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Harmonix “Rock Band” Game trailer

Client: Harmonix Music Director: Pete Candeland Animation: Passion Pictures www.passion-pictures.com capture is a staple in the tool belt of most studios, but this new CG cinematic for the follow- up game to Guitar Hero is the first project for Passion Pictures and director Pete Candeland to use the technology. “We generally avoid [motion capture] as the characters we work with usually require more stylized motion,” reveals Passion producer Anna Lord. “The character needed to be For Passion Pictures Character modeling: Mario Ucci, Matte painting: Lukasz Pazera, realistic, so using motion capture Director: Pete Candeland Matt Westrup, Nick Savy, Stu Hall Max Dennison enabled us to save time and Storyboard/design: Environments/vehicle modeling: Director’s assistant: Giles Dill allocate more resources towards Pete Candeland, Rob Valley, Ian Brown, Marc Dinocera, Runners: Romek Sudak, Belle the environments and rendering.” Nelson Yokota de Paula Lima Raymond Slattery, Daniel Buckley, Caroline Jones, Michael The fully CG film was animated in Producer: Anna Lord Sweeney, Craig Maden Sofoluke XSI, rendered in Mental Ray and EP: Hugo Sands Rigging: Daniele Niero Editors: Jaime Foord, Lee Gingold, composited in After Effects with CG line producer: Jason Nicholas VFX artists: Elisée Cesarotti, Daniel Greenway Sr 3D: Stu Hall, Antoine Moulineau Marc Di Nocera, Nuno Conceicao characters built in Modo. Lip sync MC: Image Metrics CG previz/camera: Wes Coman, 3D: Vincent Thomas, Motion capture: Centroid For Harmonix Music Nick Symons Marc Dinocera, Simon Reeves, AD: Ryan Lesser CG: Wes Coman, Nick Symons, Claire Michaud Toolkit David Sigrist, Raul Moneris, Compositing: Niamh Lines, XSI, Modo, After Effects, Final Chris Welsby Lee Gingold, David Lea Cut Pro s t a s h 38.02

Sony Bravia “Play-Doh” TVC: 90

For Fallon Robinson, Lu Rosa, Luca Vitale, Agency: CD: Juan Cabral Mark Pagano, Matt Kushner, Fallon, London Producer: Nicky Barnes Matthew Porsorske, Molly Light, Director: ECD: Richard Flintham Myra D Rivera, Patricia Burgess, Frank Budgen Patrick Krebs, Richard Ledley, For Gorgeous Productions Stephan Brezinsky, Spencer Animation director: Director: Frank Budgen McCormick, Zoubien Rana Darren Walsh Producer: Rupert Smythe DOP: Tristan Oliver Production: PM: Judy Vermeulen Camera assistant: George Milburn Gorgeous Productions For Passion Pictures Gaffer: Matt Day Animation: Director: Darren Walsh Rigger: Denise Russo Passion Pictures EP: Andrew Ruhemann Sculptors: Sarah Turner, Andre www.passion-pictures.com Producer: Russell McLean, Gilbert, Fiona Barty Belinda Blacklock Head of CG: Jason Nicholas VFX: VFX super: Neil Riley CG: Wes Coman, Chris Hemming, Moving Picture Company Animation super: Drew Lightfoot Howard Bell, Nick Symons, Chris www.movingpicture.com Lead animators: David Scanlon, Welsby Passion Pictures leaps into Julia Pegeut Modeling: Ian Brown, the third Sony Bravia spot Animators: Adam Pierce, Dan Florian Mounié by wrangling a team of 53 Anderson, David Pagano, Eileen Sr TD: Julian Hodgson professional and student Kohlhepp, Geoff Buck, Inez Lighting/rendering: animators for a sweltering nine-day Woldman, Jeremy Bronson, Tommy Andersson stop-motion shoot in NY. Eight Jimmy Picker, Kevin Coyle, Kim For Moving Picture Company days of rehearsal workshops Keukeleire, Matt Somma, Matthew Operator: Ludo Fealy ensured a consistent animation Amonson, Pete List, Rachel Producers: Graham Bird, Paul style and an agile team which had Hoffman, Tom Gasek, Tobias Branch to improvise many of the shots on Fouracre, Wendy Griffiths location. Assistant animators: Amit Ashraf, Toolkit Chelsea Manifold, Coire Williams, XSI, Plasticine Emily Collins, Hudson Meredith, Watch Behind the Scenes on James Scourtos, Joy Marie the DVD. Smith, Justin E Maldonado, John Kohlhepp, John Bega, Kamron stash 38.03

