Category: Work

Three – ‘Phones Are Good’

Another smashing ad from Ian Pons Jewell and Wieden & Kennedy.
My pleasure to have played a part in creating this epic number with the amazing team at Time Based Arts. I did the Rome bit.

Product: Three
Agency: Wieden & Kennedy
ECDs: Ian Tait and Tony Davidson
CD: Hollie Walker
Creatives: Tom Bender and Tom Corcoran
TV Producer: Richard Adkins
After Effects: Stu Greenwood, Andrei Veriotti, Laurence Mence @ W+K
Production Company: Friend
Director: Ian Pons Jewell
Executive Producer: Luke Jacobs
Producer: Jon Adams
DoP: Mauro Chiarello
Art Director: Mark Connell
Editor: Ben Campbell @ Cut & Run
Sound Designer: Sam Ashwell and Jake Ashwell @ 750mph
Music Supervisor: John Connon
Post Production Company: Time Based Arts
VFX Supervisor: James Allen
Lead VFX Artist: Luke Todd
Flame Artists: Leo Weston , Matt Jackson, David Birkhill, Stephen Grasso, Jamie Crofts
Nuke Artists: Leandro Vazquez, Matt Shires, Bernardo Varela, Sarah Breakwell, George Cressey, Ralph Briscoe, Manolo Perez
CG Artists: Oscar Diez, James Spillman, Mike Battcock, Jon Park, James Mann, Nigel Timms, Daniel Davie, Gareth Bell, Cesar Eiji Nunes, David Loh, Michael Hunault, Federico Guzzardo, Florian Mounie, Dan Hope
Matte Painters: Lisa Ayla, Sylvie Minois
After Effects: Jess Gorick
Colourist: Simone Grattarola
Head of Production: Josh Robinson

Arctic Monkeys – ‘4 Out of 5’

An Arctic Monkeys promo I worked on at Time Based Arts. I don’t know what it means.

Production Company: Friend
Producer: Robert Leonard
Production Manager: James Greenall
Executive Producer: Luke Tierney
Director: Ben Chappell & Aaron Brown
DoP: Stuart Bentley
Editor: Matt Cronin

Post Production Company: Time Based Arts
VFX: Leo Weston
Colour Grade: Simone Grattarola
Producer: Sean Ewins

Bombay Sapphire

A social media film for Bombay Sapphire. Multiple plates of fruit & booze were propelled into the air by dropping the entire set and camera together at lightning fast speeds with a Bolt high-speed motion control rig. We then reversed everything so the liquid heads back down towards the glass and comped the best plates together. You’d think that a they’d use water on set for the clear liquid but Bombay Sapphire aren’t short of a bit of gin so up in the air it went.

Director: Dan Tobin Smith
Post Production Company: Time Based Arts
VFX Supervisor: Leo Weston
VFX: Leo Weston , Alastair Ford

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Nike – ‘Nothing Beats a Londoner’

My absolute pleasure to play a part in this project alongside the immensely talented team at Time Based Arts behind this spot for Nike. The ad from Wieden & Kennedy, directed by Megaforce, shows how hard Londoners have it (and therefore are) as they 1 up each other in their training regimes.

If you watch to the very end you’ll see the one shot I did.

Product: Nike
Production Company: Riff Raff Films
Production Company EP: Matthew Fone
Production Company Producer: Nick Goldsmith
Agency: Wieden & Kennedy
Creative Directors: Mark & Paddy
Agency Producer: Michelle Brough
Creatives: Tom Bender & Tom Corcoran
Director: Megaforce
DoP: Nicholas Loir
Offline Editor: Joe Guest @ Final Cut
Sound Design: 750 MPH

Post Production Company: Time Based Arts
VFX Supervisors: Sheldon Gardner & Francois Roisin
Flame: Leo Weston , Michael Aveling, Jamie Crofts, Thiago Dantas, Al Ford, Stephen Grasso, Matt Jackson, Adam Paterson, Ben Stonehouse, Luke Todd
Nuke: Aitor Arroyo, Ralph Briscoe, Linda Cieniawska, Matt Shires, Bernardo Varela, Leandro Vazquez, Grant White
CGI: Ben Cantor, Dan Davie, Oscar Gonzalez Diez, Federico Guzzardo, Tom Hall, Dave Loh, Sam Osborne, Nigel Timms, Federico Vanone, Chris Wood
Motion Graphics: Jess Gorick, Stephen Ross
Matte Painting: Sylvie Minois
Colour Grade: Simone Grattarola
Executive Producer: James Allen, Tom Johnson
Producer: Chris Aliano

Tracking: Peanut

2018 Gold Lion - Social and Influencer Category
– 2018 Gold Lion – Social and Influencer Category

 

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– 2018 Silver Lion – Social and Influencer Category

 

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– 2018 Silver Lion – Social and Influencer Category

 

- 018 D&AD Yellow Pencil Film Advertising / Cinema Commercials 121-240 seconds
– 2018 D&AD Yellow Pencil Film Advertising / Cinema Commercials 121-240 seconds

Toyota C-HR – ‘Because’

Somesuch director George Belfield working with The & Partnership brings us this ad for Toyota SUV C-HR. VFX work completed at Big Buoy Led by Matt Clarke included sky replacements, road cleanup, camera car removal, screen replacements.

