The Dancing Zwiebacks
Type: Commercial
Client: Brandt
Agency: Serviceplan Köln | Production: Neverest | Producer: Anett Grünbeck | Director: Tim Stoffel | Director of Photography: Luis de Maia | Post Producer: Maggy Fischer | Edit: Janine Meyer | Color Grading: Flo Wolff | Animation & VFX Supervisor: Manuel Kotulla | Animation & VFX Team: Manuel Kotulla, Inés Koßack, Robert Csakvari, Alex Bootz, Tanja Kerner | Tracking: Parallaxman
Tasks: Character Design, Modeling, Sculpting, Animation, Lighting, Rendering, Compositing
Software: Krita, Photoshop, C4D, ZBrush, Redshift, BMD Fusion
In this TV commercial, a trio of rusk characters throws a party inside a tree house.
Animation
I animated, rendered and composited three shots:
Shot 13 | 0:12 - 0:13
Shot 23 | 0:22 - 0:23
Shot 25 | 0:26 - 0:27
Each shot posed its own challenges.
In Shot 13 the central character is mirroring the girl’s dance moves.
In shot 23, the characters had to be animated appealingly without colliding with the children.
And in shot 25 the boy’s fist was too low for the rusk character’s size. Having the hands meet despite that required some creativity.
Character Design
Apart from animation I also worked on the character design and modelling.