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Spring

Summary

The Super Bowl is the Academy Awards of advertising, a night where advertising’s finest work wins by playing to an audience of millions. Over 100 million, actually. So when our agency clients asked us to work on their coveted Super Bowl spots and integrated campaigns, we gave them our best game. Our New York, Los Angeles and London offices worked on some of the Super Bowl’s most popular commercials, evoking cinema’s favorite genres

AT&T's "Spring" is a picturesque metaphor about being touched by things around you coming to life, much like AT&T enables that same connection by covering 97% of all Americans. The Mill NY worked with BBDO and TWiN on this travelogue through quintessential American backdrops, bringing flowers to life on a vast canvas. 3D Lead Artists Rob Petrie and Andy Nicholas, working with our ECD Angus Kneale, led the charge. A complete vine-growing simulation was written with animations leaf and flower growth that would crawl over the surfaces of buildings. The team specified where the roots started and pressed go! A quarter million leaves appear in a wide shot of downtown Chicago seen through a train window, each with individual stalks attaching to 25,000 vines. 200,000 flowers and leaves grew in a wide shot of a Brownstone and had 10 million particles in the field. Another 60 flowers, all hand animated, blossomed in a low angle shot of a  majestic tree.

Credits

Agency

  • Agency: BBDO
  • Producer: Jenny Russo Novak
  • Creative Director: Bobby Pierce, Jean Robaire, Stephen McMennamy

Production

  • Production Company: Rabbit Content
  • Director: TWiN
  • Executive Producer: Jeff Sommar, Joby Barnhart
  • Producer: Zac Zimmerman

Editorial

  • Editing Company: Arcade Edit
  • Editor: Paul Martinez
  • Edit Assist: Will Hasell

Post-Production / VFX

  • Post-Production / VFX Company: Mill New York
  • Mill Office: New York
  • VFX Producer: Boo Wong
  • Shoot Supervisor: Angus Kneale, Michael Gibson, Adrian Hurley
  • Creative Director: Angus Kneale
  • 2D Lead Artists: Westley Sarokin
  • 3D Lead Artists: Rob Petrie, Andy Nicholas
  • 2D Artists: Markus Lundqvist
  • 3D Artists: Andrew Proctor, Vince Baertson, Eva Kuehlmann, Jeff Dates, Boris Ustaev, Ajit Menon, Sam Crees, Naotaka Minami, Hassan Taimur, James Williams
  • Assist: Brendan O’Neil, Brian Houlihan
  • Colourist: Fergus McCall
  • Assistant Colorist: Josh Bohoskey, DJ Miranda
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