Category: HD

ASDA - 'Wine'

One of many ads completed at Rushes for Asda, Christmas 2013. This one features 3 variations of one technique to pull off the 3 transitions between the 3 locations. The transitions were shot twice (once in each environment) using a steadicam rig. Mix and overlay was essential on set to get the timings of each handover as perfectly matched as possible. In Flame, each plate was stabalised, aligned, and then elements were individually morphed and combined with background wipes to complete the feeling of moving seamlessly from house to house.

Agency: VCCP
Production Company: Park Village
Director: Alan Friel
Post Production Company: Rushes
VFX: Leo Weston

Breach - 'Everything You Never Had'

This was all shot in a black studio on motion control with only 2 dancers. We combined the moco passes. Some keying, rotoscoping. Then tracking in a halo on the angel. It was loads of work and for a very small budget but I wanted to take it on cause I liked the track.

Production Company: Riff Raff
Director: The Sacred Egg
Post Production Company: Rushes
VFX: Leo Weston

Kings of Leon - 'Supersoaker'

Music video for the debut single from the album ‘Mechanical Bull’. Each shot was rotoscoped and multiple treatments and grades were applied to individual elements in each composite to create a scrapbook type feel.

Production Company: Academy
Director: WIZ
Post Production Company: Rushes
VFX: Leo Weston & Matt Jackson
Colourist: Simone Grattarola

ASOS - 'Charlotte Free'

1 of 3 online ads for clothing brand ASOS, directed by Luke Monaghan. This is my my favourite of the three. VFX work included set extensions and beauty work.

Director: Luke Monaghan
Post Production Company: Rushes
VFX: Leo Weston

FCUK - 'I am the Collection' Trailer

The campaign trailer for the “I am the Collection” series of French Connection UK ads.

Product: French Connection
Agency: 101
Creative Director: Richard Flintman
Agency Producer: Jack Waters
Copywriter: Dirk Van Dooren
Production Company: OneSix7
Directors: Leila & Damien de Blinkk
Producer: Abi Hodson
Cinematography: Marc Gomez del Moral
Art Director: Alice Stein
Editing Company: Cut & Run
Editor: Ben Campbell
Post Production Company: Rushes
VFX: Leo Weston
Colourist: Simone Grattarolla

FCUK - 'I Am The Suit'

Created by 101, directed and photographed by Leila and Damien de Blinkk, styled by Georgina Hodson with cinematography by Marc Gomez del Moral. FCUK’s “I am the Collection” campaign marks a change from past creative communications, focusing on the clothes and celebrating the power and the possibility of the garment.

Product: French Connection
Agency: 101
Creative Director: Richard Flintman
Agency Producer: Jack Waters
Copywriter: Dirk Van Dooren
Production Company: OneSix7
Directors: Leila & Damien de Blinkk
Producer: Abi Hodson
Cinematography: Marc Gomez del Moral
Art Director: Alice Stein
Editing Company: Cut & Run
Editor: Ben Campbell
Post Production Company: Rushes
VFX: Leo Weston
Colourist: Simone Grattarolla

Burberry - 'Body'

Mario Testino’s Film for Burberry Body

Director: Mario Testino
Production Company: Look Films
Post Production Company: Rushes
VFX: Leo Weston & Matt Jackson

HSBC - 'Florist'

A woman goes from working somewhere boring (ironically looks to be a branch of HSBC) to working as a Florist – through the power of stop frame. And her face goes from miserable to happy via the power of me stabalizing each individual frame, motion estimated time-warping them together and re-tracking her eyes and mouth separately back on to her face.

Post Production Company: Rushes
VFX: Leo Weston

Cadbury's Cream Eggs - 'Gala'

A visit to the 3D cinema turns to mayhem when all the eggs in attendance embark on a mass suicide with inevitable gooey results. A lot of this was ‘in camera’ stop frame animation. We smoothed out some of the moves and added the finishing touches like camera flashes, steam, reflections, 3D tracked exploding ‘Goo’ text and goo. Loads of goo. Goo on the lens. Goo on the walls. Goo. (If you have some 3D glasses handy, the Ready, Steady, Goo text is actually fully stereoscopic)

Prod Comp: Partizan
Director: Chris Cairns
Post Production Company: Rushes
VFX: Leo Weston & Matt Jackson

Mother Of Pearl - 'Spring Summer '09'

Promo for the Spring Summer collection of Mother of Pearl. I combined multiple plates of hi speed phantom footage, extended the water out to cover a larger surface area and added light effects.

Agency: RSA Films
Post Production Company: Rushes
VFX: Leo Weston