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www.2d3.com The virtual interchangeable with the real The best moments of this job have little chills attached. I’m talking about the goosebump action triggered by the discovery of fresh, exceptional, stash non-derivative, transcendent or just shockingly well executed projects DVD MAGAZINE 09 capable of slapping loose your cynicism. These little jolts are magnified several fold when the source of that talent is a director or studio that has, STASH MEDIA INC. seemingly, leapt from obscurity onto your optic nerves ready for world- Editor: STEPHEN PRICE wide prime time. Publisher: GREG ROBINS Associate editor: HEATHER GRIEVE Stash 09 is a virtual bucket of finger-licking morsels from talent you’ve Associate publisher: LARA OSLAND probably never heard of. Start with our cover project; an ambitious and DVD production: M1 DIGITAL, NY tightly executed mix of design and maniacal photo-real rendering from Web site: ERIC WANG, lorez.net Visual Art, the Stockholm-based studio profiled on our back page. But Animation: KYLE SIM, TOPIX, Toronto wait, there’s more: Our lead-off spot from The Glue Society and The LaB, Toolkit: 3DS Max, Inferno the anti-smoking PSA spec from director/VFX artist Paul Santana, a Nike Music: TREVOR MORRIS, in-store video from Amsterdam’s PostPanic and two truly twisted pieces Media Ventures, Santa Monica from Dutch director Han Hoogerbrugge. Montage editor: STEVE PERRY Thanks: CHEYENNE, CAROLINE, And speaking of brilliant new talent – judging for the 2005 Global Student MAYA, NICOLE, JASON, TYLER Animation Awards gets underway this month. Check the GSAA site at Cover Image: VISUAL ART, Stockholm www.stashmedia.tv/GSAA over the summer for semi-finalist and finalist Replace cap after use. announcements. Winners will be declared in Stash 13 this September. ISSN 1712-5928 SUBSCRIBE, BUY BACK ISSUES, SUBMIT, ADVERTISE, OR JUST FIND OUT MORE ABOUT STASH: Stephen Price www.stashmedia.tv New York June 2005 Legal things: Stash Magazine and Stash DVD are published 12 times per year by Stash [email protected] 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 09.01

CANON DIG!C “RODEO” TVC :30

Agency: LEO BURNETT, SYDNEY Director: THE GLUE SOCIETY Production: @RADICAL MEDIA, SYDNEY VFX: THE LAB www.thelabsydney.com.au Directing team The Glue Society join fellow Australians the LaB to create a spot which may loosen your grip on what is real and what is not. To make a point about the sharpness of Canon’s new IXUS 40 digital still camera, the live action cowboys and rodeo clowns were dressed in foam ‘boxolated’ costumes and shot reacting to a For Leo Burnett For the LaB real bull and rider. The CG bull and CD: Glen Ryan Producer: Tina Braham rider where animated to match Creatives: John Kane, Derek Inferno: Matthew Unwin their real-world counterparts with Green, Matt Smith, Luke Crethar, Lead animator: Alex Goodwin digital dust effects and matte Matt Devine Dust VFX: Kevin Blom paintings completeing the illusion. Producer: Brenden Johnson Matte painter: Thomas Kaiser Colourist: Dave Hollingsworth For @Radical Media, Sydney EP: Loewn Steel For The Glue Society Producer: Peter Kearney DP: Keith Wagstaff stash 09.02

GATORADE “SHATTERED” TVC :30

Agency: ELEMENT 79 PARTNERS Director: BRIAN BELETIC Production: SMUGGLER VFX: DIGITAL DOMAIN www.d2.com Digital Domain is all broken up over the launch of Gatorade’s new Endurance Formula. The over- parched athletes were digitally scanned on location during the live action shoot in Sao Paulo, For Element 79 Partners For Digital Domain TDs: John Cooper, Daniel Maskit Brazil. Back at the DD studios in Producer: Nicky Furno Sr. VP of production: Ed Ulbrich Tracking/integration: Marco Venice CA, each character was AD: Tom Wilson EP: Gabby Evans Maldonaldo rigged and roto-animated to plate Copy: Dave Boensch VFX super: Brad Parker Roto: Stephen Edwards, Eddie photography in Maya with the HOP: Michael Pardee Gutierrez, Dolores Pope For Smuggler athlete shattering and rigid body Producer: Stephanie Gilgar DP: Emmanuel Lubezki dynamic simulations completed VFX coord: Susan Long EP: Brian Carmody in Houdini. Surfacing and lighting CG supers: Nikos Kalaitzidis, Producer: Paul Ure were done in LightWave. Karl Denham For PS 260 Flame: Jonny Hicks, Anita Read more about this project Editor: Maury Loeb Razzano at www.stashmedia.tv/09_02. Pre-vis: John Allardice Toolkit Check the Behind the Scenes Digital artists: David Chan, Janelle Houdini, Lightwave, Maya, CySlice, feature on the DVD for more on Croshaw, Dan Fowler, Hammer Track, Nuke (Digital Domain this project. Chu Wai Ho, Brandon Perlow, Proprietory software), Flame John Riggs, David Rindner, Doug Wilkinson stash 09.03

