boutiq teamed up with Spillmann/Felser/Leo Burnett and Station to create this online-game for EWZ, which you can play at www.ewz-energiespargame.ch.

Director boutiq: Philipp Zünd
Production Company boutiq, Zürich
Producer Luana Derungs
Technical Director Semir Saleh
3D Artists Adrian Suter, Bahar Öner
Agency Spillmann/Felser/Leo Burnett
Art Director Niels Schäfer
Creative Director Simon Staub
Consultants Fabienne Schoberth, Fabian Schiltknecht
Client EWZ

We are currently producing a weekly campaign and animated series of 52 commercials for food retailer Spar. The project involves a crazy Tex Avery inspired Magic Marker character who “eliminates” outrageous prices!

Our latest commercial for Migros’ hugely successful consumer electronics sub-brand Melectronics. This spot is one of the many brand-building character animations which we direct for big brand names in advertising.

Directed by Tanya Weiss.

Directed by Tanya Weiss.

Animation and Design by Tanya Weiss.

Animation and Design by Tanya Weiss.

Directed by Tanya Weiss.

Directed by Linus Ewers

Directed by Linus Ewers

Directed by Linus Ewers

Directed by Linus Ewers

Directed by Linus Ewers

Hurra! The new Mountainmania album is available at Migros retail stores. We collaborated with illustrator Michael Meister on this commercial using a playful mixture of hand painted cells and photorealistic 2D/3D background plates. The film was commissioned by Wirz Werbung.

Commissioned by Euro RSCG Zurich and Zurich Film Festival we created a trailer for this years festival that shows the magic of films coming to town.

7th Zurich Film Festival, September 22 – October 2, 2011.

It’s probably the most trendy, but already most mainstream drink out there. Easy to mix, even easier to drink, and once you have started you can’t stop sipping at your Aperol Spritz. TBWA and Campari gave us the great opportunity to come up with a fresh, graphic story, so we took the chance to mix 2/3 good old new typographic style with 1/3 expression, and a shot of sparkling freshness. On ice and with a slice of creativity it’s the perfect serve of motion design.

Melectronics is Migros’ hugely successful consumer electronics sub-brand in Switzerland. Agency Inhalt & Form commissioned boutiq to do a sequel to their initial parrot campaign. The brief this time was to adapt the spot to the fast-paced-hard-sell melectronics discount world. Score and sound design were provided by Balz Bachmann and Peter Bräker.

We were approached by Euro RSCG Düsseldorf to create a series of three abstract spots that would embrace the unique design of the Citroen DS4 and give selected claims from the campaign a new life. For use in association with the German launch of the DS4 on eboards and web.

To promote SGKB’s new campaign, Ammarkt enlisted the vision of boutiq director Mike Huber to create a playful yet emotional vignette spot. The 45 sec commercial features an unreleased track by Swiss pop band Lunik.

Directed by Ismail Acar.

Directed by Ismail Acar.

Directed by Ismail Acar.

Directed by Ismail Acar.

Directed by Ismail Acar.

Check out our new campaign for Raiffeisen commissioned by Metzgerlehner Worldwide Partners. The spot seamlessly melds live-action and animation to present a magic window into Raiffeisen’s world. Now, with the campaign ‘Memberplus’ kicking of and tickets already flying away, we ask you to come along for the ride. Head over to the site for more information!

We designed and produced a series of idents for the new reality cooking show “Ab in die Küche” airing on National Swiss Television and sponsered by Betty Bossi. The motto of the show is straightforward: Anybody can cook. The 20-second opener showcases Masterchefs Françoise Wicki and Torsten Götz, which we shot in studio during a hot cooking session. Our CG-artists added vegetables and boiling water into the steam pot. Bon appetit!

The initial pitch brief by agency Ogilvy was to convince the client (Nestlé) that we do a food commercial without shooting a single frame of film. We generated a 7 second test animation rendered in 3D featuring jumping bouncing photorealistic raspberries. The result ended up being quite a departure from what Nestlé had been doing previously. When a client hears ‘animated’ they usually think Pixar, so it’s important to show them there’s other ways to approach storytelling – especially with their budget in mind. Check out the Making of under “Read more”.

boutiq designed and produced a high resolution key visual for the new Orange Cinehome campaign commissioned by Saatchi & Saatchi.

boutiq was invited to design the awards trailers for this years ADC Festival. The socialistic theme of the evening inspired us to go all the way with russian constructivism. Nastrovje!

A nice idea finds a comfortable home in Homegate’s latest ad campaign «Find it Fast» commissioned by TBS. The spots were done with simplistic, stop-motion like animation and black & white illustrations.

Ausschnitt aus den Fernsehspielfilm “Liebe und Wahn”. Regie: Mike Huber. Die Professorin Dr. Iris Lanz steht mit beiden Beinen fest auf dem Boden. Deshalb empfindet sie anfänglich mehr Amüsement und höchstens leichte Irritation, als sich die Geschenke ihres Studenten Sebastian häufen. Doch Sebastian will mehr: er träumt von einem Leben an Iris Seite! Seine obsessive Liebe beginnt schon bald die ersten Risse in das eben erst wieder vereinte Familienidyll zu reissen und plötzlich ist Iris’ Leben nurmehr ein Trümmerhaufen, der nur mit einer gehörigen Portion Mut und Vertrauen wieder repariert werden kann.

Directed by Mike Huber for Swiss Post.

