials

About

Painting Practice is an award winning studio specialising in design and worldbuilding for film and television. For over15 years, we have built a hub of creativity and original thinking with a star team of artists. Our approach to design is all-immersive, nimble and unique... creative and technical in equal parts. Notable film and television projects include The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, Seasons 1 - 4 of BLACK MIRROR, Beauty & The Beast, Mr Selfridge, Gravity, Jungle Book, Maleficent, Halo, His Dark Materials. Commercials and animated advertisements such as NIKE: The Last Game, Coca-Cola, Great Western Railways "The Famous Five", Intuit, SKY Movies: Disney and Peugot "Wacky Races" Our work on these projects can range from concept development, production design, previs, 3D assets and virtual production, motion graphics all the way to titles design - and often all of the above. If you are a 3D generalist, compositor, graphic designer, motion graphic, animation or concept artist - please get in touch. We're always looking to build our team.

Awards

2021

NOMINATED - Production Design. HIS DARK MATERIALS Season 1

BAFTA

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  • Painting Practice Founder Joel Collins

2021

WINNER - Best Titles & Graphic Identity, HIS DARK MATERIALS Season 1

BAFTA

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  • Painting Practice and Elastic

2020

WINNER - Best special, visual and graphic effects. HIS DARK MATERIALS Season1

BAFTA

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  • Painting Practice founder Dan May, shared with Russell Dodgeson, James Whitlam, Brian Fisher, Jean-Clement Sorent, Robert Harrington

2018

WINNER - Best Visual Effects, BLACK MIRROR 'Metalhead'

BAFTA

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  • Painting Practice founder Joel Collins, shared with DNEG

2018

NOMINATED - Production Design, BLACK MIRROR "USS Callister"

BAFTA

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  • Painting Practice founder Joel Collins, shared with DNEG

2018

WINNER - Excellence in Production Design, BLACK MIRROR "USS Callister"

The Art Directors' Guild

  • Painting Practice Founder Joel Collins and Phil Sims, shared with Robyn Paiba, Erica McEwan and Rafael Martin Coronel.

2018

WINNER - Best Visual Effects in a photoreal episode, BLACK MIRROR "Playtest"

Visual Effects Society

  • Painting practice partner Justin Hutchison-Chatburn, shared with Russell McLean, Grant Walker, Christopher Gray.

2017

NOMINATED - Best Visual Effects, BLACK MIRROR "Playtest"

BAFTA

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  • Painting Practice partner Justin Hutchison-Chatburn

2017

WINNER - Excellence in Production Design, BLACK MIRROR "Nosedive"

The Art Directors' Guild

  • Painting Practice Founders Joel Collins & Dan May, shared with Justin Hutchison-Chatburn, Rafael Martin Coronel, Robyn Paiba and Erica McEwan.

2017

NOMINATED - Excellence in Production Design, "Beauty & The Beast"

The Art Directors' Guild

  • Painting Practice founder Dan May, working with designer Sarah Greenwood.

2013

WINNER - Excellence in Production Design, "Gravity"

The Art Directors' Guild

  • Painting Practice founder Dan May, working with designer Andy Nicholson.

2012

NOMINATED - Production Design, BLACK MIRROR "15 Million Merits"

BAFTA

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  • Painting Practice founders Joel Collins & Dan May

2010

WINNER - Production Design, "Day of The Triffids"

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  • Painting Practice Founder Joel Collins

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