DOMESTOS “MULTIPLICATION” TVC :30 Agency: For Lowe LOWE AD: Greg Milbourne Client: Copy: Jason Fretwell UNILEVER Producer: Sarah Hallatt Director: For Passion Pictures RUSSELL BROOKE Producer: Cara Speller Character design: Richard Dolan, Production/animation: Mike Koeltsch PASSION PICTURES CG modelling: Robin Konieczny, www.passion-pictures.com Matt Westrup The new TV campaign for the Rigging: Mark Wilson, Morgan Domestos brand of household Evans cleaners continues with another CG lighting/textures: Stuart Hall, brilliantly disgusting 3D wise guy Nikos Gatos designed by illustrator and comic CG animation: Bart Boirot, Russell book artist Richard Dolan. This Brooke, Matt Everitt episode ﬁnds the germ-land tough Compositing: Neil Reilly, Stuart guy pondering his eminent death Hall, David Lea in the corner of your shower. TD: Mark Wilson The dribbling, ﬁzzing, steaming VFX super: Chris Knott, Neil Reilly backgrounds where shot live Editor: Jamie Foord action and composited with the For 750 mph CG characters to complete that Sound design: Gary Walker cozy down home feel. Toolkit: XSI, Mental Ray, Combustion stash 09.04

ENERGIZER “FREEWAY” TVC :30

For Lowe Agency: AD: Greg Milbourne DDB, SYDNEY Copy: Jason Fretwell Director: Producer: Sarah Hallatt BRUCE HUNT For Passion Pictures Production: Producer: Cara Speller @RADICAL Character design: Richard Dolan, VFX/animation: Mike Koeltsch ANIMAL LOGIC CG modelling: Robin Konieczny, www.animallogic.com Matt Westrup Rigging: Mark Wilson, Morgan The latest adventure of NRG, the Evans 3D character at the center of the CG lighting/textures: Stuart Hall, ongoing Energizer campaign, Nikos Gatos references action cues from The CG animation: Bart Boirot, Russell Matrix: Reloaded and the Indiana Brooke, Matt Everitt Jones series. Created for the New Compositing: Neil Reilly, Stuart Zealand and South-East Asia Hall, David Lea markets, the commercial packs TD: Mark Wilson 30 VFX shots into 30 seconds VFX super: Chris Knott, Neil Reilly For DDB Sydney Assist compositor: Nick Ponzoni with Animal Logic creating the Editor: Jamie Foord Producer: Sean Ashcroft 3D lead: Will Reichelt character and sundry 3D bits like trafﬁc cones, ﬂying debris, a bridge For 750 mph AD: Michael O¹Rourke 3D animation lead: Michael Mellor and tunnel as well as live action Sound design: Gary Walker Copy: Misha McDonald 3D lighting lead: Andrew Lodge 3D team: Paul Braddock, Brett composites of smoke, sparks and For @radical Toolkit: Margules, Tristan Lock, Tom heat haze. XSI, Mental Ray, Combustion Producer: Julianne Shelton Bardwell, David Hansen, Paul Read more about this project For Animal Logic Jakovich at www.stashmedia.tv/09_04. EP: Jacqui Newman Editor: Drew Thompson Producer: Nerissa Kavanagh Check the Behind the Scenes Toolkit Line producer: Pip Malone feature on the DVD for more on Inferno, Maya, PR Man VFX super: Andy McKenna this project. Lead compositor: Andy McKenna stash 09.05

GIZMONDO “BUMBLEBEE” TVC :30

Agency: MOTHER Director: JOHAN RIMER Animation: VISUAL ART www.visualart.se This all-CG spot for Gizmondo’s handheld gaming/music/movies/ camera/texting device was created in ﬁve weeks by animation and post house Visual Art. The Stockholm-based studio employed Joe Alter’s Shave and a Haircut software to place a million hairs on the bee which was modeled after a real Bombus terrestris borrowed from the Swedish Museum of Natural History. The 30 second project took a week to render with some frames topping out at eight hours. Check out the Behind the Scenes feature on the DVD to see the animatic. Read a proﬁle of Visual Art on the StashLIFE page at the back of this book. For Visual Art CD/lead 3D: Johan Rimér Producer: Johan Sjöstedt Project manager: Frida Färlin Project assistant: Eva Mautino 3D: Niklas Ström, Mattias Forsstöm, Daniel Rodén, Kim Hellgren 2D: Niklas Nyqvist, Emnet Mulugeta, Dogge Artursson 2D/editor: Kalle Lundberg Flame: Jens-Peter Sjöberg Toolkit Maya, Renderman, Mental Ray, After Effects, Flame, Shake, Joe Alter’s Shave and a Haircut stash 09.06

