The Mill does the latest Guinness spot.
This quite accurately describes what is happening when i drink a nice cold Guinness.
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I haven’t seen an Ads for a while. I thought this one was pretty neato.
Check it out on YouTube:
YouTube - Snickers Red Light Green Light 
If anyone has a link to a hi-res version of the spot, drop me a line. 
It’s been a while since I’ve posted any news from the major VFX studios, and The Mill has been up to alot. Here’s a bit of an update.
Mill Paint Effects For Infiniti
The Most Intelligent Ad Ever?
The Mill also created a spot for the Audi A5:
The Monkey & Al
This is a bit interesting. The story of how the original Star Wars Death Star model wound up in some guy’s parents house at Missouri Ozarks.
DEATH STAR PROP: EPISODE I - RAIDERS OF THE LOST DEATH STAR And the story continues, check out parts II and III… DEATH STAR PROP: EPISODE II - THE DEATH STAR LIVES INSIDE MY PARENTS HOUSE
It’s been a while since any shorts have been posted here, time to start a watchin’ again!
Entitled “La Marche Des Sans-Nom”, this is a short by L. Vigroux, N. Laverdure and J. Constantial, showing their view of war and the destiny of soldiers at war.
After being in an animation vacuum for a while, then coming along and finding great work like this, it’s not hard to remember why I love animation.
La Marche Des Sans-Nom (direct link, WMV, 21.9MB)
Check out this great character art from tortilla1 on the ZBrushCentral forums!
Check out all his other character art at the ZBrush forums.
The node-based compositing app, Shake has seen it’s last version upgrade as it hits 4.1 and is released as a Universal Binary.
Rumors were that Shake would be dropped by Apple as the development team was scaled back. But it’s not the end of Apple’s domination of the high-end compositing market. Replacement software is apparently under development, codenamed Phenomenon. This looks like it’ll be based on the current Motion code, but won’t be released until 2008.
I’ll miss seeing the massive node trees… although I’m sure Apple wouldn’t drop the much-loved node-based solution, unless they’ve come up with something better. 
Oh yes, almost forgot to mention one last change to Shake 4.1. The price. It’s dropped. Previously $4499, Shake 4.1 is now available for $769. 
Not too long to go now, World Cup fever has swept over The Mill as they churn out a whole bunch of football related spots.
This is an audio interview from December 2005 last year. An interesting view on the state of Hollywood visual effects.
It’s the same story, visual effects seem to be mandatory in today’s movies to woo crowds into the cinema’s, but they also eat into the budget and may force Directors to use a scene that they don’t really want to, or in a way that they’d prefer not to. But of course if the VFX department was setup properly it would allow the Director to have input throughout the course of the creation of the effects.