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John Lewis ‘The Bear & The Hare’ – The Making Of, by Blink

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Making of film directed by Jake & Josh
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The Bear & the Hare is the first John Lewis campaign to embrace the emotive power of animation, a filmic technique so evocative of Christmasses gone by.

Elliot and Yves took the two most traditional and time-honoured animation processes – stop-motion and traditional hand-drawn 2D animation – and combined them to create something innovative and unique. Their aim was to do almost everything in camera, using real lighting, lens and film craft to build a world where the audience can see and feel the painstaking work behind it. The 2D animation’s physical interaction with the set and the human imperfections inherent in the process create a hand-crafted piece full of heart and integrity.

The animation process involved constant shifts between 2D and 3D worlds. In order to achieve this complicated combination the whole film was first created in Blinkink Studios as a 3D previsualisation animatic with all the sets and characters built to scale. This allowed everything to be developed and planned alongside the modelmakers and animators, thus integrating the different disciplines and processes before the set was built or the characters were printed.

Aaron Blaise (Brother Bear, The Lion King, Mulan) and his team of veteran Disney animators at Premise Entertainment in Orlando, Florida, designed and animated the characters. The 2D-animation frames were printed onto mounted paper and cut with a laser. Each frame (nearly 4,000 in total) was then individually hand-labelled before going on set. Feature-film stop-frame animators then spent 6 weeks bringing the world to life.

The set was built by our production designer John Lee (Aliens, Fantastic Mr Fox, Frankenweenie) and his team at Shepperton Studios before being transported to Clapham Road Studios ready for the stop-motion shoot.

Post-production was done in-house in Blinkink’s animation studio, and the final grade was completed at MPC.

CREDITS

Directors:
Elliot Dear & Yves Geleyn

Executive Producers:
Bart Yates
Michael Feder

Producers:
Bart Yates
James Stevenson Bretton
Josephine Gallagher

Line Producer:
Kev Harwood

Production Manager:
Benjamin Lole

2D Animation:
Premise Entertainment LLC

2D Animation Supervisors:
Aaron Blaise
Dominic Carola

2D Line Producer:
Iris Pearson

2D Animators:
Erin Humiston
Darko Cesar

Head of Clean-up 2D Animation:
Janelle Bell-Martin

2D Clean-up Artists:
Mi Yul Lee
Teresa Quezada-Geer
Jacque Pierro
Chad Thompson
Jason Peltz

2D Compositor/Scene Setup:
Mac Masters

2D Artistic Coordinator:
Pam Darley

2D Digital Artist:
Anthony West
Enoc Castaneda

2D Lead Colourist/Coordinator:
James Lancett

2D Colourists:
Sean Weston
Joseph Sparkes
Frankie Swan
Harriet Gillian

Assistant 2D Colourist:
Lila Peuscet

2D Illustrator Technician:
Albert Sala

Printers:
The Graphical Tree

Laser Cutting:
Ewen Dickie

Designer/Typographer:
Robert Frank Hunter

Storyboard Artists:
Sav Akyuz
Steve Tappin
James Lancett
Robert Frank Hunter

3D Technical Director:
Patrick Hearn

3D Previsualisation Artist:
Simone Ghilardotti
Lucas Cuenca
Johannes Sambs

Lead Stop-Frame Animator:
Andy Biddle

Stop-Frame Animators:
Daniel Ojari
Daniel Gill

Production Designer/ Supervising Modeller:
John Lee

Art Department Modellers:
Colin Armitage
Sonya Yu
Maggie Haden
Collette Pidgeon
Yossel Simpson Little
Richard Blakey
Gary Welch
Christy Matta
Lucy Begent

Scenic Painters:
Fiona Stewart
Beth Quinton

Rigging Department:
Richard Blakey

Art Department Assistants:
Morgan Faverty
Anna Ginsburg
Jennifer Newman

MOCO/Camera Assistant:
Max Halstead

Director of Photography:
Toby Howell

Gaffer:
Aldo Camilleri

Runner:
Robert Gould

Post Production:
Blinkink Studios

Post Production/Compositing:
Alasdair Brotherston
Ian Sargent
Carlos Diego
Jonathan Gallagher
Elliot Dear

