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We collaborated with HAVAS Shanghai to create this full CGI spot for TSINGTAO.

CLIENT: TSINGTAO
AGENCY: HAVAS Shanghai
PRODUCTION: Bloom Film Design & TVCX
DIRECTOR: Julien Vanhoenacker & Joaquim Montserrat
COLORIST: Aekbordin Watcharaworatham
POST HOUSE: Bloom Film Design
VFX Supervisors: Julien Vanhoenacker & Joaquim Montserrat
ONLINE: Bloom Film Design
MUSIC SCORE: Mellow Tunes
SOUND MIX: Mellow Tunes

We just completed this dedicated promotional video for Huawei’s newest flagship handset: the P40.
Since this story doesn’t have an English version, I’ll explain a bit!
This short movie revolves around a little rabbit telling his dangerous story to his friends: He met a Fox, a Panther and an Eagle, all asking him to take challenging pictures: shaking situation, dark environment and fast moving objects. Luckily, he had the P40!

Product Client: Huawei – P40 Smartphone
Production House: Woofly

VFX Supervisor:
– Joaquim Montserrat
Lead 3d Generalists:
– Chanon Adisakkitti
– Pichaya Popanyasak
– Joaquim Montserrat
Modelers / Texturers:
– Sekson Keawpitoon
– Pichaya Popanyasak
Animators
– Alejandro Garcia
– Babak Tehrani
– Hamed Pourkerman
Compositors & Matte Painters:
– Lapatlada Aphiratsakul
– Pichaya Popanyasak
– Joaquim Montserrat
Concept Artist:
– Mohammad Ahmadvand
Producers:
– MaM Chantanop

Ice Lion and full cg environment done for LA-Ice (Indonesia). RIP our computers.

CREDITS:

Product Client: LA Ice
Production House: The Cut Shop
VFX House: The Post Bangkok

VFX Supervisors:
– Joaquim Montserrat (Vimeo: vimeo.com/joaquimmontserrat)
Producers:
– May May
– Sahattaya Chantanop
3d Artists:
– Sekson Keawpitoon
– Babak Tehrani
– Thanom Chaimee
– Hamed Pourkerman (Vimeo: vimeo.com/hamedadv)
– Pichaya Popanyasak (Vimeo: vimeo.com/user7551122)
– Chanon Adisakkitti
– Krit Krit
– Pirttirojthavorn Piyapong
Compositors:
– Ekachai Indon
– Worrachat Kamfun

Full CG shots marmots, eagle and environment done for this HuaWei p20 commercial (China).

CREDITS:

Product Client: Hua wei
Production House: Woofly
VFX House: The Post Bangkok

VFX Supervisors:
– Joaquim Montserrat (Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/joaquimmontserrat)
Producers:
– Sahattaya Chantanop
3d Artists:
– Babak Tehrani
– Pichaya Popanyasak (Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/user7551122)
– Alejandro Garcia
– Hamed Pourkerman (Vimeo: www.vimeo.com/hamedadv)
– Natthakit Sarunsikarin
– Pirttirojthavorn Piyapong
– Yai Yai
– Chanon Adisakkitti
Compositors:
– Tor Tor
– Ekachai Indon
– Worrachat Kamfun (Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/appjit)

Commercial for the phone game “Anipop”.

CREDITS:

Product Client: Anipop
Production House: Woofly
VFX House: The Post Bangkok

VFX Supervisors:
– Joaquim Montserrat (Vimeo: vimeo.com/joaquimmontserrat)
Producers:
– Sahattaya Chantanop
3d Artists:
– Chanon Adisakkitti
– Yai
– Saiyawong Lookkaew
– Alejandro Garcia
Compositors:
– Ekachai Indon
– Worrachat Kamfun (Vimeo: vimeo.com/appjit)

Full CG shots for this mattress commercial.

CREDITS:

Product Client: RICHBOND
Production House: MIMESIS SARL
VFX House: The Post Bangkok

VFX Supervisors:
– Joaquim Montserrat (Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/joaquimmontserrat)
Producers:
– Sahattaya Chantanop
3d Artists:
– Hamed Pourkerman (Vimeo: www.vimeo.com/hamedadv)
– Hadi pourkerman
– Babak Tehrani
– Sekson Keawpitoon
– Alejandro Garcia
– Pirttirojthavorn Piyapong
– Chanon Adisakkitti
– Saiyawong Lookkaew
Compositors:
– Worrachat Kamfun (Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/appjit)
– Ekachai Indon

Full-CG lions done for this south-east Asian Beer brand, directed by Gordon Westman of 116 Pictures.

