Dancing Diablo
"This project pushed the limits of animation into something closer to art. We thought it could be very interesting to show not just the video, but the whole range of elements used, including photos, paintings and still frames. "Nude" is a haunting dream-like song, filled with provocative abstract references, and ambiguities. It lyrics and tenor inspired us to deviate from the conventional music video approach, and create a piece of art that captures its complexity with a textural and organic visual stream of consciousness true to the emotional spirit of the song." -- Beatriz Helena Ramos, director

Techniques
Dancing Diablo created all of the art for the video by hand, combining a variety of natural and manmade objects, while experimenting with the four natural elements: earth, fire, water and air. Remaining true to this organic approach, they opted for traditional stop-motion animation, keeping the use of After Effects to a minimum.

Credits for Radiohead Nude
Production Company: Dancing Diablo
Directors: Beatriz Helena Ramos, Jose Antonio Ojea

 

 

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Digital Domain
"The original creative brief was that the entire car would be diced up as if it had been put through a giant bread slicer. As the cube solved we would see the jumbled car sections become more and more recognizable until the entire car was formed. In discussions with Carl [Erik Rinsch], it was decided to not cut the car up in an unnatural way but rather to assemble it from real individual car   parts as realistically as possible. This meant that instead of lining   up car parts next to each other and having an entire car magically become whole, we needed to design a delivery system to move parts and subsections from cube to cube. Having everything based on gravity and inertia allowed us to facilitate parts joining by dropping or sliding together which led to entire systems coming together such as engine and transmission." -- Jay Barton, visual effects supervisor

Credits for Audi AG Intelligently Combined
Animation & Visual Effects: Digital Domain, Inc.
President of Commercials, Executive Producer: Ed Ulbrich
Executive Producer / Head of Production: Karen Anderson
Visual Effects Supervisor: Jay Barton
Visual Effects Producer: Chris Fieldhouse
CG Supervisor: Ronald D. Herbst
Visual Effects Coordinator: Stephanie Escobar
Sr. Flame Artist: David Stern
Flame Artist: Matthew J.D. Bramante
Editor: Russ Glasgow
Previs: David Rosenbaum
Animators: Simon Dunsdon, Adrian Dimond
Digital Artists: Tim Jones, Chris Norpchen, David Liu, Masa Narita
Sr. Compositor: Rafael F. Colón
Nuke Compositors: Jacqueline Cooper, Sven Dreesbach
Roto Artists:     Hilery Johnson Copeland, Karin Last
Integration Tracker: Peter Herlein
Ad Agency: kempertrautmann GmbH
Creative Direction: Gerrit Zinke, Jens Theil, Florian Weber, Tobias Ahrens, Sönke Busch
Art Direction: Florian Schimmer, Simon Jasper Philipp
Agency Producer: Ruth Jansen
Strategic Planner: Nils Wollny
Account Managers: Andrea Bison, Niklas Kruchten
Team Assistant: Jan Rütten
Production Company: Markenfilm GmbH &Co. KG
Director: Carl Erik Rinsch
Director or Photography: Martin Ruhe
Head of Production: Katie Stiebel
Assistant Producer: Ruth Perk
Production Manager: Christopher Manz
Music House: Audioforce
Composer: Thomas Süss
Audio Post/Mix House: NHB
Mixers: Wenke Kleine-Benne, Stefan Lügger