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My Animation Rules Workshop 3D Animatic!
Greetings Cannes! The Cirkus Production team in New Zealand has been hard at work animating the winning storyboard from the “My Animation Workshop”. Yesterday we showed you the 2D animatic and now we have the second WIP ready! This animatic now has completed character animation and, as spectacular as the stand-ins were, we have replaced them with the final voice-overs.
To recap, here is the creative brief the delegates were given, Product: Air Feature: Keeps you alive Spot length: 15 sec, you have to use the below character in 6 different backgrounds.
The objective of this workshop is to think beyond one production platform and mix the 3D character with whatever media; this can be live-action, digital stills, stock footage, 2D drawings, matte-paintings a miniature set or the use of stop-motion – you name it!
Tomorrow we begin the rendering process and should have some scenes to show. On Friday we will continue rendering and composite all the 2D and 3D elements and output the final Animated spot. To view an easy explanation of the Animation Process check out our quirky and entertaining ABC to Animation here
Delegates can comment today’s progress by visiting our Cirkus booth @ the Palais and/or via social media: www.facebook.com/CirkusNYNZ and https://twitter.com/CirkusLtd. If you’re not @ Cannes please here’s your chance to get involved!
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“My Animation Rules” Workshop 2D Animatic!
Bonjour Cannes! Our Production team in New Zealand has been beavering away on the winning workshop storyboard from our “My Animation Rules” Workshop.
Click here to see the first WIP! The Cirkus artists have started to put the elements and 3D characters on a timeline to see how the story can work. This is the first real step in the animation process and, evidently, it’s pretty rough, complete with stand-in voice-overs. Over the next days we will animate the character and object(s) proper, work on camera, layout and timing. Once we’re happy with all animation we will render and composite all the 2D and 3D elements to create this animated spot.
We are working with the following creative brief:
Product: Air Feature: Keeps you alive Spot length: 15 sec, you have to use the below character in 6 different backgrounds.
The objective of this workshop is to think beyond one production platform and mix the 3D character with whatever media; this can be live-action, digital stills, stock footage, 2D drawings, matte-paintings a miniature set or the use of stop-motion – you name it!
To view an easy explanation of the Animation Process check out our quirky and entertaining ABC to Animation here
Delegates can comment on the film’s progress by visiting our Cirkus booth @ the Palais and/or via social media: www.facebook.com/CirkusNYNZ and https://twitter.com/CirkusLtd. If you’re not @ Cannes, here’s your chance to get involved!
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Drinkies @ Grand Hotel
Last night Juggler Christian Greet and Ringmaster Marko Klijn maxed out the Cirkus Visa as they juggled drinks with both old and new friends at the Grand Hotel. It was here that Cirkus co-hosted the Campaign Brief’s Aussie/Kiwi Cannes Delegates Welcome Party with Robber’s Dog.
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My Animation Rules Workshop storyboards – Production starts!!
The Cirkus workshop does it again! For the forth year in a row Cirkus hosted an animation workshop at the Cannes Lions Festival on the 16th of June.
The 2 sessions of “My Animation Rules” workshop were full to the brim with eager Cannes delegates. Just check out the pics and movies here:
The delegates were put into teams and asked to create the storyboard and environment using assets supplied by Cirkus, with the following creative brief:
Product: Air Feature: Keeps you alive Spot length: 15 sec
The objective of this workshop was to think beyond one production platform and mix the 3D character with whatever media; this can be live-action, digital stills, stock footage, 2D drawings, matte-paintings a miniature set or the use of stop-motion – you name it!
You can vote for the board that YOU would like to see go into production, so check out the Cirkus blog or go on our Facebook or Twitter feeds to get in on the action. The boards have also been put up at the Cirkus booth in the Palais at the festival. Voting will finish end of day June 17th.
Once the winning board is chosen the Cirkus artists will perform their magic tricks to produce an animated spot during this Festival week.
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Vote for your favourite board now!
Voting has now commenced for the “Air. It keeps you alive” campaign! The delegates from Cirkus’ “My Animation Rules” workshop at the Cannes Lions Festival worked hard to deliver 5 boards for your viewing pleasure. Simply check out the boards here and go to our Cirkus Facebook page, “Like” your favourite to vote, Cirkus will be animating the winner into a 15 second spot!
Votes will be counted at the end of today, so make sure to jump to the Facebook page before then. Good luck to the delegates and now, let the show begin!
Group 1
Group 2
Group 3
Group 4
Group 5
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Nestle Bear Brand
Here is another of our ongoing projects that has finally been released. This Nestle Bear Brand TVC was created in association with Ogilvy Jakarta and Making Name film Company. This commercial encapsulated the concept of the body (fantastical environment) being attacked by sickness/inner heat (Demon) and being cured by Nestle Bear Brand (Dragon). The Epic fight between the Dragon and Demon was produced by our stellar effects and animation team directed by Juggler Christian Greet.
Some – dare we say – amazingly detailed 3D modeling and design, as well as fluid magic from Dare Devil Chris Lyne completed the action packed character animation.
Click here for the final movie:
Agency Credits:
Creative Director: Gustavo Asman
Agency Producer: Ayu SafitriCirkus:
Director: Christian Greet
Animator Directors: Christian Greet, Dylan Coburn, Martin Haughey (Karactaz Animation)
Producer: Kate Goodwin
Liquid Animation: Chris Lyne
Rigging: Jake Tuck
Rendering: Layne Howe, Romain Borrel, Andrew McCully
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Cirkus coming to Jakarta, Ho Chi Minh and Singapore!
The Cirkus promo tour 2013 kicks off this week with a lot of new eye candy! Ringmaster Marko Klijn will be pitching up the Cirkus tent in Jakarta as of this Wednesday 5 June. We’ll be breaking up on Saturday to WOW Ho Chi Minh City, Monday 10 and Tuesday 11 June. On Wednesday June 12 until Friday June 14 we’ll by performing tricks in Singapore.
Please e-mail ringmaster@cirkus.co.nz to see the greatest Animation Show on earth!
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Behind the Beans – Maatouk Coffee
Time does fly! This Maatouk TVC for JWT Beirut was completed in October 2012 but due to all sorts of reasons has only just been released.
Cirkus’ stop motion animator and in-house “Flea” Norman Yeend hand animated hundreds of pure Arabica Maatouk coffee beans assisted by bean builders Fortune teller Kylie He and Joonseok Yoon.
Check the final spot here:
Check out the making of…
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Cirkus coming to Jakarta
The Cirkus promo tour 2013 kicks off this week! Ringmaster Marko Klijn will be pitching up the Cirkus tent in Jakarta from 5-7 June. Please e-mail ringmaster@cirkus.co.nz to see the greatest Animation Show on earth!
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Cirkus returns to perform @ Cannes Lions 2013
This is our thing. Cirkus will be returning to Cannes Lions Festival once again with both a Workshop and a Booth in the Palais.
Cannes is the perfect platform to perform our tricks for a worldwide creative audience.
Since our first visit in 2009, we have built a highly successful relationship with the Cannes Lions organisation and with that comes our continued presence in sponsoring and hosting a workshop.
Our 2010 “Kamikaze” workshop, 2011 “How much animation does my dollar buy” workshop and 2012 “Do it not the Same” workshops all have the same objective, demonstrating to delegates that animation is a fun and creative tool which, if done in a smart way, will have the X-Factor.
The core mission of Cirkus is making animation accessible and understandable to the general public. The purpose of our workshops is to engage delegates into generating creative ideas for animation, storyboarding and the use of mixed media.
