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MPC Takes a Tour with Mercedes

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MPC deliver the VFX work for “Patents” in just nine days.
MPC recently teamed up with Anonymous Content director Frederic Planchon and Merkley + Partners GCDs David Fox and Scott Zacaroli for two new Mercedes-Benz spots, which promote the E-Class and SL-Class vehicles.

“Patents” is an integrated CG spot featuring a comet-like tail of patents swarming behind an E-Class sedan as it storms through city, country and twisting seaside and mountain roads, paying homage to the more than 80,000 Mercedes-Benz patents at work in the new luxury machine.

In order to ensure delivery of a large number of shots in a short turnaround, MPC did extensive pre-shoot R&D, working closely with Planchon and the agency creatives. The CG team developed a mix of strategies involving particle animation and a good deal of individually animated papers to deliver the creative vision, work that paid off as the number of shots increased and the timeline shrunk.

“We always strive to deliver high quality results regardless of challenges that evolve over the course of a project,” noted MPC LA MD Andrew Bell. “With ‘Patents,’ our team delivered top-notch work in just nine days and in time for the Oscars, one of the biggest television events of the year.”

“Art” is a historical tour through the SL-Class, showcasing the model’s many iterations against a backdrop of an ever-changing Los Angeles from the 1940s to present. MPC went through Planchon’s footage, removing or replacing signage and architecture to make sure everything was era specific, then added subtle details, including a 1960s-era motel, crowd duplication and structural features at a race track. MPC London colorist Jean-Clement Soret, whose relationship with Planchon goes back more than a decade, took the director’s Red Epic footage and bathed it in a filmic style evoking these bygone eras.

“Anonymous did a fantastic job prepping their locations around LA to capture the architecture, automobiles, dress and characters of each era,” noted Bell. “Their careful work made our post and clean-up processes that much easier… as setting a cinematic and period-specific grade for each of the decades was pivotal in creating the spot’s feel.”

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