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Blinkink directing duo Stevie Gee and Essy May, whose many animated talents we track here, just dropped this stop-motion holiday spot highlighting the Yeti-calming powers of Levi’s sweaters (complete with BTS video).
Stevie & Essy: Never have we ever had so much creative freedom from the start of a commercial project. We wrote 14 different scripts before landing the final concept, and then further developed that story together with Levi’s.
Let’s Get Fuzzy felt like a wild card option, but we were thrilled it was the one that got chosen. We are both massive horror fans so it was a real treat to really push the genre in the final film.
“Over six and a half weeks, a six-person build team spent more than 2,000 hours crafting and painting the sets, including three cabins at different scales and 400 individually made miniature trees.”
Bringing the miniature world to life was a meticulous undertaking. Over six and a half weeks, a six-person build team spent more than 2,000 hours crafting and painting the sets, including three cabins at different scales and 400 individually made miniature trees.
Animator Andy Biddle: We also made a point of touching the beautifully made miniature clothes in every frame. This created a constantly shifting, lively quality in the clothes (and hair) which in the industry, we call boiling. This helped push the idea of Let’s Get Fuzzy and gave the animation a more tactile, handmade feel.
Client: Levi Strauss & Co.
Production: Blinkink
Directors: Stevie & Essy
EP: Bart Yates, Josef Byrne
Head of Production: Alex Halley
Producer: Rebecca Little
Producer Cover: Adriana Piasek-Wanski
Production Manager: Calum O’Toole
Director of Photography: Toby Howell
Animator: Andy Biddle, Laura Tofarides, Henry Nicholson, Honor Price, Andy Spradbery
Production Designer: Gordon Allen
Assistant Art Director/Model Maker: Areeya Bass
Senior Modeller/Model Maker: Emma Niemis, Jasmine Nixon
Model Maker: Hannah Cooper
Modeler: Rosa Gee
Set & Prop painter: Richard Davidson, Issy Gilding
Lead Compositor/VFX Supervisor: John Malcolm Moore
Compositor: Simone Ghilardotti, Corinne Ladeinde
Storyboard Artist: Russell Hossain
Animatic editor: Alyaa Ridha, Radheya Jang & Noah Chulu Chinn
Character Designer: Stevie Gee, Essy May & Ewa luczkow
Concept Artist: Tiago Calliari
Costume Maker: Rose Popham, Bev Alvarez, Emily Nicholson, Cat Johnston, Kat Probert
2D FX Animator: Andreu Campos
Edit/Post: BlinkInk
Color: Black Kite Studios
Colorist: Tom Mangham
Producer: Carla Thomas
Sound Design/Mix: Fitzrovia Post
Studio: Clapham Road Studios
