Known for Visual Effects
Florian Franke is a German visual effects supervisor at RISE Visual Effects Studios. He studied Audiovisual Media at Stuttgart Media University, earning a Bachelor of Engineering, and previously completed a diploma in video and sound design. Franke began his career in the late 2000s as a digital compositor, initially working with Pixomondo, working on Tandoori Love (2008), Ninja Assassin (2009), The Ghost Writer (2010), Sucker Punch (2011), Fast Five (2011), Super 8 (2011), Hugo (2011), The Amazing Spider-Man (2012), Star Trek Into Darkness (2013), and multiple seasons of Game of Thrones (2011). Over the following years, Franke worked across several visual effects studios, including Scanline VFX, Chimney, Mackevision, and RISE. His credits during this period include the German production Pettersson und Findus – Kleiner Quälgeist, große Freundschaft (2014), Point Break (2015), Furious 7 (2015), Friend Request (2016), Atomic Blonde (2017), The Dark Tower (2017), Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018), and Balloon (2018). Franke transitioned into supervisory roles at Pixomondo, where he became Compositing Supervisor and worked on Midway (2019), Watchmen (2019), Raised by Wolves (2020), Star Trek: Discovery (2017), Debris (2021), Without Remorse (2021), and House of the Dragon (2022). In 2022, he joined RISE Visual Effects Studios as a Compositing Supervisor, overseeing compositing artists on Blue Beetle (2023), Nyad (2023), Hagen (2024), and Heads of State (2025), Ghosted (2023), Fallout (2024), and The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025). Franke was promoted to Visual Effects Supervisor for Spider-Man: Brand New Day (2026). While at Pixomondo, Franke worked on Game of Thrones (2011), which received Emmy Awards for Outstanding Visual Effects in 2012 and 2013, as well as a Visual Effects Society Award in 2012, and he was part of the team recognised with an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects for Hugo (2011). He later received an individual nomination at the Visual Effects Society Awards in 2023 for Outstanding Compositing and Lighting in an Episode for his work on House of the Dragon (2022), specifically the Season 1 Episode 10 "The Black Queen (2022)", shared with Kevin Friederichs, Sean Raffel, and Andreas Steinlein.
Filmography
3 films
The Captain
2018 · 1h 58m · DE
Germany, 1945. Soldier Willi Herold, a deserter of the German army, stumbles into a uniform of a Nazi captain abandoned during the last and desperate weeks of the Third Reich. Newly emboldened by the allure of a suit that he has stolen only to stay warm, Willi discovers that many Germans will follow the leader, whoever he is.