View Milky Bar - Chess

Director - Graham Burfoot
Client - Nestle Spain
Agency - Barcelona
Production Company - Film Graphics Sydney
Computer Animation - Animal Logic

15 Seconds

The Black bishop was originally made from 48 separate models making up the arms, body and head. As the White pawn strikes him with his sword, he turns into 184 separate pieces, individually constructed out of the original bishop . Animation was then created using a dynamic simulation.

The 3D was created in Softimage|3D but used Softman to translate to Renderman to achieve the final rendering.

Softman - http://www.animallogic.com/Products/index.html

Renderman - http://www.pixar.com/products/products.html

The white castle was modelled brick by brick, which certainly helped give it a more realistic look.