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Contact us at: Stash Media Inc. 484-1641 Lonsdale Avenue, North Vancouver, BC V7M 2J5 Canada Printed in Canada. stash 38.01 HARmoniX “RocK Band” Game trailer Client: HARmoniX Music Director: Pete CandeLand Animation: Passion PictuRes www.passion-pictures.com Motion 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 STASH 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: