Sanchez Brothers

Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal

In collaboration with the Sanchez Brothers and Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, The Workshop was one of the 40 participants in the making of Leonard Cohen: A Crack in Everything, the first major exhibit dedicated to the life and art of Leonard Cohen. 

This exhibit focused the influence Cohen has had on a number of artists from different disciplines and generations.

The Sanchez Brothers wanted to recreate the last photograph taken of Cohen before his death in 2016. The photo was taken from is home in Los Angeles. We reconstructed his street digitally with 2D and 3D techniques and created a hologram of Leonard himself. The hologram was a mix of live footage of an actor and 3D modelling. We studied hundreds of photos and videos to model and animate Cohen as accurately as possible. Finally, our work was displayed through a physical space mirroring his real home. 

Leonard Cohen: A Crack in Everything is made up of 20 pieces of work, featuring 40 artists and will be touring world wide in 10 countries. 

VFX Supervision, VFX, 3D Animation, Modeling, Texture, Shading, Lighting, Matte Painting, Compositing.

2017.

ONE PEN, INFINITE POSSIBILITIES

Heaven / Vallée Duhamel

In collaboration with Vallée Duhamel, The Workshop used metamorphosis animation to represent the Samsung Galaxy Note S-Pen, creating seamless and fluid transitions. 

VFX Supervision, VFX, Compositing, Color

Metamorphose

Publicis et Nous / Vallée Duhamel

Sailor Productions / 1st AveMachine

VFX Supervision and Previz

VFX Supervision

Ben Steiger Levine / Sach Baylin-Stern

Post-production and VFX.

The bee-man was entirely built in 3D as was much of the house and all of its nooks and cranny’s (to have the realistic 3D bee collisions), We created a complex particle system, and painstakingly animated it – one bee at a time. Okay, many thousand bees at a time. 

1st Avenue Machine / Karim Zariffa / Sailor Productions

Previz

Ben Steiger Levine / BBH New York

Working with Director Ben Steiger Levine and LA-based practical effects house, Spectral Motion, we produced this Sprite commercial featuring the musician Drake.

The process included creating both 3D generated and live action and the seamless integration of the two. It began with a complete body scan of Drake. We then created a 3D model of him and cut him into the pieces we wanted to move. The model was then sent to the effects house and they created an animatronic puppet of Drake. On set we used a motion control camera and perfectly aligned Drake's last position to match the robot clone of him. Using the same camera movements we shot the puppet exploding. In post, we regenerated the footage of Drake to align with the movement of the robotic puppet and created the 3D liquid simulation of the water moving through him. 

Previz, Photogrammetry, 3D Modeling, Rigging, VFX, Fluid Simulations, Compositing

POP WATER COLLECTION

Nurun / Vallée Duhamel

For Yves Saint Laurent's Pop Collection we used 3D liquid simulations to create liquid logos, droplets and spills of color. We also created flawless reflections and smooth color dispersion. 

VFX Supervision, Fluid Simulations, VFX, Color, Compositing

WELCOME TO FIREFOX

Mono / Vallée Duhamel

The Vallée Duhamel team created a visually beautiful handmade set to represent the Firefox Browser. In post production we created the edit, color and special effects for this magnificent piece. 

VFX Supervision, Compositing, VFX, Color

Our video was recently featured on fubiz:

http://www.fubiz.net/2015/06/18/welcome-to-firefox/

K72 / JP Chartrand & Émile Lavoie / Roméo et fils

VFX Supervision, VFX, Matchmove, Matte Painting, Modeling, 3D Animation, Compositing, Color grading

Jeff Barnaby / Prospector Films

VFX Supervision, Modeling, 3D Animation, Crowd Simulation, Compositing, VFX, Matchmove, Matte Painting,

Silent Partners Studio

Matte Painting, Compositing.

Our Food, Your questions

1st Ave Machine / Diego Berakha & Antonio Balseiro / Mom Industries

VFX Supervision

Altan Redes / Trinchero / Parkers / Corvette

Sailor Productions / 1st AveMachine

VFX Supervision, Previz

Silent Partners Studio

We collaborated with Silent Partners who designed and conceived the content for Katy Perry's Witness: The Tour which was a whirlwind of 80s infused aesthetics, with a playful approach to visual conception.

We worked on the Intro of the show as well as the track Tsunami. 

For the Intro content we recreated Katy's eye and had it looking around at the audience members. We combined a 2D digital painting of the iris with a 3D model of the eye, mapping its movement to live action footage taken by our in-house artist. We then digitally metamorphosized the eye to enter the colourful and whimsical universe of Katy Perry. 

Tsunami involved using live footage of Katy Perry shot on a green screen at a high frame rate to emulate the physics of water. We integrated her into an underwater world of 1980s cyberpunk colors and light. 

Witness: The Tour is travelling worldwide and was included in Pollstar's "2017 Year-End Top 100 Worldwide Tours" list.

Digital painting, 2D/3D animation, 3D modelling, Compositing.

Photos: Silent Partners Studio / Jean-François Brière

THE WATCH

Publicis et Nous / Vallée Duhamel

Continuing the Hermès Campaign, we again collaborated with Vallée Duhmael. This time around we reconstructed environments creating matte paintings, created clouds, 3D balls, and smooth transitions between shots. 