CREDITS:

Product Client: ABC beer
Production House: 116 Pictures
Director: Gordon Westman
VFX House: The Post Bangkok

VFX Supervisors:
– Joaquim Montserrat (Vimeo: vimeo.com/joaquimmontserrat)
Producers:
– Sahattaya Chantanop
– Annie Satarabhandhu
3d Artists:
– Hamed Pourkerman (Vimeo: vimeo.com/hamedadv)
– Sekson Keawpitoon
– Alejandro Garcia
– Chanon Adisakkitti
– Babak Tehrani
– Pirttirojthavorn Piyapong
Compositors:
– Ekachai Indon
– Worrachat Kamfun (Vimeo: vimeo.com/appjit)
– Nicolas Maximilian Rolke (Vimeo: vimeo.com/nicolasrolke)

Commercial for the Android app “Anipop”. For this project we had to do CG background and animals.

SOFTWARE USED:

Vray, Phoenix FD, Nuke

CREDITS:

Product Client: Anipop
Production House: Woofly
VFX House: The Post Bangkok

VFX Supervisors:
– Joaquim Montserrat
Producers:
– Sahattaya Chantanop
– Annie Satarabhandhu
3d Artists:
– Chanon Adisakkitti
– Alejandro Garcia
– P’Yai
– Hamed Pourkerman
– Hamid
– Saiyawong Lookkaew
– Hadi pourkerman
Compositors:
– Daniel Eggert

Commercial for the new Huawei P9 phone.

CREDITS:

Product Client: Hua wei
Production House: Maya production
VFX House: The Post Bangkok

VFX Supervisors:
– Joaquim Montserrat (Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/joaquimmontserrat)
Producers:
– Sahattaya Chantanop
3d Artists:
– Hamed Pourkerman (Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/hamedadv)
– Pichaya Popanyasak (Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/user7551122)
Compositors:
– Daniel Eggert

Full CG Chameleon for the latest Mercedes Benz commercial.
Credits (VFX):
VFX House: The Post Bangkok
VFX Supervisor: Joaquim Montserrat
VFX Artists: Hadi Pourkerman, Joaquim Montserrat
Animator, Rigger: Alejandro Garcia
Compositor: Daniel Eggert

Commercial for the Thai brand: “Flying Horse” (Ma Bin).
Credits (VFX):
VFX House: The Post Bangkok
VFX Supervisor: Joaquim Montserrat
VFX Artists: Pichaya Popanyasak, Joaquim Montserrat, Natthakit Sarunsikarin, Yai, Pap
Animators: Alejandro Garcia, Hamed Pourkerman

Credits:
Directed by Louis Pascal Couvelaire.
VFX House : The Post Bangkok
VFX Supervisor : Joaquim Montserrat
Rendering, Modeling, Hairs : Pichaya Popanyasak, Joaquim Montserrat
Animation: Alejandro Garcia, Hamed Pourkerman
Rigging : Hamed Pourkerman

The making of this commercial :

This project was a big challenge from start to finish. Of course, creating realistic CG animal is always difficult, but there were two main challenges specific to this project:
– First, the Director (Mum, Mum Films) wanted a very fast paced commercial, with lots of action and unleashed camera. I didn’t want to constrain him with technical limitations, so I gave him freedom do any camera move he wanted. The result was that the shots were mostly handheld, very shaky and difficult to track.
– Secondly, at some point in the commercial, the doberman runs in front of a shop and sees his own reflection in the glass. Even though this shot appeared to be technically challenging, I thought it would be a very interesting shot to have in the commercial. For the reflection issue, I had to track the reflection separate from the real character, which was challenging because of the distortion of the mirror. The compositing for this shot was also very tricky, because we had to replicate the distortion effect and apply it on the reflected dog. To achieve this effect, we developed a technique based on custom displacement map in Nuke which was then mapped on a tracked geometry of the mirror (more in the making-of below).

Credits:
Director : Suthon Petchsuwan (Mum)
Production House : Mum Films
VFX Supervisor : Joaquim Montserrat
3d Tracking : Joaquim Montserrat, Pichaya Popanyasak, Natthakit Sarunsikarin
Modeling: Joaquim Montserrat, Pichaya Popanyasak
Animation: Alejandro Garcia
Rendering: Joaquim Montserrat, Pichaya Popanyasak
Compositing: Daniel Eggert

Thumbs up to Shaun Wood, from the stunt team “Team Farang”

This is a commercial for Oishi Green Tea, Thailand. In this commercial, mother nature gently taks care of her green tea leaves by massaging and cherishing them. Directed by Suthon Petchsuwan (MumFilms).