Motorola “Experience” TVC :60

Agency: Cutwater Production: Partizan Director: Michel Gondry Animation: Fly Studios www.flystudio.com When dreaming up this very Gondry-esque reality for Motorola’s Razr 2, the director insists he had no interest in creating the scenic transformations in post. So he designed complex mechanics to keep as much of the magic and weirdness in camera as possible. But in the end Montreal’s Fly Studio (who worked with For Cutwater, San Francisco For Akjak Pictures Gondry on Beck’s “Cell Phone’s Producer: Jennifer Golub Editor: Matt Goldman ECD: Chuck McBride Dead”) had plenty of digital For PLANK Editorial CD: Matt Rivitz, Tyler Magnusson work to do including: opening Producer: Jennifer Suttlemyre and closing the windows on the Copy: Matt Ravitz, John Patroulis For Squeak E. Clean building; adding and animating For Partizan Productions the envelopes in the trees; lighting Director: Michel Gondry Composer: Jason Murgo effects for the drummer; the EP: Sheila Stepanek cars and background in the final Line Producer: Valerie Romer Sound Design: Endless Noise sequence; etc, etc, etc. DP: Ellen Kuras Toolkit Watch the “making of” and the For Fly Studio XSI, After Effects, Smoke, boujou, Gondry interview on the Behind FX Supervisor: Combustion. the Scenes section of the DVD. Jean-Francois Talbot stash 38.04 For T.A.G/McCann Worldgroup ECDs: Rob Bagot, John McNeil Xbox Halo 3 “Believe” CDs: Scott Duchon, TVC :60 Geoff Edwards, John Patroulis ADs: Nate Able, Tim Stier Producer: Hannah Murray Agency: Copy: Matt Bunnell T.A.G/McCann Worldgroup For MJZ Director: Director: Rupert Sanders Rupert Sanders EPs: Lisa Rich, David Zander, Production: Marcia Deliberto MJZ DOP: Chris Soos Miniatures: Producer: Laurie Bocaccio Stan Winston For Method VFX: VFX super/lead 2D: Method Cedric Nicholas www.methodstudios.com CD: Laurent Ledru 2D: Jake Montgomery, Sarah Eim, A :60 enigma: a video game ad Kyle Obley with virtually no action and very 3D: Sean Durnan, Matt Wheeler, few VFX. The production details Chi Wei Hsu, Chris Smallfield are far beyond the scope of this Jr. 2D: Ryan Raith, Zach Lo page, but crucial to the spot’s Jr. 3D: Matt Longwell success says Method CD Laurent Shoot super: Cedric Nicholas Ledru was a full CG previs: “We Producers: Luisa Murray, decided where to put the streets, Lisa Houck how many buildings and tanks and explosions to have. By the time For Stan Winston we locked it down, we knew how Production designer: many figurines, what kind of poses James Chinlund – everything we needed to go into Previs: Halon the fabrication phase.” Miniature landscape: Facts: Shooting speed: 1 fps with motion Watch Behind the Scenes on New Deal Studios Number of figures: +/–1000 control the DVD. Size of figures: 8 inches tall Shooting schedule: 48 shots in For Stimmung Figurines’ faces: 3D scans of three days. Performer: Mike Lang the director and crew Total schedule: less than three Composer: Frederic Chopin Diorama size: 30 x 40 feet weeks stash 38.05

Heineken “Continental Shift” TVC :60 Agency: Bates Asia, Singapore Director: Lance Kelleher Production: 8 Commercials VFX: Postmodern www.postmodernsydney.com Sydney design and VFX house Postmodern propagate 20 extras into an adrenalin-fueled tectonic force – using Massive and their own replication software called Tiny – to get the Australian and Malaysian public riled up for the For 8 Commercials Heineken Rugby World Cup 2007. Director: Lance Kelleher CGI environments were handled EP: Mike Vanderfield in Maya with countless layers of Producer: Annie Schutt compositing fed through Shake, DOP: Stefan Von Borbely Flame and Inferno. Production design: Danny Black For Bates Asia Singapore For Post Modern ECD: Rob Gaxiola VFX super: James Rogers Head of art: Joseph Tay Head compositor: Simon Brewster Sr copy: Raymond Quay Flame: Nick Tabet TV Producers: Charm Wall, Shareen Thumboo Sound Design: Nylon Toolkit Photoshop, After Effects, Flame, Shake, Inferno, Massive, proprietary software, Maya stash 38.06

Nike “Leave Nothing” TVC :60

For Alturas Films Agency: Director: Michael Mann Wieden+Kennedy, EP/President: Marshall Rawlings Portland EP: Jeff Rohrer Director: Producer: Leslie Vaughn Michael Mann For Asylum Production: VFX/CG super: Sean Faden Alturas Films EP: Michael Pardee VFX: Producer: Mark Kurtz Asylum AP: Ryan Meredith www.asylumfx.com Production coordinator: Steven Poulsen Director Michael Mann sends Compositing super: James Allen Shawne Merriman of the Chargers Compositor/Inferno: Rob Trent, and Steven Jackson of the Joey Brattesani Rams into battle against time, Inferno: Chris Decristo, the elements, and performance- For 8 Commercials Chris Moore, Paul Kirsch enhanced opponents with Asylum Director: Lance Kelleher Smoke: Adam Frazier, bringing their A game of seamless EP: Mike Vanderfield Scott Johnson VFX including CG weather, Producer: Annie Schutt CG producer: Jeff Werner stadium recreation, crowd DOP: Stefan Von Borbely Houdini effects/massive animator: replication and, most importantly, Production design: Danny Black Dan Smiczek mattress removal for those really Animator: Scott Smith Andrew Cochrane, Tom Stanton, Roto: Michael Liv, Huey Carroll, ugly hits. For Post Modern Animator/rig: Kevin Culhane Devin Fairbairn Meredith Hook, Junko Schugardt, VFX super: James Rogers TD lighting: Jeff Willette, Tracker: Genevieve Yee Mark Duckworth, Laura Murillo, Head compositor: Simon Brewster Setup: Brian Bell Eric Almeras, Dan Linger, William For Wieden+Kennedy, Portland Denis Gauthier ECDs: Steven Luker, Jelly Helm Flame: Nick Tabet Lighter: Rob Stauffer Matte/ painters: Tim Clark, Schaeffer, Mattanaiah Yip, John Hart, Eric Mattson, Aaron Ed Anderson CDs: Alberto Ponte, Jeff Williams Sound Design: Nylon Modelers: Chad Fehmie, Toshihiro Vest, Robin Foley Copy: Alberto Ponte, Ari Weiss Sakamaki, Scott Brust, Greg Stuhl Toolkit Toolkit Roto super: Elissa Bello AD: Ryan O’Rourke Tracker/matchmover/stadium Houdini, Massive, Smoke, Inferno, Photoshop, After Effects, Roto comp: Eric Evans, EP: Ben Grylewicz photographer: Eddie Offermann Maya Producer: Kevin Diller Flame, Shake, Inferno, Massive, Trackers/matchmovers: Mike Lori, James Lee, Valy Lungoccia, proprietary software, Maya John Brennick stash 38.07

