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HONDA HATE “GRRR” HP “PICTURE BOOK” Cinema and TVC :90 TVC :60

Agency: Agency: WIEDEN+KENNEDY GOODBY, SILVERSTEIN & PARTNERS Directors: SMITH & FOULKES Director: FRANCOIS VOGEL Production: NEXUS For Goodby, Silverstein & Production: www.nexusproductions.com Partners PARANOID PROJECTS @ CDs: Steve Simpson, Rich TOOL Can hate be good? In the case Silverstein of Kenichi Nagahiro, it seems so. VFX: Associate CD: John Norman ZOIC Honda’s chief engine designer EP: Josh Reynolds hated the noise, smell and dirt of www.zoicstudios.com diesel engines so much he flatly For Paranoid Projects @ Tool François Vogel follows up the refused to design Honda’s first MD: Phillip Detchmendy much-acclaimed HP “You” with diesel unless he was allowed to EPs: Claude Letessier, Jennifer this visually intricate spot. The fluid start from scratch. The result is the Siegel and seamless integration of what HOP: Amy DeLossa i-CTDi a brand new power plant could have been a tiresome visual that even bunnies and rainbows Producer: Mark Fetterman For Nexus For Zoic gimmick is due in part to Vogel’s can love. Garrison Keillor sings the DP: Adam Kimmel Producer: Julia Parfitt CD: Christopher Jones extensive planning with the effects infectious folk song. 3D: Darren Price, Steve Brown, Producer: Carla Attanasio in mind and his experience as a For Wieden+Kennedy Mark Davies, Luis Juan Palares, Combustion/Flame: Dayna compositor. To accommodate Creatives: Michael Russoff, Sean Michael, Mike Swindall, Daniel Cernansky, Rachel Keyte, Keith worldwide broadcast and theatri- Thompson Shutt, Laura, Saul, Sandra Guarda Weilmuenster, Chris Howard, cal release, the spot was finished Composite: Reece Millidge, Eddy Kevin Moseley in HD 25p PAL by Zoic via Flame and Combustion. Herringson, Moshe Sayada For Chrome: Graphics: Reece Millidge, Ludovic, Editor: Hal Honigsberg Adam Pointer For Prologue Toolkit Designer: Kyle Cooper 3D Studio Max, Brazil, After Effects, Combustion stash 03.03 stash 03.04

POST OFFICE “TWINS” NIKE “MICHAEL VICK TVC :40 EXPERIENCE” TVC :60 Agency: Agency: PUBLICIS WIEDEN+KENNEDY Director: Director: SIMON WILLOWS, JON RICHE ULF JOHANSONN Production: Production: BLINK SMITH AND JONES Animation/VFX: VFX/post: FRAMESTORE CFC SEA LEVEL www.framestore-cfc.com www.sealevelvenice.com Concept, casting and execution This, the fifth ant-based spot for For Wieden + Kennedy For Sea Level the British Post Office, was shot in all converge for this take on Fear AD: Ryan O’Rourke VFX/Inferno: Ben Gibbs Factor meets Monday Night cost-effective and reliably sunny Copy: Derek Barnes EP: Celest Gilbert Majorca. Back in London, three Football. The on-field footage, EP: Ben Grylewicz VFX producer: Amy Russo green-screened players, practical weeks of animation and two weeks Producer: Vic Palumbo of 2D/compositing work got the For The Whitehouse rig and NFL audience plates were ants into shape and into the shots. For Smith and Jones Editor: Russell Icke all laced together during four DP: Harris Savides weeks of tracking, composites, Lighting information was gathered Toolkit EP: Philappa Smith custom background creation and on set using HDR (high dynamic For Blink Inferno, Combustion, Mokey, range) photographs. Taken from Producer: Bart Yates Producer: Steven Sills painstaking matte extraction work Onyx 2, G4s at Sea Level. the ants’ POV, these fisheye pix of For Framestore CFC the live environment are used to Inferno: Jonathan Hairman provide accurate 3D lighting and 3D: Dave Hulin, Kate Hood, Robert reflections on the twins. Holder, Don Mahmood, Gwilym For Publicis Morris, AD: Jackie Steers Lighting/rendering: Laura Dias, Copy: Ira Joseph Simon Stoney Producer: Sharon Joyce Colorist: Steffan Perry Post-producer: Abby Orchard Toolkit Maya with proprietary plug-ins, Inferno. stash 03.05 stash 03.06

