“From start to finish we were very impressed by their enthusiasm for our project. And as the old adage goes, “It’s all in the details.” Mighty Nice applied their masterly animation skills to our idea elevating it to something truly amazing. Their meticulous nature and creatively driven process is what makes their work extraordinarily beautiful. We’re looking forward to many more collaborations.”
PAUL KAMZELAS & SIMON JOSEPH
Executive Creative Director, Integrated Producer
Hot Tub
Fart Machine
Our story gives us a snapshot of the wacky Mr.Sketch world, and how we’d love to imagine these scented crayons are made. Everyone loves a good fart joke! We see Mr Banana lounging in a hot tub as he infuses a sample of crayon wax with his fine fruity scent. Mr Banana is an artist – his backside is his brush, the hot tub his canvas. A seasoned veteran on the job, infusing wax is a walk in the park.
There is a fun cheekiness between the pristine glass-and-chrome-clad contraptions, and the innocuous whiff they ferry to the final crayon product. A key part of the production was to create a photorealistic set. For realism we 3D-scanned a banana to generate accurate textures.
Fresh Scents,
Squeezed Daily
A big part of the challenge was to create a realistic looking banana character, which had the ability to perform in a humanoid way with “arm” movement and “body” articulation to help nail the subtle character performance in animation.
We focused heavily on laying in as much detail to the environment’s modelling, lighting and texturing to get all the factory pieces feeling as physically real as possible, despite their totally fantastical design.
and the most decent human beings you’ll probably ever meet…
DIRECTOR
Robertino Zambrano
EXECUTIVE CREATIVE DIRECTOR
Darren Price
CREATIVE DIRECTOR
Softly Dunstan
HEAD OF PRODUCTION
Gabrielle Joosten
PRODUCER
Jane Reynolds
HEAD OF STUDIO
Jeremy Howdin
STORYBOARDS
Peter Yong
DESIGN
Greg Petchkovsky
MODELLING & SURFACING
Greg Petchkovsky
Serge Astahov
Dominic Lau
Vincent E Sousa
Charles Ewart
Gary Fouchy
RIGGING
Ludovic Habas
3D LAYOUT
Matt Diks
ANIMATION
Matt Diks
VFX
Greg Petchkovsky
LIGHTING & RENDERING
Serge Astahov
Choung Vu
COMPOSITING
Kallie Ennever
Choung Vu