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CITROEN C4 “TRANSFORM” LEE JEANS “PRETTY WOMAN” TVC :30 TVC :60

Agency: Agency: EURO RSCG LONDON FALLON Director: Director: NEILL BLOMKAMP PAUL GOLDMAN Production: Production: SPY FILMS PARTIZAN Animation/VFX VFX: THE EMBASSY A52 www.theembassyvfx.com www.A52.com After detailed discussions of how Attack of the 90-foot blue screen a 25 foot high metal transformer woman. Background plates might shake his tail lights, Marty were shot on location in Buenos Kudelka, better known as Justin Aires with compositing, clean Timberlake’s choreographer, up, reflections, lighting, shadow danced 30 takes of improvised effects and final grade handled by motion capture to bring this A52 in West Hollywood under the little French car to life. The supervision of lead Inferno artist Embassy recommended that the Patrick Murphy. We’re hoping environment also be created in CG For The Embassy For Fallon, Minneapolis For A52 for a sequel where “Natalia” and to allow them complete freedom of VFX: Neill Blomkamp CD: Bruce Bildsten EP: Mark Tobin the unflinchable Lee Jeans guy camera movement. VFX super: Trevor Cawood AD: Dave Damman Producer: Ron Cosentino actually hook up for cocktails and dancing. For Euro RSCG London VFX producer: Winston Helgason Copy: Bobby Pearce Lead Inferno: Patrick Murphy AD: Steve Nicholls Lead animator: Simon van de Producer: Joe Grundhoefer Inferno/online editor: Scott Lagemaat Johnson Copy: Matt Anderson For Partizan Producer: Nicola Evans Lead modeler: Paul Davies VFX: Lisa Tomei Modeler: Ali Maleka DP: Alex Melman For Spy Films Compostitors: Stephen Pepper, EP: Sheila Stepanek ToolKit EP: Carlo Trulli Jon Anastasiades Producer: Susan Rued Inferno Toolkit For Terminal Lightwave, Modo, Shake with Editor: Jonathan Del Gatto sapphire plug-ins stash 04.03 stash 04.04

ADIDAS “UNSTOPPABLE” NIKE “CHAMBER OF FEAR” TVC :60 TVC :90

Agency: Agency: TBWA\CHIAT\DAY WIEDEN+KENNEDY Director: Director: BRIAN BELETIC DAVE MEYERS Production: Production: SMUGGLER @RADICAL MEDIA Animation/VFX: Cell Animation: For TBWA\Chiat\Day STUDIO 4C www.digitaldomain.com EP: Jennifer Golub www.studio4c.co.jp DD ties together a CG gym, little ECD: Chuck McBride Post/VFX: CG people running on a CG floor, AD: Geoff Edwards CREOCOLLECTIVE ten CG helicopters displacing air Copy: Scott Duchon www.creocollective.com and casting shadows, live action Producer: Monika Prince people—big and tiny, swizzle Lebron James brings a certain For Digital Domain cavalier attitude to his role as stick sized CG harpoons and a EP: Gabby Gourrier tangle of CG cables to create The Chosen One in this spot that Producer: Stephanie Gilgar mixes styles and genres into a a well trained (but disastrously VFX super: Brad Parker For Wieden+Kennedy video game structure. The 6’-8”, camouflaged) Lilliputian Special Animation super: Piotr Karwas CDs: Jimmy Smith, John Jay 240 pound power forward rises Forces unit determined to rein in CG supervisor: Brad Hayes ADs: Jayanta Jenkins, John Jay through the levels of the Chamber Tracy McGrady. The entire spot Lead compositor: Rob Moggach was prevised to ensure the shoot Copy: Jimmy Smith of Fear dispatching the enemies of stayed within the two day hole in For Smuggler Producer: Tieneke Pavesic all who reach for greatness: hype, EP: Brian Carmondy envy, complacency and self-doubt. T-Mac’s schedule. For @radical media Producer: Aris McGarry EPs: Frank Scherma, Frank Stiefel, Read more about this project at DP: Jeff Cronenweth www.stashmedia.tv/04_03 Donna Portaro For P.S. 260 For OutPost Digital Editor: Maury Loeb Editor: Chris Davis Toolkit For Company 3 Maya, Lightwave, Nuke Colorist: Stefan Sonnenfeld (proprietary), Flame, Linux and Windows NT Workstations stash 04.05 stash 04.06

