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Brand Jordan

This is Where It Starts

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Summary

BRAND JORDAN - Rises above it all

Brand Jordan bursts onto the screens with an epic high octane new campaign titled "This Is Where It Starts" which brings to life what champions are made of.

This dynamic large scale piece of creative excites and entices the viewer as they witness the evolution of two basketball greats; from being childhood fans of the game to two of its biggest stars….and rivals.

The film was created by Wieden & Kennedy NY and directed by MJZ's Matthijs Van Heijningen with VFX by the Mill NY.

The Mill NY's VFX Producer Dan Roberts described the creative collaboration as, "An exciting creative opportunity, especially the design of the futuristic world which is featured in the later half of the ad. Our artists populated the stadiums by using a combination of tiled live action plates together with CG Massive people.  The stadiums themselves were then modified as the ad required us to tell the passage of time over several decades right through to 2032. We also created the motion graphics for the airport scene, the Meng training bike scene and SLAM skyscraper billboard."

The Mill NY'S 2D Lead Artist, Iwan Zwarts adds, "It was a really great to collaborate with W+K once again on such an epic commercial.  Everyone involved did a first class job from initial pre pro right through to post production.  Matthijs' meticulous attention to detail served us well throughout and we are all so proud of the end result."

Credits

Agency

  • Agency: Wieden & Kennedy NY
  • Producer: Dan Blaney
  • Creative Director: Andy Ferguson, Brandon Mugar
  • Creatives: Cyrus Coulter (Art Director)
  • Account Director: Matt Ahumada, Julian Cheevers, Cory McCollum
  • Executive Creative Directors: Scott Vitrone, Ian Reichenthal
    Head of Content Production: Lora Schulson
    Copywriter: Dave Canning

Production

  • Production Company: MJZ
  • Director: Matthijs Van Heijningen
  • Executive Producer: Scott Howard
  • Producer: Laurie Boccaccio
  • Director of Photography: Chris Soos, Joost van Gelder

Editorial

  • Editing Company: WORK
  • Editor: Neil Smith
  • Edit Assist: Healy Snow

Post-Production / VFX

  • Post-Production / VFX Company: The Mill
  • Mill Office: New York
  • Executive Producer: Jo Arghiris
  • VFX Producer: Dan Roberts, jared Yeater
  • Shoot Supervisor: Iwan Zwarts, Danny Morris, West Sarokin, Rob Petrie
  • 2D Lead Artists: Iwan Zwarts
  • 3D Lead Artists: Wyatt Savarese
  • 2D Artists: Danny Morris, Corey Brown, Jade Kim, Jeff Robins, Paul Downs
  • 3D Artists: Rob Petrie, Laurent Giaume, Ajit Menon, Zang Chen, Jackie Liao, Bodgan Mihajlovic, Naotaka Minami, Hassan Taimur (Crowd Effects/Massive)
  • Motion Graphics: Gera Frascaroli, Brian Gossett, Wes Ebelhar, Audrey Davis
  • Colourist: Fergus McCall
  • Assistant Colourist: DJ Miranda
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