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Stash04 2D3105.Qxd 3/9/04 16:39 Page 1 DVD MAGAZINE Outstanding animation, VFX and motion graphics for design and advertising stash04 2D3105.qxd 3/9/04 16:39 Page 1 Arms Stash From the pioneers in automatic visual arts Trusted by all the high calibre studios: AAV, technology comes a new grade of affordable Asylum Visual Effects, BBC, BSkyB, CBC, CBS camera tracking software. Animation, Cinesite, Double Negative, ESC Entertainment, Frantic Films, Fuel, Fuji TV, Giant Killer Fast and accurate whatever you shoot, boujou Robots, Hammerhead, Hayes Davidson, Illusion Arts, bullet incorporates all the features of the original, JAK (Lucas Film), Jim Henson's Creature Shop, adding an easier interface at an affordable price. Mainframe Entertainment, Meteor Studios, Moving Expand your arsenal of tools with the world's Picture Company, NBC, Nice Shoes, The Orphanage, first automatic 3D & 2D tracker software. Peerless, Rhinocerous FX, Rhythm & Hues, Ring of Fire, Sony Pictures Imageworks, Toyota, WETA Price: $2500 Available Now! Digital, Yleisradio Oy For the bullet proof, find out more at www.2d3.com www.2d3.com The virtual interchangeable with the real As the more self-respecting of its practitioners will attest, there are no ways to predict what will or will not happen in the fickle stashDVD MAGAZINE world of pitches, pixels and plug-ins. But at the storytelling level things that work keep repeating – just ask any parent on their third STASH MEDIA INC. copy of Green Eggs and Ham. Editor: STEPHEN PRICE Publisher: GREG ROBINS From the slapstick business of Blur’s Gopher Broke short (04.29) Associate editor: HEATHER GRIEVE to the tear-inducing starkness of Sarah McLachlan’s World on Fire DVD production: METROPOLIS DVD, New York video (04.20) the scope of stories on Stash 04 is panoramic, as are Web site: ERIC WANG, lorez.net the range of budgets, talent and tools used to produce them. Animation: KYLE SIM, TOPIX, Toronto Toolkit: 3DS Max, Inferno And in the interest of giving you more of the story on these stories, Music: TREVOR MORRIS, selected projects now feature links in the book that guide you to Media Ventures, Santa Monica expanded coverage online. Thanks: CHEYENNE, STEVE, MAYA, NICOLE, JASON, TYLER Cover Image: GOPHER BROKE courtesy BLUR STUDIOS, Venice CA. Stephen Price Stash toolkit: Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Transmit, Powerbook G4s, Editor Helvetica Neue, DIN, radioio.com New York 12/04 Contains 99.9% saturated phat. [email protected] SUBSCRIBE at www.stashmedia.tv Legal things: Stash Magazine and Stash DVD are published 12 times per year by Stash Media Inc. All rights reserved and contents copyright Stash Media Inc. No part of this booklet nor the Stash DVD may be copied without express written permission from the publisher. Stash Media Inc. does not promote or endorse products, services or events advertised by third party advertisers in this publication. Submissions are welcome. Please refer to the Submissions information in this book or online. Subscrptions available from www.stashmedia.tv. Contact us at: Stash Media Inc., 207 W. Hastings St., Suite 506, Vancouver, BC V6B 1H7 Canada stash 04.01 stash 04.02 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: DIGITAL DOMAIN 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”.
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