*Winner of two Cannes Cyber Lion awards: Silver Lion for Banners and Other Rich Media, Bronze Lion for Best Music/Sound Design
An Innovative Idea
BBH New York had a unique challenge: How to create a more immersive first-person experience for their client, Axe, that involves the company’s new initiative called “Hair Action.” Luckily, Luxurious Animals had demoed to a small BBH audience months earlier a project they had been working on with their audio partner, Antfood. Part of this project involved 3D sound that gave the listener the sensory stimulation of being in the center of the action. This method, rarely–if ever–used in the advertising industry, would engage a user’s auditory sensors and imagination. BBH thought this would be perfect for their next Axe campaign, “Virtual Hair Action.” View full article »
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Whenever hair is involved, compositing a video is tough. Masking it out to place over a new background is a tricky job, even if the footage was shot on a green screen. Simply keying the green isn’t enough. It will inevitably take away too much of the ends of hair, leaving the chunky head looking matted down. That’s why it’s so important to keep the feathery edges and blend them with the background. Learn how in this tutorial. I’ll show you some simple tricks in After Effects to composite a “hairy” subject onto a new scene. View full article »
It’s about time we updated our reel so we present to you our luxurious demo, version two.
For our KissMein3D shoot we filmed our two alluring actors with the stereo camera. Each “eye” was coded to its corresponding anaglyph colors, then merged into one video. The specific anaglyphic (two color 3D effect) process we used to create the blue and amber 3D effect is a highly complicated procedure involving plutonium and space dust, and secrets of which we can’t give away. It’s pretty much voodoo magic. However, we can show you View full article »
*Winner of 2009 MIXX Award for Product Launch
Puckering Up for the Project
The recently awarded KissMein3D project took a Guinness world-record time of sixteen days to complete for a workload equivalency of three to four months. No, we didn’t sleep. Nor did we bathe. View full article »
As requested from our internet audience, here is a breakdown of the Adobe Social Networking video with before and after shots. The original footage will display first and then wipe to the final edited version, showing color correction, rotoscoping, and inserted graphics. View full article »