NEXTEL “EAVESDROP” ACURA RSX “DANCE” TVC :30 TVC :30

Agency: For Rubin Postaer & Agency: TBWA\CHIAT\DAY Associates RUBIN POSTAER & Director: Sr producer: Shelley Eisner ASSOCIATES BRYAN BUCKLEY Sr VP CD/AD: Mark Erwin Director: Production: Sr VP CD: Pat Mendelson MARK ROMANEK HUNGRY MAN AD: Brandon Levin Production: Copy: Daniel Elmslie VFX: ANONYMOUS CONTENT CHARLEX For Anonymous Content Animation/VFX: www.charlex.com EP: Lisa Margulis DIGITAL DOMAIN HOP: Jeff Baron www.d2.com How they did it (the ADD version): Producer: Scott Kaplan Shot a day of real race with real For Hungry Man After talking with David Fincher For Digital Domain crowd. Shot two days on the EPs: Steve Orent, Dan Duffy (his friend and avid DD fan) EP: Ed Ulbrich closed track with the stunt guy, Producer: John Marx Mark Romanek agreed to direct VFX producer: Stephanie Gilgar nine cars, 100 extras and matching DP: Adam Beckman Dance on the condition it be camera specs (all at 120 fps so VFX super: Brad Parker created totally in CG with no the footage could be sped up). For Charlex CG supers: Nikos Kalaitzidis, shoot days. To achieve the wet Had stunt guy jump onto still car, ECD: Alex Weil Jay Barton realism required, DD had to wheel married a pass of his lower body VFX supers: Alan Neidorf, Kevin Previs: John Allardice out proprietary software they to a pass of his upper body, put on Quinlan Lead composite: Stefan Gaillot developed for Day After Tomorrow Sr Flame: Marc Goldfine a new head then composited with For Spot Welders as the water alone would have Flame: Philana Dias, Kevin shot of him leaping and shot of car Editor: Michael Heldman been computationally impossible going by then added blur to make Quinlan, Tony Robbins, Rick Spain, on a commercial schedule. The the cars look faster. Questions? Evan Schoonmaker Toolkit “Professional driver on a closed Designer: Jeff Stevens Lightwave, Houdini, DD Proprietary course...” disclaimer is a nice For TBWA\Chiat\Day Producer: Abby Okin Software (Dirt, Nuke and Fluid touch. Check out the behind the ECD: Gerry Graf Sr producer: Anne Skopas Simulation Software), Linux and scenes video on the DVD. Copy: John Patroulis NT Workstations AD: Tony Bennett For Mackenzie Cutler Producer: Nathy Aviram Editor: Ian Mackenzie Toolkit Flame, Maya stash 03.07 stash 03.08

