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Bingle is a motor insurance company and had The Mill and the agency The Monkeys (how fitting) build a photorealistic CG chimpanzee for its TV commercial. During a skydive, it organises a car and the appropriate insurance for itself using a laptop.
Here is the commercial:
Hamish Rothwell – Bingle – ‘Chimpfall’ from Fox Devil Films on Vimeo.
And here is the making-of from The Mill:
Making of Bingle ‘Chimpfall’ from The Mill on Vimeo.
If you want to know exactly how The Mill achieves such photorealistic ape CG illusions: In DP issue 05/14, supervisor Vince Baertson reveals how the pipeline for such a project is structured.
Credits:
Director: Hamish Rothwell
Agency: The Monkeys
Production Company: Goodoil Films
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