Animation

Here’s a short little animated bit for DuPont explaining what Open Science is and how it affects both you and the rest of the world. This was created by Ogilvy, NYC and produced by Stink, London (MassMarket did the VFX).

Credits:

Client: DuPont
Title: Open Science
Agency: Ogilvy, New York
Worldwide Creative Director: David Fowler
Creative Director: Jim Nolan
Art Director: Kanad Banerjee
Copywriter: Michael Demos
Executive Producer: Lee Weiss
Senior Producer: Be Garrett
Production Company: Stink, London
Director: Gaelle Denis
Executive Producer: Daniel Bergman
Line Producer: Tracey Cooper
Editorial: Trim, London
Editor: Paul Hardcastle
Visual Effects: MassMarket, New York
Executive Producer: Justin Lane
VFX Producer: Rich Rama, Rasha Clark
Assistant Producer: Kay Chen
Lead Flame Artist: Chris Staves
Flame Artist: Jamie Scott
Junior Flame Artist: Jeen Lee, Dan Boujoulian
Lead CG: Andreas Berner
CG Artist: Cody Chen, Kitty Lin, Jordan Blit, Iggy Ayestaran, Lee Wolland,
Jonah Friedman, Marco Iozzi, Jerry Liu
Previz Artist: Jim Hundertmark
Lead Designer: Anh Vu
Designer: Pete Sickbert-Bennett
Tracking: Joerg Liebold, Joon Park, Jeen Lee

Here’s an interesting new online campaign for the Toyota Corolla featuring kung-fu fighting mutant cats. The first piece of the three part series, 9 Lives and Counting, shows us an action packed heist and the resulting high-speed getaway. No worries though, the second and third installments in the series should be released soon using equally bad puns for titles: Landing on All Fours and The Sound the Furry.

There’s an animated novel for the campaign as well as other goodies related to the series over on their website, so go check it out if you’re interested. This was all produced by Publicis Mojo out of Melbourne, Australia.

The campaign, according to the agency:

Tells the story of a kitten headed hero who battles a gang of feral baddies.The ambitious production was a combination of very well rehearsed fighting sequences, and real, cuddly kitten heads. source

I’m interested in seeing how the rest of the story plays out after watching this spot. I thought the VFX was outstanding. I even liked how he took care of the workers by distracting them with a moving light, clever.

Credits:

Agency: Publicis Mojo, Melbourne
Creative Director: Micah Walker
Art Director: Michael Spirkovski
Copywriter: Grant McAloon
Agency Producer: Jasmin Ferguson
Production Company: Exit Films, Melbourne
Director: Garth Davis
Producer: Karen Sproul
Digital Creative Director: Joel Thomson
Lead Creative: Clint Nielsen
Lead Developer: Hugh Campbell
Digital Producer: Julia Prior
Post Prodcution: Animal Logic- Colin Renshaw
Music: Level 2 Music- Carl Ricter
Sound Mix: Nylon

When I first started this clip I didn’t think anything of it. I mean, it had all the common characteristics of a Honda ad…it was boring. That is at least until they decided to do a cross-cut look into the busy world that lives inside each Accord, reminding me of some of the camera techniques used in Wes Anderson’s Life Aquatic movie. Luckily for them I’m a die-hard Wes Anderson fan. It’s a short clip, but if you’re into Vfx mixed in with live-aciton, you might enjoy it.

Hobart Birmingham and Dirk Vandeman were the Art Director/Copywriting duo who came up with this piece for Los Angeles based Rubin Postaer and Associates. Director credits go to Matthew Cullen and Jesus de Francisco with Guillermo Navarro as the DP. VFX was done by Motion Theory. Doron Dor was the Editor with String and this short spot had music by Robot Repair.