Gimpville - the VFX circus

Gimpville is an award winning Norwegian VFX and animation studio, with eight years of contributing to half a dozen feature films, several broadcast productions, channel identities and a large amount of commercials. We are 12 passionate artists with a broad set of skills within visual effects,  animation, post production and visual communication.

Torgeir Sanders PM / MD +47 90 99 52 29
Lars Erik Hansen PM / TD +47 95 26 71 71
Einar Dunsæd Animation +47 97 56 00 09
Alf M. Løvvold Art Direction +47 47 37 68 92
Jan Svalland Post / Grading +47 40 45 38 15
Christian Korhonen TD / Post
+47 47 37 68 91
Christer Bjørklund Key Modeler +47 41 41 63 65
Andreas Lønø Modeling / Post +47 92 25 78 73
Simon Nyhus Modeling / Animation +47 40 31 05 38
Ole Geir Eidsheim TD +47 91 81 88 43
Kjetil H. Kulander Animation +47 98 46 21 83
Olve Askim Concept / Mattepaint
+47 98 46 21 83
See our work at these spots
Wednesday
Jun302010

TRY & Gimpville awarded for best print ad in May

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)

 

Wednesday
Jun232010

Amanda 2010, Nominated for best visual effects

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.

Tuesday
Jun222010

Eurovision Song Contest 2010

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

Friday
Jun182010

Kiwi Grill

Last spot in the series of Kiwi commercials done spring 2010 featuring some simulated flame work.

Live-action production by Sheriff TV

Directed by Joon.

 

Tuesday
Jun082010

Volkswagen Sunflower

Animated tactical ad for Volkswagen, summer 2010

Agency: TRY

Agency creatives: Thorbjørn & Petter

Directed by Gimpville.

 

Wednesday
Jun022010

Kos, illustrations

3 Illustrations for the brand Fjordland "kos" puddings

Agency: DDB Oslo

Monday
May312010

Trouble with the phoneline

We´ve had some trouble with our phoneline this last week, and apologize to those who haven´t been able to reach us.

The problem is fixed, and "all lines are now open".

Thursday
May272010

Synnove Finden

VFX/post work on a spot for Synnove Finden.

Agency: Futatsu international

Live-action production by 4 1/2

Directed by Marc Reisbig.

Design by Marc and Gimpville