DIRECT TV “NO BALL”, “NO TEAM” TVCs :30 x 2 Agency: BBDO ECD: ERIC SILVER Post/VFX: CHARLEX www.charlex.com Two deceptively simple spots based on actual game footage make the point your NCAA coverage is not complete without DirecTV. The tricky part here is For BBDO once an element - the ball or the ECD: Eric Silver opposing players - is rotoscoped Sr ADs: Rich Ardito, Grant Smith and handpainted out of a shot, Copy: Tom Christmann what ever was behind that element AD: Jerome Marucchi has to be seamlessly recreated. Producer: Ed Zazzera Hands, faces, limbs, even the For Charlex folds in a player’s uniform were ECD: Alex Weil rebuilt from scratch, animated and Flame: Joanne Ungar, Tony composited a frame at a time by Robbins, Jeff Heusser, Rick the Charlex Flame team. Spain, Mike Mendizabal, Evan Check the Behind the Scenes Schoonmaker, Burtis Scott, Kevin feature on the DVD for more on Quinlan, Philana Dias this project. VP/Flame artists: Greg Oyen, Marc Goldﬁne VP/sr editor: John Zawisha Producer: Jenn Dewey VP/EP: Adam Isidore Toolkit Flame stash 09.07

AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION “ODDS” PSA :30 (spec) Director: PAUL SANTANA Production/VFX: SUBLIMINAL PICTURES www.subliminalpictures.com Working with unsuspecting pedestrians, a budget under $1000 and a desktop Mac running Photoshop and After Effects, director Paul Santana makes a gut-wrenching spec spot to drive For BBDO home your chances of death ECD: Eric Silver by smoking. The shoot totaled Sr ADs: Rich Ardito, Grant Smith one day of live action on the Copy: Tom Christmann streets of downtown LA and a AD: Jerome Marucchi day of elements on green. As of Producer: Ed Zazzera press time new director Santana (http://reel.paulsantanadirector. For Charlex com/?st) is seeking representation ECD: Alex Weil but something tells us he won’t be Flame: Joanne Ungar, Tony for long. Robbins, Jeff Heusser, Rick Spain, Mike Mendizabal, Evan Check the Behind Scenes Schoonmaker, Burtis Scott, Kevin feature on the DVD for more on Quinlan, Philana Dias this project. VP/Flame artists: Greg Oyen, Marc Goldﬁne For Subliminal Pictures For Big Ears VP/sr editor: John Zawisha Producer: Steven Gould Sound design: Marc Levisohn, Producer: Jenn Dewey Copy: Paul Santana, Steven Gould Toolkit: VP/EP: Adam Isidore DP: Greg Daniels After Effects, Photoshop Editor: Tod Modisett Toolkit VFX/CG: Paul Santana Flame stash 09.08

TOYOTA CAMRY “KNIVES” TVC :60

Agency: SAATCHI & SAATCHI, SYDNEY Director: STEVE ROGERS Production: REVOLVER FILM VFX: ANIMAL LOGIC www.animallogic.com Using Paul Thomas Anderson’s frog deluge in Magnolia as a visual reference, Animal Logic creates a CG knife-storm nightmare for Toyota. Shot in Sydney over four nights using a hand held camera and long lenses in low light, the spot’s signiﬁcant tracking challenges were conquered by wielding boujou for the wide shots For Revolver Film Lodge, Bhakar James, Jeremy and brute force hand matching for Director: Steve Rogers Howdin, Michael Mellor, Paul close-ups. Co-producer: Georgina Wilson Braddock, Steve Beck, Tom Bardwell, Tristan Lock, Brett Read a detailed account of For Animal Logic Margules, Dylan Yeo, Gerrard how this spot was produced at Producer: Sarah Beard Southam www.stashmedia.tv/09_08. Line producer: Pip Malone Designer: Thomas Diakomichalis For Saatchi & Saatchi VFX super: Andy Brown Producer: Scott McBurnie Lead compositor: Leoni Willis Editor: Stewart Reeves (Guillotine) Compositors: Andy McKenna, CD: ‘Nobby’ David Nobay Audio: Human Music and Sound AD: Peter Buckley Mark Robinson Copy: Tim Brown 3D team leader: Nathan Mitchell Toolkit 3D team: Alwyn Hunt, Andrew Maya, PR Man, Flame, boujou stash 09.09