Motorola “Hakko” TVC :60

Agency: Ogilvy Beijing Director: Frederik Bond Production: Sonny London VFX: The Mill www.the-mill.com Only just settled in to his new production venture Sonny London, Fredrik Bond set out for a four- day shoot in Prague that included For Ogilvy a full-sized Parisian apartment CDs: Andrew Lok, Nils Andersson set, fifteen kilometers of wire, a Producer: Eric Verheijen professional acrobat, a three-ton camera rig, birds, cats and a For Sonny London 1/25th scale model of Montmartre Director: Fredrik Bond in the early 1900s. “Some of the Producer: Helen Kenny cables were shot in camera, which For The Mill is always a good reference,” recalls Producer: Ben Hampshire The Mill Lead Flame artist Ben Telecine: Paul Harrison Turner. “But as the 3D guys started Lead Flame: Ben Turner to hit their stride, it was becoming Flame assist: Johnathan Box, clear we could achieve a more Paul Downes dynamic movement of the cables 3D producer: Will O’Connor in CG.” 3D: Hitesh Patel, Tom Bussell, Watch Behind the Scenes on James Rogers, Sergio Xisto, the DVD. Mario Ucci Toolkit Flame, XSI, Shake, PFTrack stash 38.08

Hifana “Connect”

Agency: W+K Tokyo Lab Directors: +cruz, Woog Animation: W+K Tokyo Lab www.wktokyolab.com Part of the new live Hifana DVD album released in Japan, “The video comments on the never-ending, vicious cycle of consumerism,” says W+K Tokyo Lab designer/director Eric Cruz. For Ogilvy “This clip is a surreal shopping CDs: Andrew Lok, Nils Andersson experience through Tokyo. It Producer: Eric Verheijen highlights Japanese youths’ For Sonny London current obsession with music, Director: Fredrik Bond fashion, and collectible figures.” Producer: Helen Kenny Working with a tight timeline, low budget, small staff and not enough For The Mill sleep, Cruz admits, “Our team Producer: Ben Hampshire really does it for the passion and Telecine: Paul Harrison For W+K Tokyo Lab Script: Hifana, Woog, +cruz Toolkit glory – definitely not the cash.” Lead Flame: Ben Turner Directors/ADs/designers: Animators: Genki Ito, Mark Okon, After Effects, Maya, Illustrator, Schedule: originally two months, Flame assist: Johnathan Box, +cruz, Woog Shane Lester, Jordan Lloyd Photoshop, Final Cut Pro extended to three. Paul Downes CDs/illustrators: Maharo, Editors: Mark Okon, 3D producer: Will O’Connor Solobongnu-Sensei Takeshi Kogahara 3D: Hitesh Patel, Tom Bussell, Designers: Woog, Mark Okon, Ian Live action camera: James Rogers, Sergio Xisto, Lynam, Shotaro Tomiyama, Takeshi Kogahara, Shane Lester, Mario Ucci Kaoru Kobayashi Mark Okon Toolkit Flame, XSI, Shake, PFTrack stash 38.09

MHD Rebrand Broadcast design

Client: VH1 Animation: Troika Design Group www.troika.tv MHD, the music network combining HD programming from MTV, VH1 and CMT, gets a new look inspired by the The Book of Genesis and Indonesian shadow puppetry. “Because MHD is broadcast in high definition and in Dolby 5.1 Surround Sound, this gave us the opportunity to push the visuals and audio to the absolute maximum,” says Dan Pappalardo, ECD and partner at LA’s Troika Design Group. The team started with pencil sketches of the characters, scanned them at 600 dpi, painted them with Photoshop and Painter, then deconstructed them into separate limbs and applied them to 3D geometry animated using IK skeletons. For VH1 SVP/brand & design: Phil Delbourgo Director OAG: Dave Perry Design director: Jim Fitzgerald Editorial director: Traci Terrill Sr writer: Beth Wawerna For Troika Design Group ECD: Dan Pappalardo Lead designer/illustrator: Heather Kim Original concept: Michael Mikulec EP: Holly Eddy Producer: Neil VanHarte Producer: Robert Bateman Animators/compositors: Maziar Majd, Craig Stouffer Character animator: Ben Hendricks Designer/animator: Huy Dang Design assistants: Mindy Park, Marc Juon Animator: Mark McConnell Toolkit Maya, Cinema 4D, After Effects, Photoshop, Painter stash 38.10

