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DVD MAGAZINE Outstanding animation, VFX and motion graphics for design and advertising 07

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Thanks to the double-barrelled rush of the Superbowl and the Oscars, Stash 07 includes a whack-load of brilliant work for big brands. But stash among the most amazing pieces this issue is a PSA. “Esuvee”, and its DVD MAGAZINE 07 shaggy grill-faced beasts, are the result of a legal settlement whereby STASH MEDIA INC. Ford pays the $27 million tab to convince North Americans to drive their Editor: STEPHEN PRICE SUVs with more care. The spot is a rare collision of fearless creative Publisher: GREG ROBINS (Bartle Bogle Hegarty, NY) and ambitious execution (Framestore CFC, Associate editor: HEATHER GRIEVE London). It will stampede through awards shows well into next year. DVD production: M1 DIGITAL, NY Web site: ERIC WANG, lorez.net The man responsible for herding the Esuvee species to the screen was Animation: KYLE SIM, TOPIX, Toronto Framestore CFC VFX super William Bartlett who, much to his parents’ Toolkit: 3DS Max, Inferno delight, gave up on his promising math degree to make Super-8 films with Music: TREVOR MORRIS, Media Ventures, Santa Monica bits of colored clay. You can read the Stash interview with him at the back Arms Stash Montage editor: STEVE PERRY of this month’s book. Thanks: CHEYENNE, CAROLINE, From the pioneers in automatic visual arts Trusted by all the high calibre studios: AAV, MAYA, NICOLE, JASON, TYLER Esuvee is also featured in the Behind the Scenes section of the DVD which technology comes a new grade of affordable Asylum Visual Effects, BBC, BSkyB, CBC, CBS Cover Image: “Esuvee” courtesy you will now find is more easily accessible from the Main Menu. The BTS FRAMESTORE CFC, London camera tracking software. Animation, Cinesite, Double Negative, ESC for Stash 07 also includes insightful segments from Method, Aardman, Do not iron. Entertainment, Frantic Films, Fuel, Fuji TV, Giant Killer Pure, Flickerlab and a near-genius stop-motion pitch from Brand New ISSN 1712-5928 Fast and accurate whatever you shoot, boujou Robots, Hammerhead, Hayes Davidson, Illusion Arts, School featuring slabs of talking meat with facial hair. SUBSCRIBE, BUY BACK ISSUES, bullet incorporates all the features of the original, JAK (Lucas Film), Jim Henson's Creature Shop, SUBMIT, ADVERTISE, OR JUST adding an easier interface at an affordable price. Mainframe Entertainment, Meteor Studios, Moving FIND OUT MORE ABOUT STASH: There may be a smooth exit after that thought but I can’t find it. Expand your arsenal of tools with the world's Picture Company, NBC, Nice Shoes, The Orphanage, www.stashmedia.tv Peerless, Rhinocerous FX, Rhythm & Hues, Ring of first automatic 3D & 2D tracker software. Legal things: Stash Magazine and Stash DVD Fire, Sony Pictures Imageworks, Toyota, WETA are published 12 times per year by Stash Stephen Price Media Inc. All rights reserved and contents New York Price: $2500 Available Now! Digital, Yleisradio Oy copyright Stash Media Inc. No part of this booklet nor the Stash DVD may be copied March 2005 without express written permission from For the bullet proof, find out more at the publisher. Stash Media Inc. does not [email protected] promote or endorse products, services or www.2d3.com events advertised by third party advertisers in this publication. Submissions are welcome. Please refer to the Submissions information www.2d3.com The virtual interchangeable with the real 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 07.01

RENAULT ESPACE “HECTOR’S LIFE” TVC :60 Agency: PUBLICIS CONSEIL Directors: DOM & NIC Production: OUTSIDER, UK BANDITS, FRANCE Animation/VFX: FRAMESTORE CFC www.framestore-cfc.com This charming escape of a humble comic strip character from his paneled prison to the wide-open spaces ﬁrst aired in France on Christmas Eve, 2004. The backgrounds were shot in Italy with Hector (and beetle) coming to life in 3D over six weeks at the Framestore CFC studios For Framestore CFC For Publicis Conseil in London. The track is Canned VFX super: Ben Cronin Creatives: Bénédicte Potel, Heat’s 1968 hit Going Up the Inferno: Ben Cronin, Darran Thierry Lebec Country. Nicholson Producer: Muriel Allegrini 3D animators: Nicklas Andersson, For Outsider (UK) / Dale Newton, Dean Robinson Bandits (France) TDs: Jamie Isles, Simon Stoney Producer: John Madsen Render assistance: Alex Doyle Colourist: Steffan Perry Producer: Rebecca Barbour Toolkit Inferno, Maya, boujou, Matchmover, Shake, Spirit 4K stash 07.02

