Director:
Clarice Chin
Agency:
BBH
The massive, looping animations represent a variety of Google Play's verticals: music, books, movies and games.
Measuring eight stories high with a width that spans the length of a football field, it's the only billboard to cover an entire city block. Chin spoke to us about the elements that went into the huge project: "We've worked on Google Play projects with BBH before, so we had an existing trust that made the process flow really easily. The difference with this project is it was the first time working in such a massive format. We had to take the size alone into consideration: the resolution would be different, render times would take longer and, in general, we had to allocate a lot more time."
The design team was able to take the brilliant variety of prisms they had created previously and put them toward the billboard project. "It was all a matter of communicating what Google Play is by showcasing the prisms we'd done for the commercials and appropriating them in a different format that would make people stop and try to figure out what they are. We had lots of fun creating the full-screen moments for each vertical, especially with Batman. And it's always a wonderful experience working with BBH."
Chin previously directed the exciting logo commercial, 'Play Your Heart Out', plus the animated prism spots for 'Lord of the Rings' and 'The Hobbit.'
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Agency: BBH
Producer: Sarah Frances Hartley
Creative Director: Josh Webman
Art Directors: Kristian Grove Moller, Marry Smudde
Account Manager: Jared Jue
Production: Mill+
Director: Clarice Chin
Producer: Elizabeth Newman
VFX & Design: The Mill
VFX Producer: Elizabeth Newman
Creative Director: Clarice Chin
Motion Graphics: Justin Demetrician, Justin Sucara, Kyle Moore, Amy Graham, Kyle Romanek, Nader Husseini, Chris Burkhalter, Andrew Marks, Dylan Spears, Ke Swaab, Melvina Wong
Art Department: Clare Carrellas
Editor: Luke Kraman
Editor Assist: Ron Lubin