SCION “WHAT MOVES YOU TC” TVC :30 For ATTIK Agency: CD: Simon Needham ATTIK Copy: Wayne Hanson Co-directors: Sr producer: Rudy Hanks ROB DUPEAR, SIMON For The Embassy NEEDHAM, WILSON TANG Co-director: Wilson Tang VFX/animation: VFX producers: Winston Helgason, THE EMBASSY Nancy Mott www.theembassyvfx.com VFX super: Simon Van de Lagemaat Attik and Vancouver-based The Compositing super: Stephen Embassy combine forces in this Pepper latest frenetic and stylin’ effort Lead CG: Ryan Cronin, Marc Roth for Scion. The spot uses CG Compositors: Jon Anastasiades, to effectively push the mass- Brenda Campbell customization options offered Editing: Matthew Griffiths by the tC model. All shots, 3D: Jim Hebb, Dan Prentice except the interior gearshift/ DP: Daniel Ardilley stereo transformations and the sunroof flythrough, are computer Toolkit generated. Lightwave, Modo, Maya, boujou, K9, Shake, GenArts Sapphire, Check the Behind the Scenes Framecycler, Brains, Eyes, Hands, feature on the DVD for more on Computers this project. For Circle Productions Editor: Mathew Griffiths For Mo-phonics Composer: Zach Corbell stash 09.10

MTV “MAKING THE BAND 3” TVCs :15 x 3

Client: MTV NETWORKS Director: MATT LENSKI Production/VFX: CLICK 3X www.click3x.com For this series of spots promoting Sean Combs’ stab at molding the next all-female pop phenom, Manhattan’s Click 3x harvests dialogue from the reality TV show and feeds it to baby chickens ﬁlmed on miniature sets. With For MTV Networks only two weeks to turn the spots Sr VP OAP: Kevin Mackall around, Click 3x decided against VPs OAP: Joe Ortiz, Amy a CG solution working instead in Campbell Flame to tweak the birds’ eyes Director: Matt Lenski for appropriate expressions and Copy: Soo-hyun Chung, replace the bottom half of the their Matt Lenski beaks with a digital element. Producer: Seyi Peter Thomas Read more about this project DP: Todd Antonio Somodevilla at www.stashmedia.tv/09_10 For Click 3X Editor: Rob Campbell Sr VFX: Mark Szumski EP: Jason Mayo Title design: Zack Kinney Toolkit Flame stash 09.11

VH1 CLASSIC “MATZO AND METAL” OPEN Broadcast design Client: VH1 NETWORKS Director: AARON STEWART Animation: HORNET INC. www.hornetinc.com Mixing popsicle sticks and cotton balls with plagues and pestilence, director Aaron Stewart creates a perfectly ridiculous open for this VH1 special about Jewish 80’s hair bands (Anthrax, Mountain, Twisted Sister) celebrating Passover and For MTV Networks watching classic videos. Oy vay. Sr VP OAP: Kevin Mackall VPs OAP: Joe Ortiz, Amy For VH1 Networks Campbell CD: Jim Fitzgerald Director: Matt Lenski AD: Rob Grobengieser Copy: Soo-hyun Chung, Producer: Gary Encarnacion Matt Lenski For Hornet Inc. Producer: Seyi Peter Thomas EP: Michael Feder DP: Todd Antonio Somodevilla Producer: Hana Shimizu For Click 3X Animator: Efrain Cintron Editor: Rob Campbell For Compound Sr VFX: Mark Szumski Music/sound design: Scott EP: Jason Mayo Pittinsky, Xandy Barry Title design: Zack Kinney Toolkit Toolkit After Effects, Flash, Photoshop, Flame Illustrator stash 09.12

KERRANG! IDs Broadcast Design x 4

Client: EMAP PERFORMANCE LTD Director: JAMIE BALLIU Production: ACADEMY FILMS Animation: CONKERCO www.conkerco.com Conkerco brands The Kerrang! music channel with a subversive nod to 1970’s British government information films like the Sammy the Squirrel road safety series and the nuclear fallout campaign Protect Yourself!. The London- based studio seamlessly merge 2D characters with 3d environments while carefully recreating the mistakes in timing, camerawork and character movement endemic to the educational ouvre. Patrick Allen, the voice of the original films, supplies the mellifluous VO. Animation director/AD/Animation/ Editing/Post: Conkerco Toolkit Maya stash 09.13

