photo post production & cgi Jun 2014

Award-winning Carioca Studio, globally renowned for its advertising imagery, was founded in 2005 by three artists (Dragos Coman, Andrei Stoleru and Dragos Traistaru), all photographers with fine art and advertising backgrounds, along with production expertise.

Carioca start with the big idea: to bring a complete vision and perfect execution from production and shooting to post-production.

Carioca Studio offers integrated visual services, from production (locations, casting, hair and make-up artists, set construction, mock-ups) to photography, illustration, CGI and post-production. The company now has 23 people working in three different departments: Production, 3D and post-production.

The studio has extensive international experience having shot for global clients from Western to Eastern Europe (almost all countries), Russia, South Africa, Middle East and China such as McDonald's, Europcar, Renault, Ford, Sony and Sky, amongst many others.

"CGRefinery: We like to make pictures that take your ideas further."

Having deep expertise in photography, photographic manipulation and 3D, Shanghai-based CGRefinery knows when and how to use each area of this new medium to its unique advantage. The company shoots backplates, creates HDRs and has skills in many different software programmes, but most importantly the team knows how to bring it all together to make powerful pictures.

Digital Art  |  Design  |  Digital Creative | 15+ years experience, across Film, Advertising and Design.

"At Creation Theory, the belief is that we are currently at the beginning of a Second Renaissance, born of the ability of ideas to be communicated globally at the speed of thought, with the creative tools available to transfer those ideas directly from the mind to the page or the screen in their fullness, with absolute clarity, no matter how grandiose.

We want to help to see as many as possible of those little idea embryos come to full fruition. So, what's your idea?"

"Is it real or is it CGI?"

For over 35 years Davidson & Company has been helping the world’s finest companies create stunning visuals for their advertising and marketing. The talented team at Davidson has over a combined experience of 130 years creating and enhancing visuals.

The CAD to 3D workflow allows clients to leverage their engineering data to create beautiful visuals for marketing, Web or print. The days of costly prototypes, location shoots and set building are gone with the 3D workflow.

Visit the website to discover more of Davidson's work.

die bildproduktion is happy to present its recent highlights across post-production and CGI. The team shows a selection of its latest work from the automobile industry, advertising and two personal work portraits.

The on-going Deutsche Post campaign refers to the current soccer World Cup, realised by Jung von Matt/Spree and shot by Klaus Merz. The range of BMW i8 images that appear in the first BMW Magazine for 2014 were created by ringzwei, shot by Uwe Düttmann and published by Hoffmann & Campe.

die bildproduktion finalised an image for Volkswagen for the automobile award 'Goldenes Lenkrad', directed by DDB Tribal Berlin. The team also composed a monument for the VW Bank, produced a CGI paw of a lion for the insurance company Öffentliche, and generated a CGI cornfield with the lettering 'ZINSEN Made in Germany' for GEFA Bank. These three images were produced in collaboration with the agency Dievision.

Last but not least, the company was honoured with personal work entitled 'Snack Attack' by photographer Maak Roberts from Berlin.

With a firmly based background in photography, Eclipse BCN is always looking to maintain photographic quality in its work. Attention to detail and a workflow based on craft rather than tricks has delivered numerous images for satisfied photographers and agencies worldwide.

The studio focusses on creative retouching for print media and continues to explore the possibilities of CGI with a variety of 3D artists. Based in Barcelona, but with roots in Amsterdam, Eclipse combines northern work ethic with southern passion.

"There are no borders here, not in our vision nor in our location. We provide our services either physically or digitally all over the world."

eder creates visual content for high quality digital and print media. With an impressive portfolio that includes both 3D visualisation for stills and animation, as well as creative 2D post-production and colour-retouching, eder is the one-stop-shop partner for the production of visual content for marketing media.

Founded in 1969 and today with studios in Stuttgart, Hamburg, Munich and Verona, eder can offer the expertise of more than 70 permanently employed 3D- and 2D-artists.

Customers such as Audi, BMW, Hansgrohe, Hugo Boss, Leicht, Liebherr, Man, Mars, Mercedes-Benz, Mini, Olymp, Peugeot, Procter & Gamble, Schiesser, Setra, Smart, Villeroy & Boch and Voith, among others, have relied for many years on the quality artwork and animations supplied by eder.

Featherwax is a London-based post-production studio specialising in creative retouching and CGI. The company is also on the move to San Francisco.

With a small team of talented individuals, Featherwax offers not just to create stunning visuals, but to really be involved in the process. Even from the concept stage, Featherwax can help to ensure that the highest level of imagery is ultimately produced.

Services include art direction, creative retouching and CGI.

Clients include Samsung, Marlboro, Bloomingdales, Old Spice and Stabilo.

Visit the website, email or call Gordon McBryde on +44 7909 111 826 for more information.

"FLC Helsinki turns your ideas into high quality still images and motion."

As a full-service production company, FLC Helsinki works with existing material or can produce its own from scratch.

"We don't care how the material is produced and neither should you. What really matters is the final result. Judge for yourself!"

Imaginary Lines has been providing digital fine art for 20 years.

"Post production. Capture. Imaginative. Artistic. Phenomenal quality. Talented. Patient. Responsive. Collaborative. Resourceful. Dedicated. Dependable. Centrally located. Big clients. Small clients. Every project critical. Web to OOH in one execution. Expert Capture. Studio or Location. Dallas. New York. LA. Miami. Chicago. Madrid. Paris. Barcelona. Cape Town. Anywhere. Anytime. Drive or Fly. Redundancy. Eighty megapixel. Fifty six megapixel. Five bodies. Four backs. Sixteen lenses. Back-up gear on set. DSLR video. HMI. Light it once, shoot it twice. Six Channels of Field Audio. Whatever it takes. Serious. Fun. Always. The Fine Art of Digital Effects."