MTV “FAUNA” Broadcast design

Broadcaster: MTV CANADA Director: ANTHONY BURNS Animation: MTV CANADA www..ca Part of a summer branding effort produced in house by a tiny team at MTV Canada based on characters designed by Australian artist/illustrator Nathan Jurevicius. MTV Canada CD Peter Molle: “MTV was looking for a unique approach which reflects the ‘real life aspect’ on the streets. The campaign had to look fun without appearing too young.” Besides the Canadian cable market, the campaign appeared on the giant MTV HD screen in Times Square, and has spawned a line of three toys available soon on mtv.ca/ For MTV Canada Sound: Anthony Burns fauna. Schedule: four months, Director: Anthony Burns CD: Peter Moller including all elements of the Character design: Toolkit channel design: bumpers, menus, Nathan Jurevicius Maya, After Effects. graphics, mobile content and Animation: Alex Avram, toy design. Anthony Burns Compositing: Anthony Burns, Alex Avram stash 38.11

CN Refresh “Fall Music Video” Broadcast design For Client: CD: Sean Atkins Cartoon Network AD: Kevin Fitzgerald Director: HOP: Nathania Seales Shilo For Shilo Production: CDs: Andre Stringer, Jose Gomez, Shilo Evan Dennis Lead artist: Evan Dennis Animation/design: Design: Evan Dennis, Shilo Andre Stringer www.shilo.tv Animation/compositing: Shilo handles the live action and Stieg Retlin, Eric Bauer, design and animation for this Seth Ricart, Wyeth Hanson, kinetic kids’ take on fall fueled by Rick Maltwitz, Marco Giampaolo, a custom track from The Hives. Dorian West “This spot is really all about the Editors: Nathan Caswell, kids,” says Evan Dennis, who led Galen Summer the Shilo team. “Their personalities Producer: Dexter Randazzo and actions drive what amounts Line producer: Magali Selosse to a really cool music video. EP: Tracy Chandler That energy and personality was Previs: Fred Fassberger our biggest inspiration and our toughest challenge. We had to consider how the kids would develop their own world. It was a stream-of-consciousness process, a kind of cerebral doodling, as we imagined bizarre rainbows, odd shapes, weird eyeballs, etc. We eventually came up with some lush, youthful drawings from which our animators were able to build toolkits.” stash 38.12

Nickelodeon Latin America Broadcast design

Director: Totuma Animation: Totuma www.totuma.net In the 20 countries of Latin America (from Mexico to Argentina), the main cable competitors for Nickelodeon are the Disney Channel, Cartoon Network and Discovery Kids. But what sets Nick apart as a brand is its focus on kids, not the whole family. “This is the channel to be a little mischievous, to gain some independence, to start growing up, and make their own first decisions,” asserts Hubert Reinfeld, CD at Totuma. “Using a nontraditional and rebellious illustration approach, we appealed to the playful and imaginative nature of kids, creating a modular system that would allow our ID battery to grow and change, adapting itself to every new thing in a fun and cheerful way, just as kids do. “For the IDs we developed a series of characters that would represent all of the possibilities of what Nick could became in the imagination of kids – short, modular five second pieces so the Nick team can interlace and create their own series of mutations from one character to another to finally (or not), the Nick logo.” Schedule: three months including bumpers, end , menus, IDs, lower thirds, and weekly program specials. For Nickelodeon CDs: Jimmy Leroy, Cesar Teixeira Creative producer: Sebastian Mercader For TOTUMA: CDs: Hubert Reinfeld, Edward Thomas ADs: Cristina Briceño, Vladimir Mihalkov, Ruben Fariñas Lead designers: Pablo Iranzo, Cristina Briceño Character design/illustration: Andreina Diaz, Yonel Hernandez 2D animation/compositing: Pablo Iranzo, Daniel Blanco, Jorge Vigas, Juan Andrés Behrens, Andres Ungaro 3D modeling: Manuel Piña, Ruben Fariñas, Miguel Monteagudo, Marcos Medvedov 3D animation: Manuel Piña, Ruben Fariñas, Miguel Monteagudo, Marcos Medvedov Toolkit After Effects, Maya, Photoshop, Illustrator stash 38.13

VPRO 3VOOR12 Broadcast design

Client: VPRO Production: Karma Animation: Karma www.karma.tv Examples of the recent and extremely eclectic rebrand of For VPRO 3VOOR12 3VOOR12, a popular Dutch Commissioners: music channel run by public Mirka Duijn, Nicolette Nol broadcaster VPRO, which included full graphics packages for 14 For Karma programs. “The packaging had CD: Danny Smit to be very inspiring, to enhance Directors: Danny Smit, Wouter the progressive programming and Kroese, Dorus van Lieshout niche positioning of the digital Animators: Aljen Hoekstra, channel,” says Karma creative Martijn Paaschens, Johan director Danny Smit. The biggest Klungel, Bouwine Pool technical hurdle was not the 10- Compositors: week deadline or rendering times, Aljen Hoekstra, Dorus van but talent, “The project dropped in Lieshout, Wouter Kroese the middle of our holiday season. Producer: Berber Coeur Finding freelancers to man up Music: Karma the kit was a great challenge. It SD: Arno Natte seemed that everybody was in Composers: Arno Natte, France or Italy.” Paul Cupido, Arno Natte, Thijs van der Klugt Toolkit Photoshop, LightWave, Cinema 4D, After Effects, TV Paint, HDDV Camera stash 38.14