BRITISH TELECOM JOHNNIE WALKER “TREE” “NETWORKING” TVC :60 TVC :60 Agency: Agency: ST. LUKE’S BBH Director: Director: JOSEPH KAHN DANIEL KLEINMAN Production: For Exposure Films Production: EXPOSURE FILMS EP: Natasha Wellesley LARGE Producer: Paige Seidel VFX: VFX DP: Brad Rushing THE SYNDICATE FRAMESTORE CFC HOP: Ohna Falby www.syndicate.tv www.framstore-cfc.com For The Syndicate Re-assembling the team from It took five weeks of painstaking EP: Kenny Solomon 2003’s multi-award winning “Fish” pre-viz and five months of VFX producer: Richard Mann spot, Johnnie Walker’s latest Keep production to bring together the VFX super: David Lombardi Walking effort was shot over three- live and CG characters into the Modeling super: Luke McDonald weeks in and around Vancouver digital metropolis of Networking. Character animation super: and required three months post Kahn shot two weeks of green Domenic Di Giorgio work by six 3D animators and screen to capture as many live- Animators: David Lombardi, Luke two Inferno artists. The digital action performances as possible, McDonald, Domenic Di Giorgio, tree was built leaf by leaf with the supplementing the cast with digital Brett Paton, Minory Sasaki, help of a custom written plug-in characters only when the acrobatics William Ashe, Brian Fisher, Mark called FS Diversity. There were, were impossible otherwise. Check Kochinski, Troy Slough, Shannon however, some practical on-set Wegner, Paul Griffin the Behind the Scenes feature on tricks – an oil drum in the river Compositors: Kevin Prendiville, the DVD for the animatic and more. created the necessary wake for the Brian Fisher, Minory Sasaki, For Bartle Bogle Hegarty For Framestore CFC canoe shot, and air bags buried Read more about this project at Christine Goldby, Danny Braet CD/copy: Nick Kidney Inferno: William Bartlett, Murray in the ground helped create the www.stashmedia.tv/04_05 Colorist: Beau Leon CD/AD: Kevin Stark Butler burrowing roots effect. For St. Luke’s Producer: Helen Powlette 3D animators: Jake Mengers, Andy For Avenue Edit Boyd, Alex Doyle, Dean Robinson, ECD: Al Young For Large Read more about this project at Editor: David Blackburn David Mellor, Don Mahmood AD: Nick Darkin Producer: Johnnie Frankel www.stashmedia/04_06 Copy: Scott Leonard Toolkit Producers: Scott Griffin, Helen Producer: Jo Charlesworth Lightwave, Maya, Digital Fusion, Toolkit Stanley Flame Maya, Shake, Inferno stash 04.07 stash 04.08

