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HONDA CIVIC Short ﬁlm

Agency: NEXUS - H Director: ZEITGUISED Production: LOST IN SPACE www.lostinspace.com Animation: NO STRINGS ATTACHED LTD. www.nsa-ltd.com With this two-minute ﬁlm – screened online and at car shows – the German directing duo of Jamie Raap and Henrik Mauler, AKA Zeitguised, continue the experimental thread they started with their “Zoo” video for Funkstörung. Lost in Space CD Christian Hogue, who previously repped Rapp and Mauler, and For Nexus-H For The Joint borrowed the duo from Rokkit for CDs: Glenn Smith, Craig Roderick Grade/online: John Cryer the project, says at ﬁve weeks the Additional compositing: schedule was tight but “luckily For Lost In Space Marios Theodosi Zeitguised are very fast at creating Producer/VFX super: and modifying full 3D animatics Christian Hogue Soundtrack: Funkstörung which allowed quick turnaround.” For Enchanted Films Toolkit CG work was handled by London’s DP: Jonathan Clabburn 3ds Max, Brazil, Combustion, No Strings Attached. Producer: Roger W. Moore Final Cut Pro For No Strings Attached Ltd Supervisor: Alan Marques stash 17.02

BELL SOUTH “KUNG FU CLOWNS” TVC :60 Agency: WAYNE WEST Director: ROCKY MORTON Production: MJZ Post/VFX: THE MILL NY www.the-mill.com For West Wayne Director Rocky Morton rescues CDs: Bobby Pearce, 70s kung fu parodies from the pop Dave Damman culture bone yard with this A-list Producer: Connie Newberry effort sure to be ubiquitous at For MJZ awards shows this year. Working DOP: Julian Whatley with a spectacular cut by Gavin Cutler, the Mill NY team pumped For MacKenzie Cutler up the ﬁght sequences with matte Editor: Gavin Cutler work and rig removal and created For The Mill the CG water for the Matrix-bred Flame: Jamie Scott, David Parker scene in which Bonkers the clown Flame assists: Tara DeMarco, bends backwards to avoid being Anu Nagaraj sprayed. CGI: Yann Mabille Shoot super: Lesley Robson Foster Post producer: Melanie Wickham Telecine: Fergus McCall Telecine assist: Alex Maxwell Telecine producer: Angela Botta Toolkit Flame, Maya stash 17.03

THORTONS “SAVE MY BACON” TVC :40

Agency: MCDB Director: RUAIRI ROBINSON Production: BLINKINK Animation/VFX: THE MILL For MCDB www.the-mill.com Creatives: Adam & Saunby Director Ruairi Robinson was Producer: Russell Taylor nominated for an Oscar in 2002 for For Blinkink his darkly comic CG short “Fifty Director/compositing: Percent Grey”. For production Ruairi Robinson of his ﬁrst UK commercial, Producer: Bart Yates Robinson took up residence in the 3D department at the Mill For The Mill to work as closely as possible Production team: Darren O’Kelly, with the animators and to edit Stephen Venning the spot together himself. Watch 3D animator super: Jordi Bares the last two shots of the Turkey Lead character animator: and Farmer carefully. Countless Martin Gauvreau tests and 30 rendered takes were 3D animation: Laurent Makowski, required to accommodate the Sam Driscoll, Martin Contel, Jean- emotional and effects demands of Louis Billard, Francois Roisin, Jules those scenes alone. Janaud, Scott Eaton, Eva-Maria Kucklmann, Cenay Oekman Flame: Phil Crowe, Gavin Wellsman Data grading: Mick Vincent Toolkit XSI, Z-Brush, Flame, Data Grading stash 17.04

COCA-COLA “ARCTIC BEACH PARTY” Cinema and TVC :30 For Berlin Cameron/Red Cell Agency: CDs: Chris Shipman, Izzy DeBellis BERLIN CAMERON/RED CELL, Producer: Chris Kyriakos NY For Passion Pictures Directors: AD: Daniel Cacouault PIERRE COFFIN, KYLE BALDA Producer: Erika Forzy Production/animation: EP: Hugo Sands PASSION PICTURES Animation: Kyle Balda, www.passion-pictures.com Pierre Leduc, Christophe Petit For MCDB Animation/post: Lighting: Emmanuel Jarry, Creatives: Adam & Saunby MAC GUFF LIGNE Oliver Lufﬁn, Producer: Russell Taylor www.macguff.fr Modelling: Jerome Gordon, For Blinkink Franck Clarenc Due to legal problems with their Director/compositing: Editors: Pierre Cofﬁn, Kyle Balda agent and complaints from the Ruairi Robinson Los Angeles hair stylists’ union, Music: The Beach Boys Producer: Bart Yates the Coca Cola polar bears chose For The Mill Toolkit to shoot their latest TV spot in Production team: Darren O’Kelly, Maya, Mglr (Mac Guff Ligne Europe. Introduced to the world Stephen Venning rendering software),Trukor (Mac by Rhythm & Hues in 1993, the 3D animator super: Jordi Bares Guff Ligne compositing software) trio of urdus maritimus completed Lead character animator: this, their 10th commercial, with Martin Gauvreau Passion Pictures through their 3D animation: Laurent Makowski, new Paris studio and are now on Sam Driscoll, Martin Contel, Jean- vacation in an undisclosed part of Louis Billard, Francois Roisin, Jules Finland. Their lawyer did not return Janaud, Scott Eaton, Eva-Maria queries before press time. Kucklmann, Cenay Oekman Flame: Phil Crowe, Gavin Wellsman Data grading: Mick Vincent Toolkit XSI, Z-Brush, Flame, Data Grading stash 17.05

