Archive for the ‘Animation’ Category
Ford goes Champions League
with Parasol Island

Just before you all head off to your well–deserved holiday, check out our latest cg work fresh out of the oven – the commercial for the Ford Champions Edition for Ogilvy Brand Center Düsseldorf, directed by our in-house director Oliver Navarro. The concept was as simple as a recipe for Christmas cookies and hopefully just as delicious. Take football, add fresh cars and some stunning computer generated imagery, mix it all about and then ice it with a sweet high speed studio shoot. Watch below to indulge in all that yummy goodness.
Agency: Ogilvy Brand Center Düsseldorf
Production: Parasol Island
Director: Oliver Navarro Schröder
Camera: Jann Döppert
Film Producer: Lena Breidenbach
Head of Animation: Philip Hansen
Animation Producer: Jack Gregory-Donald
VFX Supervisor: Paul Dreisen
Look Developement: Oliver Navaro Schröder, Christian Wallmeier, Paul Dreisen
Previz Artist: Dino Figuera
Animation Artists: Dino Figuera, Paul Dreisen, Oliver Navaro Schröder
Maya Pipeline TDs: Dirk Bialluch, Paul Dreisen
Lead Modelling Artist: Sven Klimm
Modelling Artists: Leo Quensel, Bardia Afchar
Texturing Artists: Kay Poprawe, Sven Klimm
Lead Shading Artist: Kay Poprawe
Lead Lighting Artist: Paul Dreisen
Senior Lighting Artists: Johannes Gross, Kay Poprawe
Dynamics Artist: Leo Quensel, Andreas Felix Gebhardt, Florian Koebisch
Pre compositing Artist: Paul Dreisen
Compositing TDs: Paul Dreisen, Gregory Chalenko
Smoke Artist: Stephan Krause
Lead Comp Artists: Gregory Chalenko
Comp Artists: Fabian Grodde, Jonas Uebelin
Junior comp Artist: Wilfried Kaiser
Skinemax
A nostalgic VJ odyssey through 80s and early 90s B-movie VHS tapes

Skinemax is Koyaanisqatsi for a generation raised on late night television and B-movie VHS tapes. It’s long form entertainment for short attention spans. An hour long VJ odyssey, it will move your body and warp your mind.
A nostalgic look back at a half remembered childhood growing up in the 80s and early 90s, Skinemax takes a close look at the culture of that era. The images that motivated, delighted, and terrified us on the silver screen, set to propulsive modern music that pines for a simpler time.
Please support the original works, these are film makers and musicians that have upheld the values of originality and creativity.
Skinemax from Smash TV on Vimeo.
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Eurobest Award 2011 Winner
MTV Sexidents

Earlier this year Grey Germany created some pro-condom cartoons for MTV Switzerland. Super hilarious and spot on with creativity, these print ads promoted the message “Sex is no accident. Always use a Condom.” So, old news is that everyone liked the print campaign and reviews were raving all over the internet, it even won silver at Cannes Lions 2011.
Fresh news is, that we managed to make it work as classic animation piece as well. Along the brief – this “really has to look shitty!” and “do you remember 1987?” – our in-house director Charles Bals and his team returned to cell animation and illustrated backdrops. Then copied the master to VHS tapes back and forth until the look was wasted enough. The awesome 80′s tunes were arranged by our composer Jonathan Wulfes. The result is certainly not an accident and will melt your screen like ice in the sunshine.
Today’s Newsflash: The MTV campaign won a bronze Eurobest Award 2011. Glad we can help to raise awareness on today’s World Aids Day!
The best things come in threes:
Credits:
Client: MTV Switzerland
Agency: Grey
Chief Creative Officer: Andreas Henke, Sacha Reeb
Creative Director: Regner Lotz, Moritz Grub
Copywriter: Janus Hansen
Art Director: Alphons Conzen, Frederico Gasparian, Reto Oetterli
Producer: Dennis Eichner
Production: Parasol Island
Director: Charles Bals
Animation Director: Dino Figuera
Lead Animator: Hiroaki Ando
Background Artwork: Charles Bals, Oliver Navarro , Steve Scott
After Effects Animation: Christian Hoffmann, Heike Mauer
Producer: Sara Dadras, Meike Müller, Jack Gregory-Donald
Music: Jonathan Wulfes
The Shrine / An Argument
Fleet Foxes

The full eight minute animated video for ‘The Shrine / An Argument’ by Fleet Foxes has emerged online. The new video is a haunting and sometimes exciting animated piece about some sort of carnivorous antelope traveling across a hostile, fantastical landscape. The trippy eye-popping animation is giving the track an even more surreal treatment. Sean Pecknold, the brother of Fleet Foxes frontman Robin, directed the video; he’s also one of the two animators.
Watch it below.
Sharp, Sharper, Audi
Don’t cut your fingers

