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Printed in Canada. fmx09_stash booklet add_02.indd 1 05.03.2009 11:07:03 stash 55.01 Comcast “Sing-a-Long” TVC :60 cast performing. We even make a cameo if you look close enough. Using an arresting illustration style Agency: our 3D team built Comcast Town Goodby Silverstein & to comp the live action into. We PartNers liked the idea that whilst the real Director: cast get on with their ordinary Smith & FOuLkes daily business there is a plethora of incidental strange animated Production: characters that not only reinforce NExuS the song lyrics but have a lot of fun Animation: doing so.” NExuS For Goodby Silverstein & www.nexusproductions.com Partners The centerpiece spot in the CD: Jamie Barrett latest of a series of striking Group CD: Chris Ford campaigns for Comcast from ACD/AD: Stefan Copiz Goodby Silverstein & Partners ACD/copy: Paul Charney relies on Oscar-nominated UK Copy: Andrew Bancroft directors Smith & Foulkes and Producer: Ashley Sferro their singular talent for turning just For Nexus about anything into one large and Director: Smith & Foulkes mischievous musical production. EPs: Chris O’Reilly, Julia Parfitt Smith & Foulkes: “It was really Producer: Isobel Conroy the music that first attracted AD/VFX super: Fletcher Moules us to the project. With this as Illustration/character design: our starting point we thought it Chris Martin would be fun to create a world where the whole community For Bright Pictures lives to the rhythm of the music. EP: Rudy Callegari We decided there would no cuts 1st assistant director: Todd Lent and the environment would be DOP: Ueli Steiger totally isometric. It was fun for Producer: Pip Malone us because we got to shoot the Interactive director: Tim Dillon stash 55.03 stash 55.02 was apparent an artificially large splash was not in keeping with the Audi Quattro Boags “Pure Waters” feel of the commercial – it looked “Urban Carving” TVC :60 like we were hiding something. TVC :45 The solution was to keep the Client: motorcycle splash throughout and Agency: Lion NathAN not use the push bike splash at all. Kempertrautmann, Hamburg Agency: “I then slowly transitioned the Publicis Mojo bike and rider piece by piece, Director: Director: staggering the effect over the Daniel Kleinman Steve Rogers duration of the shot. The riders Production: head, arms, and bike were all Production: MARkenfilm rotoscoped out separately so I Revolver Films Rattling Stick could morph and offset each little VFx: VFx: bit, and trick the eye into not really Framestore Fin Design & Effects seeing it.” Schedule: eight days in www.framestore.com www.findesign.com.au Flame, two days of Combustion. camera and body tracking and for body tracking and modeling, For Rattling Stick Justin Bromley, VFX supervisor/ Michael Stanish, Framestore plenty of work for the compositors. Houdini for the VFX animation, Producer: Johnnie Frankel For Publicis Mojo VFX producer: “The brief was This along with the tight schedule Houdini’s Mantra for rendering, DP: Paul Cameron Flame compositor at Fin Design CD: Micah Walker in Sydney: “We were asked to to create a totally believable film meant we really needed a quick Flame for compositing. Schedule: Editor: Adam Spivey Creatives: Grant McAloon, Steve of a downhill skier carving his and easily repeatable pipeline for three-day location shoot; original make sure the visual trickery For Framestore Wakelam way through the streets of San the FX work. five-week post schedule extended was totally seamless and kept in VFX super: William Bartlett Francisco to reflect the all-wheel to seven. sympathy with the overall low- For Revolver Film “Creatively, one of the hardest CG lead: Diarmid Harrison-Murray drive technology of the new Audi key tone of the TVC. “Technically Director: Steve Rogers challenges was settling on the look For kempertrautmann TDs: Michele Fabbro, Quattro. the most challenging shot was EP: Michael Ritchie for the debris and spray from the CDs: Frank Bannöhr, Willy Pol Chanthasartratsarmee, the push bike to motorbike Producer: Georgina Willson “Our first challenge was choosing skier. It was really important to the Kaussen, Jens Theil, Gerrit Zinke Scott Eaton, Jabed Khan, transition. I was planning to use For Fin Design + Effects an overall approach that would client we retain the feeling of snow AD: Frank Bannöhr Tracking: Melvyn Polayah, the water to cover the change EP: Emma Daines produce the most convincing spray, whilst at the same time Copy: Willy Kaussen Jabed Khan, from push bike to motorbike, but Producer: Billy Becket look. The final solution was to creating an effect that felt realistic Line producer: Jannik Endemann Telecine colorist: Steffan Perry as it turned out the water was a shoot everything on location with for street skiing. With no real Producer: Michael Stanish Lead Flame: Justin Bromley For Markenfilm little underwhelming. I had the a skilled rollerblader. The blades reference to go on we just had to Flame: Christophe Allender Producer: Simona Daniel Sound: Audioforce, Berlin second unit shoot some water were later removed and replaced dive in and start developing some 3D:Tom Corbett Director: Daniel Kleinman splashes for me against black, 2D: Maxence Peillion with CG skis and spray. Fast cut different looks to find out what Toolkit so I knew I could beef up the in- editing and a handheld feel to the would work best for everybody.” Maya, Houdini, Houdini’s Mantra, camera water if needed.