Directors:
Tom Bussell, Andreas Berner
Agency:
BBDO Atlanta
Stoneville cotton seeds are scientifically improved plants with a high-yield potential. The Mill+ team used fully CG animated clouds to illustrate the growth and uses of the soft cotton once fully blossomed.
Shot on location in Atlanta, it was a delicate process to choose just the right cotton field to film in. Once a cotton field blooms, there is only a four day period before it is harvested. Drones were used to get the high-flying shots, as a helicopter would not have been able to fly low enough to the farm without disrupting the cotton.
The sky was completely replaced, using the drone footage of the real clouds, alongside CG clouds created to look like a cotton plant. Made completely out of CG particles, the goal was to create photo-real clouds that moved naturally into the shapes of a shirt and trousers.
Cottony clouds become the imaginative representation of the new revolutionary cotton seed from Bayer.
Agency: BBDO Atlanta
Producers: Khia Banks, Todd Johnson, Kenneth Sloat
Creative Director: Wil Boudreau
Creatives: Ted Harbourt, Silver Cuellar, Scott Biear
Account Director: Austen Tully
Production: Mill+
Directors: Tom Bussell, Andreas Berner
Executive Producer: Zu Al-Kadiri
Head of Content: Ian Bearce
Line Producer: Richard Sampson
VFX & Design: The Mill
Executive Producer: Zu Al-Kadiri
VFX Producer: Eliana Carranza-Pitcher
Shoot Supervisors: Tom Bussell, Andreas Berner
Creative Directors: Tom Bussell, Andreas Berner
2D Lead Artist: Kyle Cody
3D Lead Artist: Ruben Vandebroek
2D Artist: Alex Dreiblatt
3D Artists: Laurent Giaume, Jimmy Gass, Ehsan Parizi, Sean Dooley
Matte Painting: Marco Lozzi