"One VFX highlight of this spot involved transforming a jack-knifing truck rushing toward stranded pedestrians into thousands of rubber duckies. Mill 3D Lead Artist, Ajit Menon said, "The challenge was not just to envision what these ducks would look like, but also to imagine what would happen if the inertia and the protective shell of the truck suddenly disappeared to send the ducks hurtling toward the pedestrians."
Head of 2D, Gavin Wellsman, added, "The most challenging part of the job in preparation for the shoot was the fire sequence - the way in which we filmed the elements was technically perfect." He explained, "The special effects crew built a gas controlled mannequin in black that we matched with the angles for our head and chest flames for our medium shot. For our wide shot, our stunt team gave us great flame elements of separate human arms and legs on fire walking for us to wrap around our Hero character. It is this interaction of flames around these boday parts that really helped us to make the sequence interesting. We kept the flames over cranked at 48fps to give the look of the fire a slightly more hyper-real and graceful characteristic."
"Another scenario involved the main character suddenly acquiring elephant limbs which with to stomp around the scene, creating a moment of chaos," said Menon. "The realism of this visualization was increased by giving the elephant a skin dynamic sliding to "roll" over the bones. Adding dust, debris and cracking pavement further reflected the mayhem around."
Agency: AMV BBDO
Producer: Mary Jane Otto
Creative Director: Molly Adler, Mike Sweeney
Creatives: Rich Perusi, Jaime Schwarz
Production Company: Gorgeous
Director: Peter Thwaites
Executive Producer: Anna Hashmi
Producer: Suzie Tedesco
Director of Photography: Alwin Kutchler
Editing Company: Rock Paper Scissors
Editor: Adam Pertofsky
Edit Assist: Marjorie Sacks
VFX & Design: The Mill
Executive Producer: Verity Grantham
VFX Producer: Boo Wong
Shoot Supervisor: Angus Kneale, Gavin Wellsman, Simon Brown
Creative Director: Angus Kneale
2D Lead Artists: Gavin Wellsman
3D Lead Artists: Ajit Menon
2D Artists: Nathan Kane, John Mangia
3D Artists: Tom Cushwa, Jeff Lopez, Rob Petrie
Assist: Kshitj Khanna
Colourist: Adam Scott (LA)