Framestore brings its visual magic to the second season of One Piece

Published on June 06, 2026 | Translated from Spanish

The renowned company Framestore, responsible for visual effects in major productions, joins the team for the second season of One Piece. Their work includes bringing characters like Smoker, Wapol, and Chopper to life, promising a more realistic and appealing visual quality for the live-action series. Fans can expect a polished and detailed entertainment experience.

Framestore artists working at a visual effects station, monitor showing character Smoker transforming into white smoke while digitally sculpted Chopper appears in the background, hands using a graphics tablet and keyboard, software interface with layers and composition nodes, blue and orange studio lights, cinematic photorealistic technical illustration style, 3D modeling action during creative process, professional hardware visible, hyperrealistic details in skin and metal textures, dramatic studio lighting.

Cutting-edge technology to bring Devil Fruits and metal bodies to life 🎬

Framestore employs advanced motion capture and digital animation techniques to integrate characters with their powers. Smoker will require volumetric smoke simulations, while Wapol will demand 3D modeling of his mutant body and expandable jaws. For Chopper, animatronics and CGI will be combined to achieve a smooth transition between his human and reindeer forms, maintaining the essence of the original anime without falling into caricature.

The humor fruit: when the most adorable reindeer is a pile of polygons 🦌

Of course, seeing Chopper in live action will be a curious experience. Let's hope the effects don't turn our beloved doctor reindeer into a 90s video game mascot. And speaking of Wapol, if his jaw accidentally swallows a supporting actor due to a rendering error, at least we'll have an unplanned comedic moment. After all, on the Grand Line, even technical glitches are part of the adventure.