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Francois Rousselet and The Mill: BBC Music “God Only Knows”

It took Riff Raff director Francois Rousselet and the Red Bee Media team a full year to shoot the 26 music stars who join Brian Wilson for a grand version of The Beach Boys’ classic “God Only Knows” in this spot to launch BBC Music. The supporting VFX work from The Mill includes the crystal particle system around [Watch]

Trizz and Carl Erik Rinsch for MOEN

Trio of playful VFX spots from Barcelona CG masters Trizz and MJZ director Carl Erik Rinsch for Moen’s Reflex faucets produced thru HomeVFX in LA for The Martin Agency. [Watch]

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Mirada Unfolds the Kindle Voyage

Mirada and Wongdoody connect the Kindle Voyage reading experience to real smooshed/bleached wood fibers and ink with clever, intricate and seamless CG. Nice to see the origami-CG technique used for an idea actually related to paper. [Watch]

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The Mill and Frederic Planchon: SSE “Maya”

IN 2013 The Mill created “98% Human” for PETA featuring a startlingly emotional performance by an all-CG chimp.

Although far more upbeat and ambitious in scope, this new spot helmed by Academy director Frederic Planchon for Scottish power company SSE, retains the intimate character subtleties, masterful rendering and perfect live action integration required to ensure 98% of humans who watch it will believe the orangutang is real. [Watch]

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Adam Berg and MPC: Xbox Forza 2 “Leave Your Limits”

Check the VFX breakdown to find out just what’s CG and what’s live in this spot from Smuggler’s Adam Berg and the crew at MPC for the release of Xbox Forza 2.”

“The MPC LA VFX team supervised the 3-day shoot in Italy with Adam and created the ‘invisible VFX’ such as recreating 3D scenes of the tilt-shift effect, compositing depth passes, crafting over 40 matte paintings and adding CG racetracks, cars, and explosions.” [Watch]

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Andy’s and Unit Image for Peugeot “The Legend Returns”

WIZZdesign directors Andy’s and Paris CG house Unit Image push their latest photo-real CG collaboration to a new level for this remake of a classic Bond-inspired spot from 1987. Except for the vehicle interior and the actors, everything after the :18 second mark is CG, including the transition shot from 4/3 to 16/9. Spectacular. [Watch]

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