Superpowerful Duo - www.doritosandmax.com

Credits & Description:

In a UK first, global super-brands Doritos and Pepsi Max have teamed up to bring fans the very latest in digital entertainment with a uniquely interactive online comic book which follows the adventures of two new superheroes, FireFingers and IceFist. The classic style comic book is inspired by the launch of the brandsâ exclusive complementary products, Doritos Jalapeño Fire and Pepsi MAX Citrus Freeze, which together create super-powerful combination of spicy hot and cooling lime.
AMV BBDO wanted us to creatively develop and lead this integrated project including an online comic, TVC and print work to create a campaign that had never been seen before. We all agreed from the outset that we needed to stay authentic to the comic book world and we needed to create unique characters and tell a compelling story that would excite the audience wherever they are.

Lead by The Millâs digital creative team and by director Jonathan Vuillemin, we directed, illustrated and animated the commercial and creatively developed, designed and built the full digital campaign, working closely with AMV BBDO.

The 30 second launch spot, âA Superpowerful Combinationâ, completed over an eight-week period, acts as a trailer and traffic-driver to the campaignâs digital centrepiece. The spot aired on Saturday 1 October during The X Factor on ITV1.

The first task for us was the development of character and story. The Millâs illustrators and animators, Jonathan Vuillemin and Carlos Nieto, began designing the superheroes, the baddies and secondary characters. Mill digital creatives, Haydn Kerr and Nick Morland, began work developing the storyline with a well-known comic book writer. The third strand of work saw our digital team design the online experience - interactions, user journey, soundtrack and so on.

Once AMV BBDO were happy with the characters and story for both episodes (yes there are two episodes folks) the comic book storyboard artist began work drawing up the pencilled frames. As he set to work, Jonathan and the Motion Design team, headed by Nils Kloth, began the animatic for the TVC. Lots of simultaneous workstreams to juggle!

With pencilled frames signed off, they were then inked by hand and digitally coloured. This method was pretty time-consuming but follows the exact principals of creating a printed comic book. There were lots of late nights, but it had to be authentic.

Once all the inked and coloured frames were supplied, we could replace pencilled frames in both the online comic and the TVC whilst at the same time prepping assets for print. The motion design and Flash animation team worked wonders bringing simple, compelling animation alive for both principal executions.

All of the myriad workstreams finally came together to deliver a fantastic integrated campaign, putting great character and storytelling at the heart of the experience.
Category: Drinks, non-alcoholic
URL: http://www.doritosandmax.com
Client: Doritos & Pepsi
Agency: AMV BBDO
Production: The Mill
Country: United Kingdom
Director: Jonathan Vuillemin
Post Production Producer: Luke Colson (Exec)
Post Production Producer: Tracey Khan
Lead Animator: Jonathan Vuillemin
Lead Animator: Nils Kloth
Lead Animator: Kwok Fung Lam
Lead Animator: Stephen Vuillemin
Lead Animator: Dominic Burgess
Creative: Scott Andrews
Creative: Prabs Wignarajah
Creative: Leigh Gilbert
Creative: Jez Tribe
Producer: Tim Johnson (Digital)
Production company: The Mill
Digital creative: Haydn Kerr
Executive Producer: Andy Orrick (Digital)
Digital Creative Director: Rodrigo Sobral
Digital creative: Nick Morland
Digital Project Manager: Joel Godfrey
Editing Company: The Mill
Agency Producer: Suzanne Melia
Agency Producer: Abbie McLean
Illustrator: Conor Ryan
Illustrator: Adam Wills
Illustrator: Carlos Neito
Illustrator: Arthur Larsen
Illustrator: Sam Taylor
Illustrator: Matt Patridge
Art Department: Nick Morland (Digital Design Director), Dhani Sutanto (Senior Digital Designer), Carlos Nieto (Character Design & Concept Artist), Jonathan Vuillemin (Character Design & Concept Artist), Russell Hossain (Lead Storyboard Artist), Reed Bond (Illustrator Ink/Colour), Drew Green (Illustrator Ink/Colour)
Digital Team: Tony Volpe (Tech lead), Kieran Weir (User Experience Architect), Roly Edwards (Senior Flash Animator), Klaudia Dragowska (AFX Compositor), Jim Boswell (Lead Flash Developer), Matt Partridge (Flash Animator), Linda Kalcov (Flash Animator), John Cotterell (Flash Developer), Bali Engel (Flash Animator), Jenny Clifton (Digital Coordinator)
Motion Graphics: Jonathan Vuillemin, Nils Kloth, Kwok Lam, Steve Lam, Ivo Sousa, Dominic Burgess, Olly Harris, Sam Taylor