RADIO DISNEY “WHERE THEY CAN HEAR ME” Branded music video Client: RADIO DISNEY Director: DAVE FOSS Production/VFX/animation: KA-CHEW! www.ka-chew.com The mouse house locks onto the 6-11 kids’ demo with this way- kooky branded music video for the Radio Disney brand. Working from the commissioned track, Ka-chew! creates an animated band and environments from still images. The video is featured as a theater For Ka-chew! trailer, on DVD packaging, Disney Animators: Ariel Martian, Matthew branded channels, cross channel Hale buys, broadband and trade outs Element prep: Songgu Kwon, with local broadcasters. The song Doug Lussenhop Where They Can Hear Me is in On-Line Smoke editor: Jesse rotation on, surprise, Radio Disney. Morrow Producer: Kristina Schoentag Toolkit: After Effects, LightWave, Final Cut Pro, Photoshop, Illustrator

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DISCOVERY LIFESTYLE NETWORK IDs Broadcast design X 2 Agency: JACK WATTS CURRIE CD: FINNEGAN SPENCER Design/animation: ENGINE www.engine.net.au Two IDs for Discovery Lifestyle Networks’ male-targeted Real Time channel and part of a global image campaign produced by Sydney-based Engine to air in India, Latin America, Asia, the UK and Europe throughout 2005 with an initial audience of 70 million across 82 countries and 15 languages. For Engine CD: Finnegan Spencer EP: Alastair Stephen Sr producer: Celia Nicholas 2D animator/compositor: Mark Boey Sr CG: Nick Kaletorakis, 3D animators: Bernard Stock, James McCallum Toolkit Maya, Mental Ray, After Effects, Shake, Photoshop stash 09.15

MTV “ADVANCE WARNING” SHOW OPEN AND CLOSER Broadcast design x 2 Client: MTV INTERNATIONAL NETWORKS Creatives: PAUL BEDSER, DAVID CAMERON Directors: PETER MOLLER, JAMES THOMPSON Animation: BERMUDA SHORTS www.bermudashorts.com The MTV show that scans the pop music horizon for notable newbies looks back to the late sixties for some Yellow Submarine styling. Character animation for these For MTV Networks opening and closer sequences International was produced in Flash with the SVP/creative: Cristian Jofre backgrounds, camera moves and Creative: Peter Moller compositing completed in After Illustration: Paul Bedser, Sparkview Effects. Design/animation: David Cameron For Bermuda Shorts Animator: James Thompson Character animator: Nick Brooks Producer: Jade Caffoor Toolkit Flash, After Effects stash 09.16

CINGULAR & MTV TRL “LEVEL 1” TVC :30 Client: MTV NETWORKS Director: JAMES PRICE Animation: TRANSISTOR STUDIOS www.transistorstudios.com The ﬁrst of two spots in a cross promotion where you can interact with MTV’s Total Request Live program via your Cingular cell service. Director James Price conceived the whimsical multi- level game world as a way to handle the volume of factual information required by the script. The spot was created from Price’s For MTV Networks illustrations with the environments CD: Jason Roth animated in After Effects and the Producer: Meg Sudlik hero built and animated in Maya. For Transistor Studios Design director: James Price AD: Jonathan Cannon 3D: Joao Amorim EP: Damon Meena Producer: Curtis Mead Toolkit After Effects, Final Cut Pro, Photoshop, Illustrator, Maya stash 09.17

FFC AUSTRALIA ID Cinematic motion design

Client: FILM FINANCE CORPORATION AUSTRALIA Director: DAEL OATES Production: ANIMAL LOGIC VFX/animation: ANIMAL LOGIC www.animallogic.com Director Dael Oates locked onto the element of fire as the one metaphor that could embody the spirit of storytelling on the vast and varied southern continent. The sequence imagines a storyteller For MTV Networks painting the FFC logo in the night CD: Jason Roth air with burning embers from the Producer: Meg Sudlik communal fire. The live action For Transistor Studios elements were filmed at Fox Design director: James Price Studios in Sydney and composited AD: Jonathan Cannon at Animal Logic. The sequence 3D: Joao Amorim will screen in Australian cinemas before films financially supported EP: Damon Meena For Animal Logic DP: Tom Gleeson by the FFC. Producer: Curtis Mead Designer: Dael Oates Audio: Supersonic Lead compositor: Mark Robinson Toolkit Toolkit Editor: Dael Oates After Effects, Final Cut Pro, After Effects, Inferno Photoshop, Illustrator, Maya Producer: Caroline Renshaw Design assistant: Marianne Khoo Prod assistant: Nathan Thompson stash 09.18

