Masterchef – Vivid

for Masterchef

and Channel 10

Masterchef – Vivid

for Masterchef
and Channel 10

“After working independently on pieces for VIVID for 3 seasons, it felt like a dream to direct my own projection for the festival of light. Masterchef was a chance for us to bring the character based play that Mighty Nice is so skilled at to a new medium and a new audience.”

Bonnie Taylor Forsyth

Director

TINY CHEFS COOK UP A
MIXED MEDIA EVENT!

The main focus of our VIVID piece is the beautiful, multi-tiered cake. This has been made using 3D CGI with some additional painting to enhance the final image. Building the cake in 3D allows us to use depth – like when the base of the cake rolls towards the camera – making the projection really pop against the ASN Co Building.

Our characters have been animated traditionally by hand in 2D, giving greater contrast against the cake. The cake is built by mini ‘construction chefs’. The cake grows up the height of ASN Co as the little chefs add layer after layer, carefully positioning each element. There are little concrete trucks delivering cream, wheelbarrows delivering strawberries, and crane arms placing toffee.

A chef waves in a ’10’ sculpted out of lights at the pinnacle of the cake to light up the party and kick off the celebrations.

Totally lit!

Our tight knit team ran this project like they were in a commercial kitchen with the Masterchef clock ticking. Seeing our final animation projected onto a historic building in Sydney was a truly great experience.

and the most decent human beings you’ll probably ever meet…

DIRECTOR

Bonnie Taylor Forsyth

EXEC. CREATIVE DIRECTOR

Darren Price

ART DIRECTOR

Softly Dunstan

DESIGN

Bonnie Taylor Forsyth
Jason Pamment
Pete McDonald

MODEL/SURFACE

Tessa Eden
Charles Ewart
Greg Petchkovsky
Andrew Silke

2D ANIMATION

Bonnie Taylor Forsyth
Victoria Dinh
Michael Chen

3D ANIMATION

Tessa Eden
Duncan MacLaren

LIGHT/RENDER

Tessa Eden
Charles Ewart

COMPOSITE

Federico Martinez
Kallie Ennever
Gareth Chang

HEAD OF STUDIO

Jeremy Howdin

PRODUCTION

Tina Braham
Diana Angelius

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