Castle Free - "Still A Beer"
ABInBEV - Castle "Free"
Castle Free - "Still A Beer"
Director Peter Pohorsky from Plank Film brings us the new Castle “Free” commercial where a whole stadium goes instantly quiet when Bobby Skinstad orders an alcohol free beer. The ad was a collaboration between Bladeworks and Chocolate Tribe to bring the ad in record time to the screen.
The stadium, filmed without any crowd for the majority of shots, was filled through the use of CGI crowds added in post. A short making-of follows the ad for a short sneak peek behind the scenes.
Client : ABInBEV
Product : Castle Free
Innovation Director Africa : Michael Ruethnick
Brand Director : Vaughan Croeser
Platform Innovation Marketing Manager : Thiloshnee Naidoo
Marketing Manager Communications & Positioning : Rushiel Perma
Agency : Ogilvy Johannesburg
Creative Director : Terry Mckenna
Art Director : Marion Bryan
Copy Writer : Irene Styger
Managing Partner : Gerg Pfuhl
Account Director : Naledi Mabindla
TV Producer : Tsakane Mogale
Production Company : Plank Film Productions
Director : Peter Pohorsky
Producer : Ben Kaufman
Grade : Pudding
VFX Companies Collaboration between : Bladeworks and Chocolate Tribe
On-Set VFX supervisor : Rob van den Bragt (Chocolate Tribe)
Compositing : Bladeworks
Lead Compositor : Jean du Plessis
Producer : Mandy Biart
CGI Crowds : Chocolate Tribe
CG Supervisor : Rob van den Bragt
Lead TD: Tiaan Franken
Legal and Business Affairs Manager: Nosipho Maketo-van den Bragt
VW Polo "Beware The Confidence"
Volkswagen / Ogilvy Cape Town
VW Polo "Beware The Confidence"
The new Volkswagen Polo television commercial (TVC) is being launched by Ogilvy Cape Town, the brand’s long-standing local agency. According to Ogilvy, the TVC comes with a friendly warning: Beware the confidence. Ogilvy Cape Town launches a new TVC for Volkswagen. Directed by Greg Gray from Romance Films, the TVC, titled Red Flashy Thingy, shows viewers the journey of a young professional who buys the new Volkswagen Polo. The TVC shows him becoming overconfident as a result of the new features available in the vehicle. Parking in a reserved space sends him on a journey filled with ‘wailing’ CEOs, scientists,
space programmes, and one ‘red flashy thingy’. Our artists at Chocolate Tribe collaborated with Bladeworks on this hilarious ad to deliver 3D set extension and replacements. Rudimentary sets were filmed in studio purely as placeholders in order to be replaced in post by the 3D team at Chocolate Tribe and 2D team at Bladeworks. In other VFX shots, buildings were inserted or enhanced to create the look director Greg Gray was after. It was a great pleasure working with the the whole film crew and we are excited to share this project with you.
Director: Greg Gray
Agency: Ogilvy Cape Town
Chief Creative Officer: Pete Case
Executive Creative Director: Tseliso rangaka, Nicholas Wittenberg
Creative Director: Mike Martin
Art Director: Chris Bass
Creative Group Head / Copywriter: Alex Goldberg
Creative Group Head / Art Director: Ryan Barkhuizen
Agency Producer: Claudia Hall
Production:
Production Company: Romance
Production Company Producer: Helena Woodfine
Visual Effects:
VFX Houses: Bladeworks / Chocolate Tribe
Bladeworks:
Producer: Corlia Ohlson De Fine
VFX Supervisor / Compositor: Jean Du Plessis
Colour Grading: Pudding
Chocolate Tribe:
VFX Supervisor / Producer: Rob van den Bragt
Lead TD: Tiaan Franken
3D Artists: Jay Sheldon, Jascha Wolkinger
Sound Studio: Produce Sound
Sound Engineer: Louis Enslin
Strategist: Jayne McElwee
DoP: Rory O’Grady
Editing Company: Deliverance
Editor: Ricky Boyd
Music: Universal Production Music
Account Team: Vicky Buys, Chris Spencer, Loren Westoby
Client: Meredith Kelly, Bridget Harpur, Loryn Symons
Legal and Business Affairs Manager: Nosipho Maketo-van den Bragt
Robot And Scarecrow Behind The Scenes
DMC Films / Factory Fifteen / Nexus Studios
Making - Of Robot & Scarecrow
Making of Robot and Scarecrow : A brief glimpse behind the scenes of the award-winning short film “Robot And Scarecrow”.
The short film, directed by Kibwe Tavares’s, comprises a 140 VFX shots, of which a 127 were done by Chocolate Tribe.