NWA “TRANSFORMATIONS” ADIDAS “CARRY” TVC :30 TVC :60

Client: Agency: NORTHWEST AIRLINES TBWA\CHIAT\DAY Agency: Director: CARMICHAEL LYNCH NOAM MURRO Production: Director: For TBWA\Chiat\Day BISCUIT FILMWORKS ARMAN MATIN AD: Geoff Edwards Production/VFX: CD: Chuck McBride VFX: RHINOFX EP: Jennfer Golub METHOD www.rhinofx.com Copy: Scott Duchon www.methodstudios.com The finished spot is 90 percent CG For Biscuit Filmworks The latest CG-free opus from but director Matin says live action EP: Shawn Lacy Tessaro Method went something like was crucial for determining the DP: Barry Peterson this: Hung from suspension rigs, look and feel of all the furniture. Producer: Jay Veal the first four guys jump onto rhinofx started with a two-day Kevin Garnett. Based on their For Method shoot on a motion control stage. positions a prosthetic is sculpted Lead VFX super: Alex Frisch Swatches of the furniture materials with a tracking cube on top that VFX: Cedric Nicolas, Andrew (leather, aluminum, molded allows Method to extract and Eksner, Alex Kolasinski, Brandon plastic) were then scanned with For rhinofx For Company 3 export Garnett’s movements Sanders, Todd Hemsley, Katrina high end reflectometers for use EPs: Rick Wagonheim, Colorist: Eli Friedman to the motion control set up at Salicrup with Bidirectional Reflectance Camille Geier GoMoCo. Later on set, 20 real Toolkit 3D tech supers: Andrew Bell, Distribution Function (BRDF) Live action producer: Terry people climb a 20 ft. high dummy- Maya with Mental Ray, proprietary Jame LeBloch software that allows for very McGinnis covered rig. This mountain of software VFX EP: Neysa Horsburgh accurate rendering of textures Live action PM: Kristen Ames bodies is then shot using the data VFX producer: Sue Troyan For Company 3 and reactions to light. CG director: Natasha Saenko recorded earlier (from tracking Colorists: Steve Rodriguez, Stefan Sr animator: Jeff Guerrero For Bikini Edit the prosthetic) to drive the motion For Carmichael Lynch Sonnenfeld Lead artist: Joe Burrascano Editor: Avi Oron control camera. Back at Method CD: Jim Nelson VFX super: Josh Frankel For The Character Shop rigs are removed, layers are EP: Jack Steinmann Modeler: Paul Liaw Prosthetic: Rick Lazzarini comped and magic is worked. Copy: Brian Tierney Lighting: Ido Klair AD: Brock Davis TD: Jesse Clemens Toolkit Animator: Dan Vislocky Boujou, Maya, Mio Motion Control, Producer: Yfat Neev Flame, Inferno stash 03.09 stash 03.10

V “FREEFALL” BMW SERIES 1 “FOAL” TVC :30 TVC :60

Agency: Agency: COLENSO BBDO WCRS Director: Director: PAUL MIDDLEDITCH JONAS ODELL Production: Production/animation: PLAZA FILMS FILMTEKNARNA www.filmtecknarna.com Animation/VFX: FUEL INTERNATIONAL Our favorite of Jonas Odell’s pool www.fuel-depot.com of spots for the launch of the BMW 1 series. The intense visual One of three new spots that treatment is meant to contrast the follow the adventures of buddy cars’ improved balance with the cockroaches buzzed on the ungainliness of a newborn foal. remains of a can of V energy drink. The four-legged talent was shot Middleditch workshopped the in London then choreographed scripts with the actors to boost with 3D and graphic elements in the characters and sharpen the Filmtecknarna’s Stockholm studio. dialogue then recorded them on For Colenso BBDO video to give the Fuel animators CD: Toby Talbot For WCRS concrete reference of the AD: Steve Back CDs: Jo Moore, Simon Robinson performances he was after. Producer: Liz Garneau For Filmtecknarna For Plaza Films Producers: Susanne Granlof, Producer: Peter Masterton Dan O`Rourke For Fuel International Design: Jonas Odell, Jo Moore, Animation directors: Andrew Simon Robinson Hellen, Simon Maddison Toolkit Producer: Kent Boswell Softimage XSI, After Effects Toolkit Maya, Shake, Flame stash 03.11 stash 03.12

RUSSELL SIMMONS “VANITY FAIR” PRESENTS DEF POETRY Feature film title design TVC: 60 Cient: Client: HBO MIRABAI FILMS Director: Director: CJ HARRIS MIRA NAIR Design/production: Design/production: BLINK.FX TROLLBACK & COMPANY www.blinkfx.com www.trollback.com To help answer HBO’s question, A visual poem evoking the “What does poetry look like?”, elegance, beauty, and decadence Blink.fx turned their Inferno suite of the film’s world, the titles into an arts and crafts studio foreshadow themes of vanity, throwing around various viscous greed and ambition central to blobs before deciding on a mix the film and the novel by William of wax, acrylic paint and CGI to Makepeace Thackeray. Trollbäck create a smooth drippy goop has collaborated on four films that symbolizes the def poets’ with Nair, including “Hysterical conception of their art. Blindness” (HBO Films) for which they won the 2003 Prime Time For Trollbäck & Company: For HBO Emmy for Outstanding Title Directors/CDs: Jakob Trollbäck, Writer/producer: CJ Harris Design. Joe Wright For Blink.fx Designer: Tesia Jurkiewicz For Mirabai Films Sr designer: Ben Orisich TD: Chris Haak Editor: Allyson C. Johnson Designer: Warren Oliver Editor: Cass Vanini Post super: Jennifer Freed For Gary’s Chop Shop Producer: Elizabeth Kiehner Sound design/mix: Gary Arnold EP: Julie Shevach DP: Declan Quinn Toolkit Inferno, Flame, After Effects, Toolkit Cinema 4D Avid, After Effects, Photoshop, Illustrator stash 03.13 stash 03.14