SONY PLAYSTATION PSP “RATS”, “BIG GUNS” TVCs :30 x 2 Agency: TBWA\CHIAT\DAY Director: MONKMUS Animation: HORNET INC. www.hornetinc.com Two pieces from a fun six-spot campaign with an unusual smudgy pencil and charcoal look. “We focused on keeping the pencil textures rough and hand drawn,” says Hornet director Monkmus, who balanced the gritty look by making the quirky characters For TBWA\Chiat\Day endearing. “The spots are very CD: Jerry Gentile bizarre, which is part of their ACDs: Brett Craig, Doug Mukai appeal, but by endowing the Copy: Patrick Almaguer characters with relatable human- AD: Blake Kidder like performances they become Sr producer: Anh-Thu Le much more accessible and fun For Hornet Inc. to watch.” EP: Michael Feder Producer: Danielle Amaral Animators: Dan Abdo, Jason Patterson, Masako Miyazaki 3D modeling/animation: Stanley Ilin 3D animation: Yuli Liao Editor: Anita Chao Toolkit Flash, After Effects, Photoshop stash 17.06

GEICO “BIG NEWS” TVC :30

Agency: THE MARTIN AGENCY Director: SPECK/GORDON Production: FURLINED Animation/VFX: FRAMESTORE CFC NY www.framestore-cfc.com The ﬁrst in a nine-spot package transforming the Geico gecko into what Framestore NY lead CG/effects super Dave Hulin calls, “an East End geezer type” with For TBWA\Chiat\Day For The Martin Agency a smooth cockney accent. Hulin CD: Jerry Gentile CDs: Steve Bassett, Joe Lawson, and his team of 10 animators kept ACDs: Brett Craig, Doug Mukai Ken Hines a pet gecko on hand for texture Copy: Patrick Almaguer Producer: Kerry Berkbigler and animation reference and drew AD: Blake Kidder For Furlined on the creature animation and Sr producer: Anh-Thu Le EP: Diane McArter rendering techniques developed For Hornet Inc. by Framestore for projects like For Framestore NY EP: Michael Feder Walking with Dinosaurs and Harry Producer: Sarah Dowland Producer: Danielle Amaral Potter and the Goblet of Fire. CG director: David Hulin Animators: Dan Abdo, Jason Senior Flame Artist: Murray Butler Patterson, Masako Miyazaki 3D modeling/animation: Toolkit Stanley Ilin Maya, Shake, Flame 3D animation: Yuli Liao Editor: Anita Chao Toolkit Flash, After Effects, Photoshop stash 17.07

TIMEX “FRESH COLOURS” TVC :30

Agency: OGILVY & MATHER Animation director: MATT GREENWOOD Animation: TOPIX www.topix.com The brief was simple enough – a blue dot retains its circular shape but transforms into a multitude of glowing flowers and butterflies. The details however, were very specific: each flower and butterfly had to be unique, one continuous camera move, and For Ogilvy & Mather the feel had to be organic rather CCOs: Janet Kestin, Nancy Vonk than mechanical. To make all that AD: Andrew Hart happen Toronto’s TOPIX created Copy: Adam Bailey the clouds, rain, butterflies and Producer: Margaret John 721 flower animations in After Effects with help from Trapcode For Topix and Starglow plug-ins and brought EP: Sylvain Taillon them together in Inferno where Producer: Cheyenne Bloomfield additional glows, edge rays and Animation director: color enhancements were added. Matt Greenwood Sr Inferno: Marco Polsinelli Audio: Grayson Matthews Toolkit After Effects, Inferno stash 17.08

