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The art and tech behind the body morphing in ‘Together’

October 23, 2025

Making Allison Brie and Dave Franco merge into one.

Today on the befores & afters podcast, we’re chatting to Framestore visual effects supervisor Josh Simmonds about the Michael Shanks film, Together. We’ve previously covered the film in a written article – this podcast is a deeper dive into Framestore’s body morphing work for the main characters. Here, Allison Brie and Dave Franco’s characters literally merge together – even their eyeballs.

Simmonds led Framestore’s team, with the work overseen by CG supervisor Jeremy Pronk, compositing supervisor Darcy George, lead ligher Andrew Dunkerley and joint head of model texture Ray Leung.

This episode of the befores & afters podcast is sponsored by SideFX. Looking for great customer case studies, presentations and demos? Head to the SideFX YouTube channel. There you’ll find tons of Houdini, Solaris and Karma content. This includes recordings of recent Houdini HIVE sessions from around the world.

Listen in, above, and below, check out Framestore’s VFX breakdown:

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