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Framestore Creates Magic For Girls Aloud

The first line of the treatment for the new Girls Aloud music video begins: “Five glass spheres fall at impossible speeds towards Earth. Protected within these futuristic force fields, Girls Aloud descend through space and time”. The description of this opening idea for ‘Untouchable’ was the hook for international VFX facility Framestore to get involved in the latest Girls Aloud promo. An ambitious and technical film, created and directed by Marco Puig, Framestore were required to split the VFX work for ‘Untouchable’ into pre and post shoot. Puig wanted to do as much work in camera as possible, so the Framestore team used back projection to create much of the space-scapes before the shoot. This work was then cut into three films – back projection, side projection and reflection projection to put onto the glass spheres.


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CINEMA 4D Helps The Mill Gain VES Award For Dr Who

MAXON Computer, the developer of CINEMA 4D and BodyPaint 3D, today announced that CINEMA 4D played a key role in helping The Mill, a world-leading visual effects company, win a visual effects award from the esteemed Visual Effects Society (VES) for its work on Doctor Who, the world’s longest-running science fiction TV series.

This is the first time the series has won an award for visual effects since the opening episode was broadcast by the BBC in 1963. The Mill was recognized with the coveted award for ‘Outstanding Matte Paintings in a Broadcast Program or Commercial’ associated with the Doctor Who episode entitled ‘Silence in the Library’, during the 7th Annual Visual Effects Society (VES) Awards show in Los Angeles on February 23, 2009.


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Broquard Studio Creates Boxing Package for HBO

Broquard Studio was called in to help Digital Kitchen with a slick and exciting new rebranding of HBO’s premiere boxing franchises. The creative studio helped execute punched up show packages for HBO’s Boxing After Dark, World Championship Boxing and Pay-Per-View.

With a triple-punch combo of shows to develop creative for, NYC based boutique Broquard Studio needed to bring all of it’s expertise in 2D/3D design, animation and compositing to the project.


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Superfad Animate New Sprint “Anthem” Spot

Ever wonder what’s happening right now? More than you think, as we found out in this campaign designed and co-directed by Superfad for Sprint via Goodby, Silverstein & Partners. The Now Network is brought to life when everything from business people to bananas (and bloodhounds,too)…


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PMcD Design Create Titles & Promo For Crash

Crash, the Academy Award winning film, is now a series on the Starz Network, marking the network’s first-ever original series. With so much riding on the show’s success, Starz turned to New York-based PMcD Design, part of the transmedia branding and design group LORI PATE+, to design and produce the comprehensive promotional package that includes IDs, end pages, long form title sequence and a comprehensive toolkit for Starz producers and editors to use for tease, launch and episodic campaigns.


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yU+co. Creates Titles for Disney’s Race To Witch Mountain

How do you distill the world’s collective understanding and evidence of UFOs into three-and-a-half minutes? That was the challenge facing visual design and motion graphics studio yU+co., led by Creative Director Garson Yu, for the main title sequence to Disney’s Race To Witch Mountain, opening in theatres on March 13.

Race to Witch Mountain is a sci-fi adventure about two alien visitors and their search for their lost spacecraft. For the main title sequence, yU+co.’s concept was to tell the story of UFO’s from early sightings in the U.S. to present day, using archival newspaper headlines, film footage, photos and eyewitness accounts of UFO sightings. Set to a pulsating orchestral score, the tension-filled sequence immediately pulls viewers into this mysterious world with fast-paced editing of astonishing UFO imagery coupled with a subtle, yet powerful type design that animates on and off as if emanating from an extraterrestrial transmission signal.


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Mekanism’s Kovalik Directs Campaign For Schwab

Mekanism’s Ian Kovalik directs a five spot package of live action/animated :30s for Charles Schwab. In the commercials Charles Schwab & Co encourages potential savers, cautious in the present precarious financial climate, to “Do Something About It”. Mekanism is a San Francisco and New York based creative production studio…


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“Meet Méline” – Teaser Trailer for New Animation Short

In an ordinary barn, of a quiet small town, a little girl will be faced with an extraordinary event… “Meet Meline” tells the story of a young girl who spends much of her time playing in a dusty old wooden out-shed at her grandparents home.…


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Dimension 3 2009 – The Essential Forum For 3D Markets

Dimension 3 the world’s leading festival for professionals involved in 3D stereoscopic production, post and display, will take place in Paris, France, from 2 – 4 June 2009. Now in its third year, Dimension 3 will again be the crucial meeting-point for performers, technical and…


 

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