A decade of BlueBolt

n idea written on the back of a cigarette pack in Patisserie Valerie in 2009 set in motion the establishment of BlueBolt by Lucy Ainsworth-Taylor and Angela Barson, who at the time had no business plan, lacked financial backing and were wondering where their first job was going to come from. “Angela and I had worked together at MPC and had left at separate times, but knew there was a gap in the market for VFX work on television and mid-size budget features that didn’t need the big VFX facility pipeline,” says Ains-worth-Taylor. “It was a natural conclusion to give it a go and with our then third business partner, Chas Jarrett, we three embarked on setting up BlueBolt. We spent a bit of money forming a website saying who we were and then just announced our arrival by email to anyone and everyone we knew, and a week later we had our first shots in. Then we had the