Have a look-see at the quarter’s leading VFX and Animation spots, which showcase a wide range of genres, looks and approaches. See related article here.
SHOOT Summer Top 10 Visual Effects & Animation Chart
Title | Visual Effects/Animation | Agency | Production | |
1 | Cape Cod Potato Chips’ “Seagulls” (see video below) | Rhythm+Hues Commercial Studios, Los Angeles Tony Petrossian, director; Paul Babb, executive producer; Kat Dillon, head of live action; Lisa White, head of CG/VFX; Jon Derovan, line producer; Caroline Heyward, CG/post producer; Nik Titmarsh, VFX supervisor; John Goodman, animation supervisor; John Heller, 2D supervisor; Tim Miller, Flame artist; Steve Wellington, editor. (Toolbox: Maya, Photoshop, Flame, R+H proprietary software–Voodoo, Lighthouse, Icy) | GKV, Baltimore
| Rhythm+Hues Commercial Studios Tony Petrossian, director |
2 | BBC London 2012 Olympic Games’ “Stadium UK” (see video below) | Passion Pictures, LondonPete Candeland, dir; Michael Adamo, Hugo Sands, EPs; Lotie Hope, prod; Anna Lord, prod-project develop; Mario Ucci, art dir/modeling-characters/ltg&rendering; Rick Thiele, art dir/ltg&render; Jason Nicholas, CG; head Helen Lord, CG coordination; Cesar Nunes, modeling-characters/ltg&render; Ian Brown, Florent Rousseau, modeling-environment/textures; Ander Gutierrez, Gary Newman, Magttias Bjurstrom, modeling-environment; Chris Dawson, Jorge Bellot, Francois Pons, rigging; Ellie Bond, Emma Berkley, Nikki Newman, Gabriel Loques, textures; Xavier Zahara, Martin Parissenti, Richard Perry, previz; Mark Brown, previz/anim.; Cath Brooks, Wes Corman, David Sigrist, Florian Mounie, Conor Ryan, Chris Olsen, Rodrigo Torres, James Farrington, anim.; Jamie Franks, Augusto Lombardi, Ciaran Moloney, Paulin Cointot, Michael Sofoluke, FX; Quentin Vien, Patrick Krafft, Christian Mills, ltg&render; Form Language, Max Dennison, Roger Gibbon, Kim Frederiksen, Diego Goberna, Lukasz Pazera, Daniel Cacouault, Giles Dill, matte paint; Niamh Lines, Johnny Still, David Lea, composite; Anne Monnehay, Jamie Ford, edit. (Toolbox: XSI, V-Ray, Naiad, Marvelous Designer) | Rainey Kelly Campbell Roalfe/Y&R, London | Passion Pictures, London Pete Candeland, director Red Bee Media, London |
3 | J20’s “A Bottle of Togetherness” (see video below) | Absolute Post, LondonPhil Oldham, sr. Flame artist; Michael Smith, Flame artist; Zdravko Stoitchkov, David De Min, assists; Jamie White, Huggy Stephens, Matt Burn, Ben Griffin, Dorrel Lynch, Frank Egan, CG artists; Dan Bennett, production; Mike Brown, FX editor. (Toolbox: Flame, Maya, Nuke) | BBH London | Prettybird, London & Los Angeles The Daniels, directors |
4 | Sprite’s “Camouflage” (see video below) | The Mill, New YorkBoo Wong, VFX producer; Hitesh Patel, shoot supervisor; Naomi Anderlini, Rosalind Paradis, Suzanne Dyer, Mark French, Burtis Scott, 2D artists; Seamus O’Kane, colorist. (Toolbox: Flame) | Gorgeous, London | |