“Short” Short film

Director: Andras Ketzer Production: Joyrider Films Animation/VFX: Andras Ketzer www.joyriderfilms.com Inspired by the retro cool look For VPRO 3VOOR12 of Commodore 64 graphics Commissioners: and Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s film Mirka Duijn, Nicolette Nol Foutaises, Hungary-born, London- based director Andras Ketzer For Karma (repped by Joyrider Films) created CD: Danny Smit this new personal short of “things Directors: Danny Smit, Wouter that matter to me” from photos, Kroese, Dorus van Lieshout home videos, maps of favored Animators: Aljen Hoekstra, cycling routes, and a family Martijn Paaschens, Johan tablecloth from Budapest. Klungel, Bouwine Pool Compositors: Focusing on a low-tech Aljen Hoekstra, Dorus van experimental approach, additional Lieshout, Wouter Kroese elements were filmed using a Producer: Berber Coeur Logitech web camera and a digital Music: Karma handy-cam running at 10 FPS. SD: Arno Natte According to Ketzer both cameras Composers: Arno Natte, were “extended with home- attached extra lenses including Paul Cupido, Arno Natte, For Joyrider Thijs van der Klugt a broken pair-of-spectacles and Animation/VFX/design: black-paper-with-a-hole foreplates Toolkit Andras Ketzer as a special .” Schedule: Photoshop, LightWave, Cinema Toolkit two months between bike rides in 4D, After Effects, TV Paint, HDDV 3ds Max, After Effects the country. Camera

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Nike “Doubt & Belief” Royal Elastics “Feilfri” TVC :30 TVC/viral :30

Agency: Agency: Wieden+Kennedy, Shanghai Furst Media, Melbourne Director: Director: Ash Bolland Ash Bolland Animation: Animation: Umeric Umeric www.umeric.com www.umeric.com The Milwaukee Bucks’ rookie Umeric producer Von Dekker says power forward Yi Jianlian had this blatantly strange :30 produced a rough time in his NBA debut for the Asian market originated (fouling out after 16 minutes) but when “The agency approached he delivers a smooth and heartfelt us with the idea of ‘beaux tech’ or VO for this Chinese Nike spot beautiful technology. They sent a rendered in elegant abstraction by visual of the new shoe and asked Sydney’s Umeric. Translation: “You us to write a number of treatments can go pro at the age of 15. You based around the beaux tech idea can play for your national team. and look and feel of the shoe while You can win three championships. keeping a very youth feel in mind. You can be named MVP. But that From there one idea was picked is not enough. You can only be and refined into the final TVC.” what you make of yourself .” For Furst Media For Wieden+Kennedy Director: Olivia Skuza CD: Frank Hahn Marketing manager: Sheleen AD: Kai Zastrow Jegasothy Copy: Achilles Lee, Dean Wei For Umeric Producer: Kerli Teo Director: Ash Bolland For Umeric Producer: Von Dekker Director: Ash Bolland Toolkit Producer: Von Dekker Cinema 4D, After Effects, Photoshop stash 38.16

Dairy Farmers of Canada “Milk Dots” TVCs :5 x 10 Agency: Due North Communications Director: Head Gear Animation Animation: Head Gear Animation www.headgearanimation.com Deciding to work with, or, more accurately, actually accelerate teenagers’ brief attention spans, Toronto agency Due North Communications commissioned Head Gear Animation to produce a series of 50 five-second micro- spots. Each clip is rendered in a different technique with only the fleeting screen time and bovine end tag in common. There were 19 spots on air at press time; these were our 10 favorites. For Due North Communications CD: Karen Howe Copy: David Gee AD: Shawn Wells For Head Gear Animation Isaac King, Philippe Blanchard, Toolkit Directors/animators: Steve Angel, Sean Branigan, Kyle Griblin Cel animation, Photoshop, After Julian Grey, Isaac King, Philippe Producer: Kathryn Rawson Effects Blanchard, Sean Branigan Sound mix: Deschamps Studios Compositors: Julian Grey, stash 38.17

Ottawa International Animation Festival Event titles Director: FilmTecknarna Animation: FilmTecknarna www.filmtecknarna.com Attending the 2007 Ottawa International Animation Festival can take a heavy toll on your attention span. After watching 94 short films over three days you are very thankful when the festival intros still catch your eye. FilmTecknarna managed to do just that with these two clips, combining hand drawn animation, 2D After Effects designs, 3D elements and the assorted talents of their entire directing staff of the Stockholm studio. Lars Ohlson, FilmTecknarna CEO says the nine- week project, “was essentially made like a chain-letter film, where each animator was totally free to do whatever he/she wanted as long as they started with the last frame of the previous person’s animation.” For FilmTecknarna Toolkit Team: Jonas Odell, Stig Bergqvist, Softimage, After Effects Jonas Dahlbeck, Boris Nawratil, Jessica Laurén, Johanna Andersson, David Nord, Anders Mering, Per Helin stash 38.18