FORD MUSTANG EXCEL “SPOKESGORILLA” “CORNFIELD” TVC :30 TVC :90 Agency: Agency: J. WALTER THOMPSON LEO BURNETT, TORONTO Director: Director: PAUL STREET STEVE ANGEL Production: Production/animation: BELIEVE MEDIA/STREET HEAD GEAR LIGHT FILMS www.headgearanimation.com VFX: The striking performance of the R!OT PICTURES Wrigley Excel Spokesgorilla is www.rioting.com a result of combining the stop- Steve McQueen steps out of the motion Plasticene face shot on legendary 1968 action film Bullitt a digital camera and live action and into a 2005 Mustang and body filmed in 35mm against brings some spooky star power green screen. The cultured yet to the car’s tag line, “The Legend calamitous anthropoid was Lives”. A body double was used for then composited into the city scenes depicting McQueen from background - a collage of urban For R!OT Pictures For Believe Media/Street Light For Head Gear the back, while frontal views and images mounted on foam board. VFX super/lead composite: Verdi Films Producer: Sue Riedl close-ups of the actor’s face were The spot was completed in just Sevenhuysen EPs: Adrian Harrison, Liz Silver, Animator: Bartek Prusiewicz lifted from Bullitt and placed into over two months. Compositors: Kiki Chansamone, Thornton DP: Jeremy Benning the modern scenes by the visual Les Umberger, Claus Hansen, Producer: Taylor Pinson Lead After Effects Artist: Nick For Leo Burnett, Toronto effects team at R!OT. Sean Wilson, Ashlee Wismach DP: Garry Waller Fairhead Producer: Melanie Palmer Read more about this project at Online editors: Verdi Sevenhuysen, After Effect Artists: Winston Lee, AD: Brian MacDonald For Filmcore www.stashmedia.tv/04_07 Jason Frank, Randy Lowder, Mark Karim Zouak Copy: Josh Rachlis Editor: Nicolas Wayman-Harris Dennison, Matt Russell Production Manager: Ruby Music: Grayson Matthews For J. Walter Thompson VFX producer: Robert Owens Zagorskis ECD: Tom Cordner VFX EP: D. Todd Davidovich DOB: Carole Gall Toolkit CD/AD: Carl Warner Toolkit After Effects, Final Cut Pro, Copy: Curt Catallo Inferno, Flame, Fire, DaVinci 2K Photoshop Producer: Kelly Trudell Vector Plus, Lustre stash 04.09 stash 04.10

OFFICE MAX “SANTA’S VISA “PIGGY BANK” HELPER” TVC :60 TVC :60 Agency: Client: DDB VISA INTERNATIONAL Director: Agency: CHEL WHITE CLEMENGER BBDO SYDNEY Production/animation Director: BENT IMAGE LAB RICHARD GIBSON www.bentimagelab.com Production: Intent on retaining the clunky LUSCIOUS INTERNATIONAL charm of Sixties stop motion VFX: Christmas specials, director Chel ILOURA White shot the animation on a www.iloura.com.au grainy stock and then developed and printed the footage using Visa launches its debit card with processes from the period. this spot which went to air in Updated production techniques Australia in November. Piggy Bank included using urethane and latex was shot in Colombia, and tracks instead of clay for the characters, expressive little porkers at the heels digitally treating the finished film of happy shoppers to reflect the to look like it was forty years old card’s tagline, “Wherever you go, and filming key scenes of the For Bent Image Lab For Downstream Digital For Luscious International For Karl Marks your money goes with you”. Check Rubberband Man (Eddie Steeple) EP: Ray Di Carlo Colorist: Jim Barrett Producer: Andrew Morris Editor: Adam Wills out the Behind the Scenes feature as reference for the animators Producer: Gretchen Miller Toolkit For Iloura Toolkit on the DVD for the making of video. DP: Mark Eifert -VFX super: Julian Dimsey Boujou, Z-Brush, 3DS Max, CAT, Read more about this project at Avid Adrenaline, Animation For Visa International Production designer: Paul Harrod Animators: Adrian Millington, Vray, Commotion, Flame www.stashmedia.tv/04_09 Toolworks Lunchbox, After Effects, DOM: Christopher Taylor Character designers: Colin Batty, Daniel Fotheringham For DDB Scott Foster, Sara Neiman Flame, 35mm Mitchell Rotoscoping: Keith Meure For Clemenger BBDO Sydney CD: Don Pogany Animators: Wendy Fuller, Jeff Riley, Flame: Kim Fogelburg CD: Danny Searle Producer Paul Gunnarson Rob Shaw, Jeffrey Bost TD: Grant Adam AD: Scott Walker AD: Brian Billow Compositors: Orland Nutt, Steve Modeling: Paul Buckley Sr account director: Jade Horton Copy: Tim Nichols, Vinny Warren Balzer, Darrin Casler Tracking: Arran Potter Sr producer: Roy De Giorgio stash 04.11 stash 04.12

