Gentleman Scholar recently teamed-up with DDB Canada and Dairy Farmers of Canada (DFC) to produce the beautifully animated, 3.5-minute short film at the heart of a new integrated campaign to help elevate the quality perception of Canadian cheese. View the short and the entire campaign at https://www.CanadianCheese.ca.
Project Name: Dairy Farmers of Canada "Mia and Morton"
Running Time: 3:39
Main Tools: Autodesk Maya for modeling, The Foundry's Nuke for compositing, Redshift Rendering Technologies' Redshift for rendering, and Adobe's After Effects for finishing.
Client: Dairy Farmers of Canada
Integrated Agency: DDB Canada, Toronto
Chief Creative Officer: Cosmo Campbell
Executive Creative Director: Paul Wallace
Copywriter: Evan Wallis
Art Director: Dean Hamann
Agency Producers: Julia Morris, Tracy Haapamaki
Group Account Director: Jenni Cowdy
Account Director: Heather Moffat
Account Executive: Cassia Napier
Director of Strategy: Brett McDonald
Lead Designer: Duncan Collis
Tech Director: Justin MacLeod
UX: Jordan Kentris
Developer: Tyson Yau
Production Company: Gentleman Scholar
Directors: William Campbell & Will Johnson
Executive Producer: Jo Arghiris
Head of Production: Rachel Kaminek
Senior Producer: Tyler Locke
Art Director: Paul Kim
CG Supervisor: Tim Hayward
Storyboard: Brian Deloach
Design: Paul Kim, Hana Yean
Additional Design: George Fuentes, James Levy
Character Modeling: Hannah Josepher
Modeling: Mike Ko, Robin Kim, Mike Dupree, Paul Kim
Texture: Mike Ko, Michael Rogers, Paul Kim
3D Generalists: Juan Carlos Cuadra, Jacques Clement, Gaby Gorostieta, Ryan Kaplan
Character Animation: James Lane, Kevin Phelps, Evan Mayfield
Rigging: Lee Wolland, Tim Hayward
Hair/Fur: Adnan Hussain
Cloth Simulation: Tim Hayward
Lighting: Hao Cui, Chris Fung, Robin Kim
Compositing: Lavoy, Kevin Njoo
2D Animation: Lauren Tom
Audio House: Grayson Matthews
Music Supervision: Supergroup
Musical Artist: Rose Cousins
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