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37 Imagine the impossible Imagine it. Then achieve it. New Vegas Pro 8 software provides you with the tools to accomplish what was once considered impossible – complete video and audio production in one application. It’s the ultimate all-in-one environment for demanding creative professionals. Vegas Pro 8’s unique way of working with media has established it as the fastest-growing non-linear editing platform among producers who demand more. Its unique, progressive approach to video production, unrivaled audio control and powerful DVD authoring tools set it apart from other non-linear editors. Having established the benchmark for speed and ease of use, this new version moves the bar higher with additional features that offer increased power, functionality, and creative possibilities. Now with ProType Titling Technology, multicamera editing, a comprehensive channel-based audio mixing console, Blu-ray disc burning, and superior 32-bit fl oat engine processing – in addition to its robust support for HDV, XDCAM, 5.1 surround encoding, and 3D compositing – Vegas Pro 8 offers a never before imagined array of opportunities to reach your production goals. Try Vegas Pro 8. And achieve the impossible. Learn more at www.sonycreativesoftware.com/vegasi CALL FOR ENTRIES! New contest for Public Service Announcements. Winner receives national television distribution and a media production suite valued up to $25,000 including PC’s and cameras. More information at www.sonycreativesoftware.com/cyber Copyright © 2007. Sony Creative Software Inc. All rights reserved. VP8a_Stash.indd 1 8/8/07 4:45:45 PM SAVE $200* when you grab all six SIXPACKS before November 30. The ultimate holiday gift... SIXPACK 6 releases October 22nd - Over nine hours of inspiration jammed onto six DVDs. - More than 180 outstanding animation, VFX and motion design projects - Behind the scenes extras - Hi-res PDF files of the 40-page companion books for all six disks + BONUS films and BONUS MP3 tracks Sixpacks are limited edition collections - get yourself to www.stashmedia.tv/promo and order today. * Limited time offer - so order today! Coming soon to a goodie bag near you. The best work in this industry relies on a raucous stable of disparate talents. Where would the animation and VFX world be, stash for instance, if it weren’t for illustrators and musicians? DVD MAGAZINE 37 Illustration is often the inspiration for or the first production STASH MEDIA INC. step in creating motion art. And music, while also serving as the Editor: STEPHEN PRICE genesis for many projects, is regularly responsible for propelling Publisher: GREG ROBINS a visual execution from simply pretty or technically proficient to Associate editor: HEATHER GRIEVE emotional and engaging. While we always try to list illustrator Associate publishers: and composer credits where due we have never been able to LARA OSLAND, STACY FRY fully acknowledge them. Jr producer: BRANDON DEMARCO And there you have the inspiration for the Stash Mix 1 bonus CD Administration: MARILEE BOITSON included in this issue. It’s our small attempt to try and correct Art production: KRISTIN DYER that injustice. Music editor: STEVE MARCHESE Contributing producer: ERIC ALBA It started with an idea from our esteemed (and freshly betrothed) music editor Steve Marchese: get Atlanta-based mix master Technical guidance: IAN HASKIN Dave Langolf to construct a single monster track from all 85 Montage editor: JEFF ZEMETIS bonus MP3 tracks included on Stash 19 through 30. Cover image: PSYOP The result is unlike anything you’ve heard before, 50 minutes of WWW.STASHMEDIA.TV audacious audio awesomeness. We then sent that file to São Paulo illustrators Mulheres Barbadas (aka Henrique Lima and Julio Zuckerman) who submerged themselves in the mix and ISSN 1712-5928 surfaced several weeks later with the insanely intricate cover and disk art. A promotional stand-alone CD will also be released Legal things: Stash Magazine and Stash DVD later this month. are published 12 times per year by Stash Media Inc. All rights reserved and contents copyright Hope you love it. Stash Media Inc. No part of this booklet nor the Stash DVD may be copied without express Coming soon to a goodie bag near you. written permission from the publisher. Stash Media Inc. does not promote or endorse products, services or events advertised by Stephen Price third party advertisers. Submissions: www. Editor stashmedia.tv/submit. Subscrptions available from www.stashmedia.tv. Contact us at: New York, October 2007 Stash Media Inc. 484-1641 Lonsdale Avenue, [email protected] North Vancouver, BC V7M 2J5 Canada Printed in Canada. stash 37.01 GUINNESS “IT’S ALIVE INSIDE” TVC : 60 Agency: IIBBDO Director: STEVE COPE Production: RED BEE MEDIA VFX: THE MILL, LONDON www.the-mill.com The grand scale and dense action of this spot belies its humble beginnings consisting of one drum, several lengths of rope and three stuntmen in a greenscreen studio. All the