HUFF MAIN TITLE CREDITS NIEUWE REVU “REVU 1” Broadcast design TVC :30

Broadcaster: Agency: SHOWTIME NETWORKS BSUR Directors: Director: ANDRE STRINGER, JOSE KOEN VAN OVOORDE GOMEZ, CHRISTOPHER Design/animation MARKOS ADDIKT Design/production: www.addikt.nl SHILO A trippy composite backwards www.shilodesign.com through the articles and Showtime’s new Sunday night photographs of racy Dutch centerpiece sets a dark and magazine Nieuwe Revu. Although moody tone by taking us from the latest cover features two busty, the shock of birth and on through barely-clad beauties in a titillating issues of socialization, acceptance, embrace, we hear the monthly also fear and eroticism. The collage of covers newsworthy subjects like For Nieuwe Revu layered boxes, which was finished politics, sports and “glamour”. Jan Paul de Wildt in HD, frames live action footage, still photography, and graphic For BSUR illustration all connected with 3D Concepting: Rodger Beekman, spiraling metal wire. Jarr Geerlings For Shilo For Addikt CDs/designers/animators/ Koen van Ovoorde compositors: Andre Stringer, Jose For Condor Post Production Gomez, Christopher Markos Marijn Giesbertz Producer: Tracy Chandler Animator: Cassidy Gearhart Toolkit 3D: Christopher Fung Maya, Photoshop, Illustrator, After Assistant editor: Sara Dexter Effects Randazzo DP: Tim Gleason Composer: W.G. Snuffy Walden stash 04.13 stash 04.14

FUEL “EXPERIMENT”, “CHRIS CMT MUSIC IDS PASTRAS”, “X-TERMINATOR” Broadcast design x 4 TVCs x 3 Client: Client: FOX CABLE NETWORKS COUNTRY MUSIC TELEVISION Directors/CDs: Production/design/animation JENS GELHAAR, JONATHAN EYEBALLNYC NOTARO www.eyeballnyc.com Design/animation The evolution of CMT’s on air BRAND NEW SCHOOL presence continues with these www.brandnewschool.com For CMT four IDs from a 10-spot package. Three new spots from the fertile VP Creative and marketing: James Creating and assembling team of BNS and Fuel. Hitchcock everything in-house, EyeballNYC CD: Michael Engleman mixes hand-drawn illustrations 1. “The Fuel Experiment” promotes AD: Carla Daeninckx and watercolors with stills and a Project Greenlight-like contest live-action of landscapes, textures that awards the winner $1 million For EyeballNYC and local bands shot over a couple to produce an action sports CD: Limore Shur of days in the heartland of Texas. feature. EP: Mike Eastwood The goal was a combination of 2. “Pastras” is a signature piece Producer: Beth Vogt traditional and modern country designed by art director Chris Lead designer/animator: with a wide range of age and Pastras that starts in LA and takes Adam Gault personality. Says lead designer/ us on a trip around the world. “Experiment” “Pastras Signature ID” “X-Terminator” Illustrator/animator: animator Gault, “We wanted the 3. “X-terminator” supplies crucial Director/illustrator: Jens Gehlhaar CD: Jens Gehlhaar CD: Jonathan Notaro Stefanie Augustine overall package to feel cohesive, and long overdue information 2D animators: Han Lee, Mark Kim AD: Chris Pastras Design/AD: Sean Dougherty Designer/animator: Jason Conradt but also for each piece to have its on how to stop gigantic ants 3D animator: Andy Kim 2D animator: Won Hee 2D animator: Jonathan Cannon Designers: John Lake Harvey, Ali own distinct personality”. from destroying LA. 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“THE LAST SHOT” MAIN TITLE OLN “FEARLESS” SHOW OPEN Feature film motion design Broadcast design

