I am not promoting Nokia, but today I received an email alerting me to their new animated Barbie commercial. I am not sure how I feel about the actual video, but I like the song. The second video is "The Making of" the first video. THIS is the video I want you to see. Take note of how many people it took to make this 1 minute video. I'm not sure that the one assistant I am waiting for is going to be enough!
Wow! That was awesome. I love the behind the scenes stuff even more than the commercial.
ReplyDeleteThat was CRAZY COOL! Loved it. Man, now I want more Dynamite Girl dolls, LOL.
ReplyDeleteIntegrity doll sales will probably triple. :)
Thanks for sharing this one.
Dani - I too loved the behind the scenes. I couldn't believe the number of people they had working this one minute video. The doll had a choreographer! Come on. I was striving towards animation but I see I will need a whole team to pull that off.
ReplyDeleteTracy - You do need to be committed. You can't see anything without wanting more dolls. LOLOL!
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing these videos. In my limited experience with making doll videos, puppetry is much easier than stop motion animation. If they had gone the stop motion route, they would have needed an even larger crew!
ReplyDeletelimbe dolls - I actually saw a behind the scenes for a somewhat professional Stop Animation about a month ago. They only have 3-4 people, but it took them a whole week to produce the short video. I will try to find that one again. With the Stop Animation that requires a large crew, is that shooting with a digital camera or a video camera? I am only familiar with the kind shot with a digital camera.
ReplyDeleteWow seeing what it takes to put that together is great. I love my Dynamite Girls even more. I've never seen the commercial before now
ReplyDeleteDid anybody else jump back when Jett head did a 180!
ReplyDeleteDollz4Moi - It is a brand new commercial. I wasn't sure if others got the email like I did. Those girls were fierce!
ReplyDeleteEbonyNicole - That whole head turning thing was creepy. I immediately thought of Chuckie. The more I saw it, the less it creeped me out. I was trying to figure out how that tied into the whole commercial. Couldn't get the connection.
ReplyDeleteWow, That video was amazing! It was like those dolls where alive. See, it goes to show that creativity in a doll world is a unique art form.
ReplyDeletewilliam - Yes, those dolls were doing their thing! I always love seeing animated videos. The creative possibilities are endless.
ReplyDeleteOn stop motion animation -- if you get the special edition of "Nightmare Before Christmas," there should be a behind the scenes documentary on there about how they made the film. It took about two years. The more figures you have in a scene, the more people it takes to "animate" them all. For a feature film like that, they use a regular movie camera (which these days would be digital video), but it is mounted on a robotic mechanism that is controlled by a computer so that the animators can program preset movements into the machine. Then they rehearse a lot like you saw the puppeteers doing with the choreographers in the Nokia video before they actually capture the footage.
ReplyDeleteI wish that the behind the scenes video for the Nokia commercial had showed the post-production process which was probably even more complex than the production phase. I'm sure they did some chroma key and compositing work on this piece. Chroma key is when you remove a certain color digitally from the frame. Thus if you shoot the doll against a green screen and then take the green background out with chroma key, you can composite in a different background.