PHOTO POST PRODUCTION & CGI Feb 2015

Latest news from [zerone]:

• Simon Puschmann and BBDO Berlin teamed up with [zerone] to create the new full CGI motifs for SMART. Supervision by Simon Puschmann. CD: Daniel Schweinzer. AD: Robert Bilz.
• Jan Steinhilber staged the new Porsche Panamera Exclusive on behalf of Porsche AG and agency Kemper Kommunikation. While all backgrounds where shot, [zerone] CGI handled the car visualisation. AD: Nadine Kubis.
• Emir Haveric, Serviceplan and [zerone] got together to create a new world for BMW's X-Range. [zerone]'s 3D department took care of the visualisation of the CG cars. 
• Photographer Olaf Hauschulz was responsible for supervising the new full CGI Images of the Opel Astra campaign directed by Agency André / Scholz & Friends, Hamburg.

Founded in 2008, bildgudt :: digital artworks is a Stuttgart-based post-production studio specialising in pre-press, illustration and CGI.

Starting in 2015, the company is now the creative post department for immedia23 GmbH. The company has an impressive worldwide portfolio, including recent projects with Nike, Grunding, MAFELL, McKinley, Schleich, TROST, Lidl, Volkswagen and Mercedes.

Other clients include Jürgen Altmann, Ernesto Martens, Pascal Malamas, Jonathan Schule, Jung von Matt/Neckar, Grabarz & Partner, Kemper Kommunikation, Shanghai Berlin, Nike, Mercedes-Benz, Grundig, LBank, Trost, PANAMA, Stefan Hohloch and Robert Westrich.

blickfang is a media-production studio specialised in making dreams real and meeting all of a client's needs in the process. Service includes CGI for stills and animation, photography, film, creative retouching, postproduction and artdirection. The company is also based in Neu-Isenburg (near Frankfurt-Main) and Cairo. With a team of talented individuals, blickfang offers solutions to show and explain a product in the best way.

"This shouldn´t be the headache of our clients. We are supporting you from your concept stage until the final result, whether it's for online of offline media."

Recent clients include BWM, BOMAG, General-Electric, P&G, and Porsche.

Visit the website, email or call +49 89.41614837 for more information.

blink imaging is a high-end post-production agency based in Munich. Together with its Digital Capture Service Department, the company oversees productions internationally from concept to final print. blink provides full service in all areas of digital photography and supports photographers all around the globe.

Latest projects include:

• OMEGA campaign and magazine. Retouching, look and feel for several images with Pro golfer Sergio Garzia.
• Editorial with Formula 1 driver Nico Rosberg. Post-production, look and feel.
• Breuninger Luxury campaign. Full service digital capture, equipment and post-production.
• Harrods London. High-end post-production for POS and magazine.
• Breuninger Magazine AW14. Post-production and retouching for the entire issue including several fashion stories.
• GQ Brazil editorial. Look and feel, composing and retouching for a 10-page fashion story.
• Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazine. A special and very funny shoot with full service digital capture, equipment and post-production.
• For fashion photographer Bodo Rickassel, blink finished an eight-page editorial story.

blink also recently worked on projects for Vogue UK, Laurel, L'Oréal, eBay, Constantin Film, Icon, Milram, Car2go, Paypal, Gilette, Hugo Boss, adidas, Opel, Seat, Rene Lezard, Sparkasse, Got2be, s.Oliver, Schwarzkopf, Vera Mont, Cartoon, Deutsche Bahn, Zewa, Sony, Gelco, Bogner, Betty Barclay, Gil Bret, BMW, Instyle, MAC Jeans, Tom Tailor, Mini, Pro7 and many more.

Visit the new website for more information.

2014 was a huge year for Curve after being awarded the retouching of Cadillac’s entire brand imagery along with the UK’s premier pharmacy chain Boots who approached the company to create new in-store and online CG imagery for their recent facelift.

At its core, Curve is a group of happy, passionate and driven artists who work as a team to provide image solutions to the creative industry. The ‘inner geek’ drives them to find new and innovative ways to deliver clever and striking imagery without compromise.

Working with Curve is made as enjoyable an experience as possible. Friendly and approachable with a "nothing is too much" attitude leaves clients confident that they chose the right partner.

"Is it real or is it CGI?"

For over 35 years Davidson & Company has been helping the world’s finest companies create stunning visuals for their advertising and marketing. The talented team at Davidson has a combined experience of more than 130 years creating and enhancing visuals.

The CAD to 3D workflow allows clients to leverage their engineering data to create beautiful visuals for marketing, Web or print. The days of costly prototypes, location shoots and set building are gone with the 3D workflow.

Visit the website to discover more of Davidson's work.

Dominique has more than 15 years of experience in high-end creative retouching and CGI for advertising and fine-arts. He has worked with award-winning photographers and internationally renowned agencies such as DDB, TBWA, Publicis, JWT, Havas, BBDO, Saatchi & Saatchi, and Leo Burnett.

He has also collaborated with Vfx companies on feature films and video post-production such as matte-painting, 3D shading and lighting.

Making pictures has been a passion since Dominique was a child. In 2000, he graduated in Photography at ENSAV La Cambre in Brussels.

Dominique delivers the highest standards and brings attention to details to ensure all manipulations reveal the best of the image. Based in Zurich, but available for international projects, Dominique has a well-established network of collaborators in several domains.

Visit his website for more information.

eder creates visual content for high quality digital and print media. With an impressive portfolio that includes both 3D visualisation for stills and animation, as well as creative 2D post-production and colour-retouching, eder is the one-stop-shop partner for the production of visual content for marketing media.