Studio: Client: TOUCHSTONE OUTDOOR LIFE NETWORK Director: Director: GARSON YU MICHAEL MAGNOTTA Production/animation/VFX Design/animation YU+CO TRACE www.yuco.com www.tracepictures.com It took seven days to program the Due to problems with rights motion control cameras for this clearances, the footage for this typographic homage to the minutia opening of a new documentary of the film-going experience. series on OLN would not arrive until Shallow depth of field in each of the 11th hour. Trace’s solution was the credit reveal shots and the a multi-box approach integrating desire for the entire sequence to the 3D capabilities of After Effects read like one shot demanded that which allowed them to design the the camera moves be very precise. opening without any of the final CG plays a supporting role as For yU+co video. When the clips did finally popcorn, coins and gumballs. CD: Garson Yu Producer: Jennifer Fong arrive they were quickly slipped into Read more about this project at Designer: Martin Surya, the animated panels www.stashmedia.tv/04_15 Storyboard: Otto Tang For OLN 3D: Chris Vincola For Touchstone Pictures VP/CD of on-air: Michael Magnotta VFX compositor/super: Director: Jeff Nathanson David Fogg, For Trace Editor: David Rosenbloom Toolkit: Editor: Zachary Scheuren After Effects, Illustrator, CD: Justin Stephenson Inferno: Danny Mudgett Photoshop, Final Cut Pro, Designer/animators: Garry Tutte, DP: Bryan Duggan Dave Desjardins Set construction/props/motion Designer: Kent Hugo control: Craig Currie Editor: Garry Tutte Music: Nice and Smooth Toolkit EP: Trisha Emerson Maya, Shake, Avid, Inferno, Photoshop, Illustrator stash 04.17 stash 04.18

RENASCENT (RECENT WORK) MTV “THIS IS THE NEW SH*T” Broadcast design x 2 SHOW OPEN Broadcast design Design/animation Client: RENASCENT MTV NETWORKS EUROPE http://www.renascent.nl Director: Joost Korngold is a Dutch WAYTION freelance graphic designer Design/animation/VFX: who’s often austere yet electified WAYTION adventures into 3D motion www.waytion.com graphics has attracted clients like Nike and Kyle Cooper. These Stockholm-based studio Waytion are two selections of recent work had this to say about creating produced under his Renscent the open for MTV Europe’s fresh studio banner. music showcase program, “It’s always fun to work with clients CHANNEL ONE “EVA” that appreciate creativity and don’t Un-aired concept for Dutch require the same old shine bling Channel One news. bling logotypes or [say]… ‘make CINEMAX: CINEMAX.COM it just like this thing I saw on that Concept title designs for a channel the other day but different commercial for Commissioned by of course’”. Gunshop Read more Waytion-style wisdom at Toolkit www.stashmedia.tv/04_18 3DSMax, After Effects For MTV Networks Europe Producer: Anna Källsen Samuelsson For Waytion Photography/post: Waytion Audio: Martin Hallberg Toolkit After Effects, Maya, Illustrator, PhotoShop, Final Cut Pro HD stash 04.19 stash 04.20

FLASH IN THE CAN AWARDS SARAH MCLACHLAN BUMPERS “WORLD ON FIRE” Event design x 3 Music video Design/animation/audio Music label: PLAY AIRWAYS ARISTA / BMG www.playairways.com Director: Three of 19 bumpers for the 2004 SOPHIE MULLER Flash in the Can Awards Show. Production: Given creative carte blanche, OIL FACTORY production started with impromptu www.oilfactory.com interviews of unsuspecting Torontonians ranging from Simple but powerful graphics people on the street to feisty and animation compare the line first-graders. Storyboards were items of music video production developed to these audio clips with what those same funds can and translated into a series of accomplish in the third world. illustrated layouts and animated. Muller and crew accepted payment According to official eye witnesses in karma points for their work the resulting bumpers caused the with stock footage donated by bewildered award show audience the agencies receiving donations. to overwhelm the Play Airways The US$150,000 not spent on the lads with, “A crushing hail of gold video was dispersed to 11 charities bullion and marriage proposals”. around the world. Read more about this project at Toolkit After Effects, Illustrator, www.stashmedia.tv/04_20 Photoshop, Wavelab, Cubase, For Arista / BMG Reason, Recycle, MiniDV Producer: Adam Lowenberg DP: Sophie Muller Editor: Sophie Muller Design/animation: Kate Rogers, Cassiano Prado, Alex Carvalho, Dan Sollis Toolkit After Effects, Mac laptops stash 04.21 stash 04.22

