With solid backup from the VFX team at The Mill Paris, director and artist Neels Castillon celebrates freedom with a fanciful walk in the clouds for Swiss watchmaker Audemars Piguet.
Neels Castillon: “I have a very intuitive approach regarding light and camera movements, which sometimes complicates the work of the VFX team. But with the Publicis Luxe and the Mill Paris teams, I found partners who shared my vision.
“Matching our heroes running across the sky in Slovenia with the drone shots of the Vallée de Joux in Switzerland was something, it had to be the same camera movements and the same light.
“I loved this mix between pure sensation and precise technique, it opens so many doors. Honestly, after this experience, I’ll probably get crazier with my requests.” – Neels Castillon
“Of course, in a natural landscape, you can’t control everything, so Franck Lambertz and the team at Mill did a very precise CGI tracking visualization from what we shot in Slovenia and then on the cliff with the drone team, we were able to make almost like a giant motion control.
“I loved this mix between pure sensation and precise technique, it opens so many doors. Honestly, after this experience, I’ll probably get crazier with my requests.”
The Mill VFX supervisor Franck Lambertz: “From a technical point of view, the dancers were shot on ground platforms with a blue sky background. We then analyzed the drone’s movement in 3D to be able to give indications on the aerial views and integrate the actors in the sets.
“Some landscapes were completely redone in 3D, especially the last shots in the sky where we kept the anamorphic shot and worked on the lighting.”
Watch the making-of film:
Client: Audemars Piguet
Agency: Publicis Luxe
Creative director David Soussan
Production: Psycho
Director: Neels Castillon
DOP: Arnaud Potier
Agency: Publicis Luxe
VFX: The Mill Paris
Executive Producer: Cécile Hubin
VFX Producer: Cédric Negrel
VFX Coordinator: Ghalia Chammat
Shoot supervision: Franck Lambertz, Jean-Christophe Olivier
VFX Supervisor: Franck Lambertz, Olivier Jarry
Matte Painting: Benjamin Bardou, Sergey Likharyev
FX: Felix Guglielmi
Lighting: Valentin LeSueur
Compositing: Arthur Sayanoff
Generalist: Paul Goubet, Guillaume Hupe
Concept: Nathan Lucas
Flame: Franck Lambertz, Sebastien Kremer
Motion: Olivier Jarry, Yohann Leroy, Jean Christophe Olivier, Agathe Sayegh, Max Loriot, Jean-Yves Parent -Julien Pinot
Editor: Chloe Charrier
Colourist: Sébastien Mingam, Nicolas Guibert
Colourist assistant: Loic Lavaux
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