Founded in 1969 and today with studios in Stuttgart, Hamburg, Munich and Verona, eder can offer the expertise of more than 70 permanently employed 3D- and 2D-artists.

Clients such as Audi, BMW, Hansgrohe, Hugo Boss, Leicht, Liebherr, Man, Mars, Mercedes-Benz, Mini, Olymp, Peugeot, Procter & Gamble, Schiesser, Setra, SMART, Villeroy & Boch and Voith, among others, have relied for many years on the quality artwork and animations supplied by eder.

FOTOMAKI Retouching GmbH is a full-service post-production company, focusing on creative image editing for advertising campaigns, editorials and experimental work for national and international clients, advertising agencies, photographers and publishers.

FOTOMAKI offers high-end post-production including look development, post-production on location, 3D/CGI realisations, digital support, proof color management, data archiving, and complete support and project management for photoshoots. Each production is safe, fast and effective and produces an optimal image, perfect technical implementation and visionary looks from experienced operators.

Impact Digital is a retouching and CGI super boutique. The award-winning team of top retouchers, CGI artists, and production experts focus on achieving the vision and brand identity of each clients’ projects from editorial work to global campaigns.

Impact Digital’s reputation is built on a passion for excellence and dedication to clients’ needs. These values drive everything the company does from client service to the quality of its work. All types of projects are embraced, ranging from high profile international campaigns to the experimental work of individual photographers.

"To us, every project is unique and must produce consistently beautiful results that clearly promote specific brand identity. The ability to deliver quality work begins with our talented and dedicated staff."

The team has been carefully chosen from a variety of backgrounds including photography, fine art, painting, 3D modeling, and graphic design. The combination of disciplines enables Impact Digital to provide solutions that consistently exceed client expectations.

Jacob Watts is a photo-illustrator and Photoshop wizard based in Chicago. His work consists of imaginative, surreal, and composited works from his own images. Harnessing his photography and retouching skills, Jacob creates images that are collaged together to make photo-illustrations.

He grew up in the suburbs of Chicago and quickly migrated his way to the city where he now resides. Jacob tries to create a new image every day to stay on top of his game and push his creative limits.

Mode Imaging is a high-end digital imaging service with over 19 years of production experience.

Mode Imaging is prepared to meet the most demanding 2-D and 3-D imaging needs; be it for print, web or broadcast. Their team have extensive experience in the fashion, advertising and photography industries, which has provided the skills and understanding to meet every challenge and deliver the highest quality work. Mode Imaging: boutique philosophy, big capabilities.

Services include photo retouching; CGI for print, web and broadcast; professional color management; CMYK contract proofing; RGB photo printing and consulting.

"It’s all about the drive!" Joern Schmidt Postproduction, based near Dusseldorf, provides digital post-production for national and international clients such as Porsche, Jaguar, Mercedes-Benz, Citroen, Land Rover and many more.

Recent projects include:

• Retouching and look for Michael Haegele who shot several races by Porsche’s 'Mission 2014' (After 10 years Porsche returned to the 24h Le Mans race and the LMP1 class).
• Some special skills were required for an edit for Cartrans. Due to daily business it was impossible to shoot the trucks in a proper location, so they had to be reconstructed digitally. Joern Schmidt Postproduction also created the look for the campaign images.
• Joern Schmidt Postproduction brought a legend back to life: The 1969 Ford GT 40. For this personal project the backgrounds were delivered by Maground and Joern Schmidt Postproduction provided the whole CGI part, as well as the post-production.

sElves is a Shanghai-based post-production studio specialising in fashion and beauty retouching. Since 2011, sElves Shanghai have worked with a number of successful image-makers across beauty and fashion in China and Asia.

Clients are both local and international and include adidas, Coca Cola, Ponds and Sephora.

The company guarantees each job undertaken will be handled with the highest care, both technically and aesthetically. Clients can enjoy London-renowned high quality service direct in China.

“At Smoke & Mirrors we get approached to create projects that require exact replication of something that isn’t possible to shoot. We were tasked with a bespoke project from Lucky Generals, to carve a message of support to the England football team, out of the Amazon Rainforest, for the World Cup in Brazil.

We first researched the topography of the area, tree types and soil; everything had to be considered for this replication. We then started to build trees that were native to the area and populated our scene. It was time to address the lighting: it was imperative that after all of the research and building work to the trees and the landscape, we nailed the lighting and the atmospherics. We looked at shots online and studied the metadata, to see when they were taken and where. We looked at the position of the sun, in relation to the area at a given time of day, on a specific date; every detail had to be considered. We then added some detail around the edge of the frame, to give the impression a photo had been taken from inside a plane - a tiny bit of porthole edge and some refraction from ‘glass’ in the plane window.

The media buzz, trending articles and hype that followed was huge: we had delivered.”

For more information contact Tom Gibson on +44 (0)20 7468 1000.

Uruks is a creative post-production studio based in San Francisco, where the worlds of art and technology come together. With over 16 years of experience and a long list of satisfied clients, Uruks has what it takes to bring ideas to life.

Uruks provides a multitude of creative solutions, including concept design, photo­retouching, 2D compositing, 3D/CG, animation, colour grading for advertising, shoot supervision and any combination of these services.

"White Post is where images are not only cleaned by experienced CGI and post-production experts, but also given individual looks, which we develop for our customers. Image processing enables us to specifically enhance motifs or raise them to a whole new level. In computer generated imagery (CGI), we create spectacular and hyper-realistic motifs and take digital photographs to a new dimension."