AKA Birdseye is the saga of an obsessive Colorado sheriff and his trusting teenage son, who risk it all when their twisted reconstruction of a mysterious kidnapping case escalates into a dangerous hunt for a mythical Swiss criminal. Directed by Mike Huber.

boutiq produced and directed this spot for the new Orange Cinehome campaign commissioned by Saatchi & Saatchi.

Commissioned by Girardin Creative Consulting we present the 4th installment of the award winning series “The Expert” starring Hollywood Stuntman Oliver Keller. This time it’s all about helicopters and runaway trains. Watch Oliver race against the clock to prevent another catastrophe…

There’s nothing like the Swiss alps to get non-believers eating light yoghurt. And that’s just what Nestlé Yogurt had in mind when it recently launched a series of TV spots for it’s LC1 yogurt. We produced and directed 3 spots for Ogilvy.

Commissioned by Panimage boutiq developed and animated this eco-friendly spot for the Gasverbund Mittelland. Striking the right balance between paper cut out techniques and 2D/3D animation the agency brief was to create an emotionally tangable world accentuating the nature-made aspect of the product. The campaign Natural Energy will be launched in Spring 2011 in Swiss cinemas and on TV.

Melectronics is Migros’ hugely successful consumer electronics sub-brand in Switzerland. Agency Inhalt & Form commissioned boutiq to do a sequel to their initial parrot campaign. The brief this time was to adapt the spot to the fast-paced-hard-sell melectronics discount world. Score and sound design were provided by Balz Bachmann and Peter Bräker.

Our new Millionlos commercial for Bluespirit and Plan B wrapped up this week after a very tight post production schedule. In less than three weeks we built and animated the trains, the station and the landscapes from scratch and comped the actors and extras. Taking a slightly more fantastical “gold rush” approach appearing next to the live-action director Chris Niemeyer was embedded in the boutiq offices as the 3D team raced towards the ridiculously tight dead line.

WWF «Biodiversität»: Special Edi für «visuelle Effekte»

Wir möchten uns bei unserem Kreativteam für den unermüdlichen Einsatz bedanken: Margit Gassner und Semir Saleh für 3D-Design, Modeling und Animation, und Christoph Gabathuler für das 2D/3D-Motion Design. Besonderer Dank gilt unseren Produzentinnen Nadia und Kerstin bei Rosas’n'co, sowie Lorenzo Spinas mit seinem Team bei Spinas|Gemperle für das Vertrauen in unser visuelles Konzept.

SUVA «Der Moment der Wahrheit»: Gold Edi

Herzlichen Dank an das ganze Team bei SUVA, und speziell an Franca Gütte, die mit diesem Projekt an uns gelangt ist. Grosser Dank geht an unsere Regisseurin Alexandra Fisher und unsere Produktionspartner Bettina Frymerman und Felix Courvoisier von Seed mit der ganzen Filmcrew, die übermenschliches geleistet hat. Und nicht zuletzt ein riesen Kompliment an Sebastian Harms für die tollen visuellen Effekte.

boutiq did the VFX work on this corporate for our friends over at Seed. Enjoy.

As part of promoting their new campaign for work safety SUVA commissioned boutiq and Seed with this 8-minute prevention film. The project was awarded with a Gold Edi and Gold at this year’s New York Festivals.

boutiq just finished this spot for Inhalt & Form as a further installment of their M-Budget Mobile parrot campaign. The clip is presented as digital signage for arriving passengers at baggage claim inside airport Zurich. Hence the clip comes without sound.

7. July 2010 – Our WWF spot recently made the Quickies on Motionographer, which lead to a near 20’000 hits in 3 days and generous people from all over the world complementing us on our work. Check it out: here.

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The creative approach defined by directors Mike Huber and Philipp Zünd of boutiq was to use high-speed photography to display the dynamic color and value range of the new line of Caran d’Ache paints and crayons.It was assumed from the very beginning of the project that we would shoot with the new Weisscam HS-2 enabling 2000 fps in 1080p. In post the individual high speed shots of exploding liquids and flying crayon pieces were comped into one final shot.

Director boutiq: Mike Huber & Philipp Zünd
Production boutiq
Producer Luana Derungs
Compositing Sebastian Harms
Director of Photography Stephen Williams
Art Direction Sandra Salvatore
Composer Alasdair Reid
Agency Wirz Werbung
CD Hanspeter Schweizer
AD Barbara Hartmann
Consultants Thomas Städeli, Isabelle Jubin
Client Caran d’Ache

Searching the internet for a new home or apartment can be frustrating, but it doesn’t have to be. When Hesskiss asked boutiq to turn up the heat on their successful print campaign, we responded with three spots rendered entirely in 3D. Snappy animation and inspired character design round out the rollicking narratives.

Director boutiq: Philipp Zünd
Motion Design & Post Production boutiq, Zürich
Inhouse Producer Sandra Monse
Motion Artist Sebastian Harms
Compositor Daniel Wyss
3d Director Carlson Bull
3d Artists Steve Ogden, Steve Karp, Chris Baker, Simon Lavit, Mike Pinkin, Delaney Vance
Editing Artist Daniel Wyss
Color Grader Jürgen Kupka
Composer Philipp Zünd
Sound Design Jingle Jungle
Agency Hesskiss
Creative Director Roland Hess
Art Director Tamás Kiss
Consultant Nathalie Zeller
Client Homegate

10. June, 2010 – This making of shows the various steps creating the photorealistic parrot in 3D for the M-Budget spots. Check out our M-Budget spots for the final result.

Sebastian Harms – Showreel 2011