TED2005 CONFERENCE OPENERS Event motion design CDs: JAKOB TROLLBACK, JOE WRIGHT Production/design/VFX: TROLLBACK + COMPANY www.trollback.com The TED conference in Monterey, CA is an annual mecca for high- end hipsters and heavy thinkers in the fields of technology, entertainment, and design. Through a variety of filmmaking techniques including high-speed photography for Water, computer- generated algorithms for Fire and time-lapse for Air, Trollbäck + Company designed and produced these four main opens and fifty- two shorter pieces to intro the conference speakers. For TED2005 Curator: Chris Anderson Content producer: Kelly Stoetzel PR: Jessica Switzer

For Trollbäck + Company For Sacred Noise CDs: Jakob Trollbäck, Joe Wright Music/sound design: Michael AD: Todd Neale Montes Lead designer: Tolga Yildiz Designer: Jonathan Gershon Toolkit: J r designer: Emre Veryeri After Effects, Photoshop, Illustrator EP: Elizabeth Kiehner stash 09.19

SONY PLAYSTATION 2 “GODS”, “MONSTERS” TVC :30 X 2 Agency: TBWA\CHIAT\DAY Directors: BROTHERS STRAUSE VFX/animation: HYDRAULX www.hydraulx.com With God of War rated the second most popular game in the US, directing duo Brothers Strause wanted to be sure the action in these spots was true to the players’ experience. The characters, built on actual game data assets, were imported into Maya, animated, then projected For TBWA\CHIAT\DAY onto the walls of the sets to create CD: Jerry Gentile their ghostly appearance. Those Copy: Gage Clegg sets included a 30 inch high AD: Dana Markee miniature of the Parthenon built Producer: Lorraine Krause at Universal Studios. Wide shots and set extensions were built from For Hydraulx 2,000 11 MP stills shot by the VFX: Brothers Strause directors on location in Athens. VFX super: Chris Watts Post for both spots spanned less Toolkit than two weeks. Inferno, Maya, Canon 1DS stash 09.20

THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS “BELIEVE” Music video Record Label: For Factory Films VIRGIN RECORDS Producer: John Madsen Directors: For Framestore CFC DOM & NIC VFX super: Ben Cronin Production: CGI super/TD: Andy Boyd FACTORY FILMS 3D animators/TDs: Jamie Isles, Chris Syborn, Nicklas Andersson, VFX: Alex Doyle, Howard Sly, Anders FRAMESTORE CFC Thonell, Don Mahmood, Dean www.framestore-cfc.com Robinson, Kate Hood, Jake During the shoot for the Renault Mengers, Rob Holder ‘Hector’s Life’ spot (Stash 07) Sr Inferno: Ben Cronin Framestore CFC and directing Inferno: Chris Redding team Dom & Nic shot tests using Post producer: Rebecca Barbour Mini DV. Intrigued with the feel Line producer: Linda Francini and hand held look of the digital Toolkit footage, the directors chose to Image Based Lighting with Mental use the format for this narrative Ray, Maya, Inferno promo that would have been too expensive in 35mm. With over 30 CG shots to do in a compressed schedule, senior TD Chris Syborn used Maya’s dynamic hair tools to handle the secondary motion required by the robot’s tail of cabling and wires. The ﬁnal composite was completed in two weeks. stash 09.21

BARLOW “PERFECT WAVE” Music video

For Factory Films Record Label: Producer: John Madsen SONY BMG For Framestore CFC Director: VFX super: Ben Cronin STEPHEN SCOTT CGI super/TD: Andy Boyd Production: 3D animators/TDs: Jamie Isles, SPY FILMS Chris Syborn, Nicklas Andersson, VFX/animation: Alex Doyle, Howard Sly, Anders LOOPMEDIA Thonell, Don Mahmood, Dean www.loopmedia.com Robinson, Kate Hood, Jake Mengers, Rob Holder Toronto’s Loopmedia gets all crazy Sr Inferno: Ben Cronin and stuff in this dense and frenetic Inferno: Chris Redding visual assault for homegrown band Post producer: Rebecca Barbour Barlow. Using a combination of Line producer: Linda Francini HD and 3D animation gave the production team more options Toolkit says CD Craig Kirkham,”Our goal Image Based Lighting with Mental was to create something that Ray, Maya, Inferno would capture the stream-of- conscious style of the song’s lyrics and maintain Barlow’s high-energy performance. HD enabled us to zoom in and pan around without losing resolution.” For Spy Films EP: Richard Cureton For Loopmedia CD/partner: Craig Kirkham Sr producer: Tony Graham Toolkit: Maya, Combustion, After Effects

“RAINY DAY FUN FOR CHILDREN AGES 6 AND UP” Short ﬁlm Director: JAKE PORTMAN Design/animation: NOTACTUALSIZE www.notactualsize.net A 1970s children’s activity book comes to hallucinogenic life in this personal project from British designer/director Jake Portman who currently pays the bills as a mograph man in LA. Based on an idea he has nursed since college, Portman says he started building elements on evenings and weekends late last year, “About mid-January I realized I’d got absolutely nowhere and took 3 weeks off to ﬁnish it up.” The track came courtesy of musical collaborators Braincloud. For notactualsize Design/animation: Jake Portman Music: Braincloud Toolkit After Effects, Cinema 4D, Illustrator, Photoshop, stash 09.23

