Dougal Wilson and MPC Launch Buttery Adventure
Sometimes all the elements of a production work so well together it just makes you wanna watch again. In the case of “Cooks Range” for Lurpak butter products thru W+K London, those elements include: Blink director Dougal Wilson, DoP Stephen King Roach, editor: Joe Guest @ Final Cut, the VFX/post team at MPC, sound designer Aaron Reynolds @ Wave Studios, and a hot young composer named Richard Strauss.
The campaign also includes delicious print assets like the one below featuring photography by Blink Art film-maker and photographer Ryan Hopkinson.
Cisma and CLAN vfx “Duas de Cinco and Cóccix-ência”
Blacklist/Paranoid director Cisma (Denis Kamioka) whisks us forward in time to document life on the streets of Brazil in 2044 and returns with this 10-minute opus for MC Criolo complete with eerie future tech courtesy of CLAN vfx in São Paulo. Check the following interview with the director to learn how this project [Read more]
The Amazing Baby & Me
The all-powerful CG/VFX team at Mikros Image in Paris help Evian and agency BETC extend the ubiquitous Baby & Me campaign with some tight Spidey moves. [Read more]
JoeFen for Buckwheat Groats “Tom Hanks”
I’m not a huge fan of low-fi low-brow culture but I do like laughing (and cringing) so have a look at this NSFW music video for rap-parody duo Buckwheat Groats with VFX by Joseph Fennimore who claims: “I do a lot of motion graphic, VFX and animation work in my free time.” File under guilty pleasure. [Read more]
Daniels: DJ Snake & Lil Jon “Turn Down For What”
The Kwan half of Daniels’ Kwan/Scheinert directing duo finally reveals his true inner self in this surgically choreographed jaw-dropper of frenzied testosterone. Pacing, casting, edit, VFX (by Zak Stoltz) all add up to 3.5 minutes-o-genius. Production: Prettybird, DOP: Larkin Seiple, edit: Paul Rogers, VFX: Zak Stoltz. [Read more]
Rushes’ “Tiny Worlds” Trilogy
Head of CG Andy Nicholas and the Rushes team in London create a strategic mix of 2D, 3D and live action for this fun in-house piece. “A key creative decision we made early on, was how to approach the various effects (smoke, water splashes, explosions, etc.) when dealing with a world being shown at such a small scale [Read more]
