Adolescence

The world of adolescence isn’t as innocent as it once seemed...

‘Adolescence’ is a truly impactful crime drama, streaming now on Netflix. Starring Stephen Graham and Ashley Walters, it follows a family whose world is turned upside down when their 13-year-old son is arrested, accused of murdering a classmate. The charges force them to confront every parent's worst nightmare, leaving everyone involved to ask: what really happened?

Absolute were privileged to deliver 80 shots for the four episode show, contributing across the series as it follows our protagonists through the emotive story. The viewer also literally follows the characters, with each episode being shot in a continuous ‘one-shot’ style. A gargantuan task, executed to perfection by director Phil Barantini.

Creating everything from invisible windows to whole landscapes, the Absolute team implemented highly specialised visual effects, ensuring they blended flawlessly into the show's uninterrupted style. A true testament to the phrase 'good VFX is invisible VFX', check out a breakdown of our work above. Adolescence is available to stream now on Netflix,  the show that The Guardian is calling ‘The closest thing to TV perfection in decades’

Credits:

VFX: Absolute
VFX Supervisor: David Simpson
VFX Executive Producer: Danny Duke
VFX Producer: Mariluz Noto
VFX Line Producer: Zijing Huo
VFX Production Coordinator: Sarah Vaughan
VFX Editor: Ana Nunes, James O’Shea
Pipeline Developer: Ben Hawkyard
MCR: Carl Garcia, Adrian Coyle, Alex Neale, Pete Lewis, Ben Phillips
CG Generalist: Patrick Keogh, Heidi Prescott, Isabelle Knight, Ryan Passmore, Baptiste Jaquemet, Keith Rogers
Compositing Supervisor: Sivaprakash Jeevanantham
Compositors: Kannan Selvam, Becanti Wijnbergh, Mohanbabu Subramani, Surya Manohar, Vijay Ramalingam, John Ovuson, Giovanni Facci, Cale Pugh, Guy Penwil, Srinivas Tirupati, Ashok Kumar Aravind, Alice Mitchell, Prasanth Balaji Vikash Singh, Vignesh kumar, Rajarajan Nagarajan, Ramkumar Raju
Prep: Raja Viswanathan, Berlin Thiyagarajan, Gokulakrishnan Narayanan, Pratheesh Ganesan, Kathir Pandy
Roto: Prithiviraj Arunachalam, Mithun Ramesh, Sathish Kumar, Vishwa Nagasamy, Smith Immanuel, Surendar Manohar

Matchmove: Sangeetha Vasanth, Sreedhar Ragavan