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Digital Domain has transferred its Transformers visual effects and character animation skills into two tie-in marketing campaigns

Digital Domain resues Transformers skills to build ad campaignsTransformers director Michael Bay and Rob Cohen directed the spots for LG Phones and Burger King respectively, through Bay’s commercial production company, The Institute for the Development of Enhanced Perceptual Awareness.

They feature a cast of robot characters from the highly anticipated summer blockbuster “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen”. Airing as the feature hits US cinemas, they capture the same action-packed cinematic quality as the movie franchise, due in large part to the sharing of production talent, and, in the case of LG, digital assets across the feature film and commercial production pipelines.

“Deceptiphone”, for ad agency Young & Rubicam, plays on the LG Versa’s features by comparing it to the shapeshifting abilities of a Transformer. It features Transformer Optimus Prime menacing a man whose LG Versa is undergoing a series of transformations, showing off the features of the phone.

Digital Domain's Deciptiphone

Digital Domain’s Features division worked on the first “Transformers” movie and its current sequel, so the artists had a pre-existing toolkit of digital assets that they were able to reuse. These were put to great effect to construct the phone as it transforms, imbuing it with the actual gears, electronic pistons, cylinders and other parts used to build a Transformer.

Digital Domain Visual Effects Supervisor Jay Barton provided on-set VFX supervision and oversaw a team of character animators to orchestrate the phone transformations and interactions with the various bits of technology and the lead actor.

Digital Domain's Deceptiphone for LG

This approach allowed the spot to stay within the fantasy realm of the movie and also maintain its high-end aesthetic. Further pushing the big-budget filmic feel, Bay’s production team also used the film assets for Optimus Prime and Decepticon (provided by ILM) and shot the spot on the same L.A. location as the film, with the same camera, lighting kit and lens package.

“Our relationship with Michael Bay extends beyond the ‘Transformers’ films, and these spots build on a collaboration that dates back more than a decade,” said Ed Ulbrich, President, Commercials and Executive VP of Production, Digital Domain. “Even before Michael became co-chairman of Digital Domain, we worked on a number of feature and commercial projects he directed and Michael has always pushed us to achieve the impossible.”

You can read about the Burger King spot in detail in the Revelations section

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Metadata
Title: “Deceptiphone”
Client: LG Electronics, Inc.
Advertising Agency: Young & Rubicam/New York, NY
Global Creative Director: Darren Moran
Creative Director: Gabriel Hoskins
Copywriter: Daniel Crumine
Art Director: Eric Martz
Director Content Production: Nathy Aviram
Director Content Production: Lora Schulson
Senior Content Producer: Alex Gianni
Assistant Producer: George Roca
Senior Account Manager: Alexandra Sloane
Account Supervisor: Pamela Lloyd
Production Company: The Institute/Venice, CA
Director: Michael Bay
Executive Producer: Scott Gardenhour
Executive Producer: Sam Penfield
Producer: Karen Rohrbacher
Production Supervisor: Lindsay Rosaaen
Director or Photography: Amir Mokri
Animation & Visual Effects: Digital Domain, Inc.
President of Commercials, Executive Producer: Ed Ulbrich
Executive Producer/Head of Production: Karen Anderson
Visual Effects Supervisor: Jay Barton
CG Supervisor: Ronald D. Herbst
VFX Producer: Chris Fieldhouse
VFX Coordinator: Stephanie Escobar
Flame Artist: Matthew J.D. Bramante
Nuke Compositor: Rafael F. Colón
Digital Artist: Tim Jones
Digital Artist: Daisuke Nagae
Digital Artist: Cody Williams
Roto Artist: Hilery Johnson Copeland
On Set Tracker: Scott Edelstein
Integration Tracker: Shelley Larocca Courte
Editing: Nomad/Santa Monica, CA
Editor: Tom Muldoon
Executive Producer: Susye Melega
Producer: Nicole Steele
Sound Design: Nomad/Santa Monica, CA
Sound Designer: Francois Blaignan
Executive Producer: Susye Melega
Producer: Nicole Steele
Audio Post/Mix: POP Audio/Santa Monica
Mixer: Peter Rincon
Producer: Dawn Redmann

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