This spot for Google Play x Diablo Immortal was made in Unreal Engine, produced by Impossible Objects for agency Omelet, with Yessian Music serving as music/sound house.
The Diablo Immortal video game comes to life on a cell phone screen in this playful piece directed by Joe Will (who also served as an EP) via Impossible Objects.
Credits
Client Google Agency Omelet, Culver City, Calif. Josh Smutko, group creative director; Paul Montes, creative director; Jimmy Barker, associate creative director/writer; Brianna Lohr, associate creative director/designer; Zeynep Taslica, head of production; John Riddle, Dieter Lebbe, executive producers/producers. Virtual Production/Previs/VFX Impossible Objects, Los Angeles Joe Sill, exec producer & director; Jerad Anderson, exec producer; Luc Delamare, virtual production supervisor & cinematographer; Jonathan Yomayuza, Unreal Engine technical director; Kevin Stewart, Unreal Engine operator; Eric Ro, live action line producer; Tye Whipple, live action production design; Daichi Sakane, environment artist; Chris Lesage, character rigging artist; Abraham Leal, Michele Ahn, character texture artists; Joan Borguno, Alex Alvarez, Tyler Mele, Maxi Keller, character animators. Color/Post Ethos Studios James Drew, exec producer; Natasha Sattler, head of production; Sasrah James, post producer; Brian Reiss, editor; Kaitlyn Battistelli, colorist. Music/Sound Yessian Music, Los Angeles David Gold, Katie Overcash, exec producers; Andy Grush, creative director; Marc Jacobs, composer; Lars Makie, music supervision; Jeff Dittenber, sound design & logo sound mnemonic design; Ben Lantz, sound design; Farin Hoover, additional sound design & music edits; Brian Yessian, chief creative officer; Michael Yessian, head of production. Audio Post Lime Studios, Santa Monica, Calif. Joel Waters, mixer; Collin Thomas, audio assistant; Susie Boyajan, exec producer; Kayla Phungglan, sr. producer.
Tom Tagholm of Various Films directed this moving piece for the U.K.’s Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) out of creative agency MullenLowe UK.
Focused on adult social care, the public service film delves into the world of care providers and how they connect with those they help. We feel how gratifying it is to assist people in daily tasks, the value it brings to their lives--and to the lives of those who provide this special care.
It’s a special career for people who might not have previously considered the role. It’s about a fulfilling job that fulfills lives. There’s a shared, reciprocal energy that emerges from working together in this way.
Capturing this dynamic and doing justice to this human story grew out of the creatives and filmmaker spending an extended amount of time in this world--long before any scheduled lensing. At this juncture, there were no cameras, just getting to know those involved--sharing tea and chatting, driven by a curiosity about life.
And this facilitated down the line the capturing of real human stories--trying not to get in the way of the natural rhythms of these special relationships as they unfolded. The mission was to recognize and capture all this--and in some cases uncover the significant moments and feelings inside of an apparently normal day. At the same time, the role of adult special care providers isn’t sugarcoated. There are challenges on both sides of the relationship. Yet there is a magic to the seemingly mundane, practical beats in a life--getting from point A to point B, answering emails, shopping, the daily tasks where the connection felt the most vivid and inspiring. One such task was seeing a man in a kitchen, cutting an onion for the first time, experiencing the joy of cooking.
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