OLN “COUNTDOWN” TVNZ / TVONE REBRANDING Show open Broadcast design

Client: Client: OUTDOOR LIFE NETWORK TVNZ Director: Design/direction: MICHAEL MAGNOTTA INK PROJECT Design/production: Animation/VFX: EYEBALLNYC FUEL INTERNATIONAL www.eyeballnyc.com www.fuel-depot.com Visual elegance may not be your Selections from a tasty pair of first thought when picturing the campaigns to re-brand New network that brings professional Zealand’s public broadcaster bull riding and rodeos into 60 TVNZ and TVONE a station million American homes. The under the TVNZ umbrella. The Outdoor Life Network chose class deliverables included animated over crass in this package of more pieces in both English and Maori than 100 elements for their series languages. that counts down outstanding people and stories in the world of For TVNZ outdoor and adventure sports. EP: Annemarie Duff For EyeballNYC For Ink Project CD: Limore Shur CD: Ken Lambert Associate CD: Andrea Dionisio For Outdoor Life Network For Fuel International EP: Mike Eastwood VP/CD of On-Air: Michael 3D: Andrew Helen Producers: Beth Vogt, Eve Ehrich Magnotta Lead animator: Adam Gault VP of Programming: Susan Toolkit CG director: Stuart Simms Panisch Maya, Flame, Photoshop, Illustrator 3D animator: Carl Mok For Expansion Team 2D designer: Danny Kamhaji Composer: Michael Picton Rotoscope/production: Allison Kocar, John Brennick Toolkit Editor: Adam Gault 3DS Max, After Effects, Final Cut, Photosphop, Illustrator stashSUBMIT stashBTS stashSUBSCRIBE www.stashmedia.tv/subscribe STASH needs your most current and exceptional animation, VFX and BEHIND THE SCENES PUBLISHED 12 times a year, STASH is the essential resource for ad SUBSCRIBE NOW to get your own STASH delivered for only US$19 per motion graphics projects (regardless of budget or technique) including: When you contribute to STASH, you have the opportunity to include behind agencies, broadcasters, animation and VFX studios, designers, post issue. Or take advantage of the Corporate Subscription and receive 48 the scenes material with your work. These mini-productions may include houses, production companies and schools. Save hours of research copies (4 per month x 12 months) of STASH for only US$15.62 per issue / television, cinema and viral commercials storyboards, conceptual art, maquettes, wire frame models, render and while building your own collection of inspiring animation. (perfect for larger agencies and studios). / broadcast graphics and film titles compositing tests, director/animator/producer commentary etc. / branded content / music videos CHECK OUT THE BEHIND THE SCENES FEATURES ON SELECT SUBSCRIBE RIGHT AWAY AT www.stashmedia.tv or copy this form, fill it out and fax to 604.608.9295. / short films STASH ENTRIES. / spec spots and pitches / and those jobs that just up and died ❏ Yes! Please start my subscription to STASH today. > Select payment (for rates outside North America visit www.stashmedia.tv) ❏ Bill me later While STASH welcomes credit and title sequences, we do not accept > Check one only: ❏ Payment enclosed (Payable to Stash Media Inc.) animation or VFX work done for the body of a television program or ❏ Single subscription (1 x 12 issues) US$228/yr. feature film. ❏ Corporate subscription (4 x 12 issues) US$750/yr. ❏ VISA/Mastercard # ______To submit projects for consideration: stashADS ❏ Educational/student (1 x 12 issues) US$199/yr. Email Quicktimes or FTP links to [email protected] or go to ❏ Month to month subscription US$27.50/mo. Name on card: ______Exp Date: ______stashmedia.tv for directions on where to forward a DVD. ADVERTISING We glady accept advertising from suppliers to the industry such as software First Name: ______Last Name: ______and hardware firms, festivals, award shows and strong coffee companies. To maintain editorial integrity, STASH does not accept advertising from Title: ______Company: ______companies directly involved in the production of design, animation or VFX. stashRETAIL Address: ______To book your ad space, contact Greg Robins at 604-689-1300 or STASH IN STORES [email protected] City: ______State/Prov. ______Zip/Postal Code ______STASH is available in selected bookstores and art resource outlets around the globe. To suggest a store or inquire about selling STASH at your store, Phone: ______E-mail: ______please email [email protected] or call 604-689-1300. Is this is a business address? ❏ Yes ❏ No Please include me in your promotional mailings or communications ❏ Yes ❏ No