backgrounds are CG as are the music machine and the supporting characters, which were created in Natural Motion Endorphin and then imported into For Red Bee Media Shake: Grainne Freeman, Toolkit XSI. The characters’ bubble trails Director: Steve Cope Becky Porter, Pete Hodsman XSI, Maya, Endorphin, Shake, and explosions were all created in Producers: Edel Erickson, Smoke: John Thorton Flame, Smoke, Final Cut Maya. Schedule: eight weeks for Laura Gould VFX super/Lead 3D: 50 shots (10 in full CG). Juan Brockhaus For The Mill For IIBBDO Lead TD: Tom Bussel Production: Charlotte Loughnane, CDs: Pat Hamil, Mark Nutley, 3D: Aidan Gibbons, Lee Pavey Brendan Coyle Alex Hammond, Suraj Odedra, Telecine: Seamus O’Kane Producer: Noel Byrne Ross Urien, James Rogers Lead Flame: Richard Roberts Final Cut editor: Daniel Budin Flame assist: Leon Woods, Paul Downes Lead Shake: Darren Christie stash 37.02 MTN “STICKIES” Cinema/TVC : 60 Agency: JHB/METROPOLITANREPUBLIC Directors: CRAIG WESSELS, ROB MALPAGE Production/VFX: WICKED PIXELS www.wickedpixels.com One million Post-it notes, 90,000 digital photographs, five kilometers of 35mm film, three For JHB/MetropolitanRepublic weeks of editing, two months of Lead CD: Paul Warner 3D animation and another month CDs: Konstant van Huyssteen, of compositing went into this :60 Shane Forbes, Wesley Phelan for one of Africa’s largest cell TV producer: Noeleen Burley providers. Shot over five days in For Wicked Pixels downtown Johannesburg, each Directors: Craig Wessels, stop motion frame of the 15-meter Rob Malpage tall Sticky Man required 12,000 Producer: Dennis Dyas Post-its and infinite patience. A Animation director: Craig Wessels 3D version of the character filled DOP: Rob Malpage in where real-life animators-on- ladders could not (or were not allowed) to go. Several weeks of testing 3D animation scripts were abandoned in the end in favor of animating each of the 3D Post-its by hand to better match the feel of the stop motion. Total schedule: three months. stash 37.03 PHILIPS “THE ROBOT” TVC : 60 Agency: DDB LONDON Director: BRUNO AVEILLAN Production: SHORT FILMS LONDON VFX: WIZZ EXVOTO www.wizz.fr www.exvoto.net Shaving ads just got a whole lot more interesting. This:60 for Philip’s new moisturizing shaving system not only creates an intriguing CG-enhanced sci-fi For DDB London world but also drums up some CDs: Stuart Buckley, steamy robo-sensuality. To do Mark Thompson, Dave Newbold that the production team decided Producer: Lucy Westmore against an all CG and greenscreen For Short Films UK solution and built an actual robot Producer: Ben Mann and the interior set. WIZZ and Director: Bruno Aveillan Exvoto then grafted in 3D robot DOP: Philippe Le Sourd components such as the joints, eyes, neck and her razor hand. For Wizz The robot was designed by Editor: Fred Olszak Stéphane Levaillois and fabricated For Exvoto in the Spadacini atelier in Paris. Flame: Eric Alcuvila, Mathieu Caulet Music/sound design: Raphael Ibanez De Garayo stash 37.04 For Fallon Producer: Rachel Hough SONY BLU-RAY “LASERS” For RSA Films TVC :90 Director: Brett Foraker For Moving Picture Company Agency: Post producer: Sean Costelloe FALLON VFX super: Pete Rypstra Director: VFX team: Sheldon Gardner, BRETT FORAKER Jessica Hoogendyk, Florian Kraft, Bill McNamara, Jamie O’Hara, Production: Clare Pakeman, Clare Robinson RSA FILMS VFX: MOVING PICTURE COMPANY www.moving-picture.com Ninety seconds of pure sensory spectacle designed to tug you toward the Blu-ray side of the HD DVD battle. The bulk of MPC’s post work involved compositing together multiple passes and For DDB London elements before match grading CDs: Stuart Buckley, the shots to director Brett Mark Thompson, Dave Newbold Foraker’s vision. The falling car Producer: Lucy Westmore shots required rig removal as well For Short Films UK as the addition of CG vehicles Producer: Ben Mann where they’re seen tumbling Director: Bruno Aveillan from overhead. Set extensions DOP: Philippe Le Sourd enhanced the power station interior, and additional clean-up For Wizz work was needed on the lasers, Editor: Fred Olszak drum kits and raindrops. For Exvoto Flame: Eric Alcuvila, Mathieu Caulet Music/sound design: Raphael Ibanez De Garayo stash 37.05 BIOSHOCK Game trailer/TVC Client: 2K GAMES Agency: RDA Director: EYEBALLNYC Animation: EYEBALLNYC www.eyeballnyc.com NY design and animation shop EyeballNYC takes a confident step into the deep end of the 3D pool with this kinetic and carefully choreographed spot for 2K For 2K Games Kraemer Compositors: Peter Fink, Games’ BioShock. The studio tried VP marketing: Sarah Anderson Lead rigger: Sal Midolo Johan Wiberg, Robert Lopuski, to avoid the “linear story arcs and AD: Leslie Zinn Rigger: Paul Neale Sean Reuter, Gleb Lobashov all-out action” conventions of the Production managers: Lead animator: Ricardo Vicens Storyboard: Colin McGreal, gaming genre says CD/co-director Eric Monacelli, Jack Scalia Animators: Melanie Beisswenger, Federico D’Alessandro Limore Shur.