THE GUM THIEF “Roger: Part 1” “Bethany: Part 1” “Glove Pond: Part 1” Virals Client: Random House Canada Production: Crush Inc. VFX: Crush Inc. www.crushinc.com The first three of a nine-viral campaign behind the release of Douglas Coupland’s new novel The Gum Thief from Toronto graphics and post studio Crush. Commissioned directly by Random House Canada, the project brings passages of the book to life in vastly disparate styles but according to Gary Thomas, managing CD at Crush, “We For Random wanted the three strands to have House Canada a unique look, but when viewed Commissioner: as a group would feel coherent.” Sharon Klein Wrapping the films in Coupland’s For Crush Inc. deadpan voice-over doesn’t hurt. CD: Gary Thomas Producer: Patty Bradley Directors: Gary Thomas, Adrian Lawrence, Chris Rolf, Stefan Woronko Online/compositing: Greg Dunlop SD: Dave deCarlo stash 38.19

They Might Be Giants “I’m Impressed” Music video Record label: For Bent Image Lab Idle World Recordings / Director: Rob Shaw Zoe Records EPs: , Ray Di Carlo Director: Sr producer: Tsui Ling Toomer Rob Shaw Producer: Kara Place Creative partner: Chel White Production: DOPs: Mark Eifert, James Birkett Bent Image Lab Animators: Rob Shaw, Sarah Hulin Animation: Assistant animators: Brian Kinkley, Bent Image Lab Marty Easterday www.bentimagelab.com Character designer: Bartek Prusiewicz To get the mix of epic and Storyboard: Monique Ligons miniature scales he wanted for Art dept director: this tale of a dictator’s rise and Solomon Burbridge fall, director Rob Shaw opted Art dept: Diana Joy Parker, to animate the in a Marty Easterday series of layers and assemble Compositors: Orland Nutt, them in post. “I wanted to shoot Brian Kinkley it in a bit of a flat way – as three- Online editor: Jon Weigand dimensional layers – stacked on PA: Chris Parkhurst top of each other, going away from Interns: Javan Ivey, Alisa Stern, the camera. I feel that gives it a Jamie Edwards, Jesse Hollis storybook fairytale quality. You can see the technique in a lot of Russian and Eastern European stop-motion animation.” Schedule: six weeks. stash 38.20

The Sea and Cake “Coconut” Music video For Bent Image Lab Record label: Director: Rob Shaw Thrill Jockey Records EPs: Chel White, Ray Di Carlo Director/editor: Sr producer: Tsui Ling Toomer Lung Producer: Kara Place Creative partner: Chel White Animation: DOPs: Mark Eifert, James Birkett Lung Animators: Rob Shaw, Sarah Hulin Stash: What was the project Assistant animators: Brian Kinkley, brief? Marty Easterday Lung: None. Character designer: Bartek Prusiewicz Did that freedom create any Storyboard: Monique Ligons creative challenges? Art dept director: Erm,,, none. Solomon Burbridge I see. Any technical Art dept: Diana Joy Parker, challenges? Marty Easterday Nope, pretty simple one this. Compositors: Orland Nutt, Brian Kinkley How about a schedule? Online editor: Jon Weigand Three days doing it and three PA: Chris Parkhurst weeks for Thrill Jockey to decide Interns: Javan Ivey, Alisa Stern, whether to release it. Jamie Edwards, Jesse Hollis Where has it been seen? Internet, festivals, my house. Anything else? Nothing to report really. Just wanted to make a mess out of other peoples’ mess. Offset the track with some sore eyes. Toolkit After Effects, Final Cut Pro stash 38.21

“ODYSSEY IN ROME” Opening titles

Client: FILMMAKERS ENTERTAINMENT Director: JOOST KORNGOLD Animation: RENASCENT www.renascent.nl Dutch director/designer/animator Joost Korngold, who worked on this documentary title sequence between paying gigs for several months, admits he took on the project, “for the love of the game without a budget and in hopes of getting more exposure for feature main title work. I was given a rough cut of where the titles needed to fit. Other than that it was an open brief finding a good integration of both typography and live footage.” For Renascent Director/designer/animator: Joost Korngold Toolkit 3ds Max, After Effects stash 38.22

TomTom “Client Meeting” “Hospital Dash” TVCs :30 x 2 Agency: TBWA\Neboko, Netherlands Director: Mischa Rozema Production: PostPanic Animation/post: PostPanic Quadriga FX Cartoon Saloon www.postpanic.com www.quadrigafx.de www.cartoonsaloon.ie