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D&AD AWARDS “THE DETOUR ON TELETOON” TITLE/BUMPERS BUMPERS Event motion design Broadcast design x 4 Director: Client: ADAM PARRY TELETOON CANADA Design/animation Agency: FRAMESTORE CFC FISH DOG www.framestore-cfc.com Directors: Working from the minimalist brief MARK CUTLER, FRANK of ‘white neon on black’, the FALCONE Framestore CFC design team Design/animation: opted for a chroma-challenged GURU Vegas signage feel. Starting with www.gurustudio.com illustrations created by Lock Guru continues its award winning in Illustrator, Parry built, lit and relationship with Canada’s cartoon animated it all in Inferno. Founded cabler through these adult-block in 1962, D&AD is a UK-based bumpers which follow the exploits educational charity working on of D and his gas guzzling pet behalf of the international design robot duck-monkey through a and advertising communities. The traffic clogged metropolis. The 2004 awards ceremony bestowed For Fish Dog good news? Even here among Yellow Pencils to 53 out of 21,500 CD: Gervais Vignola the ravenous bully cars and entries in 27 categories. For guru grumpy octogenarians love is still For Framestore CFC CD: Frank Falcone a possibility. Designers: Adam Parry, Sharon EP: Anne Deslauriers For Teletoon Lock 3D: Dave Calder, Tim Dormady, VP M&P: Hillary Firestone Producer: Simon Whalley Bryan Huo, Timmy Kan, Taras Primak, Allison Rutland Dir of creative services: Renee Toolkit Gluck Inferno, Illustrator For Envision Producer: Genna Duplessis Composer: Kid Koala (Eric San) Toolkit Maya, After Effects, Mental Ray, Photoshop stash 03.17

VIVA MUSIC NETWORK Show packaging x 4

Production: THE EBELING GROUP Design/animation/music: LOBO MK12 NAKD A selection of packaging from four of the 11 chart shows, talk shows For Lobo and countdowns, re-introduced CD: Mateus de Paula Santos by Germany’s dominant music “Party Mix”, Nakd “Neu”, Lobo Design/animation: Carlos Bêla, network after their acquisition Roger Marmo, Cadu Macedo, by Viacom. The spots air across Mario Sader, Guilherme Germany, Switzerland, Poland and Marcondes, Paula Nobre, Rafael Hungary. Grampá, Diogo Kall For Viva Network For MK12 Annabel Beresford Design/animation: MK12 For The Ebeleing Group For Nakd EP: Mick Ebeling CD/design/animator: Nando Costa HOP: Alexander Dervin AD/design: Linn Costa Producers: Loren Walker, Ben Design/animation: Raquel Apley, Loic DuBois, Sue Lee, Falkenbach “Euro Top 20”, MK12 “UK Top 20”, Nakd Joao Tenorio Animation: Emerson Luis Rodrigues Dos Santos Toolkit Maya, After Effects, Photoshop, Illustrator stash 03.18 stash 03.19

