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3 New Bridgestone Commercials by ProMotion Studios
31 Comments Published by Bart on May 7th, 2009 in VideoMatt 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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Very nice work! Great animation.
Never heard of the Bridgestone Gecko, I thought that GEICO had the only gecko commercials. i wonder what GEICO thinks of this?
Awesome vids. :-) Roofoo: Does GEICO (Government Employees Insurance Co.) even EXIST in Australia? lol
I love the goofy movements of the gecko! Nice!
Excellent work! The reflections on the room service cart look great. Did you use image-based lighting for these scenes?
I think I'me seeing some Kajimba assets :D
wow, that was fun!
awesome animations, congrats to the team!
great great job!
SUPERB animation! I wish to see some making offs :D Isnt that tire from the last tutorial ?
Great work! Thsi kind of well-made movies made in blender are too rare! Thanks to PROmotion studios for PROmoting blender this way! ;)
wow! this gecko looks and moves better than the GEICO gecko. the GEICO gecko is all stiff n' stuff.
awesome work!!!
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…
Beautiful !!!
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!
Poor Gecko.
@Marc: Well it's kind of ironic that the GEICO gecko has an Australian accent. :)
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.
Great commercials. Like the climbing motion especially.
Top Notch
excellent and funny!
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
good to see a fellow ausie getting some good work done with belender!
Lovely
Wow! Pro-Motion rocks!
Very nice work.Render tutorial please…
AWESOME!
this is soooo professiona!!
BTW – what renderer was used here? Internal? :O
nice …
using Yafaray?
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!
cheers dudes, yeah its using blender's internal renderer and compositor.