Commercial

Dancing
Zwiebacks

Tasks:

Tasks:

Character Design, Modeling, Shading, Animation, Lighting, Rendering, Compositing

Animation Lead, Animation, Storyboard,
Lighting Assistance, Compositing

Software:

Krita, Photoshop, C4D, ZBrush, Redshift, BMD Fusion

In this TV commercial, a trio of rusk characters throws a party inside a tree house.

Character Design

Some of the sketches and models I made for the character's design.

Sketches of a zwieback character emoting
Sketch of a zwieback character with a coconut mohawk
Sketch of a zwieback character with chocolate curl hair
Sketch of a zwieback character with a chocolate quiff
Sketch of a zwieback character with coconut hair
Sktech of a zwieback character with a chocolate back
Sketch of a zwieback character with a coconut back
3D render of a zwieback character happily fistbumping the air
3D Render of the chocolate back of a zwieback character
3D Render of the coconut back of a zwieback character

Animation

I animated, rendered and composited three shots: Shot 13 | 0:12 - 0:13 Shot 23 | 0:22 - 0:23 Shot 25 | 0:26 - 0:27 Each shot posed its own challenges.

In Shot 13 the central character is mirroring the girl’s dance moves.

GIF of a zwieback character falling down happily
Zwieback character dancing with kids
Zwieback character cheering kids on

In shot 23, the characters had to be animated appealingly without colliding with the children.

GIF of a zwieback character doing a kip up

And in shot 25 the boy’s fist was too low for the rusk character’s size. Having the hands meet despite that required some creativity.

Zwieback character fistbumping kids

Credits

Brandt

Client

Neverest

Production

Anett Grünbeck

Producer

Tim Stoffel

Director

Manuel Kotulla

Animation Supervisor

Serviceplan Cologne

Agency

Maggy Fischer

Post-Producer

Luis de Maia

Director of Photography

Brandt

Client

Serviceplan Cologne

Agency

Neverest

Production

Anett Grünbeck

Producer

Maggy Fischer

Post-Producer

Tim Stoffel

Director

Luis de Maia

Director of Photography

Manuel Kotulla

Animation Supervisor

Alex Bootz

Animation

Flo Wolff

Colour Grading

Inés Koßack

Rigging, Animation, Lighting, Rendering, Compositing

Janine Meyer

Edit

Manuel Kotulla

Character Design, Modeling, Shading, Layout, Animation, Lighting, Rendering, Compositing

Parallaxman

Tracking

Robert Csakvari

Animation, Lighting, Rendering, Compositing

Tanja Kerner

Character Design, Modeling, Shading, Animation, Lighting, Rendering, Compositing

Alex Bootz

Animation

Manuel Kotulla

Character Design, Modeling, Shading, Layout, Animation, Lighting, Rendering, Compositing

Flo Wolff

Colour Grading

Parallaxman

Tracking

Inés Koßack

Rigging, Animation, Lighting, Rendering, Compositing

Robert Csakvari

Animation, Lighting, Rendering, Compositing

Janine Meyer

Edit

Tanja Kerner

Character Design, Modeling, Shading, Animation, Lighting, Rendering, Compositing