By The Editors of SHOOT
SHOOT Top10 Visual Effects & Animation Chart
Title |
VisualEffects/Animation |
Agency |
Production |
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1 |
AT&T’s “Birthday” (videobelow) |
The Mill, New YorkAngus Kneale, VFX supervisor/The Mill creative director; Rob Petrie,lead 3D artist; Michael Panov, Thomas Bardwell, Emily Meger, 3Dartists; Maurice Fontenot, Christine O’Brien, Kevin Lofton, traditionalanimators; Alex Lovejoy, Naomi Anderlini, lead 2D artists; Gigi Ng,Cole Schrieber, Keith Sullivan, Kenny Yee, 2D artists; Robert Bruce, 2Dassist; Boo Wong, sr. VFX producer; Trevor Rager, productioncoordinator; Adam Scott, colorist; Cath Short, Derek Macleod, telecineproducers. (Toolbox: Flame, Flare, Smoke, Combustion, Nuke, AdobePhotoshop, After Effects, Softimage, Maya) |
AnonymousContent, bicoastal/international |
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2
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The SurfriderFoundation’s “Rise Above Plastics”(videobelow) |
LAIKA/house,Portland, Ore. |
Borders Perrin Norrander, Portland,Ore. | LAIKA/house Aaron Sorenson, director/animator |
3 |
Nike’s “Human Chain” (video below) |
MassMarket,New York Justin Lane, Angela Bowen, exec producers; Nancy Nina Hwang, producer;Chris Staves, lead VFX supervisor/Flame artist; Laurent Barthelemy,lead VFX supervisor; Nick Tanner, lead Flame artist; Mark French, JamieScott, Tim Farrell, David Parker, Julian Ford, Joanne Unger, Flameartists; Jacob Slutsky, CG lead; Jason Vega, Andy Hara, CG; JoergLiebold, CG tracking; Jason Goodman, Boris Ustaev and Pixel LiberationFront, previz. (Toolbox: Flame, Silouhette,Maya) |
Wieden+Kennedy, Portland |
Smuggler, bicoastal Brian Beletic, director |
4 |
Kia Soul’s |
Framestore,London Tim Keene, producer; Martin Aufinger, shoot supervisor/3D lead; MikeMcGee, shoot supervisor; Russell Dodgson, Tim Osborne, Adam Rowland,2D; Savneet Nagi, Katie Isaksen, Jason Burnett, Alex Gooding, 2Dsupport; Diarmid Harrison-Murray, Mike Mellor, 3D leads; MarySwinnerton, Alex Doyle, Kimon Matara, Melvyn Polaya, Daniel Buhigas,Ben Brown, Chris Cooper, steven Kimbrey, Paul Jones, Jabed Kahn, DragosStefan, Ben Frost, Oliver Fergusson-Taylor, Andrew Silke, Alex Damm,Steve Townrow, Frederik Heymans, James Sutton, 3D team; Dave Ludlam,telecine. (Toolbox: Maya, Houdini, Nuke,Flame, Smoke, Photoshop) |
David& Goliath, Los Angeles |
Partizan, bicoastal/international Antoine Bardou-Jacquet, director |
5 |
AT&T’s”Blanket” (video below) |
MPCLA |
Traktor, Venice, Calif. |
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6 |
Nike’s”Write The Future” (video below) |
TheMill London Stephen Venning, EP; Matt Williams, producer; Allison Cain, lineproducer; Neil Davies, shoot supervisor, lead 2D, lead Flame; TomBussell, Austen Humphries, Vince Baertsoen, Des Anwar, shootsupervisors; Rich Roberts, Grant Connor, Pete Rypstra, Flame; DarrenChristie, Vanessa duQuesnay, Donal Nolan, Shake; JP, Smoke; TomBussell, lead 3D; Juan Brockhurst, Edward Hicks, Dan Adams, DanielJahnel, Amy Macdonald, Sergio Xisto, Eva Kuehlmann, 3D; Pete Mellor,After Effects; Seamus O’Kane, James Bamford, Aubrey Woodiwiss,colorists; Dave Gibbons, Yigit, matte painting. The Mill, NY Dan Roberts, Boo Wong, producers; Westley Sarokin, lead 2D; CoreyBrown, Suzanne Dyer, Rosalind Paradis, Iwan Zwarts, Jade Kim, Gigi Ng,Robert Bruce, Randy Krueger, Brendan O’Neil, Albert Cook, Alex Lovejoy,Melissa Graff, Tristan Wake, Jeff Robins, Keith Sullivan, ClaudiaD’Enjoy, 2D; Ben Smith, lead 3D; Wyatt Savarese, Chris Bernier, AjitMenon, 3D. (Toolbox: Flame,Shake, Combustion, After Effects, Maya, Massive) |
Wieden+Kennedy,Amsterdam |
AnonymousContent, bicoastal Independent, London Alejandro González Iñárritu, director |
7 |
Mayflower’s “Big Move” (video below) |
The Character Shop, Simi Valley,Calif. |
Rabbit, bicoastal |
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8 |
Consumer AffairsVictoria’s |
XYZ Studios, South Melbourne,Australia |
Grey, Melbourne |
againstallodds, Stockholm |
9 |
Sherwin-Williams'”Bees” (video below) |
Buck,bicoastal |
McKinney,Durham, NC | Buck NY Buck, director |
10 |
Bluegrass Cellular’s “Bluephoria” (video below) |
Crash+Sues,Minneapolis Alex Engelmann, Sean Hall, Matt Sattler, 3D artists/animators; AdamCelt, Flame artist; Donna Drewick, executive producer; Sue Lakso,colorist; Matthew jensen, color assist; Carrie Shanahan, creativeeditor, Eric Schwalbe, assistant editor; Mark Anderson, online editor. (Toolbox: FCPro, Maya, Smoke,Flame, After Effects |
Bandy Carroll Hellige, |
TwoPopes, Minneapolis Jerry Pope, director |
Google Opens Its Defense In Antitrust Case Alleging Monopoly Over Online Ad Technology
Google opened its defense against allegations that it holds an illegal monopoly on online advertising technology Friday with witness testimony saying the industry is vastly more complex and competitive than portrayed by the federal government.
"The industry has been exceptionally fluid over the last 18 years," said Scott Sheffer, a vice president for global partnerships at Google, the company's first witness at its antitrust trial in federal court in Alexandria.
The Justice Department and a coalition of states contend that Google built and maintained an illegal monopoly over the technology that facilitates the buying and selling of online ads seen by consumers.
Google counters that the government's case improperly focuses on a narrow type of online ads — essentially the rectangular ones that appear on the top and on the right-hand side of a webpage. In its opening statement, Google's lawyers said the Supreme Court has warned judges against taking action when dealing with rapidly emerging technology like what Sheffer described because of the risk of error or unintended consequences.
Google says defining the market so narrowly ignores the competition it faces from social media companies, Amazon, streaming TV providers and others who offer advertisers the means to reach online consumers.
Justice Department lawyers called witnesses to testify for two weeks before resting their case Friday afternoon, detailing the ways that automated ad exchanges conduct auctions in a matter of milliseconds to determine which ads are placed in front of which consumers and how much they cost.
The department contends the auctions are finessed in subtle ways that benefit Google to the exclusion of would-be competitors and in ways that prevent... Read More