NISSAN “SOAR” TVC :30

Agency: TBWA\CHIAT\DAY Director: JAKE BANKS Design/production/animation: STARDUST www.stardust.tv Post: ZOIC www.zoicstudios.com The first of three spots designed to emphasize the smoothness of the Nissan Murano’s Xtronic continuously variable transmission. For Ogilvy & Mather Director and Stardust ECD Jake CCOs: Janet Kestin, Nancy Vonk Banks says the biggest challenge AD: Andrew Hart was finding a shooting style Copy: Adam Bailey for the vehicle to compliment Producer: Margaret John the flowing and soaring nature For TBWA\Chiat\Day For Stardust For Company 3 of the animation: “The way we For Topix ECD: Rob Schwartz Director/ECD: Jake Banks Colorist: Stefan Sonnenfield approached the project – with EP: Sylvain Taillon CD: Joe Shands EP: Eileen Doherty extreme dynamic camera moves Producer: Cheyenne Bloomfield For Asche & Spencer Associate CDs: Mike Yagi, DOP: Neil Shapiro – allowed us to be more free with Animation director: Composer: Greg Herzenach Chris Lynch Editor: Tony Hall animation.” Stardust handled Matt Greenwood AD: David Steinke Live action producer: Rich Kaylor For Mophonics Music & Sound design, animation, live-action Sr Inferno: Marco Polsinelli Copy: Robin Fitzgerald Post producer: Erin Sullivan Sound design: John Reese production and editing with Culver Producer: Carrie Schaer Lead animator/VFX super: Audio: Grayson Matthews Toolkit City-based Zoic Studios onboard Shane Zucker For Zoic Maya, After Effects, Illustrator, for post and Flame work. Toolkit Designers: PJ LaRoche, Neil Tsai Producer: Leighton Greer FinalCut Pro, Combustion, After Effects, Inferno Animators: Joseph Andrade, Flame/online editors: Mark Loso, Photoshop John Shirley Chris Eckhart, Scott Signore, Ian Townsend, Ash Wagers stash 17.09

SEIMENS “BUILDING BLOCKS” TVC :60

Agency: PUBLICIS Directors: MARCO SPIER, CHRISTOPHER STAVES For Publicis Producer: Zamile Vilakazi Production: Copy: Clay Weiner SHOOTING GALLERY ASIA For Shooting Gallery Asia VFX: EP: Freddy Kee MASS MARKET Producer: Yee Chang Kang www.massmarket.tv For Mass Market To deliver the message that CD/Flame: Christopher Staves Siemens is an integral part of CD/3D super: Marco Spier modern life, co-directors Chris EP: Justin Lane Staves and Marco Spier of NY’s Producer: Dan Connors VFX house (and PSYOP sibling) Line producer: Josh Porter MassMarket developed the idea of Assistant producer: Ami Werner an elegant and sensual mechanical TD: Pakorn Bupphavesa cloud. “Each of the pieces in the Tracking: Joerg Liebold, Chris Hill, cloud has a speciﬁc location, ﬁrst Lutz Vogel as part of a smaller element, then CG: Alvin Bae, Laurent Bathelemy, as part of a larger structure. We Gerald Ding, Jonathan Garin, wanted to convey a sense of non- Joshua Harvey, Jungeun Kim, stop evolution and activity.” Live Domel Libid, Boris Ustaev action was shot in Singapore over Flame: Aska Otake, Joe Vitale three days. For The Mill Colorist: Fergus McCall For Final Cut Editor: Gary Knight Toolkit XSI, Inferno, Flame, boujou stash 17.10

MOTOROLA “PEBL” TVC :60

For 180 Amsterdam Agency: ECD: Richard Bullock 180 AMSTERDAM CD: Adam Chasnow Director: AD: Antero Jokinen DAVID FINCHER For Publicis Copy: Niklas Lilja Producer: Zamile Vilakazi EP: Peter Cline Production: Copy: Clay Weiner Sr producer: Tony Stearns ANONYMOUS CONTENT For Shooting Gallery Asia Editing: Fiona Groothuis Animation/VFX: DIGITAL DOMAIN EP: Freddy Kee For Anonymous Content www.d2.com Producer: Yee Chang Kang DOP: Harris Savides For Mass Market EP: Dave Morrison In their latest collaboration with Mr. CD/Flame: Christopher Staves HOP: Jeff Baron Fincher – in which all the shots are CD/3D super: Marco Spier Line producer: Robin Buxton CG except the last one – Digital Domain stretch their proprietary EP: Justin Lane For Digital Domain Terregen software to new limits to Producer: Dan Connors EP: Ed Ulbrich condense 65 million years in the Line producer: Josh Porter HOP: Mike Pardee life of an asteroid into 60 seconds. Assistant producer: Ami Werner VFX super: Eric Barba Ed Ulbrich, DD’s SVP and GM says TD: Pakorn Bupphavesa VFX producer: Lisa Beroud his team worked closely with the Tracking: Joerg Liebold, Chris Hill, Prod manager: Chris House Lutz Vogel director to give the spot the feel CG: Alvin Bae, Laurent Bathelemy, For Rock Paper Scissors of a documentary built from stock Gerald Ding, Jonathan Garin, Editor: Angus Wall footage. “The goal was to convince the viewer there were ﬁlmmakers Joshua Harvey, Jungeun Kim, For Mit Out Sound with tripods and cameras out on Domel Libid, Boris Ustaev Sound designer: Ren Klyce Flame: Aska Otake, Joe Vitale the edge of a glacier documenting For Many Rooms Music the evolution of the phone.” For The Mill Composer: Jeff Beal Colorist: Fergus McCall Watch Behind the Scenes on Toolkit the DVD. For Final Cut Editor: Gary Knight Terragen, Maya, Lightwave, 3ds Max, V-Ray, Nuke, Flame, Inferno Toolkit XSI, Inferno, Flame, boujou stash 17.11

