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London International Awards

2022 Winners and Finalists

Silver
Production & Post-Production
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Entrant: Absolute, London
Brand: Meow Wolf
Title: "Convergence Station"
Corporate Name of Client: Meow Wolf
Agency: Wieden+Kennedy, Portland
Executive Creative Director: Eric Baldwin
Creative Directors: Jason Kreher/Matt Sorrell
Copywriter: Alex Romans
Art Director: Nate Nowinowski
Executive Agency Producer: Jules Brown
Agency Producer: Nick Ocean
Production Company: Biscuit Filmworks
Production Managing Director: Shawn Lacy
Director: Andreas Nilsson
Producer: Holly Vega
Line Producer: Jay Veal
Director of Photography: Pepe Gay
Production Designer: Ivan Trivino
Post-Production Company: Absolute, London
VFX Company: Absolute, London
Additional VFX Company: WK Studios, Portland
VFX Supervisors: Ben Robards/Phil Oldham/Jorge Calvo
VFX Producers: Kirsty Murray/Sally Heath
3D Lead: Keith Rogers
3D Artists: Ollie Grant/Craig Healy/Dan Baiton/Huggy Stephens/Sean Cooper/Ric Comline
2D Artists: Milo Paterson/Chris Tobin/Tom Clapp/Scott Simmonds/Lucas Warren
Animation Company: Blind Pig, London
Animation Producers: Kirsty Murray/Sally Heath
Animator: Lawrence Scanlon
Color Company: Absolute, London
Colorists: Matt Turner/Juliette Wileman
Sound Design Company: JOINT
Sound Design Executive Producer: Kathleen Russell
Sound Designer: Natalie Huizenga
Music Production Company: Walker
Music Executive Producers: Sara Matarazzo/Stephanie Pigott
Music Producer: Danielle Soury
Music Performed By: Bret McKenzie

Description:
Meow Wolf's ‘Convergence Station’ is the epitome of surrealism. A 'tourism' campaign like no other, the film comprises vintage travel ads, trippy visual effects and shot footage directed by Andreas Nilsson. It is accompanied by music from Grammy/Oscar-winning songwriter, Bret McKenzie.

Viewers (or should we say passengers), witness bizarre sights as they experience interdimensional travel through an alien landscape, only made possible by otherworldly VFX.

The brief was to dictate a surreal train journey, whereby passengers travel upside-down, across water and down a wormhole, all the while taking in some weird and wonderful views made up of fantastical VFX elements married with reinvented stock footage.

Think turkey-alien 3D creatures, erratic spirographs being printed by one-eyed train crew and even a kaleidoscopic wormhole which teleports viewers to another dimension. All the while, we watch in awe as one passenger ages before our eyes, another grows a third eye and peeps into his alternate universe, and the journey ends sky-high.

This one was a VFX trip of a lifetime.