VOLKSWAGEN GOLF GTI “GENE” TVC :60 Agency: BMP DDB Director: NE-O Production: STINK www.stink.tv VFX/animation: MOVING PICTURE COMPANY www.moving-picture.com For BMP DDB The Singing in the Rain dance Producer: Richard Chambers sequence from the 1952 ﬁlm of For Stink the same name is sacred to many Producer: Blake Powell so you screw with it at your own DP: Patrick Duroux risk. Few are complaining about this result, a convincing update For Moving Picture Company of Gene Kelly into a euphoric Producer: Graham Bird breakdancer. Mr. Kelly’s head Lead Inferno: Christophe Allender, was cut from an HD version of the Alex Lovejoy ﬁlm, stabilized and then tracked Inferno: Nico Cotta, Ziggy onto the breakdancer’s body. A Zigouras, Dan Sanders, Darren simple enough idea that required Christie, Eileen Chang precision execution - the head Combustion: Giuliano Cavalli, often had to be reversed, frame- Daniel Adams cut and morphed together to For Marshall Street Editors match the new dance moves. Editor: Tim Thorton Allan Telecine: Jean-Clement Soret Toolkit Maya, boujou, Shake, Photoshop stash 07.03

HP “IT CONSOLIDATES” TVC :30

Client: HEWLETT PACKARD Agency: GOODBY, SILVERSTEIN & For Goodby, Silverstein & PARTNERS Partners Director: EP: Elizabeth O’Toole MOTION THEORY Sr producer: Hilary Bradley Design/animation/VFX: CD: John Norman MOTION THEORY Associate CDs: Rick Condos, www.motiontheory.com Hunter Hindman AD: Stacy Milrany The animated whimsy of this Copy: Will Elliott spot adds a friendly face to dry technology and makes us want For Motion Theory to believe HP servers could bring AD: Mathew Cullen our everyday business chaos VFX super: John Clark under control. Motion Theory pulls Sr designer: Mark Kudsi off some heavy consolidating of Designers/animators: Paulo de its own, seamlessly integrating Almada, Kaan Atilla, Earl Burnley, conventional live action production John Clark, Mathew Cullen, Jesus with motion control, stop-motion de Francisco, Gabe Dunne, Jesse animation, CG and illustration. Franklin, Christopher Janney, Chris De St Jeor, Linas Jodwalis, Mark Kudsi, Mark Kulakoff, Mark Lai, Chris Leone, Vi Nguyen, Robyn Resella, Kirk Shintani, Mike Slane Pre-vis: Chris Leone Post coordinator: James Taylor Artists: Joseph Hart, Carm Goode, Daniel Chang, Ryan Wallace Toolkit Maya, After Effects, Final Cut Pro stash 07.04

NBA STREET V3 “AIROGLYPHICS” TVC :30 Client: EA SPORTS BIG Agency: SEE Director: TODD MUELLER Design/animation/editorial: PSYOP www.psyop.tv For Psyop CD: Todd Mueller NBA icons Carmelo Anthony Head CG: Marco Spier and Baron Davis go one-on-one Flame: Eben Mears in this choreographed mix-up EP: Justin Booth-Clibborn of animation, motion graphics, Producer: Lisa Villamil game footage, and gritty live Assistant prod: Mariya Shikher action shot on location in New Editor: Jed Boyer York’s infamous “crack is whack” TD: Domel Libid park. The challenge for Psyop Rigging/shading: Todd Akita, was to re-invent the veteran Pakorn Bupphavesa grafﬁti+hoops=hip formula by 3D rendering: Vadim Turchin taking the viewer into the world Animators: Marko Vukovic, of NBA Street V3 rather than just Maurice Caicedo, Gerald Ding, showing them the game. Christian Bach, Josh Harvey, For See Vadim Turchin CDs: Tom Scharpf, Tom Coates Tracking: Joerg Liebold Producer: Robyn Wilkinson Roto/paint: Joe Vitale, Adam Van Copy: Steven Tornello Dine, Mats Andersson AD: Jeff Beberman Illustrators: Tristan Eaton, Daniel Design director: Eric Rindal Piwowarczyk Toolkit: XSI, Flame, After Effects stash 07.05

DIRECT TV “FORWARD” TVC :60

Agency: For BBDO BBDO CDs: Ari Weiss, Eric Silver Director: ADs: Dan Kelleher, Jerome Marucci NOAM MURRO Producer: Andy Wilcox Production: For Biscuit Filmworks BISCUIT FILMWORKS EP: Shawn Lacy Tessaro Producer: Kathy Rhodes VFX: DP: Toby Irwin METHOD STUDIOS www.methodstudios.com For Bikini Edit Editor: Avi Oron BBDO and DirectTV opted to squeeze some emotion into For Method For Company 3 Superbowl Sunday via this EP: Neysa Horsburgh Colorist: Stefan Sonnenfeld Producer: Sue Troyan seamless and epic minute-long trip Previz: Casey Schatz through five decades of television. VFX shoot supers: Alex Frisch, The understated final results belie Gil Baron, Hatem Benabdallah the problem-solving that went Lead 2D: Alex Frisch into the commercial as Method 2D: Alex Kolasinski, Andrew VFX super Alex Frisch attests, “In Eksner, Joana Cruz Method’s ten-year history, this was Junior 2D: Katrina Salicrup, our biggest job to date in terms of Kyle Obley, Zach Lo complexity.” Lead 3D: Gil Baron, Hatem Benabdallah Check out the Behind the 3D: Casey Schatz, Chris Smallfield, Scenes feature on the DVD for James LeBloch, Jeremy Butler, a close look at how this spot Olivier Van Zeveren was produced. Toolkit Maya, boujou, Bulldog Motion Control rig stash 07.06