5 | British Airways’ “Olympics–Home Advantage” (see video below) | Framestore, LondonRussell Dodgson, VFX supervisor; Robert Kolbeins, CG supervisor; Steve Townrow, animation; Tim Osbourne, Savneet Nagi, Mark Beardall, Avtar Bains, Chris Redding, George Roper, Flame artists; Rob Harrington, Mary Swinnerton, Robert Nzengou-Tayo, Adam Smith, Jonathan Seymour, Jabed Khan, Paul Jones, Steve Townrow, Colin West, 3D; Vanessa DuQuesnay, Jason Phua, Jonni Isaacs, Nuke; Katie Isaksen, Jack Fisher, Sherrine Byfield, Alex Gooding, Rachel Gregson, roto; Abby Orchard, sr. producer; Liz Oliver, assistant producer; Simon Bourne, colorist. (Toolbox: Flame, Nuke, Silhouette, Maya, Mentalray, Mari, Hero.) | BBH London | Partizan, bicoastal/internationalMichael Geoghegan, director |
6 | Nationwide’s “Savings Watch” (see video below) | MPC London Scott Griffin, VFX producer; Ludo Fealy, Felix Balbas, VFX supervisors; Adam Crocker, Alejandro Hernadez, Ambarasu Elangovan, Andrej Bloom, Carsten Keller, Daniel Buhigas, Dheeraj Hebbar, Fabian Frank, Inigo Vimal Roy, Jacob Toomen, Jonathan Moulin, Thomas Devonshire, Thomas Dow, VFX team; Jean-Clement Soret, colorist. (Toolbox: Maya, Photoshop, Nuke, Flame) | 18 Feet & Rising, London | Independent, LondonPhillippe Andre, director |
| 7 | Mars Inc./Twix’s “Ideologies” (see video below) | Eight vfx, Santa Monica, Calif.Jean Marc-Demmer, creative director; Baptiste Andrieux, Shira Boardman, exec producers; Andy Davis, lead compositor; Mathieu Caulet, sr. compositor; Fred Hopp, CG supervisor; Matthais Jourde, CG artist; Donna Langston, producer. (Toolbox: Maya, 3dsmax, V-Ray, Enwaii, Syntheyes, PFTrack, Realflow, Grow FX, Nuke, Flame | BBDO New York | MJZ, bicoastal/internationalCraig Gillespie, director |
8 | Fuze Tea’s “Zoetrope” (see video below) | 1st Ave Machine, New YorkMikha Grumet, Sam Penfield, exec producers; Bob Partington, Zoetrope designer; Greg Anderson, TD; Nick Litwinko, Chris Scallo, post producers; Dan Bollwerk, lead CG pre-vis/lead 3D & CGI; Nick Dubois, CG pre-vis; Michael Sullivan, pre-vis editor; Ariel Altman, lead compositor; Jeremiah Morehead, John Michael Buban, Maxim Kornev, compositors; Drew Arnold, 3D/CGI; Alejandro Monzon, Jelena Vokosav, Mark Lieberman, Connie Conrad, roto/cleanup. | twofifteenmccan, San Francisco | 1st Ave MachineBen Steiger Levine, director |
9 | Optimum Wi-Fi’s “Hot Pot” (see video below) | Wizz, ParisGeoffroy De Crecy, director; Amanda Stubbs, producer. Blacklist, New York Adina Sales, exec producer; Alexander Unick, producer; Patrick Gantert, Sophie Gate, associate producers. (Toolbox: Maya, V-Ray, Flame, Baselight) | The Brooklyn Brothers, Brooklyn, NY | Wizz, Paris & Blacklist, NY Geoffroy De Crecy, director |
10 | Patina’s “One of a Kind” (see video below) | Reel FX, Dallas Dale Carman, executive creative director; Kevin Althans, creative dirctor; Gary Banks, exec producer; Jennifer Brannon, producer; Lee Wollard, rigging artist; Jared Brower, special shoot VFX artist; Laychin Lee, Mike Roy, VFX artists; Jon Speer, TD; Tim Hatcher, Todd Wilbur, animators; Brandon Stoker, CG artist; Erin McGuire, motion designer; Todd Harper, texture supervisor; Scot Andreason, Jimmy Wu, texture artists. (Toolbox: Maya, Vray, Flame Inferno, water colors, paper) | JRS Advertising, Dallas | Reel FX, DallasKevin Althans, director |