ROBOTA “TEASER III” “WARHAMMER 40,000” Book and game promotion 2:00 Game cinematic 2:00

Director: Client: DOUG CHIANG THQ www.dchiang.com Game developer: Working after hours for just under Selected credits RELIC ENTERTAINMENT a year, Chiang and colleagues at VFX super: Pete Billington Director: Ice blink Studios produced this VFX/animation super: TIM MILLER short (their third) about two warrior Matthew A. Ward Design/animation robots hunting human prey only to Producer: Erin Collins BLUR discover they are the ones being Editor: Nicholas Seuser www.blur.com hunted. Robota is now available Music: Chance Thomas in bookstores, the video game Matte painting/concept design: Blur CD Tim Miller makes no will be released by Sony Pictures Randy Gaul, Kurt Kaufman, Marc secret of his goals for projects Imageworks in 2006. Gabbana, Josh Viers, Aaron like Warhammer, a real-time Becker, Bill Mather strategy game for the PC based Animators: Will Elder-Groebe, Tom on the tabletop war game of the Gibbons, Rick Glenn, Paul Davies same name, “Just as the game 3D artists: Joel Emslie, Lee Fraser, has moved from tabletop to PC, Brian Gee, Daniela Calafatello, we’d love to see the world of Anthony Pak Shafer, Michael Warhammer translated into a full Cottom, Neil Lim Sang, For Blur Fowler, Ryan Girard, Paul Hormis, feature film - remaining true to the Kevin Scott CD: Tim Miller Tim Jones, Ian Joyner, Seung Jae visceral action of the brand.” TDs: Zac Wollons, Young Duk Cho Modeling/lighting/compositing Lee, Dan Knight, Makoto Koyama, MoCap Facility: Rearden studios Read more about this project at super: Dave Wilson Alex Litchinko, Allan Mackay, www.stashmedia.tv/04_22 See the DVD for complete credits Story/layout super: Paul Taylor Kevin Margo, Remi McGill, David Animation supers: Marlon Nowe, Nibbelin, Ruel Pascual, Todd Perry, Toolkit Jeff Weisend Davy Sabbe, David Stinnett, Sung- Maya, After Effects, Mental Ray, VFX Super: Kirby Miller Wook Su, Jason Taylor, August Final Cut Pro, Photoshop, G4’s Animation TD: Jon Jordan Wartenberg Dell Precision Workstations, BOXX Producer: Al Shier Toolkit RenderRack 3D Team: Heikki Anttila, Corey 3DStudio Max v5, Brazil, Digital Butler, Zack Cork, Daniel Ferreira, Fusion, 100 IBM Intellistation Z Pro Jean-Dominque Fievet, Jeff workstations stash 04.23 stash 04.24

