Cannes Lions 2012 winners announced

Over the weekend, the 2012 Cannes Lions advertising winners in the Film Craft category were announced. The visual effects nods went to Canal+ ‘Bear’, a spot with VFX work by Mikros Image, Cartier ‘L’Odyssée’ with CG imagery by Digital District, Tooheys Extra Dry ‘Nocturnal Migration’ with effects from alt.vfx and New Zealand Transport Agency ‘Flying Objects’ with visual effects by Fin Design.

Check out the spots below and links to our previous coverage on fxguide.

We break down Mikros’ work for ‘Bear’ in this interview.

Read about how Digital District created L’Odyssée de Cartier in this fxinsider story.

We talk to alt.vfx about their visual effects for Nocturnal Migration in this article.

Read more about how Fin created the effects for ‘Flying Objects’ on their website.

Virtual 2PAC.

Another Cannes Lions winner, with a Titanium Lion Award, was Digital Domain’s ‘Virtual 2Pac’ seen recently the at Coachella music festival. Watch a video of the CG performance at Digital Domain’s website.

And you can see all the winners from the 2012 Cannes Lions here.

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