“ESUVEE” Cinema and TVC :60

For BBDO Agency: CDs: Ari Weiss, Eric Silver BARTLE BOGLE HEGARTY, NY ADs: Dan Kelleher, Jerome Marucci Director: Producer: Andy Wilcox DANNY KLEINMAN For Biscuit Filmworks Production: EP: Shawn Lacy Tessaro KLEINMAN PRODUCTIONS Producer: Kathy Rhodes DP: Toby Irwin VFX: FRAMESTORE CFC For Bikini Edit www.framestore-cfc.com Editor: Avi Oron Arguably the most VFX intensive For Company 3 PSA in history, this spot required Colorist: Stefan Sonnenfeld the creation of a photo-realistic herd of long-haired CG creatures Previz: Casey Schatz interacting with humans in three months. Technical prep work on the creatures’ shaggy coats alone took two months and was ﬁnally solved using Maya’s Paint Effects. The spot is one component of a $27 million campaign produced For Bartle Bogle Hegarty For Framestore CFC Roto: Nicha Kumkeaw, as part of the settlement with Ford Producer: Bruce Wellington VFX super/Inferno: William Bartlett Dasha Ashley related to the high incidence of Creatives: John Hobbs, Peter CGI supers/TDs: Andy Boyd and Inferno: Chris Redding, Darran SUV rollovers particularly among Rosch Jake Mengers Nicholson younger male drivers. 3D animators: Don Mahmood, Rob Colourist: Matt Turner For Kleinman Productions Hemmings, Gwilym Morris, Nicklas Post producer: Scott Grifﬁn Producer: Johnnie Frankel Andersson, Anders Thonell, PA: Linda Francini Check the Behind the Scenes Federico Cascinelli feature on the DVD for more on Toolkit TDs: David Mellor, Dean Robinson, this project. Inferno, Maya with proprietary Laura Dias, Howard Sly, Alex Doyle in-house scripts/plug-ins, boujou, 3D assistant: Thomas Mortimer Matchmover, Spirit 4K stash 07.07

DIET COKE “ROLLER GIRL” TVC :30

Agency: FOOTE CONE & BELDING Director: PAUL HUNTER Production: HSI VFX/animation: PSYOP www.psyop.tv Techno-snobs may whine that anyone can do CG bubbles. But with their choreographed effervescence and convincing refractive integration with the live For Psyop action, these little spheres lift this EP: Justin Booth-Clibborn spot into the guilty-pleasure zone. Producer: Boo Wong It’s enough to make those of us Associate prod: Mariya Shikher in less temperate climes wish we CDs: Todd Mueller, Kylie Matulick too could sip soda and roller skate Flame: Eben Mears, Chris Staves, by the ocean in February without Mark French, Aska Otake our nostrils freezing shut. This :30 TD: Marko Vukovic, Pakorn follows last year’s Psyop work for Bupphavesa Diet Coke: “Tingle” and “Bounce” 3D animators: Chris Bach, Eric starring Kate Beckinsale and Lampi, Domel Libid, Alvin Bae, Adrien Brody, respectively. Jason Goodman For Foote, Cone & Belding Tracking: Joerg Liebold Producer: Diane Hill Roto: J Bills, Joe Vitale, Chris CD: Gary Resch Halstead, Adam Van Dine, David AD: Mark Warﬁeld Krikorian, Toolkit XSI, Flame, Photoshop stash 07.08

BOOTS “FULL IMPACT” TVC :30

Agency: MOTHER Director: DOUGAL WILSON Production: BLINK PRODUCITONS Animation/VFX: MOVING PICTURE COMPANY www.moving-picture.com The background plates for this 30 second hallucination were shot using motion control on a set in Prague. Back in London MPC integrated clean passes of the shot with 2K live action elements – people, trees, water fountain, gumball machine and newspaper - which were tracked in 3D to ensure For Moving Picture Company accurate positioning within the Producer: Julie Evans scene. The background buildings Inferno: Tom Harding, Dan are CG as are other atmospheric Sanders, Richard McKeand elements including leaves, glass 3D: Richard Nelson and shadows. Telecine: Jean-Clement Soret For Mother For Final Cut Producer: Zoe Bell Editor: Suzy Davis For Blink Productions Toolkit Producer: Matt Fone Inferno, Flame, Combustion, DP: Steve Keith-Roach Maya, boujou, Shake, Photoshop, Spirit Datacine stash 07.09

