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VP9_AD_OneSuite_Stash.indd 1 5/13/09 4:01 PM s09_STASH.pdf 4/1/09 3:43:31 PM Register now for the most exceptionally astounding conference in the history of computer graphics and interactive techniques. C Check online for complete information on Courses, Papers, Art & Design Galleries, M the Computer Animation Festival (and more). Y CM NOW AVAILABLE! Online registration and hotel reservations MY CY CMY Right image: ATLAS in silico © 2007 Ruth West K New Motion+New Sound+New Code 09 motion graphics festival www.MGFest.com/09/Atlanta/ Atlanta Motion Graphics Festival 2009 July 2-5 Despite everything – including the economy and how it has affected the media world – I’m an optimist. Not a rose-colored glasses, head-in- stash the-sand, everything-happens-for-the-best kind of smiley face, but I do DVD MAGAZINE 57 instinctively look for the opportunities hidden in problems and crises. STASH MEDIA INC. Editor: STEPHEN PRICE In her 2007 book The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, Publisher: GREG ROBINS Naomi Klein demonstrates how large corporate interests take advantage of crises – natural or man-made – to ram through unpopular policies or Managing editor: HEATHER GRIEVE simply rape and pillage. She quotes legendary American economist and Associate publisher: privatization advocate Milton Freedman as admitting, “Only a crisis, real MARILEE BOITSON or perceived produces real change.” Associate editor: ABBEY KERR Account managers: APRIL HARVEY, By Klein’s own admission the parade of evidence in her book is CHRISTINE STEAD depressing – the exploitation of Iraq after the war, New Orleans after Business development: Katrina, Thailand after the tsunami – powerful examples of how the public PAULINE THOMPSON good and personal freedoms were severely compromised or completely destroyed in the wake of massive trauma. Preview/montage editor: HEATHER GRIEVE What is important to remember through all this is, objectively, the shock Preview opening animation: TANTRUM (and awe) of these events simply opened the door for change, any kind of Technical guidance: IAN HASKIN change. Why private, dispassionate, usually corrupt interests are, time Cover image: WIZZdesign and again, best at grasping these opportunities is up for debate. So here’s what I, the optimist, am getting at. The current economic crisis WWW.STASHMEDIA.TV has trickled down to create a shock in the animation and VFX world. Let’s ISSN 1712-5928 embrace it, let’s use the collective disorientation to implement important changes in the way we work and run our businesses. Legal things: Stash Magazine and Stash DVD are published 12 times per year by Stash The trick, of course, is to remember we’re the good guys and leave out Media Inc. All rights reserved and contents copyright Stash Media Inc. No part of this the raping and pillaging part. booklet nor the Stash DVD may be copied without express written permission from the publisher. Stash Media Inc. does not promote or endorse products, services or Stephen Price events advertised by third party advertisers. Editor Submissions: www.stashmedia.tv/submit Subscriptions: www.stashmedia.tv New York, March 2009 Contact: Stash Media Inc. [email protected] 494-1641 Lonsdale Avenue, North Vancouver, BC V7M 2J5 Canada. Curated in New York. Printed in Canada. stash 57.01 Philips Cinema 21:9 TV “CAROUsel“ Branded content 2:19 Agency: TRibal DDB, AmsteRdam Director: Adam BERG Production: Stink DIGital StillkinG VFX: Stink DIGital RedRUM www.stinkdigital.tv www.redrumpost.se Director Adam Berg admits there as still as they possibly can when For Stink Digital For MPC London was very little magic behind the we move past them. We cast EPs: Mark Pytlik, Daniel Colorist: Jean-Clement Soret multi-layered complexity of this these awesome Czech stunt guys Bergmann, Stephen Brierley trip through a moment of clown and dancers who had good body Producers: Simon Eakhurst, UK PM: Jemma Daniel infested chaos – the centerpiece control as our stars. We edited the Stephen Brierley Title sequence/trailer: of an interactive campaign to whole thing on set so that Redrum Director: Adam Berg Maximiliano Chanan, Odin Church