Please click here to view the trailer.
Robot And Scarecrow wins VFX Craft
DMC Film | Factory Fifteen | Nexus Studio
Robot And Scarecrow Wins VFX Craft
VFX craft : We are very proud to announce that Robot And Scarecrow last night (20 August) won a TV Craft certificate award for Visual Effects (Loerie Awards 2017).
It was a solid 120 shots and 8 months of pure visual effects, animation and compositing joy!
Well done team. You all rock!
Chocolate Tribe features on Redshift 3D
Vero, DMC Film, Nexus Studio, Factory Fifteen
Chocolate Tribe features on Redshift 3D
Redshift3D wrote a fantastic blog post on their main page about “Robot and Scarecrow” recently. It gives a glimpse behind the scenes of the rendering process at Chocolate Tribe using Redshift. Chocolate Tribe was responsible for over 90 of all the 140 VFX shots on Robot & Scarecrow, the latest short film from acclaimed UK director Kibwe Tavares. The film was co-produced by London based production houses, DMC Film (owned by Michael Fassbender and Conor McCaughan) and Nexus Studio. Starring Holliday Grainger and Jack O’Connell as the titular Robot and Scarecrow, this beautiful film tells the tale of a robot pop performer who meets a lonely scarecrow at a festival where they then embark on a whirlwind of experiences.
Huesitos Behind The Scenes
Glassworks
Making - Of Huesitos
It was great working with Glassworks Barcelona recently on Huesitos. They have now made this entertaining making-of. We still can’t get the song out of our head! We have accepted that it will be our studio theme song for the foreseeable future.
Chocolate Tribe collaborated by character rigging everything, setting up the dynamics system on the cloths, created some pipeline scripts, as well as animated the first 3 shots of the ad.
Enjoy!
Please click here to view the full commercial.
On-set for VFX on Medinah
On - Set for VFX on Medinah
Medinah TV - Series
Recently Rob van den Bragt from Chocolate Tribe supervised the heavy VFX shoot for the Medinah tv-series currently in production. Studio and location shoot for 6 weeks, in 40 degrees temperatures.
We’re very proud to be be part of the production and can’t wait to see the final result. It’s going to be amazing. More to follow, once details are officially released.
Robot and Scarecrow at Sundance
Sundance London 2017
Robot & Scarecrow at Sundance
We’re proud to announce that Kibwe Tavares’s “Robot And Scarecrow” is part of the Sundance London 2017 selection (1-4 June) . We completed a 127 VFX shots, doing full body and facial replacement on both
the scarecrow and robot lead characters. Quite a number, and a first for South Africa, due to it’s scale and type of VFX work. Keep an eye out for more news soon.
Sundance News
Tiaan Franken joins Chocolate Tribe
Chocolate Tribe
Tiaan Franken joins Chocolate Tribe
We’re proud to announce that Tiaan Franken, from Moving Vector has joined us. Tiaan’s experience in the VFX and Animation world is extensive. Some of his more recent work includes Jannes Hendrickz’ amazing “All Gold” ad (shown above), as well the feature film “Lucky Specials” by Rea Rangaka for Discovery Channel. His great technical skills in motion capture, dynamic and crowd simulations, complex rigging, scripting, programming, as well as virtual reality and immersive 360 rendering, will boost the studio’s productivity even further. Tiaan is no stranger to us though. We have had the pleasure to work with Tiaan for the last 4 years. Tiaan has a great team spirit, amazing positivity and his interest in developing the studio’s production pipeline even further fits in beautifully with Chocolate Tribe’s long term vision.
Welcome Tiaan!
Huesitos
Glassworks
Huesitos
Chocolate Tribe worked with the talented team of Glassworks Barcelona and German director duo Dvein on this out of the ordinary series of ads for Audible. 3D scans were made of the actor’s heads,
rigged in Maya and we then precisely match-moved ever nuance of motion of their heads. Dvein then crafted amazing animated facial features with Glassworks to represent each person’s distinct alter-ego.
Please click here to view the behind the scenes.
Client: Chocolates Valor
Agency: El Ruso de Rocky
Director: Javier Verdugo
3D Artists (Glassworks): Carlos Cortés, Marco Rossi, Kiko Navarro, Justi Romero, Andrea Giordano, Ferran Casas, Anthony Vincent, José Manuel Linares
3D Artists (Chocolate Tribe): Rob Van Den Bragt, Tiaan Franken
2D Compositor: Alessio Bertotti, Riccardo Gambi, Dani Granado
Producer: Belén Palos
Colorist: Xavi Santolaya
Legal and Business Affairs Manager: Nosipho Maketo-van den Bragt