Virgin Money "I Love Insurance" in the media
Virgin Money
Virgin Money "I love Insurance" in the media
Greg Rom’s recent ad, from Gentlemen films, and Net#work BBDO featured in the February 2017 edition of Screen Africa. The Virgin Money ad, “I Love Insurance”, gives a brief glimpse behind the scene of the ad. In total, Chocolate Tribe completed 10 VFX shots, as well as supervised the VFX on-set for the whole campaign. The opening shots of the main commercial has our happy hero magically swiping
money from his hands, while a lady with hair on fire dances away in front of her burning house. All money and fire elements were created and composited at Chocolate Tribe. The final VFX shots were then neatly slotted into the ad by the lovely people at Ludus. It was a great pleasure working with the whole team and we are happy to see the ad being so well received by the audience.
The final ad can be viewed here: Virgin Money “I Love Insurance”.
Roots Nominated for Visual Effects Work
15th Annual VES Awards
Roots Nominated for Visual Effects Work
We’re very excited to hear that Roots, episode 1, has been nominated for “Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Photoreal Episode” at the 15th Annual VES Awards. The Visual Effects Society (VES) celebrates the top achievements in the VFX industry each year, and learning that Roots has been nominated along side the other great VFX work this year, is a great honour for all of us who have worked on it. Los Angeles (January 10, 2017) – Today, the Visual Effects Society (VES), the industry’s professional global honorary society, announced the nominees for the 15th Annual VES Awards, the prestigious yearly celebration that recognizes outstanding visual effects artistry and innovation in film, animation, television, commercials and video games and the VFX supervisors, VFX producers and hands-on artists who bring this work to life. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Doctor Strange, The Jungle Book, Kubo and the Two Strings and Game of Thrones are some of the top contenders this year. The VES Awards will herald the organization’s milestone 20th anniversary. Nominees in 24 categories were selected by VES members via events hosted by its ten sections, including Australia, Bay Area, London, Los Angeles, Montreal, New York, Toronto and Vancouver.
The VES Awards will be held on February 7th at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. As previously announced, the Lifetime Achievement Award will be presented to multiple Academy Award®-winning visual effects pioneer Ken Ralston. The Visionary Award will be presented to acclaimed producer and Marvel Studios Executive Vice President of Physical Production Victoria Alonso. “The artistry, ingenuity and passion of visual effects practitioners around the world have come together to create truly remarkable imagery in a variety of media,” said Mike Chambers, VES Chair. “We are seeing best in field work that elevates the art of storytelling and engages the audience in new and innovative ways. The VES Awards is the only venue that showcases and honors these outstanding artists across a wide range of disciplines, and we are extremely proud of all our nominees!”
Source:https://www.visualeffectssociety.com/post/15th-annual-ves-awards-nominees
On-Set for VFX on Virgin Active
Virgin Active "Go There"
On - Set for VFX on Virgin Active
Iris, Outsider and Max Fisher bring us the latest ad for Virgin Active. Chocolate Tribe worked with Electronic Theatre Collective from London
and Cape Town based Migrate Films on the VFX Supervision of Virgin Active “Go There”. The ad combines a fun 2D animated game-style with live action.
Electronic Theatre Collective
Producer : Orlaith Turner
VFX Supervisor : Courtney Pryce
2D Artists : Andrew Stewart, Chris Fraser, Taran Spear
Animators : James Duveen, Carlos de Faria, Jonathan Gallagher, Sam Taylor, Louis Neubert, Duncan Gist
Colourist : Lewis Crossfield
Chocolate Tribe
On-Set VFX Supervisor : Rob van den Bragt
Agency : Iris
Creatives : Jonathan McKemey, Trevor Webb
ECD : David Prideaux
Producer : Alex Coughlin
Production Company (UK) : Outsider
Director : Max Fisher
Producers : Joseph Taussig
Production Company (RSA): Migrate Film
Producer : Nikki Geater
Editorial : Tenthree
Editor: Rebecca Luff
Legal and Business Affairs Manager: Nosipho Maketo-van den Bragt
Virgin Money “I Love Insurance”
Virgin Money
Virgin Money - "I Love Insurance"
Don’t love insurance? We don’t blame you. The Virgin brand has always been about changing business for good and insurance is no different. Insurance is plagued with grudge and discontent. Very simply, people feel like insurance companies don’t treat them like people. It’s up to Virgin Money Insurance to come in and change this..