NBC 2006 WINTER OLYMPICS “FORCES OF NATURE” TVC :40 Agency: THE NBC AGENCY Director: KENDALL BOWLIN Production: MOVING PARTS VFX: RING OF FIRE www.ringofﬁre.com Graphics: NBC MAGIC ROOM Designed and directed by The NBC Agency in-house director/CD For The NBC Agency Associate VFX prod: Feza Akcasu For NBC Magic Room Kendall Bowlin, “Forces of Nature” CMO: John Miller Inferno: John Ciampa, Thomas VP on-air graphics: targets the adrenalin gland of the President/CD: Vince Manze Downs, Paul Geiger, Eric Bruno, Brad Gensurowsky 18-34 demographic by pumping SVP on-air advertising: Ali Laventhol, Mark Robben CD: Kendall Bowlin up the drama and spectacle of Jim Vescera Lead CG: Dann Tarmy Designers/animators: the 2006 Winter Olympics. After VP/CD special projects: Digital artists: Loren Klein, Andy Charles Beckman, Clyde Beamer, 35mm shoots of US Olympic team Joseph Lee Tamandl, David Rindner, Marcel Claudio Mattia members on the slopes of Utah VP marketing & special projects: Hemingway, Bill Ball, David Editor: Gus Vouniozos and on the ice of an LA rink, West Barbara Blangiardi Summers For Sonic Fuel Hollywood’s Ring Of Fire created After Effects compositor: For Moving Parts Composers: Gerard K. Marino, the CG nature-driven effects and John Roden EP: Matt Van Buren Tim Wynn, Christopher Lennertz environments and wove them Combustion compositor: Producer: Mark Kalbfeld together with the athletes. Edward Black Toolkit Watch Behind the Scenes on For Ring of Fire 3D trackers: Seth Peterson, Inferno, Maya, Mental Ray, Real the DVD. CD/on-set super: Jerry Spivack Andrey Pavlovskiy Flow, After Effects, Photoshop, EP: John Myers Online: John Ciampa, Combustion, SynthEyes, boujou CG super/on-set super: Thomas Downs Greg Anderson DOPs: Emmanuel Vouniozos, Lead VFX prod: Casey Conroy John Mentzer stash 17.12

SPIKE TV 2005 VIDEO GAME AWARDS “TEASER”, “HOST” TVCs 2 x :30 Client: SPIKE TV Directors: CALABAZITAZ, JESSE NORTON Production: CURIOUS PICTURES www.curiouspictures.com Animation: HUMOURING THE FATES www.fates.com Calabazitaz – the directing team For Spike TV of Leopoldo and Everardo Gout EP creative: Maria Pecoraro – worked with animation director Sr VP promotion and design: Jesse Norton of Tampa-based Neils Schuurmans animation studio Humoring the Writers: Chris Carlson, Fates to create this pair of spots Keith Kopnicki for Spike TV’s “Video Game For Curious Pictures Awards 2005” hosted by Samuel Directors: Leopoldo Gout, L. Jackson. The challenge was to Everardo Gout create anticipation for the two-hour Producer: Kate Treacy special among Spike TV’s core Prod coordinator: Erica Hirshfeld audience of older males as well as the teens and boys that make For Humouring the Fates up the primary gamer market. Animation director: Jesse Norton The solution, says co-director Sound design: SoundHound, Leopoldo Gout, was “the animated Sound Lounge version of a Michael Bay ﬁlm.” stash 17.13

MTV “ROAD RALLY” Broadcast design

Client: MTV NETWORKS Director: MISCHA ROZEMA Post/animation: POSTPANIC www.postpanic.nl Following the success of their travel challenge show “The Trip”, MTV Netherlands takes the format to the US with the help of Amsterdam’s PostPanic. “Road Rally” features two bands – Di- Rect (Netherlands) and Nailpin (Belgium) – racing by van across America with no budget; relying only on their personalities and music skills to survive. Director Mischa Rozema says she wanted to make the titles “rough, fast and punk-rock. Almost like Jackass on a mission”. For PostPanic CDs: Mischa Rozema, For MTV Jules Tervoort, Mark Visser CD: Danny Smit Producer: Ania Markham AD: Valentine Kreykamp Graphics/animation: Mischa Rozema, Mark Visser Toolkit After Effects, Illustrator, Photoshop, Cinema 4D stash 17.14

