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Tônico
Saúde
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Head Way agency proposed we create a fantasy world inspired
by the universe of video games and high adrenaline adventures
where the villains would be anaemia, lethargy and a
lack of appetite to launch the child restoring Tônico
Saúde.
The complexity of the
script became evident while still in the pre-production
phase. Here it took its final form, containing all necessary
information, capturing children's interest with a dynamic
rhythm and directing parents' attention to the benefits
of the syrup, ready for the product's release. |

Texture and colors
study
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While
Zero Production's personnel, under director Cláudio
Veríssimo's baton selected the child cast, the wardrobe
and all elements necessary for the filming with its
countless tricks, in the studio of Animaholics our design
team driven by animation director Rodrigo Washington,
created the storyboard and explored the creative possibilities
of the script. Still, even before filming began, the
design phase took almost one week. More than one hundred
sketches were produced that would define the visual
look of the film. |

Model of the monster

Detail of the head
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three-dimensional
modelling, textures were being created in Photoshop
to be later added to the models, giving them their final
appearance.
The animation of the
characters was done via the plug-in, Character Studio,
available for 3DS Max, the most popular 3D software
in the world and that used by Animaholics. This plug-in
allows us to create a skeleton inside our characters
for the deformation of the Wireframe, allowing a faster
and more realistic animation.
The editing was another
challenge, because it involved several scenes containing
camera movement, which make it more difficult to interact
with the animated elements and several masks used to
cut out the child actors and also to remove any undesirable
elements from the scenes; many of these masks had to
be cut out frame by frame. |

Texture
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During
the editing several corrections were made to the colour
balance to achieve the best integration between the scenes
captured on 16mm and the animation.
In the end it was almost
forty days of work, perspiration, a lot of technique and
creativity that resulted in a memorable commercial that
launched Tônico Saúde and transformed it into a champion
of the public and sales.
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Some characters from
the commercial |
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