In the near future, London is in chaos and your freedom is about to be taken away. Not exactly the new world you dreamed of? Don't worry, it's still just a game, and you can change all that. The main objective of this film was to show the where and when of the game, which is very clearly a dystopian London of the near future. DDB Paris carefully avoided a cyborg queen and cloned horse guards, instead showing a taxi of yesterday and drones of tomorrow.

VFX Supervisor / Lead Flame artist

Senior Technical Director

Tipping Point

Staying true to the Burberry spirit, the film follows an (impeccably dressed) quartet as they dance through the streets; each step taken choreographed by renowned collective (LA) HORDE. The campaign celebrates the brand’s history, as the dancers brave an ice storm dressed in weatherproof clothing inspired by Thomas Burberry’s iconic collections.

Burberry - Festive

To show investors that their Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) weren’t the boring underachievers that they thought they were, iShares literally brought the product to life. Through the story of an overachiever named Eleanor T. Fitzsimmons – whose initials are ETF – investors learned that iShares ETFs were capable of much more than they expected. To match the ambition of these products, DDB San Francisco combined physical sets, digital backgrounds and extensive VFX to create a unique, modern world for the story that transcended the financial services category.

Eleanor T. Fitzsimmons

As a partner of the Olympic and Paralympic Movements, Toyota created a message connecting the brand’s mobility vision of an inclusive, barrier-free world. Jessica Long's story demonstrates that when a person is free to move, anything is possible. Upstream follows the story of Long – a Team Toyota athlete born with fibular hemimelia – from being in an orphanage to getting adopted into a loving family who support her journey of becoming a successful Paralympic swimmer. The spot launched at the Super Bowl 2021 and received glowing reception on major media outlets and social media.

Upstream

Greta Thunberg’s organisation, Fridays For Future, wanted to create a powerful film for its unprecedented 24-hour climate change livestream on Earth Day 2020 – at a time when all the media was focused on Covid-19. The haunting 60-second spot portrays a family in their morning routine acting as if everything was normal, despite fires burning all around their house. The campaign was inspired by Greta Thunberg’s famous quote from her speech at the 2019 World Economic Forum in Davos: "I want you to act as if our house is on fire. Because it is”.

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Martin Heigan

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