VOLVO “ROCKET” TVC :30

Agency: EURO RSCG Director: JONATHAN SELBY Production: BRAVE FILMS www.braveﬁlms.com VFX/post: CHARLEX www.charlex.com Charlex puts a certain billionaire into space for the Superbowl aboard their HD 3D replica of a Saturn 5 rocket (bumper sticker included). Other post work included treating the CG to match archival footage, recreating the For Charlex opening launch shot – including ECD: Alex Weil lights, elevator and smoke – from CG super: Keith McCabe a still frame of an Apollo lift-off Lead TD: Karl Coyner and using 3D particle effects for Lead lighting: James Fisher the dust trail behind the speeding Lighting TDs: Gong Myung Lee, Volvo. Cody Chen For EURO RSCG Animator: Derek Wong Producer: Joe Guyt Rigger: Andre Stuppert CDs: John Rhea, Michael Fineberg Modeling/texturing: Joon Lee AD: Rocky Pina Toolkit Copy: Larry Silverﬁne Flame, Maya, Mental Ray, Digital Fusion stash 07.10

ADIDAS “MADE TO PERFECTION” TVC :60 Agency: TBWA\CHIAT\DAY Director: RUPERT SANDERS Production: OMAHA PICTURES VFX: METHOD STUDIOS www.methodstudios.com To the horror of Darwinists everywhere, the true origins of NBA stars Kevin Garnett, Tracy McGrady and Tim Duncan are revealed in this high-concept spot held together with meticulous For Method planning and ﬂawless VFX by EP: Neysa Horsburgh Method Studios. The Santa Producer: Paul Perez Hahn Monica-based studio brought live VFX shoot supers: Cedric Nicolas, action elements, scale models and Paul Peder Hahn CG together in a month of post. Lead 2D: Cedric Nicolas For TBWA\Chiat\Day 2D: Katrina Salicrup CD: Chuck McBride Lead 3D: Laurent Ledru AD: Geoff Edwards 3D: James LeBloch Producers: Jennifer Golub, For The White House Monika Prince Editor: Neal Smith Copy: Scott Duchon Toolkit For Omaha Pictures Flame, Inferno, Maya DP: Jess Hall EP: Eric Stern Producer: Chris Nelson stash 07.11

ADIDAS “THE JOURNEY” Online short ﬁlm

Agency: TBWA\CHIAT\DAY Director: IAN KOVALIK Animation: MEKANISM www.mekanism.com An extension of the story set out in the Adidas “Made to Perfection” spot, this online film follows Kevin Garnett, Tracy McGrady and Tim Duncan as they glimpse the past and possible future of professional basketball. Director Kovalik says For Mekanism Toolkit the look of the piece was inspired Editor: Ian Kovalik Maya, Entropy, After Effects, by street art tagged around urban Producers: Stef Smith, Pete Caban Photoshop, Illustrator, Final Cut basketball courts, “The challenge EP: Tommy Means Pro, Shake, 3DS Max, proprietary was to create the characters so Animation super/super human: shaders, G5, PC Lennox Boxes they feel raw while at the same Oliver Moore with AMD Chips, Kick Ass Render time using sophisticated 3D Compositor/environments: Farm models and rendering techniques. Stephen Parker By writing our own animation Animators: Tom Gibbons, Andrew renderer, we achieved a look that Schneider, Don Campbell, Neil blends flat graffiti art with dynamic Mischka, Cliff Mueller 3D animation.” Renderer: Francisco DeLaTorre Modeler: Matt Ciofi 2D illustrator: Jaan Shenberger Storyboards: Vaughn Ross Composer: J Bowman Sound design: Mit Out Sound stash 07.12

“BUFFY” TVC :30

Client: 20TH TELEVISION Creative agency: PLANET 3 Director: CHRIS DO Design/animation BLIND www.blind.com Intrigued by the work Blind had done on a spec spot for Mini For Planet 3 (Stash 02), Planet 3 enlisted the CD: Dylan Gerber Santa Monica studio to bring the For Blind same innovative transitions and CD: Chris Do graphic presence to this promo for Designers: Chris Do, Maithy Tran, a block of weekend programming. Sakona Kong The result is a gritty mix of 2D Animators: Lawrence Wyatt, illustration and 3D environments Sakona Kong, Jason Lowe, fusing into a high contrast blood- Jeremy Collins spattered nod to comic illustrator Illustrator: Bill Sneed Mike Mignola (Hellboy). Editor: Erik Buth EP: Ellen Stafford For S3 Composers: Adam Sandborne, Mike Suby Toolkit 3DS Max, Maya, Media Composer, Flame, After Effects, Photoshop, Illustrator stash 07.13

MTV2 IDs Broadcast design x 5

Directors/CDs: STEVE TOZZI, AARON KING Design/animation: PURE www.pureny.com During Superbowl halftime MTV2 reintroduced itself with a new bi-cranium canine logo and a sharper focus on 12-24 year-old guys. The network was originally launched in 1996 to ﬁll the music void left as MTV proper evolved For PURE away from heavy video rotation VFX super: Bill Denahy and shows like “Headbanger’s Director of animation: Ball” toward “The Real World” and Michael Wharton “Newlyweds.” MTV2 now reaches CG animators: Phil Avanzato, an estimated 50 million homes. Ajit Menon “We used to be simply a music Designer: Asif Mian complement to MTV. Now we’re a Producer: Bill Denahy real business,” says David Cohn, general manager of MTV2. “We Audio post: Human had to change and evolve.” Music: “Hens”: 38 Greene Check the Behind the Scenes “Strings”: DJ Shadow feature on the DVD for more on “Hipster Videogame”, “Square this project. Dutch”: Pop Beat Combo For MTV2 “Sing A Long”: Mariko Nakaya, EP/MTV OAD: Jeffrey Keyton Chesley Heymsﬁeld EP/MTV OAD: Romy Mann Toolkit AD/MTV OAD: Lena Beug After Effects, SoftImage, Flame, Photoshop, Illustrator stash 07.14