For TomTom For PostPanic For Cartoon Saloon Post Panic director Mischa VP marketing: Director/designer: Mischa Rozema Rotoscoping/animation producer: Rozema says he combined a Stephan van Kruisselberge EP: Ania Markham Ross Murray live-action green screen shoot, Advertising manager: Producer: Annejes van Liempd PM: Kairen Waloch rotoscoping, 3D and motion Jochen Fischer TD: Jules Tervoort Rotoscoping/animation director: graphics in this spot because, “I 3D super: Ivor Goldberg Diane Le Feyer wanted the viewer to start with a For TBWA / Neboko DOP: Philip van Volsem Rotoscopers/animators: Diane blank canvas and then see this AD: Kirsten Frenz PA: Suvi Hyvarinen Le Feyer, Mathieu Chaptel, Ray unusual graphic world filled in as Copy: Dominique Lesbirel Motion graphics: Kevin Walenciak, Forkan, Niall Moran, Alessandra the story developed. I really liked Producer: Lotte de Rooij Martijn Hogerkamp, Sorrentino, Alfredo Cassano the idea of paint techniques and For Quadriga FX Florian Stumpe seeing color being added as if by Toolkit Tracking/keying/masking: 3D: Tim van der Wiel, Jerome hand. It was important however to 3ds Max, After Effects, Flash, Final Christopher Puchta, René Haubert, Bartek Opatowiecki, always keep the TomTom brand at Cut Pro Blumberg, Georg Sebastian Onno van Braam, Jeroen Arts the forefront, so I decided to use Dressler, Dimitrios Truchan, green as the foundation for the Matthias Haase, Tobias Wiegand spots.” stash 38.23

Bank of Ireland For Irish International BBDO “Bogeyman”, “Elf” CD: Kirk Bannon TVCs :30 x 2 Producer: Noel Byrne Agency: For Company Films Irish International BBDO Director: Rory Kelleher Director: Producer: Nick Fewtrell Rory Kelleher For Glassworks Production: TK operator: Tareq Kubaisi Company Films Flame: Duncan Malcolm, Warren Gebhardt, Animation/VFX: Lise Prud’Homme, Stuart Wilson Glassworks 3D Artists: Alastair Hearsum, www.glassworks.co.uk Vaclav Cizkovsky, Two testimonials for the Bank Daniel Jahnel, Will Davies, of Ireland from some of its Ruediger Kaltenhaeuser, more mythical clients. The James Mann, Jaroslav Polensky bogeyman and the elf both started as drawings by director Rory Kelleher and involved complex post acrobatics via London’s Glassworks. Briefly: The bogeyman is a combination of 3D face, limbs, hat and feathers all choreographed around his live action velvet jacket. The elf started with careful casting then replacing everything above the talent’s shoulders with a 3D scanned version of her own head complete with exaggerated eyes and fantastic ears. To add more reality, the 30 tiny CG extras were motion captured from actual elves. stash 38.24

For Irish International BBDO DOVE “ONSLAUGHT” CD: Kirk Bannon Viral Producer: Noel Byrne For Company Films Client: Director: Rory Kelleher Unilever Producer: Nick Fewtrell Agency: For Glassworks OGILVY & MATHER, TORONTO TK operator: Tareq Kubaisi Director: Flame: Duncan Malcolm, TIM PIPER Warren Gebhardt, Lise Prud’Homme, Stuart Wilson Production: 3D Artists: Alastair Hearsum, WORLDWIDE PRODUCTIONS/ Vaclav Cizkovsky, STEAM FILMS Daniel Jahnel, Will Davies, VFX: Ruediger Kaltenhaeuser, SOHO James Mann, Jaroslav Polensky www.26soho.com

Following up a huge viral and emotional hit like Dove “Evolution” would be tough enough on its own, but add a Titanium Lion and now the whole world is watching. The new clip from director Tim Piper and Toronto’s Soho doesn’t disappoint – the work is indeed a visual onslaught – continuing Dove’s message without repeating itself or playing sequel. For Worldwide Productions/ For Soho Toolkit Steam Films Editors: Kevin Gibson, Tim Piper Smoke For Ogilvy & Mather Producer: Jeff McDougall Photography: Mark Belvedere, EP: Brenda Surminski DOP: Marc Laliberté-Else Tim Piper, Mike Kirkland CCOs: Janet Kestin, Nancy Vonk Assistant editor: Mark Sheehan ACDs/copy: Tim Piper, Mike Kirkland AD: Mike Kirkland, Stuart Campbell, Sharon Lee Pan Director: Tim Piper stash 38.25

Honda Fit “Eyes”, “Gas Mileage” TVCs/virals x 2 Agency: RPA Director: Andrew Hall Animation: A52 www.a52.com Originally meant as :15s for the web, both these CG spots graduated to cable TV with the help of creative direction and tight HD execution from A52 in Hollywood. A52 director and VFX super Andrew Hall recalls, “The biggest challenge was to create compelling stories in 15 seconds,” but says he found the inspiration to do that in the car chases of “Bullitt” and “The French Connection” and classic postcards For RPA Previz: Dan Gutierrez of Route 66. Starting with those CDs: Joe Baratelli, David Smith CG: Max Ulichney, Kirk Shintani, visuals, the A52 team handled Acd/AD: Curt Johnson Eli Guerron, Paulo De Almada, modeling, texturing, and lighting in Acd/copy: Todd Carey Adam Newman, Dan Gutierrez EP: Gary Paticoff Maya, rendered with Mental Ray, Music: Elias Arts Producer: Nick Rogoff composited CG layers in Shake, Sound design: 740 Sound Design and managed final compositing For A52 Toolkit and grading in Flame. Director/VFX super: Andrew Hall Maya, Mental Ray, Shake, Flame, EP: Mark Tobin Watch Behind the Scenes on Photoshop. the DVD Producer: Sarah Haynes Concept artist: Darren Gillford Flame: Kirk Balden, Pat Murphy Shake: James Pastorius stash 38.26

