The Animal Within - Cascade

The VFX was all done here in New Zealand at Digipost. Took a team of 4-6 artists 18 weeks, from character design, supervising the shoot, high res print stills and then working through 52 shots in a 60 second commercial.
Directed by Jesse Warn of Film Construction and DOP by the legendary John Seale (Oscar winner for The English Patient, plus noms for Rain man and Witness). The agency was Badjar.

Modeled with Maya and Zbrush.
Camera and object tracking - Syntheyes
Animation - Maya
Rendering - Mental Ray and Renderman for Maya
Compositing - Shake and Flame

VFX Supervisor - James Cunningham
3d Artists : Nick Wilson, Matt Sutherland, Jay Renner, Leslie Chan, Glen Dawick, Kei Kasai.
BG masks by Glasshammer.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Commercial
• Advert
• Ad
• TV
• Visual
• Effects

[wiley207]

I suppose this would be every furry's dream :D The animal masks look VERY convincing!

[thetubeaccount]

the dog worked for the chimp, you see - the chimp was the brains and the dog was the muscle in that hustle

[huddzzii]

COLL COMMERCIAL!!!! :D

[PrickBigeon]

@TVperson1 - because they are.

[TVperson1]

The animal heads do look a bit fake.

[Varcoure]

Ahh, I remember this commercial ^^

[weeliano]

I like the Foxy Waitress!

[gundam00exia01]

even though its not a song its cool

[cutfessy]

cool.

[Anayo]

This earned a permenant place in my favorites list.

[AnoushkaNumans]

I was a part of this commercial last year, it's the first time I've seen it, I'm pretty impressed! It was really fun to be a part of. I had a rabbit head on (you can't see me).