Halls Soft relased a new product. The taste of this product is supposed to be kept secret and should never be told to anyone. Check out the 2 versions:

A man cannot start his motorcycle. It’s getting late and he has to get back home… Luckily 2 penguins come at his rescue and help him out.

The concept is that if you help nature, by using this paper made from recycled paper, then the nature will help you in return.

The penguins were done with 3d studio max, using the default hair and fur from 3d studio max. The compositing and color correction was done with Nuke.

Credits:
Director: Mum
Production House: Mum Film
Post House: the Post Bkk
VFX Supervisor: Joaquim Montserrat
Animation: Alejandro Garcia
Compositing: Joaquim Montserrat

This project was done for AP Boots Indonesia. With this commercial AP Boots wants to tell its customers to buy original and not counterfeit products.
The commercial is “almost” full cg. The director was Mum, from MumFilm (Thailand). The animation and character rigging were done by Alejandro Garcia and I worked on the modeling, texturing, rendering and compositing.

Credits:
Director: Mum
Production House: Mum Films
Post House: the Post Bkk
VFX Supervisor: Joaquim Montserrat
Animation: Alejandro Garcia
Compositing: Joaquim Montserrat

his commercial is based on the saying : “The grass is always greener on the other side”.

The Goats had to look realistic, but the animation still needed to be expressive enough. The animation was done by Alejandro Garcia.

The compositing was done by Daniel Eggert. It required morphing, masking and a lot of cleaning, as we had to erase real goats on some shots.

Credits:
VFX Supervisor: Joaquim Montserrat
Animation: Alejandro Garcia
Compositing: Daniel Eggert

“Alienated” : “the state of being withdrawn or isolated from the objective world, as through indifference or disaffection.”

Check out this short animation movie that Alejandro Garcia and I did as a personal project ! (click here for HD)

This TVC was done with the Indian director Vishal Mangalorkar, and was on air in India. In this TVC two Pandas are eating Cadbury Gems under a tree. They soon discover that the Gems ball are not only containing sweets but also include some Ben 10 plastic figures. This is probably the most difficult commercial I have done so far, as the artistic and technical requirements were so high !

The commercial was shot in the national park in Khao Yai, Thailand, using a RED camera. 4 actors were playing the pandas. The heat in the costumes was so high that the actors had to be switched at the end of every shot.

Building the head of the pandas was quite difficult as there was very little reference on the internet or books. The big amount of hairs on the face made it difficult to find the exact shape of the head and skin under the hairs. At the end, the modeling was based on white polar bears – hairs are less puffy – (even if the panda isn’t classified as a bear but as a family of raccoon) and skeleton references of pandas.

The director wanted the pandas to look very dumb. We went through many pre-approves with the director to make sure we found a correct look that pleased us both. Once the commercial was shot and we got the fullgrade, we had to do further adjustments on the hairs style as we had to match the costume on the footage.

The Pandas were rendered with 3d Studio Max using the default Scanline Renderer. No GI was used, just a huge amount of light projecting soft shadows. The compositing was done with After Effects. The animation was done by Alejandro Garcia.

During the shooting I took a series of HDRI Data that was used to create both the lighting and reflections on the hairs. The pictures were taken with the custom tripod head that was build for previous projects.

The new commercial for NTT Data. This time the frog is pole vaulting. The challenge in this commercial was to keep the animation as close to reality as possible. We shot references for animation with one of the best pole vaulter of south-east Asia. The references were shot with a Phantom HD at 1000 fps.
The animation was difficult because the limbs of the frog are much shorter/longer than those of a human. It was hard to keep the correct key poses done by the human reference. With hard work and perseverance, Alejandro Garcia (Senior Animator) eventually managed to find a good compromise in the animation that pleased our clients.

This project was also a good opportunity to test the new customized HDR rotating head we built here at DM. It is composed of a custom design tripod head, a nikon d90 and a script, written by Julien Vanhoenacker, that automaticaly sets up the exposures and fire the shutter. What came out was a full 360°x180° picture that I could use to light up the scene as well as getting the correct reflections. (picture above: I cut out the top and bottom of the picture to save up space).

MONEY PARTNERS – PENGUINS
This commercial was done for Money Partners, Japan. The shooting took place close to time square, NYC.

The main difficulty of this project was to do seven penguins singing together. The modeling and the animation were done by Alejandro Garcia, and the rendering and the fur setup by myself. Pichaya Popanyasak also helped on rendering the still frames for the print campaign.