Agency: The & Partnership
Agency Producer: Sasha Mantel
Production Company: Somesuch
Director: George Belfield

Post Production Company: Big Buoy
VFX: Matt Clarke, Leo Weston
Producer: Jenna Le Noury

TK Maxx – ‘A White Christmas’

Friend director Ian Pons Jewell along with Wieden & Kennedy bring us TK Maxx’s 2017 Christmas ad. TK Maxx offer shoppers the chance to win a white Christmas by finding one of a limited number of snow globes that will be hidden in TK Maxx stores across the country. Seeing as the last white Christmas to occur naturally in England was back in 2010 this is probably your best bet. This ad shows a family who have won the prize getting more than they bargained for when the TK Maxx snow team show up and blast the whole family including the cat & dog with snow cannons.

Client: TK Maxx
Agency: Wieden & Kennedy
Agency Producer: James Laughton
Creative Director: Hollie Walker
Creatives: Andrew Bevan, Freddy Taylor, Philippa Beaumont
Production Company: Friend
Director: Ian Pons Jewell
Editor: James Rosen @ Final Cut
Sound: Sam Ashwell @ 750 MPH
Post Production Company: Time Based Arts
VFX Producer: Chris Aliano
Executive Producer: Tom Johnson
Production Assistant: Sean Ewins
Flame: Stephen Grasso, Leo Weston , Thiago Dantas Lima, Adam Paterson
Nuke: Matt Shires, Linda Cieniawska, Ralph Briscoe
CG: Francois Roisin, Sam Osborne, Federico Guzzardo
Houdini: Tom Hall
Colourist: Simone Grattarola
Music: Warner

Argos – ‘Bounding’ – 2017 Adapt

This ad was originally posted at Electric Theatre Collective in 2016. I worked on the 2017 adapt version at Big Buoy when some of the products had changed and needed to be either removed from or replaced in the ad. The VFX work included removing the guitar that the doll was holding in the first 2 shots, changing the colour of a couple of lamps and replacing the cushion cover on the cushion that the man somersaults in with and delivers to a woman at her door. Below are some split screens taken from the original ad on the left and the revised ad on the right.

Original
Director: Nieto
Prod Co: Stink
Agency: The & Partnership
Producer: Adam Henderson
Creatives: Will Grave, Helen Rogerson And Hayley Hammond
Editor: Sam Gunn, Whitehouse Post
VFX: Electric Theatre Collective
Post-Producer: Sian Jenkins
Colour: Lewis Crossfield
VFX: Matt Jackson, James Belch, Chris Fraser.

Adapt
Post Production Company: Big Buoy
VFX Producer: Charlotte Shearsmith
VFX: Leo Weston

Vodafone – ‘Red’

It was an absolute pleasure to work with the very talented team at Time Based Arts for the first time on this Vodafone commercial directed by Aleksander Bach in which a mysterious red light illuminates various night time scenes across Germany until the entire country lights up red (which is the bit I did). Time Based Arts has this to say: “I just received my new phone from Vodafone. It was really weird though as it wasn’t delivered by courier as is normal but a huge red streaking light flew at me and handed me my phone. Although I was originally scared witless by the light and now see it as excellence customer service and this lovely advert makes much more sense to me now!”

Client: Vodafone
Production Company: Anorak Film
Production Company Producer: Swenja Babucke
Director: Aleksander Bach
DoP: Cezar Zacharewicz
Editor: Matthias Graatz
Post Production Company: Time Based Arts
Creative Director: James Allen
Flame Lead: Matt Jackson
Flame: Leo Weston Thiago Dantas, Adam Paterson
Nuke: Andre Bittencourt, Ralph Briscoe, Linda Cieniawska, Matt Shires, Bernardo Varela
CGI Lead: Francois Roisin
CGI: Thomas Battle, Ben Cantor, Dan Davie, Federico Guzzardo, Tom Hall, David Loh, James Mann, Sam Osborne, Nigel Timms
Matte Painting: Lisa Ayla
Colourist: Simone Grattarola
VFX Producer: Chris Aliano

Dermalex – ‘Stronger Skin’

A commercial for skin care brand Dermalex from Hometown London. Some pieces of text were captured in camera having been painted directly onto the models skin. Other words were added in post in their final position and tracked backwards through the camera move so that when played forwards they appear to start broken up and then resolve as a readable word. A series of wipes and seamless joins were added throughout the second half of the film to connect the shots together, creating the appearance of one continuous camera move from scene to scene. The final transition from the girl against the wall through to the pack shot involved building a CG scene of the hexagon set in Flame to bridge the gap between the 2 camera moves. Other VFX work included general set cleanup, beauty work & pack replacements.

Client: Dermalex
Agency: Hometown London
Agency Producer: Emma Johnston
Creative Director: David Gamble
Post Production Company: Big Buoy
Editor: Matthew Felstead
VFX Producer: Jenna Le Noury
VFX: Hussein Hassani, Jim Allen, Leo Weston
Colourist: Mark Horrobin