NO ONE IS INNOCENT “TECHNORGANIC” “Revolution.com” Short film 3:00 Music video 4:25 Music label: Director: AZ / UNIVERSAL France LUIS TORRES Director: Design studio: NOBRAIN FLAMA Production: www.laflama.com COSA Torres, a Mexico City-based Design/animation: designer and animator, brings his NO BRAIN personal paintings to life in this http://no.brain.free.fr/ fluid dream and explores themes of, “Growth and the different No Brain continue to pummel stages of growing either in a technical and aesthetic physical manner or a spiritual way.” expectations in the music video world with this future-evil view of man and society. Green screen talent, an all-CG city complete with Stepford storm troopers For COSA and heavily treated performance Producer: Julien Rigoulot footage were pulled together in six weeks by the Paris-based For No Brain For Flama collective of designers, animators Conception/realisation: Sébastien Animation/design: Luis Torres and filmmakers. Fourcault, Sylvain Lefebvre Music: Roberto Aguilera After Effects: Mathieu Auvray Audio engineer: Parlange 3D animation: Stéphane Beve, Model: Sophia Sylvain Tardino Inferno: Gurvand Tanneau Toolkit Mini DV, After Effects Toolkit 3DSMax, After Effects, Inferno, Civit, Flame stash 04.25 stash 04.26

GMAC “MOUNTAIN” BBC DIGITAL “CONTENT: TVC :30 DRAMA” TVC: 40 Agency: Agency: FITZGERALD & CO BBC BROADCAST Director: Directors: DIGITAL KITCHEN LUIS COOK, Production/animation: STEVE HARDING-HILL DIGITAL KITCHEN Design/direction: www.d-kitchen.com AARDMAN www.aardman.com It must have been a tricky pitch, “So there’s this mountain goat For BBC Broadcast Animation: checking out this animated Producer: Louise Jones AXIS ANIMATION diagram on a folding movie screen For DFGW www.axisanimation.com on the side of a mountain road CD: Dave Waters Part of a new campaign for and we have this L.L. Bean kinda Account manager: Paul Drake additional channels from BBC guy singing Coming ‘Round the Digital. Co-director Luis Cook Mountain…”. Kudos to DK for For Aardman explains how Aardman and Axis producing the live action and Producer: John Woolley For Digital Kitchen brought off the freshly wonky the animation and combining it Storyboards/key animator: Nigel CEO/CCD: Paul Matthaeus look, “We filmed actors reading to make car accidents seem like Davies President/EP: Don McNeill the dialogue using their mouths in some sort of fun. Prod managers: Holly Bazin, Luke EP: Mark Bashore a very exaggerated way and then CD: Jeff Long Youngman For Fitzgerald & Co : Tim Ruffle edited the footage to give it more CCO: Eddie Snyder Producer: Kelly Carlson of a stop frame feel. We built the Editor: Andrew Maggio Design: Darren Dubicki, Tim ED of broadcast production: Ruffle, Paul Cheshire characters into the computer as Christine Sigety Designers: Seth Ricart, Matt Lavoy 3D models and then projected the CGH/copy: Susan Willoughby Live action producer: Susan Rued For Axis Animation footage of the actors mouths, eyes CD/AD: Hal Barber DP: Christophe Landzenberg Directors: Dana Dorian, Steve and foreheads onto the models.” Toolkit: Townrow Avid, After Effects, Photoshop, EP: Richard Scott Illustrator Toolkit Lightwave, Maya, Combustion, Photoshop stash 04.27 stash 04.28

ORANGE “ROCKING HORSE” 3 MOBILE “PANDAS”, TVC :30 “TURTLE/EEL” TVCs 2 x :20 Agency: Agency: MOTHER WCRS Director: Directors: DOUGAL WILSON PETE CANDELAND, Production/animation: DAN SUMICH BLINK PRODUCTIONS Animation: www.blinkprods.com PASSION PICTURES www.passion-pictures.com Post/VFX RUSHES The cute and minimalist character www.rushes.uk.co designs of Tokyo-based Mari Chan (www.marichan.com) collide with This first of three commercials that dark humour to promote the UK’s will extend into print and on-line newest mobile network and the to pitch Orange and it’s mobile ability to watch music videos, news services. The ever-changing time- and sports, and personal video lapse cityscape is a composite of messages via their 3G phones. multiple layers of paper animation For Mother and puppeteer elements all of Producer: Zoe Bell For WCRS which required precise timing ECD: Leslie Ali within motion controlled camera For Blink Productions CD/AD: Simon Robinson moves. The idea of using animated Producer: Matthew Fone Producer: Sarah Bailes paper came from Dougal’s Three For Rushes For Passion Pictures Girl Rumba music video for VFX: Duncan Malcolm, Emir Designer: Mari Chan Klonhertz. Hasham Producer: Michael Adamo Producer: Carl Grinter Toolkit For Final Cut Traditional 2D animation, Toonz Editor: Suzy Davies Toolkit Inferno, Flame, Spirit stash 04.29