TILT - MAIN TITLES Broadcast design

Client: ESPN Design/animation: DIGITAL KITCHEN www.d-kitchen.com The wall of surveillance monitors in the bowels of a large casino frames the action and sets a mood of voyeuristic tension for ESPN’s original content primetime mini- series about the world of high- stakes poker.

For Digital Kitchen EP/president: Don McNeill CEO/CCO/ECD: Paul Matthaeus CD/lead designer: Vincent Haycock EP: Mark Bashore Producer: Kelly Carlson Sr designer: Noah Conopask Sr animator/3D: Matt LaVoy Designer: Seth Ricart Jr designer: Daniel Pernikoff Editor: Sean McGovern

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DISCOVERY “HOME AND HEALTH” LAUNCH Broadcast design x 4 Client: DISCOVERY NETWORKS INTERNATIONAL Agency: HELLER COMMUNICATIONS Design/animation NTH DEGREE www.nthdegree.tv New York’s Nth Degree designed this launch package of IDs, bumpers and on-air toolkit to appeal to women without resorting to the patronizing or clichéd imagery often associated with that half of the TV demographic. For Nth Degree The campaign is built from hand CD: Arlan Smith painted illustrations, hi-res scans of EP: David Edelstein textural elements and progressive Producer: Pamela Vitale scan HD video of talent on Sr designer: Audrey Jardin greenscreen. Though the package Designers: Ruth Raveh, Chu Fu was delivered in standard PAL, the Chun, Eric Konon use of HD allowed a wider range of Illustrator: Stefanie Augustine options to choreograph the actors Music: Mutato Muzika within the graphic environments. Composer: Mark Mothersbaugh For Discovery International EP: Robert Miltenberg SVP: Rebecca Batties Musician: Albert Fox Director OAP: Holly Roessler Toolkit For Heller Communications After Effects, Photoshop, Illustrator CD: Cheryl Heller stash 07.16

FINE LIVING NETWORK IDs Broadcast design x 3

Director: JON BERRY Design/animation: PLUS ET PLUS www.plusetplus.com A calm, lyrical and densely textured suite of IDs based on the notion of escapism. The scenes were created from layers of animated textile-inspired patterns to resemble recognizable but non-speciﬁc landscapes. For Fine Living Network For Plus et Plus Design director: Jon Berry EP: Barry Hollister Producer: Joe Hobaica CD: Jeremy Hollister AD/designer: Judy Wellfare Designer: Jennifer Kim 3D animator: Alan Bibby 2D animator: Doug Purver Music/sound design: Ohm Lab Toolkit After Effects, Photoshop, Illustrator, Cinema 4D stash 07.17

GOSPEL MUSIC CHANNEL LAUNCH Broadcast design x 3 Director: CUPPA COFFEE Animation: CUPPA COFFEE www.cuppacoffee.com Gospel music comes in many shapes and volume levels and this launch package from Toronto’s Cuppa Coffee is designed to appeal to fans of all the sub-genres of the genre - including country gospel, urban/rock gospel and tween gospel - while maintaining a cohesive overall brand. The 130 deliverables included logos, For Cuppa Coffee bumpers, IDs, transitions and EP: Adam Shaheen intros. Sr producer: Lisa Hemeon For Gospel Music Channel CDs: Hector Herrera, CD: Kevin MaGann Warren Brown Post super: Al Piazza Graphic designers: Ignacio Peon, Luis Torres Animators: Paedric O’Sullivan, Roberto Fiumano Design/animation assistant: Daniel Robinson Prod manager: France Daigle Administration: Lisa Ciolﬁ Toolkit After Effects, Photoshop, Illustrator, Final Cut Pro stash 07.18

COMEDY CENTRAL HOLIDAY IDs Broadcast design x 3 Director: EYEBALLNYC Design/production/animation EYEBALLNYC www.eyeballnyc.com Laughing in the faces of tradition, good taste and production values the staff of EyeballNYC dons For Eyeball NYC furry costumes and gets unholy CD: Limore Shur with each other and various ACD/project lead: Julian Bevan props in these holiday-themed EP: Mike Eastwood IDs. CD Limore Shur says of the Producer: Beth Vogt productions, “We managed to Lead designer: Carlo Vega reach a great balance of raunch Lead 3D designer: Stuart Simms and revelry. It was also by far the Designer/animator: Brian Sensebe most fun we had experienced on Animators: Eric Bauer, Federico set in a long time, despite the 16- Saenz, Johan Wiberg, John hour shoot.” Brennick Lead illustrator: Ghazia Jalal Intern: Joe Park PA: TJ Hwang For Expansion Team CD: Alex Moulton Composers: John Kastner, DJ Lux, Michael Picton Sound design: Alex Moulton Producer: Shelly Bajorek Toolkit After Effects, 3DS Max, Illustrator, Photoshop stash 07.19