Editors:
Sam Sneade at Speade
Ellie Johnson at Speade

Music Consultants:
Leland Music

Sound Design:
Sam Robson at Factory Studios

Colourist:
Jean-Clement Soret at MPC

‘Making of’ Film:
Jake Hopwell & Josh Hine

Studio Manager:
Elizabeth Day

Studio Assistant:
Toby Goodyear

Catering:
Laura Barbi

Advertising Agency:
Adam & Eve DDB

Executive Creative Director:
Ben Priest

Creative Directors:
Aidan McClure Laurent Simon

Agency Producer:
Anthony Falco

Assistant Producer:
Catherine Cullen

John Lewis ‘The Bear & The Hare’ – The Making Of by Blink

GWK – Building a Rocket, by Darren Macpherson

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Credits:

Production Company: Am I Collective
Director: Ruan Vermeulen
Producer: Vanessa McGowan
Illustration: Am I Collective
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Independent Animation Director and Cg supervisor : Darren Macpherson
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Animation Studio: Lung Animation
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Compositors: Jannes Hendrikz, Christian Venter

Lighting and D.O.P: Johan Horjus

Stop Frame Animator: Iain Bold

Miniature Sets / Props: CFX Cape Town

Matt Painting: Ryan de Carte

Motion Control: iKraal

Agency: Lowe and Partners Cape Town

GWK – Building a Rocket by Darren Macpherson

they come to get us, by Guillaume Panariello

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The Death Set lead an army of pop culture icons through the streets of NYC in the music video for “They Come to Get Us”. The group’s latest album, Michel Poiccard, is out now via Counter Records.

Directed by: Guillaume Panariello

Featuring The Death Set – Johnny Siera and Dan Walker

Drawing by – Julie Fabre, Charlotte Serrus and Guillaume Panariello

Editing, post production and SFX – Guillaume Panariello

With the participation of – Loïc Lami and Marie Chareyre

Sound Design and mix – Gilles Cabau

Produced by Guillaume Panariello and Julie Fabre

Thanks to…

Samir Amar Khodja, Emmanual Darley, Kristy Lituma, Mina Lituma (the cat), Jerome Mettling, Pierre Maillard, Andrew Kramer, Mattrunk.

They Come to Get Us
From the LP “Michel Poiccard”
Counter Records (Ninja Tune), 2011.

Written and Produced by Johnny Siera and Dan Walker
Initial Production by Beau Velasco and XXXChange
Drums by Jahphet Landis

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they come to get us by Guillaume Panariello

BEER by Charles Bukowski, by NERDO

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BEER is a free interpretation of the poetry “Beer” from Charles Bukowski.
The composition is a manifesto of the author’s way of life, this is why we decided to go inside the author’s mind, and it is not a safe journey.
A brain solo without filter, a tale of ordinary madness, showing how much loneliness and decadence can be hidden inside a genius mind.

Directed by
NERDO

Art Direction
Daniele Gavatorta

Coordination
Diego Pizziconi

Animation
Daniele Gavatorta
Simone Cirillo
Milena Tipaldo
Erik Righetti
Alessandro Durando

Original Music & Sound Design
Enrico Ascoli

Voice Over
David Wayne Callahan

Recording Engineer
Andrea Pestarino

BEER by Charles Bukowski by NERDO

Min Stora Dag, by BRIKK

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We got really excited when Volontaire presented the brief to create this fragmented journey told through the grand (and sometimes not so grand) wishes of five children. Bonjour is a baking company collaborating together with Min stora dag – an organization working to make sick children’s wishes come true.
The result is this whimsical, yet heartbreaking story fueled with playful vibrant animation.

Director: Brikk
Producer: Brikk

Art Director: Björn Johansson
Illustration: Björn Johansson, Jonas Mosesson

Animation: Björn Johansson, Kristian Andersson, Viktor Khan, Jonathan Dahl, Neil Verhavert, Marcus Gestré

Sound design: Calle Wachtmeister
Music: Calle Wachtmeister

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Min Stora Dag by BRIKK