Sailor Productions / Iconoclast (Paris)

VFX Supervision

LIONHEARTED FT. URBAN CONE

Jodeb

With Director Jodeb, we created the low fi destruction of a metropolitan city in Porter Robinson’s Lionhearted. 

3D/2D Animation, Concept Art, VFX, Particle Simulations, Compositing

Dip With Confidence

Francis Dakin-Côté & Jean-Constant Guigue / Productions l'Éloi

VFX Supervision, Editing, Compositing, Color Grading

FIND YOU

Happy Meal: Drive Thru

Cossette / Jérémie Saindon / 4Zero1

VFX Supervision, Matte painting, Compositing, Color

Jazz / Vallée Duhamel / Sailor Productions

VFX Supervision, Editing, VFX, Compositing, Color grading

Sebastien Landry & Laurence Baz Morais /
Guerilla Productions

Directors Sebastien Landry and Laurence Morais-Lagace commissioned us to create this animated sequence for their 2017 film, Game of Death. We used a variety of 2D and 3D animation methods to produce this stylized 2 minute scene.

2D/3D Animation

Geodezik

Conceptual development, Concept art, Motion graphics, Compositing. 

Max Films Media / Guy Édoin

We were asked to create an animated matte painting as a backdrop to the films set for feature film Ville-Marie. They wanted the painting to be over the top, almost surreal in its vibrance. We created one for the daytime, magic hour, and sunset. 

On set, we used 4 different projectors that were perfectly sewn together using projection mapping, to cover the enormous space. 

Matte painting, 2D animation, projection mapping. 

Taran Killam / WWKG Productions

VFX, Previz, Matchmove, Modeling, Texture, Shading, Lighting, Matte Painting, Compositing.

Publicis / Vallée Duhamel / Sailor Productions

VFX Supervision, Editing, VFX, Compositing, Color grading

TK McKamy / The Arcana Group / EverybodyNeedsUs

VFX, Matchmove, Matte Painting, Compositing

COMING SOON!

Modeling, 3D Animation, VFX, Compositing, edit

The Real T.rex with Mr. Chris Packham (US - Rediscovering T.rex)

Mark Everest & Martin Williams / Cineflix & Talesmith

We had the pleasure of producing the CGI for Talesmith and Cineflix’s The Real T.rex with Chris Packham (US - Rediscovering T.rex) which was shown on BBC, CBC and France TV. 

This 60-minute documentary explores one of the greatest and most misrepresented predators in our history, so accuracy was of the utmost importance. We worked closely with palaeontologists and scientists from the UK and North America who guided our 3D modelling and animation. We studied and modelled everything from the skeletal and muscular anatomy of the T-Rex to its to feathers, skin colour and physiological behaviour.

VFX Supervision, VFX, Previz, 3D Animation, Modeling, Texture, Shading, Lighting, Matte Painting, Compositing, Titles

Vincent Barthélemy, Leo Singer, Thomas Cirotteau / Idéacom International

VFX Supervision, Modeling, 3D Animation, VFX, Matchmove, Matte Painting, Compositing

Alchemy 24

Omega

Union Creative / Todd Shaffer / 
Studio Pascal Blais

3D Modeling, Texture, Shading, Lighting, Color

Ben Steiger Levine / Antler Films

Modeling, 3D/2D Animation, Compositing, VFX.

Alex Merkin / Lionsgate / Grindstone / Taylor & Dodge

VFX, Previz, 3D Animation, Modeling, Texture, Shading, Lighting, Matte Painting, Compositing, Titles 

Frédéric Lavoie / Place-des-Arts

Compositing and Technical Direction

Saulo Madrid & Scarlett Rouge / Cinq Étoiles & Patron Saint Productions

Color, Compositing, Titles

Moment Factory

Moment Factory invited us to create multidisciplinary visuals for their interactive multimedia installation of Le Parc de la Gorge de Coaticook. Through projection mapping we created 3D models of the existing nature of the park and carried out an exciting narration.

Previz, 3D/2D Animation, 3D Modeling, Partical Simulations, VFX, Compositing

The Painting

Droga5 / Vallée Duhamel / Sailor Productions

VFX Supervision, Post Production, 2D Animation, Compositing

Christophe Colette / Unité Treize

Water VFX

POM POM / Triple Meat Megaphone

R/GA / Jérémie Saindon / Chemistry Film

Motion Design, 2D Animation, Compositing, Color.

Title Sequence

Sphere Media Plus

We recently embarked on a wonderful adventure for CBC's This Life, premiering October 5th 2015. Sphere Media asked us to create the opening title sequence for the newly adapted show based on Nouvelle Addresse. We created this from concept to materialization all in house at The Workshop. 

We knew from the beginning that we wanted to create something honest and that could encapsulate numerous aspects of life. We wanted to create something that would not only capture the city of Montreal but the This Life family specifically. Lead by Director of Photography and Editor Vinoth Varatharajan, we decided to do three weeks of shooting in multiple locations of Montreal and be on set of This Life to capture the characters of the show "off camera" Essentially we allowed the city and the real people of the show to give us the magic and honesty we wanted to depict. 