SOUL G & TONY MATCH FEATURING JULIA MESSENGER “FOLLOW WITH THE SUN” Music video Record label: MAGOO RECORDS Client: KI COMMUNICATION Directors: JEZZ & MARIOSUPA Animation: HELLO FREAKS www.hellofreaks.com Hello Freaks, a group of French designers and animators, had less than a month to complete this trancy clip. Here’s how they tell the story, “We had only a few days to decide about the story and main aesthetic we wanted for the video. At this point, we were not sure For Ki Commuication we could finish it by the 3 lasting Producers: Olivier Bourgeois, weeks. We just dare! The energy Stephane Cornec needed for this night and day hardcore production mainly came For Hello Freaks from Chinese noodles (various Graphic artist: Jerome Castro flavours) and mansize bag of salted Animator: Mario ‘Supa’ Hounkanrin sunflower seeds. When finished, Toolkit we just get out to walk down the Illustrator, Photoshop, After streets and see the sun shining Effects, G4 PowerMac for again.” Amen. graphics, G5 PowerMac for animation stash 07.20

FEEDER “FEELING A MOMENT” Music video Record label: THE ECHO LABEL LTD. Director/designer: JONAS ODELL Production/animation: FILMTECKNARNA www.filmtecknarna.com Shot in London and posted at the Stockholm HQ of FilmTecknarna, this video for UK band Feeder combines 2D, 3D and live action in another graphically mesmerizing piece from Director Jonas Odell. “I wanted to find a way to reflect both the sadness and sense of isolation, as well as the euphoria of the track,” says Odell, “So I came up with the idea of gradually letting the realistic environments melt and explode into more graphic shapes that could reflect the emotions in the track.” Odell received a 2005 Grammy nomination for his work on the “Take Me Out” video for Franz Ferdinand.

For FilmTecknarna Design/director: Jonas Odell For Nexus Productions Producer: Lina Stenberg Producer: Julia Parﬁtt DP: Simon Chaudoir stash 07.21

SHIHAD “ALIVE” Music video

Record label: WARNER MUSIC AUSTRALIA Director: GARY SULLIVAN Animation/post: FUEL INTERNATIONAL www.fuel-depot.com Director Sullivan sources the visual tone of this clip, complete with jittery gate, lens ﬂares and a hand held camera, from his childhood in small town New Zealand, “I remember the era as one of great change, televised in black and white. I was fascinated by the newsreels of land speed tests - a New Zealander, Burt Munroe, broke the record in 1969.”

For Fuel International Lead animator: Gary Sullivan Animators: Gary Sullivan, Joseph Kim Matte painting: Daniel Cox Compositor: Dave Morley Toolkit Maya, Flame, Photoshop stash 07.22

“FOR REAL SUCCESFUL LIVING” Branded content Client: DIESEL Director: LO IACONO Design/animation: DIGITAL SNAPSHOT www.digitalsnapshot.de Director Iacono, a recent Media Design grad from Germany’s University of Applied Sciences in Mainz and winner of the Diesel Award for Emerging Talent, was invited to cozy up with the creative team at Diesel and given free reign over the look and feel of this snappy 50’s throw back. The ﬁlm, which plays online at www.diesel. com and in Diesel ﬂagship stores worldwide, was forged from 11 images lifted from the 2005 Diesel Spring catalogue. For Digital Snapshot Designer: Lo Iacono Toolkit After Effects, Maya, XSI, Combustion stash 07.23

CREATIVE SPACE “CITIES” Environmental visuals (cut down) Client: CREATIVE SPACE, NETHERLANDS Agency: COMBUSTIC Director: ROGIER HENDRIKS Production/animation: ONESIZE www.onesize.nl Delft-based Onesize, a creative production studio founded in 2001, brings a refreshingly weird and obtuse perspective to the environmental visuals for a conference on cultural innovation and economic policy in the Netherlands called Space for For Onesize Creative Economy. Developed Director: Rogier Hendriks from an open brief, the full Design/animation: Rogier seven-minute clip proﬁles the Hendriks, Markus Hornof seven sponsoring cities and was Audio: Typocraft projected on six massive screens Toolkit during the event. Cinema4D, After Effects, For Combustic Photoshop, Illustrator, G5s, Producers: Casper Koomen, Sony DVcam Penny Pijnenburg stash 07.24

“BLOOM” Art installation

Client: SHARP Agency: WEIDEN+KENNEDY Curator: FORMAVISION www.formavision.info Director/animation: TRONIC STUDIO www.tronicstudio.com To highlight Sharp’s new line of Aquos HD screens, W+K engaged Formavision to curate an art installation built around the product. Formavision chose New York-based Tronic Studio to create the multi-media exhibition including the sculptural environment and animated content to run on the LCD panels. To enhance the idea Sharp HD screens are immersive enough to fog the line between the real and the reel, the ﬁlm brings to life the physical installation constructed around it in the gallery. Sound design: Q Department Toolkit 3DSMax, After Burn, Brazil, GLU, Photoshop, After Effects, Final Cut stash 07.25