Hummer “Selector” TVC :30

Agency: Modernista Director: Joseph Kosinski Production: Anonymous Content Animation: www.digitaldomain.com “I wanted to give the viewer a sneak peek at a near-future, hyper-real driving sim through the bloodshot eyes of a 13-year-old hopped up on Ritalin and Red Bull,” admits director Joseph Kosinski who shot the opening and closing scenes with the new Sony F23 camera, recording uncompressed footage directly to For Modernista For Digital Domain John Niehuss, Chris Norpchen, hard disks mounted in the back CDs: Joe Fallon, Tim Vaccarino President of Commercials/EP: Aaron Powell of a pimped out AMG SUV. “After Producer: Sherri Levy Ed Ulbrich Roto artist: Kevin Ellis a few decent takes of the jump Senior AD: Luke Perkins VFX super: Eric Barba FX animation: Jens Zalzala at the end, the agency producer CG super: Doug Wilkinson Matte painting: Wei Zheng For Anonymous Content challenged me to break the VFX producers: Jason Cohon, Tracking: Scott Edelstein Director: Joseph Kosinski Hummer which we promptly did Melanie LaRue Editor: Russ Glascow EP: Jeff Barron (a couple of body panels, easily Digital PM: Christopher House Line producer: Scott Kaplan For Stimmung reattached). Unfortunately, we also Flame: Kevin Ellis, Jonathan Hicks DOP: Claudio Miranda Composer: Reinhard Denke ripped the front suspension off Nuke: Brian Begun, Sven the camera car which the DP and Dreesbach Toolkit I were riding in at the time (not so Digital artists: Dan Abrams, 3ds Max, Houdini, Flame, easily reattached).” Carlos Anguiano, Tim Nassauer, LightWave, NUKE, STORM stash 38.27

“Key Lime Pie” Student film

School: Sheridan College Director: Trevor Jimenez Created by Trevor Jimenez during his final months at Sheridan College in Oakville, Ontario, “Key Lime Pie” has since been gorging its way through the animation festival circuit. Although the snappy film noir style and narration is pitch perfect in the final product, Jimenez claims the story was the most difficult phase of the process: “I’m used to using images to communicate my ideas, but the writing does not come as naturally. I was inspired to do a noir after watching ‘The Sweet Smell of Success’ by Alexander Mackendrick. From there I marinated in and was inspired by Saul Steinberg illustrations, Weegee’s photography, the Batman animated TV series and a slew of other great noir films like ‘Sunset Blvd’, and the ‘Night of the Hunter’.” Schedule: September to December 2006 to write, board and design. January to the end of April 2007 in production. Completed early May, 2007. Director/writer/VO/animator: Trevor Jimenez Music: Aaron Tsang Cleanup assistants: Lettie Lo, Tim Yu, Alan Cook Digital cel painters: Braden Poirier, Leean Dufour, Adam Hines, Andrew Yu, Dan Ye, Naz Ghodrati, Mark Stanleigh Toolkit Photoshop, After Effects, Premiere, Flipbook stash STUDENT FILM MINI-FEST 1

“ADJUSTMENT” “THE LEGEND OF BORUTA” “HOMAGE” “Tir Nan Og” Student film Student film Student film Student film Director: Director: Director: Director: Ian Mackinnon Bartosz (Bartek) Jacques Khouri Fursy Teyssier School: Nowakowski School: School: Royal College of Art School: Savannah College of Art Ecole Emile COHl www.rca.ac.uk Emily Carr Institute of and Design www.cohl.fr Ian Mackinnon studied and Art + Design www.scad.edu In an attempt to “keep the hand taught at www.eciad.ca Born in Montreal, Jacques Khouri made touch”, French animation Bournemouth University, and “The concept of the film is derived uses his college degree in graphic student Fursy Teyssier started with recently gained a Master of Art and based on an old Polish design and two bachelor degrees watercolor backgrounds scanned degree in animation from the Royal legend that originated in my small in design and film animation plus and modified in Photoshop. College of Art. hometown of Leczyca, Poland. his Masters degree in animation Characters were animated in 3D, The town contains only 16,000 from the Savannah College of Art printed out, and cleaned up by Cast: Sally Scott, Matthew Lyon residents, but is saturated with and Design to create an homage to hand before being scanned back Writer/director: Ian Mackinnon old churches, cathedrals, art, legendary Canadian experimental into the computer for coloring Original score: Krister Holmes architecture, stories and legends, animator Norman Maclaren. Voice: Simon Perry Director: Fursy Teyssier all of which have inspired me to Schedule/budget: six weeks/$20 Additional animation: Réka Gacs Tech support: Jean Charles, create my first film.” Digital intermediate: Director/animator: Jacques Khouri Mbotti Malolo, Florian Piento Framestore CFC Director: Sound: Beethoven Sound design/mix: Yan Volsy Sound re-recording: Chris Pow Bartosz (Bartek) Nowakowski Voices: Johanna Rousset Toolkit Toolkit Toolkit Maya, Shake, After Effects Toolkit Live action, flipbooks, time-lapse, 3ds Max, Zbrush, Photoshop, Maya, Shake, After Effects CG After Effects, Premiere news gallery forum

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