CLIENT
Empire HealthChoice/Empire BlueCross BlueShield/empireblue.com.
PRODUCTION CO.
Rhinoceros Visual Effects and Design, New York.
Harry Dorrington, director; Romeo Tirone, DP; Michael Miller and Rick Wagonheim, executive producers/partners; Bennett Lieber, senior producer; David Barosin, CG director; Natalia Saenko, Arman Matin and Fran Roberts, CG artists; Patrick Porter, CG animator; Jeff Guerrero, CG modeler. Shot at 3G Studios, New York.
AGENCY
Gotham Inc., New York.
Dan Sheehan and Carl Ceo, group creative directors; Amy Donovan and Debbie Airey, producers; Steve Giraldi, art director; Jonathan Emmerling, copywriter.
EDITORIAL
Rhinoceros Editorial, New York.
Matt Epstein, Avid editor.
POST/VISUAL EFFECTS
Rhinoceros Post.
John Binninger, colorist; Marc Steinberg, digital artist; Niklaus Schlumpf, Inferno artist.
AUDIO POST
Cool Beans Digital Audio, New York.
Chris Drozdowski, mixer/partner.
MUSIC/SOUND DESIGN
Chris Bell & Co., West Los Angeles.
Chris Bell, composer/sound designer.
THE SPOT
The :30 "Beacon" opens on a CG butterfly in flight, fluttering through an atmosphere of blue light. The insect is drawn to a glow that is revealed to be a computer monitor displaying the empireblue.com homepage. Eventually the butterfly is joined by a growing legion of blue lepidoptera, which crowd around the "beacon" of the computer screen.
Spot broke in April.