1: The Teresa Teng Foundation’s “Virtual Teresa Teng” performance
Client: The Teresa Teng Foundation Production Company: Ju Pao (Big Cannon), director, Jay Chou Concert. Visual Effects: Digital Domain, Inc. Daniel Seah, CEO; Ed Ulbrich, creative consultant; Lisa Beroud, EP; Steve Preeg, VFX supervisor/animation dir.; Paul Lambert, DFX supervisor; Kim Monaco, VFX/live-action producer; Charlie Bolwell, digital prodn mgr; Janelle Croshaw, virtual human consultant; Patrick Halm, VFX coordinator; Samantha Tang, project coordinator; Tracy Watada, DPA; Som Shankar, Ross MacKenzie, Rene Segura, Megan Dolman, Michael Lori, Danny Garcia, Holly Wenger, integration; Jesse James Chisholm, Vicki Chan, on set integration; Paul Wood, Tom St. Amand, Jeff Lin, Roy Sato, animators; Dan Akers, Kym Olsen, compositors; Steve Galle, Andrew Wood, TDs; Stephen Parker, lighting lead; Dan Platt, sr. facial model; Ramahan Faulk, Andrew Lema, modelers; Ting Lo, textures; Jack Evans, hair groom; Dave McLean, rigging; Howard Cabalfin, Edgar Diaz, Dawrath Phoue, Maura Alvarez, Nathalie Gontier, Victor Rodriguez, Mark Duckworth, Nicolle Arnell, Dawn Gates Wells, roto; Karl Kohlman, FX; David Hsin, editor; Gary Roberts, virtual prodn. supervisor; Gaby Rios, motion capture prodn. supervisor; April Warren, lab supervisor; John Root, motion capture animation supervisor; Ryan Beagan, motion capture pipeline supervisor; Steve Madonna, mgr systems administration; Alia Dong-Stewart, Jonathan Berry, head cam operators; Thomas Frederick, camera operator; Greg LaSalle, Ken Pearce, FACS stage supervisor; Ni Tzu-Fu, motion capture actor; Lali Peer, Wendy Ho, makeup; Matthew Valverde, Ronald Rhee, Sarah Jane Taylor, motion capture artists.
2: Sony PlayStation PS4’s “Perfect Day”
Client: Sony PlayStation Agency: BBH New York. John Patroulis, chief creative officer; Ari Weiss, executive creative director; Tim Nolan, interactive creative director; Gerard Caputo, Chris Maiorino, creative directors/creatives; Jennifer Moore Bell, lead sr. producer; Kate Morrison, sr. producer; Justin Booth-Clibborn, head of integrated production; Ian Hart, copywriter; Dave Brown, art director; Rahim Masunu, visual designer; Kelly Bignell, UX designer; Martin Mlekicki, lead producer; Victoria Fishel, digital producer. Production Company: MJZ Matthijs Van Heijningen, director; Joost Van Gelder, DP; David Zander, president; Scott Howard, exec producer; Donald Taylor, producer; Robin Brown, production designer. Bohemia Sherry Baumgart, local production company producer. HAUS (production partner) Rasmus Blaesbjerg, creative director; Dino Petrone, technology lead; Claudine Nichols, sr. producer; Tracey McAvoy, digital producer. Editorial: Union Editorial Jono Griffith, editor; Caryn Maclean, exec producer; Sara Mills, sr. producer; Megan Swados, assistant editor. Visual Effects: Legacy Effects US wardrobe construction The Mill New York Sean Costelloe, exec producer; Charlotte Arnold, Will Mok, sr. producers; Heath Raymond, color producer; Gavin Wellsman, Joji Tsuruga, shoot supervisors; Fergus McCall, colorist; Gavin Wellsman, 2D lead artist; Joji Tsuruga, 3D lead artist; John Mangia, Leonardo Costa, Jeff Robins, Emily Bloom, 2D compositing artists; Leon Woods, Alex Dreiblatt, Jeff Butler, additional 2D; Jeffrey Lee, 3D animation lead; Olivier Mitonneau, 3D lighting lead; Nicolas Couret-Chailloux, 3D FX; Wyatt Savarese, Hassan Taimur, 3D Massive; Corey Langelotti, Elizabeth Mitchell, Yoann Gouraud, Quentin Sauvinet, Lauren Shields, 3D artists; Kristin Johnson; matte painting; Tetsuro Mise, design. SCANable, The Woodlands, Texas. Travis Reinke, LiDAR services Trace VFX, Mumbai, India Rotoscoping and tracking Music: Lou Reed. Audio: Human Sound design/additional music: Sound Lounge Tom Jucarone, mixer.
