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Here is a making of the fanta TfBoys project. So much fun stuff, the TFBoys riding pods, floating in the air on wirerigs, and some cg wip so you have an idea of how this amazing project has been made! It has been a crazy ride, working on ways to create a rollercoaster fromf...well from scratch, it was all done on a blue screen at first. Here you can find some wip, done by the amazing Brendan Houghton (storyboard), Ines Pagniez and Benjamin mattern (animatic), Daniel Cacouault (concepts) and of course the whole team at Passion and Blackbird!

Here is a crazy film we did in China and Australia for Fanta with the teen pop band Tfboys.

It has been such a challenge, short schedule, big ideas! We developped the film with Passion pictures Australia (huge thanks to Katie mackin, Gerri Maccarthy and Kate Baldwin, this could not have existed without you!),  and the agency Ogilvy Shanghai was on board, we can't thank them enough for trusting us in this adventure (special thanks to Charlie Macpherson!). 

The shoot happened in Beijing and we had the chance to work with an amazing crew (special thanks to Carrot films, the AD Howe Cheng and the DOP Simon Hau) and of course the band Tfboys, Roy Karry and Jackson, have been positive and fun throughout the day! Then we headed to Australia and started the real production. First off, we want to thank the crazy talented Daniel Cacouault for working on the first designs and concepts for the film, it has been such a honour for us. We also got lucky to work with David Colin, who has been doing such a good job on the edit, from during the shoot to the end! And of course, the project could not have been done without the crazy team at Blackbird. They did such a huge amount of work in so little time, they worked so hard and made it happen exactly the way we envisioned it. We feel so lucky, many thanks to them, and special thanks to Nick and Sam!

From start to finish, this has been a crazy ride. You don’t often get to build a rollercoaster made of fuzzy fanta liquid and a whole Fanta world populated with the amazing fanta cg characters every day. And it you throw the teen phenomenon TFBoys in the mix, this becomes an epic project!

We are very proud to present you our film for the Domru russian brand. In this film, we introduce a quirky russian family that struggles with their old internet network. Let's hope they find something which will suit their needs. The film was produced with the amazing Nomint and we collaborated with the very talented people at Red Knuckles. So proud to work with all of them! Credits:

Client: Domru Creative Agency: Instinct (BBDO group) Creative Director: Roman Firainer Copywriter / Art director: Olga Veretinskaya

Russian Production Company: Fetish Film Producer: Irina Lavrova

Production Company: NOMINT Directors: BAT (Bali Engel, Mat Landour) Executive Producer: Marilena Vatseri, Christos Lefakis Creative Producer: Nefeli Petika Design: BAT Graphic Design: Chris Golfis Title animation/ 2d Animation: Tony Comley Additional Design: Michael Towers, Richard Smithson

Animation Company: Red Knuckles Concept Art: BAT, Tim Holleyman Modelling: Leonardo Vitti, Francis-Xavier Martins Animators: Fabiana Ciatti and Conor Ryan Lighting&Rendering: Paco Rocha Matte paintings: Tim Holleyman

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