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Reviews Are In

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.

Cars.com hits the Super Bowl twice this year.  With a clever approach on how to learn from other people's mistakes, DDB Chicago's game-time ad, "Go First", delighted viewers. Mid-way through the spot The Mill's FX team constructed a comically distorted body, the product of an experiment gone wrong. The CG highlight, "Reviews Are In," boasts a fully photo-real set of computer generated cars often anthropomorphic in demeanor. The challenge was to make the cars look authentic, while still giving them the behavior and movement of individual characters.  Finding that balance and not getting too cartoon-like was a real feat for CG Lead Artist Robert Sethi and his team.

Credits

Agency

  • Agency: DDB Chicago
  • Producer: Ashley Sferro
  • Creative Director: Brad Morgan, Bart Culberson
  • Creatives: Jonathan Richman, Alex Zamiar
  • Account Director: Effie Gryfakis

Production

  • Production Company: Furlined
  • Director: The Perlorian Brothers
  • Executive Producer: David Thorne
  • Producer: Rhonda Vernet

Editorial

  • Editing Company: Rock Paper Scissors
  • Editor: Adam Petrofsky
  • Edit Assist: Neil Meiklejohn

Post-Production / VFX

  • Post-Production / VFX Company: The Mill
  • Mill Office: Los Angeles
  • VFX Producer: Lee Pavey
  • Shoot Supervisor: Robert Sethi, Lee Pavey
  • 2D Lead Artists: Tara DeMarco
  • 3D Lead Artists: John Leonti, Robert Sethi
  • 2D Artists: Gareth Parr
  • 3D Artists: Nick Lines, Andre De Souza, Steve Beck, Robert Kim, Martin Rivera, Felix Urquiza
  • Assist: Nick Taylor
  • Colourist: Damien Van Der Cruyssen
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