MTV ARTBREAK “PIZZA MTV “THE MONKEY KING” DELIVERY” Station ID :60 Broadcast design :20 Client: Client: MTV NETWORKS MTV ASIA INTERNATIONAL CREATIVE Directors: Director: NATHAN JUREVICIUS, SATOSHI TOMIOKA CHRIS HAUGE Production: Production/animation: NEXUS PASSION PICTURES www.nexusproductions.com AUSTRAILIA/ HALO PICTURES MTV Art Breaks, with the focus www.passion-pictures.com on the narrative instead of the www.halopictures.com logo, will soon replace traditional channel ID’s on the 99 channels This ambitious labor of love is of MTV International. According to based on the Chinese legend the company, “They are designed of The Monkey King, a familiar to offer a creative platform for tale in the broadcaster’s home leading creatives working in a mix market where 2004 is the year of different animation techniques.” of the monkey. The ancient fable Whatever. All we know is this one’s concerns a character who shape shifts to combat new enemies got a pizza guy in a wrestling mask For Passion Pictures Australia/ and annoy old ones. Byrne, smacking down jet-propelled Halo Pictures who started her Melbourne- sumo wrestlers. Oh yeah. AD/copy: Nathan Jurevicius based company after 11 years Producer: Sophie Byrne For Nexus with Passion Pictures in the Animation director: Chris Hauge Producers: Chris O’Reilly, Aya London, says she teamed up Line producer: Lisa Hauge Koyabashi with Flash-savvy Hauge and his Lead animator: Chris Georgiou Post: Satoshi Tomioka company Halo Pictures to keep Flash builds: Hannah Collier Music: Daisuke Ueno the animation true to Jurevicius’ Editor/compositor: Fletch Moules Post production facility: Kanaban singular illustration style. Graphics, Tokyo Tech support: Charlie Chang Music/SFX: Luke Jurevicius For MTV Asia Toolkit AD/copy: Charmaine Choo After Effects Toolkit Flash, After Effects, Illustrator stash 03.20 stash 03.21

“RESFEST 2004” BJORK “OCEANIA” Film trailer :90 Music video

Director: Directors: MOTION THEORY LYNN FOX Production/VFX: Production: MOTION THEORY COLONEL BLIMP www.motiontheory.com Animation/compositing: Stitching together the illustrative LYNN FOX talents of KozynDan with two www.lynnfox.co.uk days of motion control shots from Words seem inadequate to suburbia, Hama Sushi, Downtown describe Bjork’s music as they LA, and a used-car lot, Motion For Motion Theory do this video, a product of the Theory weaves live action and DP: David Morrison mercurial singer’s ongoing 3D into a surreal and seamless CDs: Mathew Cullen, Grady Hall collaboration with UK directorial panoramic opening sequence ADs: Jesus de Francisco, collective Lynn Fox who also for Resfest. Kaan Atilla handled 3D and compositing. VFX super: John Clark For RES For Colonel Blimp Designers: Mathew Cullen, Kaan Festival director: Jonathan Wells Producer: Anna Brunaro Editor: Holly Willis Atilla, John Clark, Chris Leone, HOP: John Turk Paulo De Almada, Kirk Shintani, For The Mill Linas Jodwalis, Chris De St. Jeor, Producer: Bumble Davis Seung Do Kang, Vi Nguyen, Mark Telecine: Adam Scott Kudsi, Irene Park, Earl Burnley, VFX super/Flame: Paul Marangos Gabriel Dunne, Daryn Wakasa, Flame assistant: Jay Bandlish Jesse Franklin Toolkit Producers: Bo Platt, James Taylor Flame, Spirit EP: Javier Jimenez For Momentum Lab Flame: Danny Yoon Producer: Gregg Katano Toolkit Maya, After Effects, Flame, motion control stash 03.22 stash 03.23