3: GE’s “Brilliant Enterprise”
Client: GE Agency: BBDO New York David Lubars, chief creative officer; Eric Cosper, Michael Aimette, sr. creative directors; Anthony Nelson, group executive producer; George Sholley, producer; Judd Counsell, copywriter; Anne Lac, art director; Rani Vaz, director of music and radio production. Production Company: Chelsea David Gordon Green, director; Simon Duggan, DP. Editorial: MacKenzie Cutler Ian MacKenzie, editor. Visual Effects: Framestore, New York and London. Mike McGee, director; Sumer Zuberi, producer; James Razzall, exec producer; David Munoz Forcada, compositing supervisor; Marc Smith, creative director; Will Frazier, Michitaka Inoue, 3D; Sang Joon Kim, Sharon Marcussen, 2D; Yoon Sun Bae, Jessica Lazlo, John Loughlin, Jason Forster, roto; Akira Thompson, Johnny Likens, Chase Masinghill, designers. Music: Human Audio: Sonic Union Michael Marinelli, mixer.
4: Infiniti’s “Factory of Life”
Client: Infiniti Agency: TBWAChiatDay, Los Angeles Production Company: MJZ Dante Ariola, director. Visual Effects: Method Benjamin Walsh, VFX supervisor; Stephanie Gilgar, EP; Mike Wigart, Jason Cohon, producers; Zack Whitley, coordinator; Dominic Bauch, compositing supervisor; Robert Nederhorst, CG supervisor; Mike Warner, animation supervisor; Scott Brust, modeler lead; Lauren van Houten, Fabio Zapata, tracking/layout supervisors; Kevin Sears, lighting lead; Chris Sanchez, matte painting lead; Stephanie Sweeney; roto/paint supervisor.
5: Mortal Kombat Legacy II online miniseries
Client: Mortal Kombat Legacy II Agency: Warner Digital, Burbank, Calif. Production Company: Bandito Brothers Warner Digital. Kevin Tancharoen, director Visual Effects: Ring of Fire Jerry Spivack, creative director/VFX on-set supervisor/compositor; John Myers, EP; Casey Conroy, VFX producer/on-set supervisor; Derek Schmidt, VFX coordinator; Brian Petras, Shelly Dutcher, Stephen Grimm, Blake Taylor, Garrett Quon, compositors; Steve Talkowski, Janina Overlay, CGI artists.
6: BBC Radio 2’s “Dark Side”
Client: BBC Radio 2 Agency: BBC Radio 2 Production Company: Aardman Animations Darren Dubicki, director. Animation: Aardman Animations Darren Dubicki, director; Heather Wright, EP; Helen Argo, producer; Danny Gallagher, production asst; Louise Johnson, prodn, coordinator; Mark Chamberlain, DP; Olly Skillman-Wilson, David Klein, Saul Freed, CG modeling; Mathew Rees, Rich Spence, CG animation; Andrew Lavery, CG ltg; Jim Lewis, supervising sr. compositor; Spencer Cross, Paule Quinton, compositors; Tom Readdy, After Effects artist; Dan Hembury, artist.
7: Rdio’s “Symbiosis”
Client: Rdio Production Company: Blacklist, New York. Dvein, direction, art direction, character design; Andrew Linsk, exec producer; Patrick Gantert, producer; Luis Gómez Guzmán, character modeling & texturing; Víctor Vinyals, character rig set-up; Hugo García, character animation; Alba Ribera, background modeling & texturing. Animation: Blow Studio. Lighting, render & compositing.
8: Mountain Dew’s “Satellite”
Client: Mountain Dew Agency: BBDO New York Lauren Connolly, Tim Bayne, exec VP/executive creative directors; Oliver Handlos, creative director/copywriter; Jens Waernes, creative director/art director; Chris Lenz, executive producer. Production Company: @radical.media Tarsem, director; Frank Scherma, Tommy Turtle, exec producers; Rebecca Deelo, production supervisor; Cathy Dunn, head of production. Editorial: Whitehouse Post Productions Ben Stephens, editor; Lauren Hertzberg, exec producer; Marcia Wigley, post producer. Visual Effects: The Mission Rob Trent, creative director; Michael Pardee, exec producer; Brad Scott, Flame; Piotr Karwas, animation director; Samir Lyons, animator; Raul Dominguez, modeler/texturer; Rick Grandy, rigger; Diana Cheng, VFX producer.
9: Old Navy’s “Denim on Denim”
Client: Old Navy Agency: Chandelier Creative, New York. Sara Fisher, managing director; Jill Andresevic, producer; Zan Goodman, Michael Scanlon, art directors; Richard Christiansen, executive creative director. Production Company: The Directors Bureau Roman Coppola, director; Lisa Margulis, Elizabeth Minzes, exec producers; Eric Sedorovitz, producer. Postproduction: Color Collective Visual Effects: MassMarket Louisa Cartwright, EP; Jeff Wolfe, Bridgette Spalding, VFX producers/editorial producers; Lucas Borras, animation directors; Andy Baker, animation director/animator; Hattie Stewart, illustrations; Andy Rementer, type illustrations; Luca Vitale, Dennis Moran, Jessica Milazzo, Blake Patrick, Winnie Tom, Maya Edelman, Harry Teitelman, animators; Joe Ball, Zack Williams, Warren Paleos, Aska Otake, compositors; Cass Vanini, editor.