Daniel Cohen of Aardman Animations directed for BBDO Proximity, Dusseldorf, this 20-second spot which takes us on a journey with a small ball of cotton as it navigates through an extravagant world, which is made entirely of beautiful fabric. The cotton ball travels through a winter wonderland made of luxurious white fabrics, crosses a glistening river, plunges down a waterfall until it arrives at its final destination, a bedroom.
The message: URBANARA brings you high quality and handpicked products from all around the world at affordable prices.
The biggest challenge was in recreating the imaginative and detailed landscape. Everything from the smallest bush to the tallest mountain is merely made of URBANARA products. The creative team at Aardman experimented constantly with the products; changing material, colors, shapes and textures until the right balance of simplicity and detail was found.
“Creating imaginary worlds always interests me, so this script was particularly appealing,” said Cohen. “I wanted each landscape to look completely different so it felt the cotton ball really experienced a journey. The cotton ball was its own character so in each scene it moves a different way–whether being blown along in the winter wonderland or rolling down a hill in Scandinavia.”
“Beatles ’64” Documentary Captures Intimate Moments From Landmark U.S. Visit
Likely most people have seen iconic footage of the Beatles performing on "The Ed Sullivan Show." But how many have seen Paul McCartney during that same U.S. trip feeding seagulls off his hotel balcony?
That moment — as well as George Harrison and John Lennon goofing around by exchanging their jackets — are part of the Disney+ documentary "Beatles '64," an intimate look at the English band's first trip to America that uses rare and newly restored footage. It streams Friday.
"It's so fun to be the fly on the wall in those really intimate moments," says Margaret Bodde, who produced alongside Martin Scorsese. "It's just this incredible gift of time and technology to be able to see it now with the decades of time stripped away so that you really feel like you're there."
"Beatles '64" leans into footage of the 14-day trip filmed by documentarians Albert and David Maysles, who left behind 11 hours of the Fab Four goofing around in New York's Plaza hotel or traveling. It was restored by Park Road Post in New Zealand.
"It's beautiful, although it's black and white and it's not widescreen," says director David Tedeschi. "It's like it was shot yesterday and it captures the youth of the four Beatles and the fans."
The footage is augmented by interviews with the two surviving members of the band and people whose lives were impacted, including some of the women who as teens stood outside their hotel hoping to catch a glimpse of the Beatles.
"It was like a crazy love," fan Vickie Brenna-Costa recalls in the documentary. "I can't really understand it now. But then, it was natural."
The film shows the four heartthrobs flirting and dancing at the Peppermint Lounge disco, Harrison noodling with a Woody Guthrie riff on his guitar... Read More