Chocolate Tribe delivered all shots for 3 full sequences of the ad (3D and compositing). First we added lots of CG money to the opening car accident sequence, then we set a house on fire, and to top it off, we also lit up the lady’s hair across 2 sequences
Client : Virgin Money Insurance
Agency : Network BBDO
Chief Creative Officer : Mike Schalit
Executive Creative Director : Brad Reilly
Copy Writer : Shane Durrant
Art Director : Heidi Kasselman
Strategist : Tebogo Koene
Digital Strategist : Kyle Duckitt
Account Director : Dominic Shwarz / Amber Mackeurtan / Sarah Snyman
Client Manager : Michaela Pollock
Agency Producer : Caroline Switala / Rob Scholtz
Production Company : Gentlemen Films
Director : Greg Rom
Producer : Vanessa La Trobe
D.O.P : Willie Nel
Art Director : Kezia Eales
Assitant Director : Carey Lagoe
Choreographer : Debbie Rakusin
Editing Company : Left Post Production
Editing Producer : Zintle Boki
Editor : Evy Katz
Grading Company : Comfort and Fame
Colour: Nic Apostoli
VFX Company : Chocolate Tribe
Visual Effects Supervisor : Rob Van Den Bragt
FX Animators : Tiaan Franken, Glenn Ewan
Compositing Artist : Rob van den Bragt
Post Production : The Upstairs Ludus
Flame Artists : Nicholas Young / Schalk Van Der Merwe / Gavin Hong
Post Production Producer : Joe Erasmus
Music Composition : Pulse Music
Music Producer : Marc Algranti
Sound Facility : Sterling Sound
Final Mix & Sound Design : Lorens Persson
Legal and Business Affairs Manager: Nosipho Maketo-van den Bragt
VFX delivered for Roots Episode 1
VFX Delivered for Roots - Episode 1
History Channel
May 2016 – Chocolate Tribe is excited to have been part of the VFX team on the mini TV-series, Roots. The classic story of “Roots” is retold in this miniseries based on Alex Haley’s 1976 novel. The show paints a portrait of American slavery through the journey of a family that has a will to survive through many hardships. Malachi Kirby stars as Kunta Kinte, a proud and educated young man who uses those traits to empower himself when he is captured and sold into slavery. While he is enslaved, he challenges his fellow slaves to fight for their freedom as he continues working toward achieving his dream of escaping and returning to his homeland of The Gambia. The miniseries also stars Emmy winner Laurence Fishburne as Haley; Grammy nominee Anika Noni Rose as Kunta’s daughter, Kizzy, who is bought by Tom Lea (Jonathan Rhys Meyers), who rapes and impregnates her; and Oscar winner Forest Whitaker as slave musician Fiddler, who mentors Kunta.
Network: History Channel
Directors: Bruce Beresford, Thomas Carter, Phillip Noyce, Mario Van Peebles
Written by: Alex Haley, Lawrence Konner, Mark Rosenthal, Alison McDonald, Charles A. Murray
VUZU AMP "Heads Of House"
DSTV - Agency: Black River F.C.
VUZU AMP "Heads of House"
Vuzu Amp “Heads of House” brings a humorous ad to our screens of a (most likely) blind date gone wrong…
Enjoy the talented comedic voices of The Goliath Brothers.
Agency : Black River F.C.
ECD : Ahmed Tilly
Art Director : Fuaad Kasu
Copy Writer : Oarabile Mahole
Business Unit Director : Lesley de Wet
Account Manager : Solani Hlayisi
TV Producer : Iolanthe Grobler
Production Company : 7Films
Director : Lourens van Rensburg
Producer : Nina van Rensburg
DOP : Tom Marais
Editing House : Nova
Editor : Nic Goodwin
Producer : Fraser Rowe
VFX Post Production (3d) : Chocolate Tribe
ECD / Lead 3D : Rob van den Bragt
3D Artists : Gerbrand Nel, Tiaan Franken, Jay Sheldon, Glenn Ewan
VFX Post Production (2d) : Sinister Studio
Lead Compositor : Duzi Sandlana
Producer : Dries Uys
Audio Post : Produce Sound
Audio Mix : Theo Potgieter
Grade : Splash FX
Colourist : Anel Stolp
Legal and Business Affairs Manager: Nosipho Maketo-van den Bragt
Telkom "Futurehood"
Telkom - Agency: DDB Johannesburg
Telkom "Futurehood"
Telkom Futurehood, one of the brand ads promoting Telkom light-speed broadband from SA’s biggest fibre and
best LTE network, is looking into the future and shows us some of the awesome things that await us in the futurehood!
