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Smith's Gobbledok

Special Group

Bringing back an icon

The Smiths Gobbledok campaign presented a unique challenge: rolling out multiple phases of user-generated style videos featuring the iconic Gobbledok character. The creative brief had multiple edits, some of which were shot on green screen and demanded seamless integration of the Gobbledok into diverse environments

Lovebug Films handled the entire post-production pipeline for 10 individual assets, each with its own distinct creative needs. This included managing the offline edit, executing the complex online editing, performing precise sound mixing, and finessing the final colour grade. Providing a complete post-production experience from ingest right through to archival ensured a creative and seamless workflow for each edit.

A particular difficulty arose in compositing the Gobbledok while preserving intricate details such as fine hair and reflections on the chip packs. This required leveraging advanced compositing techniques and tools like Nuke to ensure the Gobbledok didn't receive a digital haircut.

Motion tracking was performed for photo replacements. Leveraging tools like Mocha Pro for tracking and Nuke for compositing. The edits were finished with colour in Resolve and sound in ProTools.

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