This commercial is part of a very big campaign. You can check the rest of the campaign here : http://www.moneypartners.co.jp/penguins/

THE POWER OF FROG
In Japanese the word “frog” has the same sound as the word “change”. In this commercial, the frog symbolizes the strength of the change that “NTT DATA” bring to Japanese companies.
Pyramid Films, a Tokyo based Agency wanted a commercial in the style of “Shera” (A commercial I did two years ago), a kind of semi-realistic cartoon design.

The creation of this commercial was quite a challenge, due to the nature of the work (water is never easy) and also due to the technical goal that we aimed. Many techniques were used here, some that I never tried in production.
Most of the shots had to be full CG (picture 1 and 2), and because of the refraction / reflections, the 3d depth of field and motion blur, plus the high number of polygons, we reached the longest rendering times ever recorded in the company !

The swimming pool was done completely in 3d, using underwater references and textures taken on location. Some shots in the commercial required underwater shooting, so we built an underwater dolly rig that was operated directly by the divers of GEARHEAD. With a second unit camera we were able to shoot water footage, shot using a fish tank on black background, for reference or compositing elements.

(here a picture of the underwater rig, and me, doing some tracking markers survey)

To have a nice looking water, we needed perfect reflections. The job required a very high definition HDR environment that I shot using my custom tripod head and my Nikon D70s.
As I needed only the upper part of the scene, I took 9 shots tilted up at 8 exposures each with a Sigma 10mm lens. Julien and I wrote a script that controls the camera and takes all the dynamic range by itself ! That way we didn’t have to manipulate the camera between takes, significantly reducing the possibility of shaking.

Although we had a very short time to make the commercial – 3 weeks 1/2 – the concept and the important technical challenges made it fun to create.

This is the making of the commercial (music from Susumu Yokota) :

POCARI SWEAT
Mr woody feels dehydrated ! This is definitely the most exciting, creative, interesting and potentially award winning job I’ve ever done 🙂
Directed by the international renowned director Bo Krabbe, bringing his own never-seen-before style supported by the creative mind of Dentsu, the Japanese/Indonesian agency.
The animation was done by Alexandro Garcia. The design, modeling/texturing tracking and compositing was done by myself.

Here is a portrait of the Pocari Man dressed in one of the three suits we had to design.

The woodpecker in the commercial symbolizes the headache of the Pocari Man. The feathers were done using a scattering system and some of them placed manually. The soft look of the feathers was achieved using a translucent material and alpha maps. It was very important for us to come up with a unique design. The woodpecker also had to look nasty and mean.

You have to see it moving, here are all the spots we did (queued up in one single video) :

Not changing your ceiling could become a big story ! That’s the idea we had to picture in this commercial for Shera Flexiboard ! To do so, the two CG characters take the spectator through an incredible Shakespearean love story.

Geckos are very popular in Thailand, but still some people can easily be afraid of them. Animating the geckos, and trying to give them this cute and attaching look was quite a challenge. We had long discussions with the director about the design and the final look of the gecko : “should we go for complete realistic look, or should we go for cartoon ? “. We finally came up with this hybrid style between realism, cartoon animation and modeling.

Here an example of a first linetest (left). It was definitely a wrong direction and and we decided with the director to go for a much cuter look (right) :

Another texture test. Here a comparison Male/Female. They both needed to have a specific animation and shader, as we needed to clearly be able to differentiate them. Later on the modeling was revised for the male, and the textures were changed, as the director thought the dark spots on the back look scary.

Check out the final shots in the video embedded below !

An interesting project which received the Silver Lion Award at Cannes Festival in July 2007 !

The idea here is to show that the butterflies cannot kiss on shaky ground. In the nature, wherever they go, they cannot find a better place to kiss… than on a car with the bridgestone tires..
2 butterflies trying to kiss on about 15 shots. The tricky part here was to give a nice look to their fur and wings.

A mouthwash which doesn’t burn your mouth, here compared to other products.
Doing the fire effect wasn’t an easy thing. The final output is a mix of many techniques : element simulation, compositing with elements shot on set, and shading work.

The meat in this restaurant turns you into a real lion. This was again a very funny job to do.
There was plenty of different small jobs to be done, like enlarging the mouth of the talents, extend their teeth, and make one of them turn into a lion.

I morphed two faces together. The actor’s face was modeled on computer, using photograph references taken on set. Then, this mesh was morphed into a lion. Hairs and saliva were then added. I built a special rig for the mouth and the tongue, to allow it to be scaled and to be deformed as a real lion’s tongue.

Unfortunately the commercial was never displayed in Thailand, it didn’t pass the censorship. It was on air in China though.

Chang is a mosquito repelant brand in Thailand. This is one of the first jobs I’ve done when i got in Bangkok. A good fun, and a good oportunity to increase my skills in setup and rigging.