Canal+: The Bear

Funny Canal+ TV commercial with a bear in the lead role.

At the beginning we were exploring a number of different options. We wanted to try with a huge puppet, and after we were going to just replace the face. At the end, everybody thought the best way would be to do a fully CG bear. We had an actor to have all the interactivity on set. It was great to have a good actor and it helps to find a good way to do the animation. But it was a huge amount of work to make him very big but very thin. To have a character, he needs to be sympathetic – it was a funny bear – but he needs to be real and take a lot of space in the image but at the same time be very thin. Laurent Creusot

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Credits:

Production: 75 (Yuki Suga)
Director: Matthijs van Heijnningen
Agency: BETC (créa: Eric Astorgue, Jean Christophe Boyer)
Editing: Jono Griffiths
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Visual Effects: Mikros Image
Head of VFX studio: Julien Meesters
VFX Producer: Fabrice Damolini
Executive VFX Producer: Malica Benjémia
VFX Supervisors: Laurent Creusot, Guillaume Ho, Olivier Mitonneau
2D Lead: Laurent Creusot
CG Lead: Guillaume Ho, Olivier Mitonneau
Shooting Supervision: Sup general Laurent Creusot,
Tracking: Dimitri Dassonville
Sup 3D: Guillaume Ho
CG Dev Fur: Benoit oll, Fabrice Macagno
Modeling/Blend Shape: Thomas Haas
Superviseur Rigging: Christophe Petit
Animation: Michael Nauzin, Alexandre SAUTHIER, Christophe Petit, Geoffroy Barbet Massin
Fur: Benjamin Lenfant, Olivier Mitonneau, Benoit Holl
FX: Benjamin Lenfant
Lead lighting/shading: Olivier Mitonneau
Lighting: Guillaume Ho, Olivier Mitonneau, Mathias Barday
Rotoscopie & restore: Cyril Hiard, Estelle Chiron
Nuke: Olivier Mitonneau, Mathias Barday, Guillaume Ho, Sébastien Podsiadlo
Flame Artistes: Laurent Creusot, Damien Canameras
Colorist: Sébastien Mingam