NIKE “LOOK GOOD BE BAD” In-store video

Client: NIKE BRAND DESIGN EMEA Director: POSTPANIC Production/animation: POSTPANIC www.postpanic.nl Using motion capture of Brazil’s For Nike Brand Design EMEA soccer wizard Roberto Carlos, Brand director: Mike Tiedy Amsterdam-based motion Film and TV director: Bas van Koll graphics and print studio Producer: Nicola Finn PostPanic envisions what has For PostPanic to be the most stylish sports Director: Mischa Rozema videogame ever with this ambitious Producer: Ania Markham in-store video seen in Nike outlets CDs: Mischa Rozema, Jules across Europe, the Middle East Tervoort, Mark Visser and Africa. The Art Directors Club Design/animation: Mischa of The Netherlands awarded this Rozema, Jules Tervoort, Mark spot their 2005 Lamp Award for art Visser direction. Sr 3D: Ivor Goldberg Motion Capture: Giant Studios (USA) Composer/sound design: Milk Bar, Amsterdam Toolkit 3DS Max, After Effects, Illustrator, Photoshop, Swift 3D, Final Cut Pro stash 09.24

PUMA “CHARCOAL” TVC :27

Director: MICHAEL WALDRON Animation: NAILGUN* www.nailgun.tv Scratching with humble lead pencils on charcoal paper, Manhattan’s nailgun create a minimal, organic and tightly choreographed piece that draws on the motifs and colors of pottery crafted by the ancient Greeks. These same Greeks, it is widely rumored, also created the Olympic games. For nailgun Designer: Michael Waldron Director of editorial/animation: Erik van der Wilden Designer/animator: Charles Kline Music: “Juice (Know the Ledge)” by Eric B and Rhakim Toolkit After Effects, Photoshop, Illustrator, Garage Band, Canon GL1, 3 Ebony Pencils, charcoal paper stash 09.25

SPAM SINGLES “HOT TUB”, “UKELELE” TVCs :15 x 2 Client: HORMEL FOODS Agency BBDO, Minneapolis Director: CLINT! RUNGE Design/animation: ARCHRIVAL www.archrival.com Two of eight animated spots designed, animated and ﬁnished by Archrival, a Lincoln, Nebraska brand strategy and design ﬁrm, to introduce SPAM Singles. The new campaign takes place in a blue and yellow SPAM world and continues the “Crazy Tasty” theme, a hook that has successfully attracted younger mystery meat For Archrival fans to the SPAM brand. CD: Clint! Runge Producer: Joe Goddard For BBDO Animators: Carey Jaques, CDs: Denny Haley, Mark Andeer Cassidy Kovanda Copy: Dan Armstrong AD: Dustin Black For Modern Music & Sound Producer: Amy Jo Schulteis Design Composer: Rick Meyer Toolkit Flash, After Effects, Final Cut stash 09.26

WORDSTOCK 2005 “HOW TO WRITE A STORY” TVC :30 Agency: FOURSTORIES, PORTLAND Director: CHEL WHITE Production/animation: BENT IMAGE LAB www.bentimagelab.com A public service announcement created for Wordstock 2005, a literary festival featuring guest speakers such as Norman Mailer, Russel Banks, John Irving, Susan Orlean, and many more. Dark and humorous, the piece features a stream-of-conscious look at the writing process, told with animated images straight from the subconscious… or somewhere.

For FourStories DP: Mark Eifert Still photography: Mark Eifert, CD: Austin Howe Designer: Chel White Randall Wakerlin, CJ Beaman, Copy: Scott Poole Editor: Steven Miller Chel White. Producer: Austin Howe Sound designer/mixer: Lance Photoshop: CJ Beaman, Account exec: John Drake Limbocker Nikole Fraley. Compositors: Steve Balzer, Orland For Bent Image Lab Toolkit Nutt, Randall Wakerlin. EPs: Chel White, Ray Di Carlo After Effects, Avid Adrenaline, Assist compositors: James Birkett, Producers: Chel White, Randall Photoshop 7.0, Nikon D-100 Brian Kinkley, Natasha Kruze. Wakerlin stash 09.27