In the editing room we created the short by creating as many match cut edits as possible, to create this illusion of having one continuous shot. So we would match the Westmount library with Tammys bird cages in the Mile End, the Jacques Cartier Bridge fireworks with sparklers on the train tracks of Rosemont, etc. We could have gone on and on with this project, with so many combinations of images.
With Sphere Media Productions we are proud to present our opening title sequence to the new CBC series This Life. 

Film Production, Editing, Conceptual Development, Titles

http://www.cbc.ca/thislife/

Ubisoft – Just Dance 2016

Iconoclast / Vallée Duhamel

VFX Supervision, VFX, Compositing

2015 Closing Ceremony Countdown

Silent Partners Studio

For the European Games in Baku, Azerbaijan, Silent Partners commissioned us to do visual effects for the closing ceremonies countdown. Azerbaijan has an ancient history of traditional carpet weaving, that has consistently surpassed the transitioning country.  The concept of the video, was to travel through the country from its very traditional urban regions, into its modern cosmopolitan cities, with the threads of carpet weaving uniting the country. 

We simulated the threads using a particle system and tracked the footage in 3D space. All the threads unite into the final countdown that was inspired by Azerbaijani Artist Faig Ahmed. We essentialy used the aesthetics of this artpieces to create numbers and animate them in 3D. 

You can see his work at: http://www.faigahmed.com/

2D/3D animation, compositing, 3D modelling, Lighting, Shading

2015.

FALL/WINTER 2015

Christophe Collette

With Director Christophe Collette, we produced this fashion film for Rudsak's Fall/Winter 2015 campaign. The Workshop created the edit, colour, and added environmental elements like snowflakes and air particles. 

Editing, VFX

Carry On

Kevin Calero / Dare to Care Records & Roméo et fils

Compositing and VFX

Geodezik

Conceptual development, Concept art, Motion graphics, 2D Animation. 

ZQUICK/ZJET

Diko Creatives / Vallée Duhamel

For Reebok we generated a 3D model of the ZQuick shoe and seamlessly animated it into the running sequence. We used camera movements, 3D modeling and compositing in our post production process. 

3D Modeling, Animation, Compositing

Caramel Films

Caramel Films asked us to produce the opening title and closing credits for their 2013 feature film the F-Word.

Working with supplied 2D illustrations, we created puppet animations and combined them with painting and vfx which resulted in a unique mix of 2D and 3D elements with live action footage. 

Nolin BBDO / Richard Ciupka

A hand constructed set was built in-house to create this inventive production for Le Lait. We used 3D animation, stop motion animation and live footage, to feature many talented artists in this production.

KUNG FU AMOOZA

john st. / Ben Steiger Levine

To bring the kung fu fight scene to life, we recreated the set, table and objects with CGI. Using a series of HDRI panoramas we recreated the environment of the room. We rebuilt the table using photographs taken on set. Our involvement also included on set vfx supervision and previz and the post – 3D modeling/texturing/animating, and compositing. 

VFX Supervision, Previz, 3D Modeling, Textures, Animation, Compositing

THE KILLER

Silent Partners Studio

Conceptual development, concept art, motion graphics, 3D animation. 

CE SOIR

Christophe Collette / Sach Baylin-Stern

With Vallée Duhamel, the Workshop did the post-production for this innovative and playful short film which presented the speakers for a design festival in Brighton, UK. Our work included on-set supervision, VFX and compositing. 

VFX Supervision, VFX, Compositing

"Lacté" & "Fresca" made to measure kitchens

Agence H / Vallée Duhamel / BIG

LA MARGE

Christophe Collette / Antler Films

Using a green screen, 3D modeling, and found footage, The Workshop created the invisible man in Monogrenade’s La Marge.

HEAVENS TO PURGATORY

Ben Steiger Levine / Sach Baylin-Stern

AMOOZA TWISTS

john st. / Ben Steiger Levine

For this Amooza twists commercial we recreated the couch in 3D and used post production methods of matte painting, tracking, 3D modeling, animation, and compositing. 

Tracking, Matte Painting, 3D Modeling, Animation, Compositing 

RELOAD

Jodeb

3D Modeling/Animation, Compositing, Matte Painting.

ADIEU

Livre Surprise

To create this Flamingo commercial we regenerated live objects into 3D models. We used the method of photogrammetry, where we took a series of photos of the sandwich, at all angles,  regenerating a 3D model of the sandwich keeping the real texture of the object. On set we projected the 3D models into the live action shoot to integrate the objects seamlessly. 

Photogrammetry, 3D Animation, 3D Modeling

Les Enfants / TAXI / Ben Steiger Levine

With Director Ben Steiger Levine we travelled through time to created this Hydro Quebec commercial. Shot with a motion control camera, we created a stop motion sequence of different objects and environments changing. In post production we morphed the sequences together and created lighting and shadow with CGI. 

Stop-motion

First Ave Agency / Moment Factory

Concept Art, Motion Graphics, Compositing, 3D Animation.

VFX Supervision