Movies Now HD
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The Mill has collaborated with design agency DixonBaxi to create a series of Hollywood-inspired idents for the new Indian HD movie channel, ‘Movies Now HD’.
After we received an initial brief, The Mill's Design team worked hard to create, carefully refine and re-work concepts and style frames to realise DixonBaxi's vision - taking the very best action scenes from movies and transporting them to a monolithic 'HD' which became a dynamically shifting virtual stage for the action.
After we received an initial brief, The Mill's Design team worked hard to create, carefully refine and re-work concepts and style frames to realise DixonBaxi's vision - taking the very best action scenes from movies and transporting them to a monolithic 'HD' which became a dynamically shifting virtual stage for the action.
Director:
Car Addy, Nils Koth @ Dixan Baxi & the Mill
Production Company:
The Mill & Dixon Baxi
Agency:
Dixon Baxi
Car Addy, Nils Koth @ Dixan Baxi & the Mill
Production Company:
The Mill & Dixon Baxi
Agency:
Dixon Baxi
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Since its launch Movies Now has been the number one English language movie channel in India.
"We approached The Mill as they have a clear pedigree in delivering cinematic scale effects," said DixonBaxi's Simon Dixon. "From the very start of the project The Mill team worked hard to deliver on both the creative and technical levels of the HD movie experience."
Luke Colson, Head of Mill Studio, explains further: "The concept of the idents was to show HD like never before and have each ident showing a film from a specific genre alongside or interacting with our glossy and slick logo. The process of finding the right films and then the right shots for the idents as well as storyboarding each 15 second spot was only the beginning of the process.
"Next, the animatics were pieced together in After Effects and the logo was animated and rendered in CG with all the live action being rotoscoped and comped in our Nuke Studio."
This is the latest project The Mill has collaborated on the design, execution and visual effects elements, making the most of both our new Design Studio space and our ever-growing Nuke Studio.
CreditsCredits
Agency
Agency: DixonBaxi
Producers: Gareth Evans, Charlotte Dale
Creative Directors: Simon Dixon, Aporva Baxi
Creatives: Simon Dixon, Aporva Baxi
Account Director: Gareth Evans
Production
Production: The Mill, DixonBaxi
Directors: Carl Addy, Nils Kloth at The Mill / DixonBaxi
Editorial
Editing Company: The Mill
Editors: Charlotte Carr, James Mortner
VFX & Design
VFX & Design: The Mill
Executive Producer: Luke Colson
VFX Producer: Tracey Khan
Creative Directors: Carl Addy, Nils Kloth
2D Lead Artist: Sam Meisels
3D Lead Artists: Francois Roisin, Dan Adams
2D Artists: Vanessa, Georgina Ford, Ben Smith, Donal Nolan, Brad Wood, Neville Thomason, Scott Dawkins, Bob Granger, Milo Pattison, Kirtie Dave, Douglas Haynes
3D Artist: Matt Lowry
Motion Graphics: Nils Kloth