HAN HOOGERBRUGGE Recent work

Production: SHOP AROUND IN MOTION www.shop-around.nl Design/animation HAN HOOGERBRUGGE www.hoogerbrugge.com A Rotterdam native who counts Winsor McKay, Damien Hirst, Christopher Walken and Star Trek Voyager among his influences, Han Hoogerbrugge came to cult prominence in the last half of the nineties with a series of web animations based on his autobiographical comic strip Holland Animation Film Neurotica. Hoogerbrugge uses a Festival Open simplified rotoscoping technique Design/2D animation: to transfer video frames of his Han Hoogerbrugge characters to tracing paper then 3D animation: Jeroen Beltman scans the drawings into flash for Sound: Aad den Ouden production. Diesel Dreams Campaign Design/2D animation: Han Hoogerbrugge Sound: Han Hoogerbrugge Toolkit Flash, Cinema 3D stash 09.28

GORILLAZ “FEEL GOOD INC.” Music video

Record label: PARLOPHONE Directors: JAMIE HEWLETT, PETE CANDELAND Production/VFX/animation: PASSION PICTURES www.passion-pictures.com Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett, better known as the animated band Gorillaz, are back with their ﬁrst album since their multi-million selling 2001 debut. This video for the ﬁrst single fuses drawn and computer animation, painted backgrounds and treated live action. All the animation was done in-house at Passion Pictures with co-director Candeland helming a team of 35 animators, designers and compositors over a 12-week AD: Daniel Cacouault For Rushes schedule. Matte painter: VFX: Duncan Malcolm, Marcus Read more about this project Christobal de Oliveira Wood, Brian Carbin and the full credit list at CG animation: Wesley Coman Producer: Carl Grinter CG supers: Chris Hemming, www.stashmedia.tv/09_ 28 Toolkit: Antoine Moulineau Toonz, Lightwave, Photoshop, For Passion Pictures Sr compositor: Johnny Still After Effects EP: Andrew Ruhemann Compositing: Niamh Lines, Producers: Emilie Walmsley, Cassiano Prado, Ed Salkeld Cara Speller TD: Mark Wilson 2D animation: Robert Valley, Heath Kenny, Rikke Asbjorn stash 09.29

SONY DREAMS “LITTLE PONY” Branded content Director: STYLEWAR/FILIP ENGSTROM Production: SMUGGLER VFX: THE MILL FRAMESTORE CFC MOVING PICTURE COMPANY SMOKE & MIRRORS A52 SWAY This is the fourth year Sony placed their newest HD production For Smuggler gear in the hands of A-list EPs: Patrick Milling Smith, advertising directors and their Brian Carmody associated production companies. Producers: Allison Kunzman, The result is a star-studded Jeff Miller invitational branded short film Writers: Filip Engstrom, Sinuhe festival designed to help Sony Shrecengost HD technology penetrate the DP: Joe Desalvo commercials market. This film, 2nd unit photography: Tim Angulo from Sweden’s Filip Engstrom of Production designer: the Stylewar directing collective, Steve Sumney finds six ace VFX houses donating For PS260 time and talent to a vivid childhood Editors: Maury Loeb, Sara Idris fantasy of dogfight heroics. For Q Department Read more on this project Sound Design/music super: and the full credits at www. Maury Loeb stashmedia.tv/09_29. stashPROFILE On the Cover: The Buzz from Sweden

Who: Visual Art Production AB (VA) doing a lot of stuff for London and shoot create the ofﬂine, produce If you could have any band, looking for bigger challenges in the the 3D, and post the masterpiece.” Founded: 1997 alive or dead, play the company US. Most important is to do really Christmas party who would cool stuff.” The work comes from: Where: Stockholm Scandinavia 60%, rest of the world it be and what songs would By who: Partners Johan Sjöstedt The spark: “We (the two Johan’s) 40%. you request? “Beounce, Britney and Johan Rimér. grew up together and had the Spears and Kylie Minoeue singing same interests and that was the Marketing plan: Currently seeking How big: Fourteen fulltime staff, representation in the UK and US. christmas songs just wearing start of VA. We started like a small Santa hats.” freelancers for bigger productions. 3D house, and developed that to Look up to: ILM, Pixar, Framestore Working with: Maya, Renderman a complete production chain with and The Mill. and Mental Ray for 3D. Flame, both concept/design and editing/ post production division.” Secrets to success: “We are Shake and After Effects for the 2D. used to working in smaller teams Plan for world domination: “We How they work: “Our production with smaller budgets and are feel that Sweden is too small, and pipe takes care of everything from forced to produce a lot in a short we are working more and more with brief to delivery. We develop the timeline.” the International market. We are visual concepts, oversee the ﬁlm www.visualart.se

One of three branded content short 3D motion design for Nokia Broadcast IDs for Tv3 Sweden, Music video: The Rasmus “Funeral ﬁlms for Absolut Norway and Hungary Song”

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