Thorntons 'Save my bacon'
A really complex fully CG project that has been a refreshing opportunity to do a bit of character animation and put the visuals to the test trying not to copy anyone, but develop a different look for this kind of projects.
Aug 16, 2006
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Director: Ruairi Robinson
Agency: MCBD
Production: organised
Client: Thorntons
The whole commercial was organised, around continuous tweaking of any model as the short deadline forced us to think in a parallel way of working mixing all sorts of tools, from the off-the-shelf ones to custom-built off-the-shelf for the feathers.
During production, the actual modelling was not only supervised by the director, Ruairi, but he, as a CG artist himself, took those models and gave them the last touch, sometimes quite big, but of course, this guaranteed it was his hand behind every model.
Interesting, also, it was our first feather creature, and once we jumped on it, we had to go all the way to get it done. Feathers and closing the wings were a pretty tough job, and it took us a bit to get it right, but it worked just fine at the end.