30 April 2010 • 9:00 0
If you haven’t seen the Plundered my soul video with Rolling stones directed by Jonas Odell at filmtecknarna yet. Here it is!
| Director: | Jonas Odell |
| Producer: | Beccy McCray & Niklas Adolfsson |
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| Team: | FilmTecknarna/Nexus Productions |
| Record Artist: | Rolling Stones |
| Record Company: | Polydor |
Filed under: 2D, Music video, Filmtecknarna
29 April 2010 • 12:00 0
Choki and Milky characters are back in this full cg “dating”- tvc for Kinder. Produced by againstallodds, all 3D done by Milford.
Filed under: 3D, Animation, CG, Commercial, Compositing, VFX, AAO, Milford
29 April 2010 • 8:30 0
Important looking pirates created the cg orch playing the drums in the background in this
Bredbandsbolaget tvc. Well done!
Filed under: 3D, CG, Commercial, VFX, Acne, Important Looking Pirates
28 April 2010 • 9:00 0
Continuing to one of our other nordic neigbour with a Swedish connection. Stripe from Oslo and Martin Klint.
Filed under: 3D, CG, Commercial, Post production, VFX
27 April 2010 • 17:45 0
Emnet Mulugeta is leaving Visual art where he worked as Creative director/Director. He has decided to pursuit freelance work in Stockholm and oversea, focusing on commercial direction.
I wish you all the best!
Have a look at what Emnet as been doing lately!
Filed under: Animation, Commercial
27 April 2010 • 9:00 0
New updated reel from Ghost vfx in Copenhagen. Great work !
So what’s the Swedish connection? Martin Gårdeler of course! One of the founders of Ghost.
Filed under: 2D, 3D, Animation, CG, Commercial, showreel, VFX
26 April 2010 • 14:25 0
Some Kick-Ass VFX
By Bill Desowitz | Friday, April 23, 2010 at 4:06 pmCheck out the Kick-Ass trailer at AWNtv!
For the opening, Double Negative stitched together stills of the New York skyline to create cyclorama backgrounds to composite into the shots. All images courtesy of Lionsgate.
Based on the popular comic book by Mark Millar and John Romita, Kick-Ass is about a high school superhero wannabe. However, he inspires a subculture of copy cats and they get their chance to thwart a local mob boss. Directed by Matthew Vaughn (Stardust, Layer Cake), who raised the financing independently, Kick-Ass features vfx by Double Negative, LipSync Post, The Senate VFX, Ghost VFX and Fido. Double Negative’s Mattias Lindahl served as overall visual effects supervisor. In fact, Lindahl has relocated to his native Sweden to work at Fido.
Lindahl, who previously worked with Vaughn on Stardust, suggests this wasn’t an in-your-face vfx film, even with nearly 850 shots. The idea was to be gritty and realistic and not to venture into the fantastical, so the vfx needed to be understated in keeping with the feel of the story. However, the shot count escalated throughout the shoot so Double Negative couldn’t handle it all.
“The graphic novel was always referenced on the set,” Lindahl says. “In terms of our work, all we had to look at was the blood effect. The graphic novel is very gory. The way we did that is instead of shooting practical blood on set, which would’ve been very time consuming, we shot lots of practical elements on greenscreen later on and composited all the blood. We had the benefit of having a fairly finished cut by the time we got to the effects shoot so we could figure out what angles and action we needed of the blood — everything from bullets exiting people’s heads to knives going through bodies and legs being cut off. Blood is such an important part because there is so much of it. Matthew had an idea at one point of considering a comic book feel to it as it was spurted out into the air. So we did quite a lot of testing on that as far as treating our elements like they were hand-drawn. We also did some other tests on hand-drawn blood. But it looked kind of weird to have this comic book-looking blood in a [live-action] scene so we went for a hybrid of real-looking blood but the amount of blood was enhanced more than you’d normally get.
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26 April 2010 • 0:09 0
Edithouse was asked to create all the films on display before, during and after the reveal of the car and the following press conference. Together with Michael Matson at A+A, Edithouse came up with the concept of Genesis. “We drew a parallel with genesis and how the new Volvo S60 evolved from nothing to end up being one of the most advanced, fun to drive and safe Volvo ever created.” says Niclas Bergman, project director. We spent 2 days on set taking all the angles and shots we needed according to the storyboard. The big difference on this project was that we had intentionally made room in the schedule for improvisation. Trying new, more aggressive angles, playing with lenses and light. Almost everything we did during this exercise ended up in the final film.
Besides the main screen that measured approximately 10*5 meters we also delivered material to 6 smaller screens that matched the main screen.
Filed under: VFX
22 April 2010 • 22:26 0
As a Swede I’m proud to see at least one Swedish company on the list. Filmtecknarna on the top list of Production companies..
Well done!
The Cream O’ the Crop is our list of the best of the best. It’s not an exhaustive directory; it’s our opinion of who’s on top right now. That’s why it’s so short.
For a full explanation of our selection process, see our Cream Critera.
Studios
This category is normally limited to 10 entries. Studios are listed alphabetically.
Updated 21 Apr 2010
- 1st Ave Machine / New York and London
- Buck / Los Angeles and New York
- Digital Kitchen / Seattle, Los Angeles, Chicago and New York
- Elastic / Los Angeles
- Motion Theory / Los Angeles
- National Television / Los Angeles
- Psyop / Los Angeles and New York
- Sehsucht / Hamburg and Berlin
- Studio AKA / London
- Superfad / Seattle, Los Angeles, New York and London
People’s Choice
We invited readers to vote for their favorite three studios. Here are the winners for this voting cycle.
Production Companies
This category is currently limited to 20 entries (in alphabetical order).
Updated 9 Mar 2010
- Blacklist / New York
- Blink / Blink Ink / London
- Boolab / Barcelona
- Curious Pictures / New York
- Filmtecknarna / Stockholm and New York
- Hornet / Los Angeles and New York
- MJZ / Los Angeles, New York and London
- Nexus / London
- Paranoid / Los Angeles, Paris and Sao Paolo
- Partizan / London, Paris, Los Angeles, New York, Berlin, Shanghai and Mumbai
- Passion Pictures / London, Paris, New York & Melbourne
- Resource / Paris
- Rokkit / London
- RSA / Los Angles, New York, London and Shanghai
- Smuggler / Los Angeles, New York and London,
- Spy Films / Toronto
- Stink / Skunk / London, Paris, Berlin, New York and Los Angeles
- The Ebeling Group / Los Angeles & New York
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http://motionographer.com/cream/
Wanda / Paris
Filed under: VFX
19 April 2010 • 23:35 0
Lots of intensive liquid stuff from post production facility Chimney pot in Stockholm for Wieden Kennedy and RSA.
Filed under: 3D, CG, Commercial, VFX, chim
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