“PLAY” “PEACE RUNNING” Cinema and TVC :60 Branded content

Director: Client: SASHA PERDIGAO PANASONIC Production: Directors: THE REFINERY BESSY & COMBE www.refinery.co.za Production: At the age of 6 Gerhard NEXUS Bezuidenhout was diagnosed www.nexusproductions.com with cancer for the second time. A stand out in the current crop Johannesburg-based animation of online commissioned short and post powerhouse The Refinery films, Peace Running is part of rose to the occasion producing Panasonic’s Capture the Motion this spot in two weeks as well as project tied to the 2004 Olympics securing broadcast and theatrical and screened via their Japanese distribution. The spot struck direct website (www.panasonic.co.jp/ hits in South African hearts helping olympic) to raise US$50,000 to pay for Gerhard’s bone marrow transplant. For Nexus Check out the behind the scenes Character design: Jerome Combe feature on the DVD for how the Story: André Bessy spot was put together. Animation: Laurent Witz Modeling: Jerome Combe, Pierre Lemaux Editors: Frédéric Savoir, André For The Refinery Bessy, Jerome Combe Producer: Shirley Sunter Post: Amazing Digital Studios Story/animator: Sasha Perdigão Toolkit Backgrounds/compositor: After Effects, Final Cut Pro Darrin Hofmeyr Titles: Christian van der Walt stash 03.24 stash 03.25

GETTY IMAGES “BIG IDEA” NATURE SWEET TOMATOES Branded content “TRIAGE” TVC :30 www.gettyimages.com/thebigidea Agency: THE RICHARDS GROUP It is a head-smackingly obvious idea in hindsight: show off Getty’s Client: massive collection of digital and DESERT GLORY still images as well as their slick Director: online access technology by PIERRE COFFIN commissioning cool film makers to Production: create shorts with at least half the PASSION PICTURES content downloaded directly from the Getty website. Seven films Animation: were made, these are our favorites. MAC GUFF LIGNE Check out the behind scenes www.macguff.fr feature on the DVD for indepth Paris-based director and animator ‘making of’ videos. Pierre Coffin squeezes into the US market with this juicy medical spoof. No smiling happy fruit here. The spot is choreographed as “WHAT IF” “EYES” “MURMURS OF EARTH: For Passion Pictures For Mac Guff Ligne a single handheld ER-style shot Director: Director: SIDE B” Live action DP: Jean Poisson 3D animation: Elisabeth Patte, complete with urgent atmosphere JEREMY HOLLISTER KOICHURIO TSUJIKAWA Director: Live action line producer: Gael Matchabelli, Lucas Valerie achieved with Mac Guff Ligne’s AD/designer: Judy Wellfare Animation/composite/edit/audio: LOGAN Alexandre Meliava Rendering: Jerome Gordon, own lighting and rendering Designer: Johnathon Leong Koichiro Tsujikawa Camera/editing/animation/ Co-director: Darren Walsh Mathieu Gros, Xavier de software. Animators: Doug Purver, Jesse Music: Cornelius compositing: Logan Producers: Samantha Plaisted, l’Hermuziere For The Richards Group Lockwood, Johnathon Leong 3D modeling: Johnny Lum Nicholas Trout Character setup: Mathieu Trintzius, Illustrator: Jesse Lockwood Additional animation: James Wang CGH: Glenn Dady EP: Hugo Sands Julien Caillaud Copy: Tina Johnson EP: Barry Hollister Sound design: Kevin Shapiro Fluid/particles: Bruno Pierron, Toolkit AD: Ashley Bull Music: Pull Still photography: Stephen Alain Duval Maya, proprietary rendering/ Producers: Lynn Louria, Amanda Schauer Flame: Eric Adelheim lighting software, Avid Correa Props: Dani Tull Editor: Magalie Barraban stash 03.26 stash 03.27

BATS: MASTERS OF THE TROUBLE TV “ANIMATE” NIGHT TVC: 30 TVC: 30 Client: Client: THE OREGON COAST FLEXTECH RIGHTS LTD AQUARIUM Production: Agency: ACADEMY LEOPOLD KETEL Director: Director: CONKERCO JEFF RILEY Design/animation: Production: CONKERCO BENT IMAGE LAB www.conkerco.com www.bentimagelab.com A televised call for entries from the Fresh character designs from Animate storyboard competition Eben Dickinsen and Jeff Riley and run by UK kids’ channel Trouble. snappy animation by director Jeff It urges kids under 18 to get their Riley keep this regional spot for the animation ideas onto paper and non-profit Oregon Coast Aquarium win the chance to work with real on the radar. The result is one live animators and bring their scary casting session as five inept visions to life. Conkerco produced chiroptera vie for Master of the this :30 and 5 IDs to communicate Night status. the limitless nature of the medium For Leopold Ketel For Bent Image Lab and inspire entrants to push the CD: Jerry Ketel EP: Ray Di Carlo boundaries of their creativity. Dir of broadcast: David Brooks Producer: Anthony Greene For Conkerco AD: Brian Dixon DP: Mark Eifert Every conceivable aspect of AD: Eben Dickinsen production: Conkerco Editor: Ryan Jeffrey Composite: Ryan Jeffrey, Jeff Riley Toolkit Nikon D100 digital camera, After Effects. Photoshop, Final Cut Pro stash 03.28 stash 03.29