BUZZ “VACUUM”, “CALLEJEROS” Station IDs Client: BUZZ CHANNEL SPAIN Director: ZINESTESIA Animation: ZINESTESIA www.zinestesia.net The Buzz Channel started as a purveyor of anime targeted at young urban Spaniards but has since expanded its fare to include a wide range of youth programming. For these network IDs Barcelona-based Zinestesia creates a strange and unforgiving stop motion world where the actors are stuffed or pneumatic and the narratives are highly unpredictable. For Zinestesia Designers/directors: Diego Ramos, Marina Spinelli Capitalizing on Alias MotionBuilder® technology, Maya 7 makes character animation easier and more accurate. Other improvements such as advanced render layering and new

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MTV “NATURALCOMMUNICATION” Short ﬁlm Client: MTV NETWORKS Director: SAM BORKSON Production/animation: DOMA FRIENDS WITH YOU www.doma.tv www.friendswithyou.com For Friends With You Director/designer: Sam Borkson Friends With You director Sam Borkson teams with Buenos For Doma Aires based studio (and fellow Designers/animators: Julian Pablo toy designers) Doma to create Manzelli, Orilo Blandini this lysergic fantasy for MTV’s Toolkit new Times Square HD screen. After Effects, Avid, Sony HDCAM He offers the following insights: Pro “Follow earth’s operator as nature communicates with each other and you the viewer. Enter into a magical story where all nature is being delegated to work together in bringing an important message to the universe. But what is the message? Watch closely and maybe you will ﬁnd out.” stash 17.16

MTV SUNDAY STEW RE-DESIGN Broadcast design Client: MTV NETWORKS CD: TODD ST. JOHN Production/animation: HUNTERGATHERER www.huntergatherer.com

For Friends With You NY’s HunterGatherer and MTV Director/designer: Sam Borkson hook up to push low-technology and your visual cortex to the For Doma For HunterGatherer breaking point by ﬂashing back to Designers/animators: Julian Pablo CD: Todd St. John some of the scarier 70s and 80s Manzelli, Orilo Blandini AD: Todd St. John, Gary Benzel video art. Explorations included Toolkit Producer: Nina Goldberg rewiring TVs to switch and misalign After Effects, Avid, Sony HDCAM Designers: Todd St. John, the RGB channels, applying large Pro Gary Benzel, Molly Schwartz, magnets to bend CRT images, Mario Stipinovitch, Fabian Tejada, partially disconnecting cables Phil Pinto to compromise signals, and Animators: Jonathan Leong, corrupting data ﬁles to generate Molly Schwartz, Mario Stipinovitch, altered images. Fabian Tejada, Todd St. John For MTV Networks Editor: Phil Pinto Producer: Aaron Stoller Additional sound design: Jonathan Leong, Mario Stipinovitch, Fabian Tejada For Ultrabland Sound design: Victor Rice Toolkit After Effects, Illustrator, Photoshop, Final Cut, MacPaint, Panasonic DVX100a stash 17.17

G4 IDs “STRANGER’S PORCH”, “STRANGER’S GUILLOTINE” Broadcast design x 2 Director: SILVIO AEBISCHER Design/animation/post: ODDWORLD INHABITANTS www.oddworld.com The lead characters from “Oddworld Stranger’s Wrath” take a side gig to cross promo their video game and the game-centric G4 TV channel. The IDs – also adapted for use by the Game One channel in France – are produced by the Oddworld studio in Berkley, CA, and supplied free to the networks with Oddworld retaining all rights. For Oddworld Animation: Rich McKain, Iain Morton TD: Iain Morton Production/character design: Raymond Swanland, Silvio Aebischer Editor: Josh Heeren Sound design/composer: Michael Bross Toolkit Maya, Maya Paint Effects, Shake stash 17.18

OLN “WANTED: TED OR ALIVE” SHOW OPEN Broadcast design Client: OUTDOOR LIFE NETWORK Creative director: JUSTIN STEPHENSON Production/animation/VFX: TRACE PICTURES www.tracepictures.com Toronto’s Trace Pictures trucked it to Mr. Nugent’s ranch in Michigan to shoot the Motorcity Madman for the opening of his new reality series – the show’s contestants compete to survive in the wild with Ted as task master. Working with green screen footage, 2D, 3D and stop motion, Trace creates a manic cat-scratch world where a Kong-size Ted chases, stomps and crushes his charges. For Outdoor Life Network VP/CD: Michael Magnotta Trace Pictures Sr. CD: Justin Stephenson EP: Trisha Emerson Producer: Cathy Keenan Animator/designers: Dave Desjardins, Michael McDougal DOP GS shoot: Anthony Seck Toolkit After Effects, Photoshop, Maya stash 17.19

