3 New Bridgestone Commercials by ProMotion Studios

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Matt Ebb wrote:

ProMotion Studios recently delivered a set of three new 15 sec TV commercials for Bridgestone Australia. Done 100% in CGI, the commercials featured the well-known Bridgestone Gecko in various scenerios related to retail campaigns.

Each spot had a very tight production turnaround, less than 2 weeks each, delivered alongside an A1 size poster for use instore.

Blender was used for all 3D production.

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    • http://jesterking.myopenid.com/ Nathan Letwory

      Very nice work! Great animation.

    • roofoo

      Never heard of the Bridgestone Gecko, I thought that GEICO had the only gecko commercials. i wonder what GEICO thinks of this?

    • Marc

      Awesome vids. :-) Roofoo: Does GEICO (Government Employees Insurance Co.) even EXIST in Australia? lol

    • http://robo3d.com Robo3Dguy

      I love the goofy movements of the gecko! Nice!

    • http://www.RemnantStudios.com BlenderBoy

      Excellent work! The reflections on the room service cart look great. Did you use image-based lighting for these scenes?

    • Hedge

      I think I’me seeing some Kajimba assets :D

    • gaalgergely

      wow, that was fun!
      awesome animations, congrats to the team!

    • kroopson

      great great job!

    • Nezumi

      SUPERB animation! I wish to see some making offs :D Isnt that tire from the last tutorial ?

    • Lasphere

      Great work! Thsi kind of well-made movies made in blender are too rare! Thanks to PROmotion studios for PROmoting blender this way! ;)

    • invertedNormal

      wow! this gecko looks and moves better than the GEICO gecko. the GEICO gecko is all stiff n’ stuff.

      awesome work!!!

    • http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-6653879537547398828&hl=en Jasper

      very nice work. How did you prepair the A1 poster for printing; with the CMYK colors and the difference with RGB?

      Downloading http://dtpblender.instinctive.de/cms/Downloads/DTPBlender maybe there’s my answer…

    • http://blenderecia.orgfree.com Dalai Felinto

      Beautiful !!!

    • Morten

      Impressive animations
      In the hotel animation it seems like the do-no-disturb sign goes through the rose. But it’s a small thing. These animations are truly impressive!

    • Aka

      Poor Gecko.

    • roofoo

      @Marc: Well it’s kind of ironic that the GEICO gecko has an Australian accent. :)

    • http://www.kajimba.com JamesNeale

      roofoo : The Bridgestone Gecko is Australia only, whereas Geico is North America only. (oh and has a UK accent by the way!)
      They both were conceived independently in 2001, and ours doesn’t talk.

      Otherwise thanks to all for your kind comments. Got to get the Blender message out.

    • http://www.watchmike.ca Mike

      Great commercials. Like the climbing motion especially.

    • Sam Jr

      Top Notch

    • Lucio Cavalcanti

      excellent and funny!

    • http://www.sfinksfilms.com Dane

      these commercials have some absolutely incredible animation, this really shows off what can be done in blender…. i especially love the use of cloth effects in the third one :-D

    • Lindamus

      good to see a fellow ausie getting some good work done with belender!

    • http://chainz.pip.verisignlabs.com/ Chainz

      Lovely

    • Gr8!

      Wow! Pro-Motion rocks!

    • kijja

      Very nice work.Render tutorial please…

    • http://sites.google.com/site/unstablemind01/ bullfivehundred

      AWESOME!

    • max p

      this is soooo professiona!!

    • Nezumi

      BTW – what renderer was used here? Internal? :O

    • Fadhil

      nice …
      using Yafaray?

    • Hitechboy722

      The character animation during the tool board was stunning. The lighting and texturing through all three shots was ACE. Although I wasn’t quite taken by the tyre and accompanying rim (model wise), but to be quite honest who cares – the spotlight’s on our little four legged friend.

      PS: OMG one week? how big is the ProMotion team?. Great work!

    • http://mke3.net Matt Ebb

      cheers dudes, yeah its using blender’s internal renderer and compositor.

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