Sky Creative Agency
We were approached by Coffee & TV to assist in the Sky Lions Series South Africa 2021 campaign. Chocolate Tribe did the animation of the springbok and the lion, running towards each other.
Re-enacting the epic upcoming rugby clash between the British Lions and the South African Springboks. The collaboration was seamless and Chocolate Tribe delivered 10 animation shots.
CLIENT
CREATIVE AGENCY: Sky Creative Agency
DIRECTOR / CREATIVE: Adam Wells
POST PRODUCTION
ANIMATION STUDIO: Chocolate Tribe
3D LEADS: Tiaan Franken, Rob van den Bragt
ANIMATORS: Glenn Ewan, Jesse Sumares
PRODUCERS: Pebbles Yolisa Gqunta
LEGAL AND BUSINESS MANAGER: Nosipho Maketo – van den Bragt
MORE CHOCOLATE
STUDIO
SOCIAL
NEDBANK
“Take Money Seriously”
An instalment of 5 thought provoking commercials from Nedbank with the accomplished line-up of Joe Public, Director Greg Gray from Romance Films, Adam Bentel (DOP) from Joe Public and Chocolate Tribe. Nedbank asks whether you want a bank that takes your money through the latest sneakers, phone, perfume, car, and expensive drink or a bank that takes your money seriously? The ads were shot in various parts of Cape Town. For VFX and Animation, Chocolate Tribe did a lot of set enhancements and extensions.
We created the massive sandstorm that is looming towards the status car, the underwater world that threatens to engulf the lady of leisure, the jellyfish in the bar of illusions and holograms. We crafted the phone animations that were mesmerizing, created the basketball, hoop and the fire that sets them all alight. Chocolate Tribe was in its element in creating the various worlds and illusions. Thoroughly enjoyed working on this.
CLIENT
Client:Nedbank
AGENCY
Agency: Joe Public Johannesburg
Group Chief Creative Officer: Pepe Marais
Chief Creative Officer: Xolisa Dyeshana
Creative Director: Martin Schlumpf
Senior Art Director: Wesley Wolf
Senior Copywriter: Michelle Mckenna
Managing Director: Khuthala Gala Holten
Business Unit Director: Phindile Ndzekeli
Account Director: Nomsa Sidu
Account Manager: Lebogang Sebola
Head of TV and Radio: Di Cole
PRODUCTION
Production Company: Romance Films
Director: Greg Gray
Exec Producer: Helena Woodfine
Director of Photography: Adam Bentel
POST PRODUCTION
Editor & Company: Kobus Loots | Deliverance
Visual Effects / Post Production: Chocolate Tribe
VFX Supervisor: Rob van den Bragt
Lead Technical Director: Tiaan Franken
VFX Producer: Corlia Ohlson de Fine
Lead Compositor: Jean du Plessis
Compositors: Johan Wentzel, Jannes Hendriks
3D Artists: Jesse Sumares, Movaine Govender, Roche Staats, Thezi Ndhlazi, Maya Kahanovitz, Ida Nambassi, Novak Miler
Concept Artist: Michael Howard
IT Support: : Jandre van Heerden, Ramaano Mulaudzi
Junior Project & Systems Organizer: : Nivasha Doorsamy
Legal and Business Manager: Nosipho Maketo – van den Bragt
Colourist: Nic Apostoli | Strangelove
Sound Company: The Workroom
Sound Engineer: Stephen Webster
Sound Design: Kobus Loots + Stephen Webster
Musical Direction: Kobus Loots
MORE CHOCOLATE
STUDIO
SOCIAL
Altron
“There when it matters”
A charming journey between father and daughter that tugs at our heartstrings showing how technology is ever present, part of our daily life and bears witness to key milestones in our lives.
Produced by Star Films and directed by Tristan Holmes.