promote the Philips CINEMA could start on the post right away.” DOP: Fredrik Backar For Trim 21:9 television. It started with half For Tribal DDB, Amsterdam For Stillking Editor: Paul Hardcastle a page of notes about clowns Global CD: Neil Dawson Line producer: Zuzana de Pagter robbing a hospital, progressed CD: Chris Baylis 1st AD: Jiri Ostry with Berg storyboarding as he Producers: Jeroen Jedeloo, Production designer: Petr Kunc went and working with Redrum Iwona Echt Czech production manager: post in Stockholm to do the previz AD: Mariota Essery, Jiri Kotlas while on location. “Shooting Andrew Ferguson happened over two long days in For Redrum Copy: Carla Madden, Chris Baylis Prague. I would like to say that we Post super: Richard Lyons Technical lead: came up with some spectacular Music/sound design: Jan Willem Penterman new piece of equipment, but we Michael Fakesch didn’t. The actors are just standing Additional sound design: Tim Davis stash 57.02 SCRabble “SUmo”, “HUla”, “YOGA” TVCs :60 X 3 Client: Mattel For Ogilvy Paris Agency: Ex CD: Chris Garbutt OGilvy PARis AD: Antoaneta Metchanovna Director: TV production: Laure Bayle, Clement DozieR Diane de Bretteville IRina Dakeva For WIZZdesign Production: Producer: François Brun WIZZdesiGN Artistic research: Animation: Guillaume Combes WIZZ Artists/illustrators: Maud Dardeau, www.wizz.fr Matthieu Javelle, Foggy Notion- Daniel Gotesson, Edik Katykhin Ogilvy leverages the Silver Lion Directors: Clement Dozier, they won at Cannes in 2007 for Irina Dakeva their Scrabble “Bravo les Mots” campaign into this vibrant and For WIZZ radical new pool of spots fed Post production director: by the work of Maud Dardeau Cédric Herbet, and Matthieu Javelle – from the Compositing: Matthieu Caulet artist collective Jeanspezial – 2D: Sebastien Filinger, Matthieu who hand drew and painted Wothke, Clement Soulmagnon, over fifty illustrations for each Gary Levesque, Corentin Rouge, of these clips. WIZZdesign set Philippe Valette, Elliot Kadjan up a custom in-house atelier to Music composers: Dana Edelman, accommodate the volume, then Mathieu Lafontaine, Jason Brando turned the source material over to Ciciola, Didier Tovels the directing team of Irina Dakeva Music editors: Mile23Music, and Clement Dosier to bring the Cendrineige illustrations to life. Images from Toolkit the spots will also be used in After Effects, Flash, Photoshop, print and online. Maya, 3ds Max stash 57.03 CARlton NatURal Blonde “FUTURE” TVC :30 Agency: ClemenGER BBDO Director: CHRistopheR RIGGERT VFX: Animal LOGic www.animallogic.com To craft the ‘80s video-tech kitsch for this Carlton Natural Blonde spot, the effects team of Animal Logic researched motion graphics styles from sci-fi shows and infomercials of the era. The challenge for the team was making the 2D graphic backgrounds For Radical Media and effects in the ad look as Director: Christopher Riggert authentic as possible. Animal DOP: Danny Ruhlmann Logic compositor Colin Renshaw: Producer: Julianne Shelton “We wanted this spot to look like it was on a VHS loop in a shopping For Animal Logic center, playing for 20 years. We Post: Colin Renshaw ended up going back and using For Guillotine technology and techniques Editor: Stewart Reeves from 20 years ago to achieve this, settling on a combination For Level2 Music of simulated and practical Music: Karl Richter, Cornel Wilzeck destruction.” For Flagstaff For Clemenger BBDO Sound: Paul Le Couteur CD: Ant Keogh Toolkit Flame stash 57.04 CalifoRnia Milk PRocessoR For Grupo Gallegos BoaRD “Sad PRincesS”, Chief CD: Favio Ucedo “MedUSA” Group CD: Juan Oubiña TVCs :30 X 2 Associate CDs: Saul Escobar, Curro Chozas Agency: Copy: Edgar Hernandez GRUpo GalleGos Producer: Carlos Barciela Directors: For Psyop MARie Hyon, MARco SpieR CDs: Marie Hyon, Marco Spier Animation: Design director: Haejin Cho Psyop EP: Lucia Grillo www.psyop.tv Producer: Michael Neithardt Assist producer: Tarun Charaipotra Psyop CD Marco Spier: “When Lead 3D artist: Christian Bach telling a story in less than 30 3D artists: Florian Witzel, Jacob seconds, it is good to have a story Slutsky, Ted Kotsaftis, Jimmy and metaphors that are easy to Gass, Todd Akita, Jae Ham, David get.