London’s Untold Studios just leaped onto the world-wide VFX radar nailing the chance to work with Blink director Dougal Wilson and create a loveable dragon named Edgar for this year’s John Lewis Christmas epic.

The pressure was certainly on for Untold as they had to follow MPC’s stellar collaborations with Wilson and agency adam&eveDDB on previous John Lewis holiday show stoppers like “Buster The Boxer” (2016) and “Monty’s Christmas” (2014).
 

Client: John Lewis & Partners, Waitrose & Partners

Agency: adam&eveDDB
CCO: Richard Brim
MD: Paul Billingsley
CD: Matt Gay
Creative: Simon Lloyd
Producer: Sally Pritchett

Production: Blink Productions
Director: Dougal Wilson
Producer: Ewen Brown
PM: Ellie Britton
D.O.P: Joost van Gelder
Production designer: Andy Kelly

VFX/post: Untold Studios
CD VFX: Diarmid Harrison-Murray
VFX Super: Alex Gabucci, Amir Bazazi
Animation supervisor: Tim van Hussen
EP VFX: Ian Berry
ECD: Neil Davies
Producer: Nell Lloyd-Malcolm
Asset lead: Michael Diprose
Rigging artists: Aaron Hopwood, Daniel Kmet, Joffrey Zeitouni, Nicolas Seck, Sauce Villas, Jakub Krompolc
Comp artists: Denis Krez, Doruk Saglam, Gustavo Ribeiro, Luke Massingberd, Matthew (Wispy) Clarke. Thiago Vilas Boas, Julie Cruette
CG artists: Amandine Comes, Andreu Lucio, Annie Rowland, Ardahan Sernaz, Baptist Jaquemet, Cindy Libbrecht, Daniel Longe, Emre Sumer, Kenny Ip, Manon Cauzid, Marc Picco, Marcel Ruegenberg, Platon Filimonov, Ran Manolov, Simon Legrand, Yaz Raji
DMP/concept artists: Aurelian Ronceray, Fabio Santoro, Lino Khay, Therese Larsson

Grade: MPC
Colorist: Jean-Clément Soret

Edit: Final Cut
Editor: Joe Guest

Music supervisor: Leland Music
Sound design/mix: Anthony Moore, Factory
Audio producer: Lucy Sprong

Song: Can’t Fight This Feeling
Artist: Bastille
Writer: Kevin Cronin
Producer/arranger: Mara Carlyle and Hugh Brunt