We’re back again with yet another roundup for February Week 01, 2018 that consists of a mix of awesome motion graphics advertisement pieces. We would recommend checking out our boards collected on Pinterest where you can find some more amazing work.
“Alienist” Main Title
Design Studio: Elastic
Executive Creative Director: Angus Wall
Creative Director: Lisa Bolan
Art Director: Heidi Berg
Designer: Felix Soletic
Composite and Animation: Yongsub Song, Charles Khoury, Piero Desopo, Alex Silver, Rachel Brickel
Editor: Lauren Dellara
Head of CG: Kirk Shintani
Modeler: Michael Cardenas, Paulo de Almada
Texturing: Aemilia Widodo, Josephine Kahn
Dynamics: Phiphat Pinyosophon
Stock Research: Deb Ricketts
Producer: Paul Makowski
Head of Production: Kate Berry
Executive Producer: Luke Colson
Managing Directors: Linda Carlson & Jennifer Sofio Hall
“Altered Carbon” Main Title
Design Studio: Elastic
Creative Director: Lisa Bolan
Composite and 3D Animation: Yongsub Song, Byron Slaybaugh, Thomas McMahan
2D Animation: Jeffrey Jeong, Steven Do, Lucy Kim, Jonathan Taylor
Editor: Gabriel J. Diaz, Martin Hsieh, Lee Buckley, Nathaniel Park, Shawn Fedorchuk
Designers: June Cho, Mert Kizilay, Carlo Sa, Nadia Tzuo, Felix Soletic.
Head of CG: Kirk Shintani
Modeler: Mike Kash
3D Animator: Josh Dyer
Producer: Paul Makowski
Head of Production: Kate Berry
Executive Producer: Luke Colson
Managing Directors: Linda Carlson & Jennifer Sofio Hall
BBC Winter Olympics – The Fearless are Here
A bold and exhilarating animated 2D film created by Nexus Studios’ duo Smith & Foulkes in collaboration with Y&R London is at the centre of the BBC’s ‘The Fearless are Here’ campaign that heralds the arrival of the 2018 Winter Olympics.
Via the thrilling and abstract journey of a luger, skier, curler, snowboarder, ski jumper and ice skater, the film depicts the psychological and physical obstacles Winter Olympics athletes face in their quest to be the best in the world.
From the beginning, the ambition was to focus on the feeling that fear and anxiety induce in top level athletes rather than simply represent it as a physical monster. The creative focus became how to dramatise the negative emotions that must be conquered in order to succeed. This drove the team towards a more shapeshifting, morphing animation style.
Smith & Foulkes researched live action filming techniques for action sports in the quest to achieve an authentic sense of movement through a 3D space and a team of artists at Nexus Studios worked to create the entirely 2D spot which was drawn and animated in a virtual environment using emerging VR cinematography software. Working in this way and with a perceivable depth provided the ideal testing ground and enabled the team to experiment at an early stage and consider different camera angles, just as if you were shooting in live action and with the sensibility of having a handheld camera.
Agency: Y&R London
Executive Creative Director: Mark Roalfe
Creatives: Gavin McGrath
Jim Bolton
Psembi Kinstan
Agency Producer: Kat Maidment
Production Company: Nexus Studios
Directors: Smith & Foulkes
Executive Creative Director: Chris O’Reilly
Producer: Tracey Cooper
Production Manager: Rebecca Archer
Animation Supervisor: Michal Firkowski
Art Directors: Alice Duke
Shen Yi
Design: Callum Strachan
David Feliu
Jamie Jones
Maxime Dupuy
Melanie Climent
Animation Lead: Bishoy Gendi
Animation: Duncan Gist
Hozen Britto
Ines Scheiber
Peter Lowey
FX Animation: Frankie Swan
Ines Scheiber
Clean Up Animation: Christina Nerland
Duane Uba
Giacomo Autili
Judit Boor
Compositing Lead: Abel Kohen
Compositing: Chris Moran
Daniele Baiardini
Elliott Kajdan
John Taylor
Edit: Dave Slade
James Alexander
Sound Design: Anthony Moore @ Factory
Music Production: Native Music
Composer: Fred Ashworth
