These two spots were just recently completed for Young and Rubicam Advertising in Toronto, Canada. It involved a print ad for magazines and two 15 second animated sequences intended to introduce Whitehall-Robin’s new Extra Strength Advil product. The concept was to show an unidentified box/surface impervious to even the toughest of forces, which is then revealed to be a box of Extra Strength Advil. The commercials were both produced in under one and a half month’s time.

For this spot, we couldn’t find any useful stock footage of smoke so we shot it ourselves in-studio with a standard digital video camera and cleaned it up in Combustion and After Effects. Vray performed very well for rendering, averaging about 30 mins to 1 hour per frame, using full global illumination, motion blur and depth of field combined. Rendering was done in one pass due to the interactive nature of GI, with multiple masks for independent object editing during compositing.

These spots were modeled and animated with 3dsmax 4.2, rendered with Vray 1.07 and composited with Combustion 2.0 (by Brad Husband).