To match the previous commercial we needed to re-create the location in which it was shot. We didn’t have acces to the original location so the environment you see in this one is created digitally. The car was shot in a studio and placed into this newly created background.
French directors duo Pierre+Bertrand created this cute little robot for British telecom provider EE. He likes to bounce around and swipe right till his phone is smoking hot. The result is a dynamic and fun commercial voiced by none other than Kevin Bacon.
Birds usually don’t have arms. Therefore they can’t use tablets… or laptops for that matter. Edward on the other hand had a little help in post-production. We gave him and the other birds in these commercials their arms so they could be productive members of society.
As part of the artpiece that decorates the ceiling and walls of the Markthal in Rotterdam several video-projections were made. This one was for the official opening of the building in October 2014. The projections are designed to be an extention of the printed image and blend in seamlessly.
In this children’s movie a young mummy comes back to life after being hit by a bolt of lightning. I was responsible for the majority of the visual effects shots which consisted mainly of the mummy’s ‘awakening’ and the thunderstorm during which it takes place. Lot’s of digital rain and thunderclouds were added.
This 300K image was created to decorate the walls and ceiling of the Markthal in Rotterdam. The image was rendered in 400 separate tiles and was composited using Nuke. No other software was able to handle the sheer amount of data used to create it. The image has a total resolution of 75.000 megapixels, that equates to about 10.000 digital pictures.
The funny thing about this commercial for Heineken is that most of what happens is actually real. Well, almost real. We did remove a few wires and added some backdrops and a fishtank. The postproduction was done at Glassworks.
Together with the people from Postoffice I worked on filling the stadium in this commercial with a cheering crowd. On top of that we added flags, confetti, flashing lights and football-players.
Magicians have a lot of tricks (and rabbits) up their sleeve but sometimes they need a little help in post-production. For this Duyvis-commercial some of the illusions were created digitally to ensure that none of the actors were harmed during this shoot.
This is the first of two commercials for Autodrop directed by Hans Knaapen. I colour-corrected both films creating a pastel look to emphasise the somewhat absurdistic storyline.
In this music video by Mirka Duijn and Nina Spiering for the artist Blaudzun many scenes were inspired by classic French movies. For the colour correction we tried to capture the look and feel of these old, often technicolor movies. Besides grading I also added leaves and flowers to the two opening shots to make it look like spring instead of winter.
This commercial features well-known football players portrayed as superheroes. We were asked by director Marco Grandia to digitally enhance the actions of the players. In reality there were stunt-dubbles and a bunch of rigs that needed to be removed. I also replaced the head of a stunt-guy with that of Van Wolfswinkel.
The idea for this commercial was for Harry, the supermarket-manager, to act out a Disney-like story. He’s trying to open a box that clearly doesn’t want to be opened. As a result he gets squashed and twisted. To create these shots we used a combination of 2D and 3D effects. I was responsible for the main part of the compositing and 2D effects.
For this art piece by Alex Verhaest she wanted to deform the face of the actor to give him a surreal, almost alien-like appearance. The head and body were taken from different shots to capture the right emotion. The left-hand image shows the original material of head and body. The right-hand image is a small part of the actual art piece which loops continuously.
This music video for Bart Constant was made by Mirka Duijn and Nina Spiering. They created a circus love story in an Eastern European setting. I was responsible for the color-grading of this movie that was partly shot om 8mm-film.
This short film by Jelmar Hufen was shot in the abandoned Belgian village Doel. In this surrealistic movie the main character finds a gigantic vending machine with pretty girls inside. The visual effects were created at Postoffice.