CLIENT
Client: Altron
AGENCY
Agency: Joe Public United
Agency Producer: Wendy Botha
Production House: Star Film Company
Director: Tristan Holmes
Director of Photography: Franz Lustig
Creative Director: Kelly Bayett
Executive Producer: Adam Thal, Ksenija Strydom-Micic
POST PRODUCTION
Editor: Kobus Loots
Visual Effects / Post Production: Chocolate Tribe
VFX Supervisor: Rob van den Bragt
Lead Technical Director: Tiaan Franken
Compositor: Jannes Hendrikz, Johan Scheepers
Colouring: Company 3 / LA / Stefan
Music: Barking Owl Inc
Music Composer: Houston Fry
Sound design: Produce Sound / Louis Enslin
MORE CHOCOLATE
STUDIO
SOCIAL
Toyota
Has It All
In Dec 2019 the Chocolate Tribe team was approached by director Dean Blumberg and his team at Massif to bring to life the average working joe . The catch was that, the average joes are robots working on Toyotas assembly line, making Toyota Corollas!
In collaboration with the director and Draft FCB, Chocolate Tribe’s in-house concept art department designed all the robotic characters and factory space. A full environment with an assembly line, robots, cars and factory elements were build in 3D. A team of 8 animators and 3 compositors took almost 8 months to create a total of 3 brand ads, and 18 social media ads.
CLIENT
Clients: Toyota
AGENCY
Agency: FCB Joburg
Art Director: Kursten Meyer
Copywriter: Verona Meyer
Executive Creative Director: Tian van den Heever
Chief Creative Officer: Brett Morris
Producer: Nakita Bolus
Account Leadership: Alan Schreiber, Sibusiso Zondo
Project Manager: Shiraz Mckenzie
PRODUCTION
Production Company: Massif
Director: Dean Blumberg
Producer: Chanelle Critchfield
Director of Photography: Peter Tischhauser
POST PRODUCTION
Editor & Company: Tessa Ford at Tessa Ford Post
Visual Effects: Chocolate Tribe
VFX Supervisor: Rob van den Bragt
Lead Technical Director: Tiaan Franken
VFX Producer: Corlia Ohlson de Fine
Lead Compositor: Jean du Plessis
3D Artists: Glenn Ewan, Samantha Visser, Orlando Camina, Jared Sheldon, Jesse Sumares, Roche Staats, Jandre van Heerden, Wesley Matthews, Movaine Govender
Concept Artist: Michael Howard
Colour Grading: Nic Apostoli
Legal and Business Affairs: Nosipho Maketo-van den Bragt
MORE CHOCOLATE
STUDIO
SOCIAL
FableFX
Volkswagen Raccoon
If you’re not sure of where you left your car…you can’t be sure it’s still yours now can you! Working with the great team at FableFX, Grabarz & Partners, Soup Film and Scott Picket we where thrilled to bring this lovely, but slightly intrusive, Raccoon to life.
Chocolate Tribe’s Rob van den Bragt was on-set working closely with our friends at FableFX to supervise the shoot in Cape Town, South Africa and capture all the VFX data.
CLIENT
Client: Volkswagen
AGENCY
Agency: Grabarz & Partner
PRODUCTION
Production: Soup Film
Director: Scott Picket
DoP: Crighton Bone
POST PRODUCTION
Visual Effects House: FABLEfx
VFX Supervisor: Rob van den Bragt (Chocolate Tribe)
Post Production: Pirates N’ Paradise
Music: Mokoh Musib GmbH
MORE CHOCOLATE
STUDIO
SOCIAL
CHECKERS
Little Checkers
99c and Bioscope Films with director Rio Allen approached us to animate, composite and grade this fun “Little Checkers” commercial. Now, who wouldn’t want to animate a world made of Lego type blocks? We are no stranger to Lego animation, and of course are always up for another one.
We previously animated our short film Lego “Jurassic Park” and DSTV “Explora” (featuring Lego Batman). All scenes were 3D animated in Maya with Redshift as our renderer.
CLIENT
Client: Checkers
AGENCY
Agency: 99c
Executive Creative Director: Marius Van Rensburg
Art Director: Samantha Apolles
Agency Producer: Melissa Curtis, Hylton Heather
PRODUCTION
Production House: Bioscope Films
Director: Rio Allen
Executive Producer: Daniel Kaplan
POST PRODUCTION
VFX | Post Production: Chocolate Tribe
VFX Supervisor: Rob van den Bragt
Lead Technical Director: Tiaan Franken
Compositor: Jean du Plessis
3d Artist: Sam Visser, Hugo Perdiz, Glenn Ewan
Colouring: Nic Apostoli