ALL BALL “STEPHON” TVC :30

Client: NEW YORK KNICKS Agency: PERSAUD BROTHERS MARKETING & ADVERTISING Director: JAKE BANKS Production: STARDUST STUDIOS, EAST For Stardust Studios, East VFX/animation: Line producer: Josephine Tyne STARDUST STUDIOS, WEST www.stardust.tv For Stardust Studios, West EP: Matthew Marquis The New York Knicks may not CD: Jake Banks have a shot at the post season Post-producer: Eileen Doherty but they do have funked-up TV Animators: Will Arendrain, Preston spots including this one featuring Brown, Sandy Chang, Yan Ng, Stephon Marbury dribbling and Angie Tien deaking through a collage of the Off-line editor: Tony Hall ﬁve boroughs. Marbury was shot on Toolkit green and married with stills of the Final Cut Pro, After Effects, Apple’s streets and landmarks in a 3DS Max, Shake, Combustion, four week post session in the West Photoshop, Illustrator coast studio of Stardust. For Persaud Brothers Marketing & Advertising CDs: Skot Bright, Sasha Penn Partners: Irwin Persaud, Michael Persaud stash 07.26

FORD FIESTA “APPARITION” (“APARICION”) TVC :30 Agency: BASSAT OGILVY, MADRID Director: SEBASTIAN ALFIE Production/animation: BUS www.bus-pro.com VFX/animation: FLICKERLAB www.ﬂickerlab.com Collaborating via broadband, Madrid-based prodco BUS and New York animation house FlickerLab create a fabulously cheesed-out babes-in-paradise fantasy for the new Vodaphone equipped Fiesta. Live action elements for the :30, produced For Bassat Ogilvy For BUS (animation) After Effects: Lori Newman, for the Spanish market, were CD: Pedro Urbez EP/animation director: Larissa Starikova, Robert, shot in Madrid with animation Copy: Gonzal Urbez, Rafa Joel Marsden Jan deVries and compositing completed Hernandez Producer: Javier Sanjuan Junior composite/matte cutting: back in New York. FlickerLab is Prod director: Ramon Corominas Post coordinator: Graham Holly, Gregg Hische represented for commercials in Producer: Chelo Pascual de Monica Herrera Maya modeling/animation: Reeves Europe by BUS-Animation. Zulueta Blakeslee, Rebus Studios For FlickerLab Check the Behind the Scenes For BUS (live action) Animation director/VFX super: Toolkit feature on the DVD for a look at EPs: Pablo Nolla, Pilu Pilosio Harold Moss After Effects, Maya, Flint, how this spot was produced. DP: Alfonso Seguro “Cuco” EP: Tammy Walters Dreamweaver, Photoshop Editor: David Lopez AD: David Michael Friend Art director: Leticia Lara Associate prod: Franklin S. Zitter Compositor: Sean McLean stash 07.27

PG TIPS “CUPBOARDS” TVC :40

Agency: DDB Client: UNILEVER Director: DANIEL ROBBIE Animation: AARDMAN www.aardman.com Post: For Aardman RUSHES EP: John Woolley www.rushes.co.uk Production/floor manager: A very British look back at the Rob Hurley 75-year history of the PG Tips DP: Mark Chamberlain tea brand via five stop-motion Animators: Richard Webber, Kim vignettes. Each of the eras Keukeliere, Martin Davies, Will - the 1930’s, 1940’s, 1960’s, Harding 1970’s, and today – are treated Electricians: Ian Jewels, to resemble film looks from the Matthew Kitcat For DDB time including distressed black & Camera assistant: Sam Morris Producer: Richard Chambers white with a smear of sepia for the Sets/props: John Wright Creatives: Mike Hannett, Dave ‘30s and the bright saturated look Set dresser: Mel Ford Buchanan associated with the ‘70’s. Compositor: Bram Tthweam Editors: Nikk Fielden, Dan For Unilever Check out the behind the Williamson Senior brand manager: scenes feature on the DVD for PA: Annabel Maidment Fiona Forbes more on this project. For Rushes Producer: Joe West Sound: Hilary Wyatt (Videosonics) Foley artist: Mellisa Lake stash 07.28