NMU “STILL SHININ’” “THE HELL’S KITCHEN” Music video (director’s cut) Short film (student)

Music label: Directors: COLUMBIA MUSIC BENJAMIN BOCQUELET, ENTERTAINMENT (JAPAN) RENAUD MARTIN Directors: School: GARY BRESLIN, SAM COLE EMCI (France) Production: Instructor: PUSHER MIKAEL AUFFRET Animation/VFX: Like most animation companies PANOPTIC at the top of their game London’s www.panoptic.org Studio AKA gets far too many resumes and reels each month. You could say Nitro Microphone But when The Hell’s Kitchen Underground are big in Japan. arrived they hoped the talent The eight man Tokyo-based responsible would not be far hip hop crew is reminiscent of behind. The cringe-inducing the Wu Tang Clan with all the short, which takes themes of members cultivating distinct consequence and responsibility to identities and solo careers. Still new and devastating heights, had Shinin’ was originally shot as two both the style and the imagination videos (AM and PM versions) that For Pusher: to make it stand out from the form one mini-movie covering a EP: Chris Buckley pile. The Studio AKA roster now 24 hour cycle in a CG city. The Producer: Oulid Mouaness includes Benjamin Bocquelet. rappers were shot in a green- DP: Shawn Kim screen studio, and on location in Toolkit downtown LA with animation and For PanOptic 3DS Max, After Effects, Vegas VFX done back at PanOptic’s NY AD: GMD Three studio. Check out the behind the Lead animators: Nick Fischer, scenes feature on the DVD for Robbie Muller, Dylan Nathan work in progress shots Producer: Javier Hernandez Toolkit Lightwave, After Effects, Final Cut Pro, Photoshop, Illustrator stashLIFE Smith & Foulkes Find Something to Hate

Alan Smith and Adam Foulkes Who would make the better CRUSADING FOR DIGITAL ARTISTS blame beer and hard times in the client Blair or Bush? mid-nineties for bringing them together during post-grad animation Mmmh, an excellent question, and studies at London’s Royal College one we have pondered many times, of Art. Fun and innovative short long into the night. We do of course films, music promos, commercials, appreciate the legendary light instructional videos and feature film entertainment opus of the multi- titles have ensued. Next up is the talented Lionel Blair, but to work animated opening scene for Jim with Kate Bush would be a dream Carey’s ‘Lemony Snicket’s A Series come true. Those early 80’s videos, of Unfortunate Events’, due in US genius. Though Babooshka still theatres December ‘04. Stash met gives me nightmares. the unassuming duo at the Nexus studio in London… One wish from the magic technology fairy, what is it? That computers learned how to take random meaningless thoughts and turn them into hilarious What part of the animation Thunderbirds main title sequence cohesive scripts. We have a lot of process do you hate the most? Client: Universal/Working Title random meaningless thoughts. Rendering. Unquestionably, and Your ultimate hot tub party unhesitatingly rendering. The includes who (living or dead)? times we have to deliver a job the next day and the night follows a David Hasselhoff, he’d come predictable pattern; two hours Robinsons “Barleydino” in handy if either of us got into rendering, two minutes to see the Agency: HHCL trouble in the water, and might rendering mistakes, two hours re- be persuaded to give us a tune. rendering, etc, etc. At least we have I guess that would kind of rule Watch more Smith & Foulkes at the Blair/Bush debate to keep our anyone else out though. www.nexusproductions.com spirits up in the early hours (Kate still wins). Image courtesy of Dusso - www.dusso.com Record & Mix for Television & Radio | Remote ISDN Recording | Sound Effects & Design | Music Composition & Scoring

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