422 South | About us

We’re an award-winning UK-based visual effects, animation and commercials company working for TV producers and advertising agencies around the world.

We have designers, directors, visual effects specialists, animators, compositors and technicians in our core team, with an extended family of trusted, specialist freelancers close to hand.

Have a look through the site for samples of our work, information about the major projects we’ve worked on, and details of how to get in touch with us.

Data Visualisation

A combination of complex data wrangling, programming skills and VFX artistry has led 422 to become a world leading data visualisation studio. We create visualisations on subjects as wide ranging as bird migration, food production, city growth and commuter movement in NYC. This particular strand of activity started with a BBC series called ‘Britain from Above’ and has continued to develop as a core offering with new projects for Dutch, German and American broadcast. Such is the interest in this particular area of specialisation that we’ve developed a specialist team of operators to cater for our client’s needs.

With the emergence of things like ‘open data’ our clients are able to explore the world as seen by data and reveal the hidden patterns and complexities of our daily lives.

We thrive on discovering new ways of bringing data to life for new audiences.

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Biomedical CGI

We generate animations for documentary producers, biotech and pharmaceutical companies who often require high levels of realism and accuracy. Often depicting the inner/outer workings of the human body or explaining complex new products from the medical industry.

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Visual FX

Award winning VFX for TV and advertising.

We value the two-way nature of the partnership with our clients and look to build upon our craft with each new project. From initial storyboard to the creation of complex CGI landscapes, our supervisors, producers and artists support all stages of your production, from pre-visualisation and conceptual artwork, shoot supervision, 3D, 2D and colour grading through to delivery of the finished project.

422 South’s artists combine their skill with a wide variety of innovative technologies to exceed expectations, whatever the brief.

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Landscape CGI

The worlds leading landscape CGI studio. We have developed specialisation in portraying landscapes from the past or from places that are impossible to film such as the bottom of the ocean, often based on data for high levels of accuracy and photographic realism.

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Motion Graphics

422’s roots are in design and we believe this is still a fundamental part of any project. Our designers come from a wide range of design and animation backgrounds and bring with them their own unique artistic vision.

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