“DESTINY ON THE HIGH SEA”, “FORBIDDEN LOVE” TVCs :30 x2 Client: THE NATIONAL PORK BOARD Agency: THE RICHARDS GROUP Director: BEN GO Animation: BRAND NEW SCHOOL www.brandnewschool.com For The Richards Group The Richards Group should win AD: Dean Oram some kind of award just for selling Copy: David Morring the stop motion faceless-talking- Producer: Alison Wagner meat idea to the client. The fact they and BNS pulled it off with For Brand New School wit, savior-faire and perfectly bad AD: Ben Go accents should win them another. CD: Jonathan Notaro The two spots debuted during the Designer: Max Erenberger Oscars. Animators: Adam Greene, Sang-Hoon Lee, Helder Sun, Check the Behind the Scenes Andy Kim, Dixon Chow feature on the DVD to see the Flame: Alan Lattiera stop motion pitch that won Photographer: Ian Brook BNS the job. EP: Kevin Batten Producer: Rachel Kaminek Editing: Brand New School Music: Wojahn Bros Music Audio Post: Lime Toolkit Maya, After Effects, Flame, Illustrator, Photoshop stash 07.29

NATIONWIDE “SCIENCE PROJECT” TVC :30 Agency: TM ADVERTISNG Director: FRANK TODARO Production: MOXIE PICTURES www.moxiepictures.com VFX: A52 www.a52.com Perhaps best known for their invisible VFX work on spots like Nike “Magnet” (Stash 02), West Hollywood’s A52 blasted onto the Superbowl with this straightforward but perfectly For Moxie Pictures For Rock Paper Scissors executed :30. A52’s team used EP: Roger Zorovich Producer: Kelly Garcia Flame to composite visual effects Line producer: Kathy Rhodes Editor: Adam Pertofsky DP: Toby Irwin elements including interactive light For Company 3 passes, live action explosion plates For A52 Colorist: Stefan Sonnenfeld and CG laser beams created with EP: Mark Tobin Music: Fluid Houdini and Pixar’s Renderman. Producers: Lisa Beroud, April For TM Advertising Killingsworth Sound Design: Elias Arts Producer: Florence Babbitt On-set VFX supers: Lisa Beroud, Toolkit Group CDs: Wade Alger, Simon Scott, Craig “X-Ray” Houdini, Renderman, Flame Jay Russell Halperin Copy: Wade Alger VFX super/Flame: Simon Scott ADs: Scott Brewer, Jay Russell Henry/online editor: Scott Johnson TDs: Craig “X-Ray” Halperin, Westley Sarokin, Robin Petersson stash 07.30

SKYPE.COM Viral ﬁlms 3 x :30

Agency: ALBION COMMUNICATIONS Director: ANDREW GRIFFIN Animation: UP THE RESOLUTION www.uptheresolution.co.uk Finding a brilliant balance between the cute and the macabre, this series of online films from Up the Resolution is designed to remind viewers that Skype’s internet phone services relies on sharing. The London-based design and animation studio landed the job on the strength of character animations they created for a toy project called ‘minipips’. To accommodate the extremely low budget of the Skype series, each of the episodes was completed in a week by one animator. From initial scripts and storyboard through sound design and finished animation, all work was handled in-house. For Up the Resolution Director/animator: Andrew Griffin Toolkit After Effects stashLIFE Willam Bartlett’s Strange Menagerie

William Bartlett was pursuing a Framestore CFC produces a lot One thing that is not really degree in math in the early ‘90s of high-end creature VFX for appreciated is a job that takes when he realized he enjoyed the film and television. That work one person ten days cannot be time he spent making super-8 films must help when it comes to done by ten people in one day. with blobs of Plasticine a whole pitching and producing spots Particularly complex jobs need lot better than number theory and like Esuvee. to be done in a certain order and cryptography. Runner and tape op throwing more and more people Esuvee was actually won by jobs at Cell Animation in London at it does not always make it [director] Daniel Kleinman. He soon led to a love affair with the go faster and always means it then brought it to us but we did company’s compositing boxes, ends up not looking as good as not exactly have to pitch him as “As soon as I started playing it could. For example if you have we have worked with him for around with the henry I knew I had ten creature shots to animate your years [Johnnie Walker ‘Fish’, Xbox found the right job for me,” recalls optimum number of animators “Mosquito”, the title sequence for Bartlett. Nine months later he would probably be two or three Die Another Day]. It was more a answered an ad for a junior henry who would do a section each. case of discussing the possibilities operator at Framestore and his fate If you put ten people on it to do and limitations. At that stage it was sealed. one shot each you will get a very was enormously useful to have all inconsistent result. the experience of our CGI team Willam Bartlett to draw on. Not only things that I If you could wave your magic is a VFX myself have worked on [Johnnie techo-wand and grant VFX supervisor and Musical mosquitos and schools of Walker Fish, The Lost World] but artists three wishes what Inferno artist pre-bipedal humans - just two of within the company there is a huge would they be? at Framestore the strange creatures inhabiting wealth of knowledge in that area. CFC in London. 1. Always have “just one more day” worlds created by Bartlett. For example we had just finished Recent credits at the end of every job. work on the Hippogriff in the last From top: Xbox “Mosquito” and include the 2. Instant rendering. Harry Potter film which was a full Johnnie Walker “Fish” both for multi-award 3. A better view from my window. CG creature with people riding on director Daniel Kleinman through winning the back of it. Kleinman Productions and Bartle Johnnie Walker Bogle Hegarty. “Fish” spot and If you could grab clients by this month’s the lapels and make them cover project remember just one thing, what “Esuvee” would it be? ��

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