BENJAMIN MOORE Corporate video

Agency: CARMICHAEL LYNCH THORBURN Director: LOGAN Design/animation: LOGAN www.hellologan.com Benjamin Moore – making paint and stuff since 1883 – get a seriously up-to-the-minute update with this piece from Venice, CA, style masters Logan. To be screened at industry trade shows and in retail stores, the three minute ﬁlm took a month to design and animate. For Carmichael Lynch Thorburn CD: Bill Thorburn Sr designer: Ben Levitz For Logan CD: Alexei Tylevich EP: Kevin Shapiro Toolkit Photoshop, After Effects, Final Cut Pro stash 17.20

U-ZIQ “FALL OF ANTIOCH” Music video

Record label: PLANETMU VIRGIN RECORDS Directors: STEPHAN BETZ, MEGID HOFF, FLORIAN WITZEL Production/animation/VFX: GEORG-SIMON-OHM- FACHHOCHSCHULE NÜRNBERG www.fh-nuernberg.de FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE www.iis.fraunhofer.de Post: DAS WERK www.das-werk.de Three students from the University of Applied Sciences Nuremberg found their inspiration for this video while listening to the U-ziq track on Windows Media Player with Particle Visualisation: “We were instantly thinking of some kind of For Georg-Simon-Ohm- For Virgin Records pixels falling on urban landscapes.” Fachhochschule Nürnberg Rights releasing: Bencur Zon After viewing the trio’s animatic/ Directors: Stephan Betz, For Das Werk ripomatic for the video, the artist Megid Hoff, Florian Witzel Da Vinci: Florian Wold and his label agreed to donate the Set support: Semin Kaynak, Inferno: Florian Decker, Ute Engel rights to the track. Total production |Ingo Walde time: 4 months. Conceptual/technical support: Toolkit Gerhard Walliczek, Softimage XSI, Da Vinci, Inferno Watch Behind the Scenes on Jorgen Schopper the DVD stash 17.21

SETTLEFISH “IT WAS BLISS” Music video

Record label: DEEP ELM RECORDS Director: J.J. JOHNSTONE Design/animation: ROCKADEE www.rockadee.com The unlikely combination of a band from Bologna, Italy, and an animation/production studio from Portland, Oregon, has produced a raw and messy promo full of strong graphic compositions. With no budget to actually shoot the band, Rockadee worked with 250 photos of the group (most supplied by fans), 50 pieces of album art, spray paint shot on Mini DV and hand drawn elements while accommodating Settleﬁsh’s request to have the lyrics spell For Rockadee out during the video. A happy- Artwork: Tae Won Yu, Alex Harris, ending human interest side note: J.J. Johnstone Production intern Alex Harris, who Compositing/animation/editing: slaved on the project for days in J.J. Johnstone exchange for beer and food, is Image and art prep: Alex Harris now a full time member of the Rockadee collective. Toolkit After Effects, Canon XL-1s, Final Cut Pro stash 17.22

“JAPANESE BALLS” Short ﬁlm

Director: MARCIN SLAWEK Animation: LUNA PARK www.lunapark.pl A self-promotional project from Polish motion arts collective Lunapark. Tomek Zietkiewicz, producer at the Warsaw-based studio, offers this explanation of the piece: “Japanese balls is something like a magical mixture, some kind of a trap-spell, a tasty little red philosophical stone stolen from sleeping Harry Potter. Just like stepping into something and all your body is freezing and all your humanity is freezing within water of a body. The mind is slipping between frigid organs and plays like a child on skates, turning and For Luna Park leaving trails. Pharmaceutical Director/animator: Marcin Slawek chemical body full of sexual CD: Bartek Macias potential, something inside of it. Differences between man’s and Toolkit woman’s sexuality. Swap brains Illustrator, Cinema4D, BodyPaint, and synestesia, all dancing with After Effects, Digital Fusion, the sound of this strange song, Premiere Pro irritating vibes warm, cool and cold. It’s all laughing with its made- up joker face smile.” stash 17.23

“LEAP OF FAITH” Short ﬁlm

Commissioner: MTV LOAD Director: STEVE SMITH Animation: TRUNK www.trunk.me.uk “Leap of Faith” was commissioned by MTV Load, a project put together by MTV International and Motorola to create an archive For MTV Load of free downloadable mobile Commissioner: Gerrie Smits content for your mobile. The darkly charming little narrative is TRUNK For Trunk animation’s first 3D short, and Director/animator: Steve Smith director Steve Smith’s first film Producer: Siri Melchior since the award winning “Eating Animator: Steve Smith For Two” produced for Channel 4 Music: Julian Wilson in 2003. London-based TRUNK was set up by Smith and directors Sound: Fonic Layla Atkinson and Siri Melchior to Toolkit create animation for commercials, 3ds Max, After Effects, Flash music videos, broadcast, online content and short films. stash 17.24