Parasol Island is proud to introduce its latest blade for the resharpened Audi A5 series. Shot in the salt lake desert, this 3 minute vfx wonderland is the result of 8 weeks of production along with Philipp & Keuntje and DoP Danny Ruhlmann. Ready to see the desert come to life as the Audi models cut through? Watch the film!
If you like the film, you will love the making of:
Client: Audi AG
Agency: Philipp & Keuntje
Creative Director: Diether Kerner
Art Director: Jan Gericke
Producer: Sandra Niessen, Axel Leyck
Production: Parasol Island
Director: Philip Hansen, Danny Ruhlmann
DoP: Danny Ruhlmann
Executive Producer: Moritz von Schrötter
Senior Film Producer: Lena Breidenbach
Post Producer: Niels Rinke, Lena Breidenbach
Service Production: Slim Pictures L.A.
Service Producer: Tom Weissferdt
Precision Driver: Mike Johnson
Heli Pilot: Peter McKernen
Editor: Nathalie Pürzer
Conform & Finishing: Stephan Krause
Executive Creative Director: Charles Bals
Creative Directors: Oliver Navarro, Hans Schultheiss
Designer: Sebastian Onufszak, André Ljosai
Previz Artists: Dino Figuera, Oliver Navarro, Philip Hansen
VFX Supervisor: Philip Hansen
Lead Animation Artist: Dino Figuera
Scene Setup: Dino Figuera, Paul Dreisen, Kay Poprawe, Joschka Herrlich, Robert Joosten
TD: Dino Figuera, Robert Joosten, Dirk Bialluch
Senior Lighting/Shading Artists: Christian Wallmeier,Paul Dreisen, Kay Poprawe, Oliver Markowski,
Lighting/Shading Artists: Joschka Herrlich
Texturing Artist: Bardia Afchar
Lead Compositing Artist: Gregory Chalenko
Compositing Artists: Jonas Uebelin, Falko Paeper, Sascha Reinholz, Elmar Weinhold,
Junior Comp: Fabian Grodde, Wilfried Kaiser
Lead Matchmoving: Christian Wallmeier
Matchmoving: Sascha Reinholz, Elmar Weinhold, Falko Paeper, Wilfried Kaiser
Typography / Motion-Design: Heike Mauer
Music: Jonathan Wulfes
Animation Director Hans Schultheiss hooked up with Parasol Island.
Another surprise, we are happy to welcome Hans Schultheiss (former Sehsucht) on our island. The young animation director and creative joined Parasol Island fulltime et non-stop. Hans is looking back on a successful history as an award-winning motion designer, animation director and illustrator. His aesthetics are truly “holy shit” and his cinematic skills a valuable co-pilot when approaching animation like a classic film maker.
So may we introduce to you, the act you’ve known for all these years,
Sir Hans Schultheiss.

17y Old Designer Mago Joined Parasol Island Fulltime. Fullstop.
Halftime celebrity Magomed Dovjenko is the new kid on the block. He joined our creative team only a month ago – his work combines illustration, graphics and typography with a style that is best described as totally awesome.
Jay-Z browses his work, Nike hired him, FormFiftyFive interviewed him, Stefan Raab had him on TV, and we put him under arrest full-time and at your service. Don’t believe the hype. Trust us.
Welcome onboard Mago.
Hiring Hot Staff
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You are the creative mind of our interdisciplinary team, having a great understanding of brand consciousness and an excellent conceptual thinking. You can visualize ideas perfectly and finally transform them into demanding, stylish designs.
Beyond that you have a fine grasp of technical feasibility & usability of webpages and interact constructively with our developers. Ideally, you have a soft spot for integrated communication concepts and interest in photography, fashion and lifestyle in spite of your digital focus.
Whether self-taught, training or study – talent, curiosity, a great sense of style and a perfect mastery of the popular graphic tools are important to us. At least 3 years work experience in a similar environment with focus on interactive are mandatory.
As part of our team you can expect an attractive work environment, international and well-known customers as well as unlimited opportunities for development.
Join us now!
To apply send through your CV via email .
We are looking for you as an all-round talent in customer service for ambitious digital- and webprojects. You turn the customers’ needs and wants into excellent concepts and projects, know how to brief creatives and developers without any gaps, manage budgets for the customer and always keep the profitability of the projects in mind. You are the secret weapon in pitches and presentations.
You know the principles of information architecture, are familiar with the latest web features and trends, understand the possibilities of social media and simply love stylish and technically perfect web presences.
You are our master of multitasking, stress-resistant, properly organized, an excellent communicator and a team player. We can see all this in your CV. Of all your other qualities you convince us yourself.
To apply send through your CV via email .
You take care of the proactive development of integrated communication strategies for our key accounts. You provide our existing customers as well as ?? consistently win new ones with your fantastic concepts. You are an important generator of ideas, informer and pioneer for our project managers. On customer side, you are enjoying the fullest confidence and are valued for your ideas, your expertise and opinion.
You handle the strategic advice on brand identity, the management of numbers and you’re well versed digitally and offline. You can successfully swim against the tide and still keep the interest of the customer in mind. You are communicative and clear in expression, have humor and a strong presence. You’re not too fine for operational tasks, but understand it very well to delegate appropriately.
Over several years as a consultant / key account manager in the media- and/or agency environment you have already proved your extensive international expertise and collected promising contacts. A business education or equivalent study build the basis.
The result of your activity is sustainable – perhaps even awarded? You can present in English as convincingly as in German and flexibly adapt yourself to different people and sectors.
Now you are looking for an environment in which you can grow with your exciting international customers, giving the right incentives and taking corporate responsibility? You just found it.
To apply send through your CV via email .
Sexy Fingers
Shake Them Balls
A promotional music video for a new French AIDS awareness campaign, directed, drawn and animated by Jean Michel Tixier. This is VERY NSFW.
SEXY FINGERS from elodie Matyjasik on Vimeo.








