With the duration of 5 minutes, this film will be used to serve little kids in Milo summer campaign. However, Colory can only show a few footages, we hope you enjoy.
An energetic project with combination of 3D, motion graphics and frame by frame 2D animation
Final Title: Milo Điệp Vụ Tối Mật
As an enthusiast to adventure and endurance sports, each individual in this team is particularly fond of Milo’s previous commercial videos. Thanks to that, Colory right away understand the brand’s insight: modern, strong, decisive and enduring (and hard-working).
The requirements from our client are straight and clear:
No bright or cute style like other normal 3D animation videos, 2D style.
Strong, energetic mood and tone.
Getting great inspiration from Spider Man Into the Spider-Verse for the images style and character design, we go with 2D shading render technique. We decide to use Blender 2.8 for this project although it is only a beta version at the time, as it supports both 3D and frame by frame 2D animation.
We quickly recognize that changing rendering method is not enough. In order to meet client and director’s requirements for the look and feel, Colory needs to change our pipeline as well: from designing and building character, rigging, animation to of course, rendering and compositing.
First test of character Rigging stage, at the time the project was running.
The rigging system on 2.8 was quite unstable, hence we decided to rig and animate on Maya.
Thanks Mr. Trong Hoan for giving advice to solve the rigging problems.
Some simple 2D effects are also added to the 3D scene using Blender. The others are added in Compositing stage.
In this new pipeline, animation is done in Maya. Then we transfer animation data to Blender using alembic package. With Blender’s new 2D tools, we can switch from 3D to 2D frame by frame on the same scene.
From the perspective of project management and pipeline design, this project is quite complicated by jumping around with a lot of different tools. However, with the freshness, creating new things, turns out, our team enjoy it a lot.
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Nestlé VietnamMILO |
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| Creative Agency | Ogilvy Vietnam | |
| Production | The Producer Team Colory Animation |
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| Colory Team | ||
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Director |
Doan Tran Anh Tuan | |
| Producer & Head of Communications |
Doan Thuc Anh Tu Doan Nguyen Minh Vu |
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| Concept Art & Storyboard |
Le Huu Dat Nguyen Nhu Quynh |
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| CG Director | Nguyen Hoa Thanh | |
| CG Lead | Pham Chi Tem | |
| Animation Lead | Xan San | |
| Animators | Nguyen Ngoc Anh Tran Nguyet Binh Phan Nhut Ha Tran Cao Bang Mai Hoang Tuan Hand Animation Studio |
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| Compositor | Nguyen Thanh Hung | |
| Motion Graphics | Mighty Stone | |
| System Admin & Engineer |
Phan Hong Ngoc Chi Diep Quoc Huy |
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Voice Talent & Recording |
Tien Phuong Studio Kantana Post-Production Fan Studio Sonar Studio |
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| Special thanks to | Nguyen Trong Hoan | |