NIKE GOLF “SASQUATCH” In-store ﬁlm

Agency: NIKE JAPAN Director: JOE WRIGHT Production: TROLLBACK + COMPANY www.trollback.com Animation: SPECIAL BRANCH Trollbäck + Company take their For MTV Load For Nike singular knack for minimal graphic Commissioner: Gerrie Smits CD: Ron Dumas elegance into three dimensions with the help of NY CG boutique For Trunk For Trollback + Company Special Branch. Debuting at golf Director/animator: Steve Smith Director/CD: Joe Wright retailers in the U.S. and Japan, the Producer: Siri Melchior EP: Elizabeth Kiehner ﬁlm gracefully deconstructs the Animator: Steve Smith Producer: Keith Ehrlich Nike Sasquatch driver to highlight Designers: Tolga Yildiz, Music: Julian Wilson the club’s engineering innovations Lloyd Alvarez based on geometry, dimension Sound: Fonic For Special Branch and gravity. Toolkit CG artists: Fran Roberts, 3ds Max, After Effects, Flash Ed Manning Sound Design: Amber Music Audio Mix: Audio Engine stash 17.25

MEZZO “THE RACE” TVC x 2

Client: DJARUM Agency: TIMMERMANN & TAN Director: JOSEPH KOSINSKI Production: ROKKIT VFX: SWAY STUDIO www.swaystudio.com Director Joseph Kosinski has deftly inserted live action into sleek digital environments on many projects but says this spot is “by far the most sophisticated.” Inspired by the monumental works of Richard Meier, Vladmir Djurovic and Louis Kahn – and trained as an architect For Timmermann & Tan Compositing super: Marc Rienzo Storyboard: Nathan Boldman himself – Kosinski teamed with CD: Michael Tan CG super: Aaron Powell Prod coordinator: Joyce Pan LA’s Sway Studio to create the 3D Producer: Serene Chiu FX lead: Greg Tsalidas, Prod assistant: Daughn Ward building and landscape and make Compositors: Sean Devereaux, Roto: Nicole Yoblonski, Toshihiro For Rokkit sure the talent could realistically Jay Frankenberger, Feliciano di Sakamaki, Lee Croft, EP: Dan Dickenson interact with the setting. Giorgio, Maciek Sokalski, Lucinda Chee Producer: Luke Jacobs Lou Pecora Tracking: Danny Zobrist, Watch Behind the Scenes on DOP: Claudio Miranda Architectural designers: Jay Frankenberger the DVD. For Sway Studio Kevin Cimini, Oliver Zeller Editor: Joseph Kosinski CD: Mark Glaser Terragen development: For Machinehead EP: Shira Boardman Matt Fairclough Sound design: Nobody, VFX super: Robert G. Nederhorst Texture lead: Rob Meyers, Chris Mann VFX producer: Matt Winkel VFX coordinator: Hannah Yates stash 17.26

BELL MOBILITY “REMAINDEERS” TVC :30 Agency: RETHINK, VANCOUVER Director: NATHANIEL AKIN Animation: GLOBAL MECHANIC www.globalmechanic.com The Vancouver ofﬁce of Global Mechanic collaborated with San Francisco design ﬁrm Cuban Council – who director Nathaniel Akin calls “great at designing pixel by pixel” – to create Canadian reindeer for this national spot. For Rethink “There’s a certain set of ground AD: Noreel Asuro rules using pixel art,” explains Copy: Rob Tarry Akin. “It’s going to be super low- Producer: Laura Rioux resolution and the movement has For Global Mechanic to be really simple. You want to CD: Bruce Alcock nod to the style but at the same EP: Matthew Charde time keep in mind it’s for television. Sr producer: Tina Ouellette For example, we cut to close-ups, Animators: Steve Hillman, Celest which doesn’t make sense in pixel Brown, Ian Godfrey, Scott Kiborn, art but does for a commercial. You Deb Dawson have to play off both worlds.” For Cuban Council CD: Toke Nygaard Audio/music: Wave Productions stash 17.27

UNITED AIRLINES “SIGNATURE” TVC :30 Agency: FALLON, HONG KONG Director: BILL PLYMPTON Animation: PLYMPTOONS www.plymptoons.com After his first Oscar nomination in 1987 for the short film Your Face, Bill Plympton turned down a seven-figure offer from Disney and set off to pursue his own animated adventures. 29 shorts, five feature films, innumerable festival prizes and a second Oscar nod later, the NY-based director continues to brew a fine blend of personal For Fallon and for-hire work in his own, CDs: Yang Yeo, Calvin Soh unmistakable colored pencil style. AD: James Lee Plympton says he got a call out Copy: Terence Leong of the blue for this Asian market Producer: D’Or Tey United spot after the Fallon Hong For Plymptoons Kong creatives screened one of his Director/animator/designer: feature films. Bill Plympton Read the Bill Plympton Producer/editor: Biljana Labovic interview on the back page. Art assistants: Kerri Jaworski, Lisa Labracio Music: George Gershwin Arrangement composers: Trivers and Myers stash 17.28

