Grabbers

Grabbers, the new Irish comedy thriller written by Kevin Lehane and directed by Jon Wright, tells the story of a booze-sizzled policeman (Richard Coyle) who joins forces with straight-laced colleague (Ruth Bradley) in a battle to protect the local community from 'tentacled, fang-jawed, barb-tongued creatures' from the deep.

Nvizible completed over 200 visual effects shots for the film. The main shoot was achieved in 6 weeks over the winter of 2010/2011 in challenging conditions in N Ireland, and post production ran from March to November 2011. Nvizible enjoyed a strong collaboration with director Jon Wright and production company Forward Films, creating 120 exciting creature animation shots involving three different types of bizarre alien beasts.

The digital production process was overseen in house by VFX Supervisor Paddy Eason and CG Supervisor Martin Chamney, encompassing conceptual illustrations, creature motion studies, previs and production-ready CG assets, through to final VFX shots. Grabbers was Nvizible's first major CG creature work, and our CG pipeline was born out of the work on this show.

Grabbers first screened at the 2012 Sundance film festival to huge acclaim, and will be in cinemas later this year.