“GOPHER BROKE” Short film 4:17

Writer/director: Selected credits for Blur JEFF FOWLER EP: Tim Miller Design/animation: Additional story: Keith Lango, BLUR Tim Miller www.blur.com Producer: Al Shier Associate producer: Mandy The product of an in-house Sekelsky competition that invites employees Animation super: Marlon Nowe to submit concepts, storyboards or Lighting/compositing Super: treatments for short films, Gopher Dan Rice Broke is the latest Blur project to Storyboards: Jeff Fowler be short-listed for an Oscar. In Concept art: Sean McNally, Chuck production for five months with Wojtkiewicz a team of 25, the film is another Layout: Jeff Fowler, Derron Ross milestone in Blur’s quest to be Animation: Wim Bien, Jeff Fowler, seen as a viable Hollywood player. Remi McGill, Marlon Nowe, Samir The strategy seems to be working; Patel, Derron Ross, Davy Sabbe, their 2003 film Rockfish (featured George Schermer, Jason Taylor on Stash 01) has been optioned by Vin Diesel’s production company See the DVD for complete credits for development into a CG Toolkit animated feature. 3DStudio Max v5, Brazil, Digital Fusion, 100 IBM Intellistation Z Pro workstations stashLIFE Tim Miller Goes for Broke

It’s easy to hate Tim Miller. Mostly You gave up the directors chair my betters go to town. At the end because has what most people in for Gopher Broke. of the day it’s a team effort and that this industry have killed for and still team is Blur. Although if [Gopher I decided to let a few of the other don’t have. Yes, a Tron suit with Broke or In the Rough] wins an folks at Blur have a shot at the big a neon penis. Choosing the high Oscar I may not be able to contain chair. We’ve developed a group road, we put our jealosy aside and my envy.Academy Awards. trod all over his recent Hawaiian of folks who can grab the creative vacation so we could bring you reins which is better than having If Blur wins at the Oscars can a the following insights into the one guy hog all the power. Plus studio deal be far behind? the chair was still slightly soggy mind behind Venice Boulevard’s We certainly hope it leads to a from my excitement over directing animation and VFX juggarnaut deal but we realize it takes time. Rockfish. Blur Studios. There seems to be 5 miles of Including Gopher Broke, the I also think part of being a good hoops, hurdles, pits of flaming company has produced four CG artist is knowing your strengths death, poisoned spikes, chained shorts in the past three years All and weaknesses. I’m not the best and starving lions and an ocean of it will be another chapter in the of them have been short listed for guy at doing the kind of slapstick bullshit before a movie deal comes book Reasons Why Some Studio Academy Awards. humor in our shorts this year, so through for anybody. Especially the Exec Should Wise-up and Give I’m content to sit back and watch first one. But if we do win the Oscar Blur a Film Deal. It’s quite a tome already. If you had to share a trailer with any movie star (live or animated) who would it be? The Premier Visual Effects Portal The whole cast of Johnny Quest. I �������������������������������������������� wanted to live in that family so bad when I was a kid. They were all so fucking cool. And maybe the mom from The Incredibles. Was I the only Aunt Luisa, 2002 Rockfish, 2003 In the Rough, 2004 one who thought Elastigirl was hot? ������������ Director/co-writer Director/writer Executive producer Read the complete interview at www.stashmedia.tv/04_31

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