Laura Abigail is a fashion, concert and stills photographer and retoucher working mainly in England and Belgium.

She started working as a retoucher for photographers from all over the world at age 14. At 17, Laura decided to start her own business, ‘Laura Abigail Photography’. As a photographer and retoucher, she is primarily self-taught. She loves fashion, and her background in film and television has helped her develop a great eye for detail, colour and composition.

Laura's clients include Reebok, Puma and Samsung.

Novo Retouching is a fresh new company with passionate and creative image retouchers at its heart. Based in New Zealand, owner and director Kelvin Gilbert has been striving to be the best in the country since he began his photographic career. In 2013 he won the New Zealand 'Illustrative Photographer of the Year' award and other multiple gold awards internationally.

Novo Retouching's key specialistions are retouching and compositing photographic images. These include clear-cutting and preparing clipping paths of subjects with seamless compositing into new backgrounds or, as files ready for design layout use.

The company produces well-rendered images to a high standard, believing that post-production and finishing can significantly increase the potential of images and add strong emotive impact, vital for marketing purposes.

P Blok is an Istanbul-based studio specialised in creative visual solutions, covering all kinds of production and post-production needs. The company offers full production services including budget management, casting, set design and building, make-up, hair and styling, permits, equipment hire, accommodation, travel and transport, full insurance coverage and catering.

Post-production services include high-end photo retouching, compositing, illustration and CGI. In order to minimise printing risks, every step of the creative process is guided by colour management rules. P Blok also has an in-house facility to print FOGRA certificated contract proofs.

P Blok's clients are mostly global advertising networks such as DDB, TBWA, Young & Rubicam and BBDO and include some of Istanbul's leading photographers. The team has been creating visuals for global brands including Mercedes-Benz, Volkswagen, Turkish Airlines and Snickers as well as various national brands.

Personal Post production is a tiny company in the Netherlands, dedicated to high-end montage and retouching for still photography. Personal collaborates with creatives all over the world.

Personal loves beautiful images. They love working with people. They love laughing. And although the word 'They' may make Personal sound like a huge company… they are not. They are just two people - Jurgen van den Hoofdakker and Kerrie van Aarssen - interested in personal growth. In work. In life. They love to work hard and enjoy nice projects with nice people. And they believe that by doing more projects together, you develop working relationships where the work gets better and better...

After a fantastic start to 2014, things are moving at a pace for Sanders Shiers. A newly established presence in London and an ever-expanding production studio in Falmouth reflect the exciting direction the company is moving in. With strong artistic flare born from a background in Architecture and Design, the Sanders Shiers team are increasingly turning their hands to the exciting world of product and technology innovation - creating evocative work on a global scale.

The creative CGI and Animation studio has just completed a series of stills and a dynamic cinematic short animation introducing Aerion’s Supersonic Business Jet - unveiled at EBACE 2014 in Geneva last month. Other noteworthy projects include Subsea illustrations and animations for Pangeo Subsea not to mention recent artwork produced for LG’s Brazilian World Cup campaign.

"It is always exciting to have your work displayed across all the various media channels and when you’re also tasked with delivering the complete production - photography, design, CGI and retouching - the results can be quite stunning. More and more often we are asked to create, manage and deliver full assets for OOH, press and digital - involving us in the creative production process from start to finish. ‘Home of Thrones’ ‘ITV Prey’ ‘Big Kuhuna’ ‘Ford Fashion Week’ & ‘Unleash your Mojo’ are just a few examples of recent projects which we have produced with our ad agency partners."

For more information contact Mark Grosvenor on +44(0)20 7468 1000.

Souverein is a post-production company which consists of a group of creative individuals who specialise in high-end image creation in various forms. The team works together with photographers, autonomous artists, agencies and large brand companies to combine creativity, years of experience and professional expertise to form outstanding visuals.

The company's area of expertise includes image manipulation, CGI/3D, project management, photography and fine art printing. Having years of experience in high-end CG, Souverein is expert at the creation of 3D visuals or combining 3D and photography. Its dedicated CGI crew works in partnership with Photoshop experts to create high resolution, quality work.

The Souverein team is expert at handling large, complex projects that require a high standard of quality and coherence and well developed organisational skills. The company takes on these projects and makes sure the flow is well thought out and handled with professional care.

Stockhamster stocks:

• A huge selection of high quality images for all fields of advertising.
• HDRI-Spheres and perfect backplates and backgrounds for the transportation industry.
• A wide range of beautiful landscapes, huge panoramas and stunning cityscapes from all over the world.
• A steadily growing variety of impressive images.

Stockhamster also offers a tailored selection of backgrounds and can shoot a specific background on request. The company will compose images for clients' layouts and can add motion blur to its static images and adjust the speed of blurred images.

TANK is a creative post-production studio specialising in high-end creative retouching and CGI imagery. There is nothing more the team loves than creating stunning imagery for global advertising agencies and award winning photographers.

The team works closely with clients to ensure they get the best out of their images and to help create imagery that will make an impact far beyond expectation.

To work with TANK either email or call the studio on +44 (0) 20 3620 4049.

"WE ARE XYZ, a visual design agency, producers of creative visual content in any and all forms it takes. We are a group of creatives, artists, project managers and account representatives that bring creative, inspired, personalized solutions to our work.

We are a hybrid agency of proven experts in imagery, including high-end creative retouching, sophisticated assembly of images, photography, motion graphics, creative direction, and of course, CGI. We’ve helped brands and agencies alike tell better stories through CG images."

Featured in this Spotlight is work for clients including Nike, Chobani, Audi, Digitas, Venables Bell & Partners, Cibo, and McCann. Visit the website to see more of XYZ's work in CG and beyond.