Client : Telkom
Agency : DDB Johannesburg
Creative Director : Matthew Berge, Brent Panther
Producer : Rachel Andreotti
Production Company : Platypus
Director : Ian Chuter
Producer : Tammi Horstmann
DOP : Vicci Turpin
Shoot Supervision : Rob van den Bragt (Chocolate Tribe)
VFX Post Production (3d) : Chocolate Tribe
Lead 3D : Rob van den Bragt
3D Artists : Darren McPherson, Tiaan Franken, Jay Sheldon, Glenn Ewan
VFX Post Production (2d) : Sinister Studio
Lead Compositors : Christian van der Walt, Novak Miller
Producer : Dries Uys
Audio Post : Freqncy
Legal and Business Affairs Manager: Nosipho Maketo-van den Bragt
KFC "Shark"
KFC - Agency: Ogilvy Johannesburg
KFC "Shark"
Australian surfer Mick Fanning’s close encounter with a shark during a surf event in July has been parodied in a commercial by fast food chain KFC in South Africa. Fanning survived a near death experience during the final round of the J-Bay Open on July 19 when a shark attacked him in the water on live television.
The harrowing moment has been recreated by KFC in an ad which sees a Fanning look-a-like also attacked by a shark from behind, with one notable difference. The surfer picks up the shark up and rides a wave holding the creature over his head triumphantly in a moment described as “next level awesome” by the commentators. The commercial was made to advertise a new burger being sold at KFC restaurants in South Africa.
Agency : Ogilvy Johannesburg
Production Company : 7 Films
Director : Lourens van Rensburg
Producer : Nina van Rensburg
VFX Post Production (3d) : Chocolate Tribe
Lead 3D : Rob van den Bragt
3D Artists: Tiaan Franken, Glenn Ewan
VFX Post Production : Sinister Studio (2d)
Lead Compositor : Novak Miller
Producer : Dries Uys
Editing house : Nova
Editor : Nic Goodwin
Producer : Fraser Rowe
Legal and Business Affairs Manager: Nosipho Maketo-van den Bragt
MTN “Space”
MTN
MTN "Space"
MTN Global’s latest brand commercial tells the story of a little boy who discovers, via MTN’s world class internet, that it is very simple to build a homemade radio that will allow him to actually speak to an astronaut in space.
He tries and fails and tries again, using the New World of MTN to embark on a journey of discovery that takes a rather unexpected turn. Because that’s the thing about discovery, there’s always more to discover.
Brand: MTN Group
Agency: Metropolitan Republic South Africa
Brand Representative (client): Jen Forrester (Group Marketing Executive), Nicola van Ast (Senior Manager
Executive Creative Director: Paul Warner
Creative Directors: Candice Hellens, Moira-Gene Sephton Gous
Agency Producer: Nicola Martin
Art Director: Moira-Gene Sephton Gous
Copywriter: Candice Hellens
Director: Michael Middleton
Cinematography: Michael Middleton
Producer: Janet Sender
Production Company: Jump Films
Editor: Kobus Loots (Upstairs Post Production)
Audio Engineer: Lorens Persson (Sterling Sound)
Music Composition: Kevin Smuts (Kevin Smuts Music)
Visual Effects Supervisor: Christian van der Walt (Sinister Studios)
Lead 3D: Rob van den Bragt (Chocolate Tribe)
3D Artist: Jarrod Sheldon
Legal and Business Affairs Manager: Nosipho Maketo-van den Bragt
MTN "Duck Egg"
MTN - Agency: MetropolitianRepublic
MTN "Duck Egg"
Chocolate Tribe & MTN Africa’s latest brand commercial tells the story of a little girl who comes across a lonely egg while playing by a river. She takes it home and immerses herself in all things ‘duck’,
using the New World of MTN to embark on a journey of learning that takes a rather unexpected turn. A well received ad by the industry, receiving some lovely Orchids and Ad of the Week honors.
Client: MTN
Agency: Metropolitan Republic
Agency Producer: Nicola Martin
Production Company: Jump Films
Director: Michael Middleton
Producer: Janet Sender
Music Composition: Alun Richards (Cut ‘n Paste)
Visual Effects: Sinister Studios
Visual Effects Supervisor: Christian van der Walt
Lead Compositor: Novak Miller
Lead 3D: Rob van den Bragt (Chocolate Tribe)
Legal and Business Affairs Manager: Nosipho Maketo-van den Bragt