Gimpville together with Motionblur, Mccann and Toxic won both Gold and Silver in the corporate genre of the US International film & video festival for their film Statoil "Crossing energy frontiers". The infomercial can be found in the commercials section of our webiste.

Congratulations to everyone involved!

Diaper ad for Rema 1000 - Lower part of faces is replaced with CG.

Live-action production by Kandidat

Directed by Andreas Rønning.



Kiwi commercial autumn 2010. Full CG environment

Art direction by Gimpville

Live-action production by Sheriff TV

Directed by Joon.

Hunting season is approaching. We hope you will be joining Filmkameratene hunting trolls in a couple of months. Gimpville is responsible for one of the trolls appearance. This project has been one of our most challenging tasks ever, it turns out to be hard to scare trolls out of their hiding place.

Visit The Trollhunters facebook profile and get prepared.

Senior artist Olve Askim joins Gimpville. Olve has previosly worked as an animator, illustrator and concept artist in companies like Funcom, Filmkameratene, Qvisten and lately Storm Studios.

"We´re very exited to have such an experienced person join us, and really looking forward to be working with Olve" - Says managing director Torgeir Sanders.

TRY and Gimpville was awarded for best print ad in May by the news paper "Dagbladet" ("daily news"). The print ad was part of the campaign for Volkswagen BlueMotion.

(The campaign also included a tv-spot. The spot can be found under the commercials section)

During the Amanda Awards Ceremony in August, there will for the first time be an award for Best Visual Effects. Gimpville and Storyline Studios have been nominated for the work on Julenatt i Blåfjell aka. Magic Silver.

We are very proud to be nominated as visual effects are becoming an increasingly important part of movie making.

Gimpville and Motion Blur have recently finished the production of the grand final opening sequence and the country postcard sequences for Eurovision Song Contest 2010.

http://www1.nrk.no/nett-tv/klipp/640159

Gimpville was approached by Motion Blur last October and asked to help produce a pitch for the country postcards. Motion Blur and Gimpville won the pitch and a few weeks later Motion Blur got to produce the grand final opening sequence. Both productions was directed by Roenberg. 

Gimpville was involved from previs to final compositing. The opening sequence features set extensions, cg sets, mattepaintings and advanced particle simulations. 

The country postcards sequence features 40 000 light spheres flocking above the audience. The spheres form the country flags, maps and a canvas. All flocking animation and simulation where done in Side Effects Houdini. We created a complex procedural setup which was linked to external eps and bitmap files containing the flags og maps to create 78 postcards all together. All postcards was exported from two(one for the final and on for the semi finals) Houdini scripts using python programming. The exported files was then parsed to binary files which Viz Artist could read using a custom plug-in written by Vizrts R&D department specifically for this project. In total we exported over 1.500.000.000 lights and 23 minutes of advanced particle simulations. The graphics is rendered real time using Viz Engine.

Director: Roenberg, Director, NRK: Kim Strømstad, Executive Producer: Espen Horn, Production Manager: Kristian Hajdu, Design Consept: Gosu, Realtime Graphics: Vizrt