MEDICINS SANS FRONTIERS “HUMAN BALL” TVC :45 Agency: DUVAL GUILLAUME BRUSSELS Director: ANDREAS HASLE Production: CAVIAR Animation: GRID www.grid-vfx.com To reconnect with a younger For Duval Guillame Brussels demographic, Belgium-based CDs: Katrien Bottez, Peter Ampe non-profit Medecins Sans Frontiers Creatives: Tiny Nys, Alexander and their agency Duval Guillaume Chaban Brussels avoid the standard Producer: Marc Van Buggenhout approach to third world charity For Caviar spots and team up Belgian studios EP: Kate Maes Caviar and Grid to produce Producer: Ingrid Maes this unexpected CG treatment. “Human Ball” metaphorically For Grid demonstrates how the effect of Animators: Frank De Wulf, Jan Ebo AIDS in Africa threatens whole Music: Marie Dauline, Zap Mama communities, villages, towns and countries. Zairean-born Belgian Sound studio: Doctor Swing singer Marie Dauline of Zap Mama Toolkit composed and sung the lullaby 3DS Max, Lightwave, Pointoven, track specifically for this project. Photoshop, Digial Fusion, Realflow, HD instance as the main Lightwave plugin (people ball), proprietary Grid script and software stash 17.29

AEON FLUX Game cinematics x 2

Game developer: TERMINAL REALITY Director: BLUR Animation: BLUR www.blur.com Starting with 3D scans of Ms. Theron’s body and face, high res pix of her in the Aeon Flux costume and a series of facial expression photos, Blur set about recreating the digital doppelganger of the Oscar winning actress. But Blur CG super Kevin Margo reveals the 3D scans were ultimately only used as a rough proportional guide, “The client was interested in achieving a stylized/idealized face and body”. Margo gives high marks to Brazil’s skin shader and GI rendering capabilities which, in combination with HDRI images, the team used as a base/ambient lighting pass with key and rim lights added for the Aeon character when needed. Based on the 1995 animated MTV series and timed to the Paramount feature release directed by Karyn Kusama, the Aeon Flux game was released for PlayStation and Xbox. For Blur CD: Tim Miller CG super: Kevin Margo Animation super: Remi McGill Layout/editorial super: Paul Taylor Producers: Sherry Wallace, Debbie Yu Read the complete credit list at www.stashmedia.tv/17_29. Toolkit 3ds Max, Photoshop, Brazil, Digital Watch Behind the Scenes on Fusion 5, Premiere, PostgreSQL, the DVD Perl/Python, Linux Fedora stashPROFILE The Michael Jordan of Animation “Guard Dog”, directed and animated by Bill Plympton - 2004 Oscar nominee for Best Animated Short. Possibly the only filmmaker on the planet to make a living from short films, Bill Plympton is a legend in the animation world and on the festival circuit for his twisted sense of humor and fierce independence.

Proceeds from the sales of his But to flesh out the bank account Other recent work includes the Plympton famously spurned a very 29 animated short subjects and and help finance his feature films music video for “Heard ‘Em Say” lucrative offer from Disney to work portfolio of Flash animations to (five so far), he lends his pencils which portrays Kanye West as a on Aladdin in the late 80s. Asked international TV, theatrical, online and paper to the world of applied mythical urban cabdriver. if he ever regrets that decision, he and DVD markets, keeps the heat art. “Generally I like paying gigs. says he does think about it now But what if an improbably large on in the Manhattan loft where Obviously they’re more hassle and then but figures he probably bolus of cash landed in his lap Plympton lives and works. than my independent films but the would have been fired after a today, would he give up the money is so good it’s worth it.” couple months anyway, “I just paying gigs? “Probably. Unless Plympton reveals he only takes don’t know if I would’ve fit into the it was another music video or 50% of the commercial offers he regime out there at the time.” something that really excites me. receives, averaging a half dozen I really am jealous of someone Right now, with more commercial projects a year. like Terry Gilliam or Tim Burton or work in the pipe and another The United spot for Fallon Hong Peter Jackson – guys who make feature going into preproduction Kong featured in this issue is their own films, write their own in 2006, life is fine. “Kanye West typical in that the storyboards, stories and have creative freedom called me the Michael Jordan animatics, keyframing, animation, and access to millions of dollars. of animation. I thought that was character design and the I’m paying out of my pocket and pretty good.” backgrounds are all done by his the budgets on my features are

own hand. between a third to a half million “Heard ‘Em Say” video for Kanye www.plymptoons.com West. The singer describes dollars. Obviously I’d like to spend Plympton as “the Michael Jordan more money, buy better voice of animation”. talent, things like that.” ��

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