Best Visual Effects 2011

Gimpville wins this years Best Visual Effects-award for both commercial and television productions.

The first price in the television category was awarded for our work on the opening title for Eurovision Song Contest 2010. The opening titles was produced by Motion Blur and directed by Roenberg. 

We were also awarded the first price for best visual effects in the commercial category for our work on VIC, Gathering Brands. The commercial was produced by Pravda and directed by Mikkel Sandemose. Agency: Kitchen. 

We also received a nomination for our work on The Trollhunter. 

The Trollhunter article on Zbrush Central

 

Pixologic, the creators of "Zbrush" just posted an article about our work on the Trollhunter, where we talk about the movie and how Zbrush played a vital part in getting the job done.

You can read the whole article here

The Troll Hunter-production focus on CGSociety

The Troll Hunter have the last few weeks caught a lot of attention online. The Troll Hunter and Gimpville is now featured at one of the most important 3D/CG-communities out there. Amazing! :)

http://features.cgsociety.org/story_custom.php?story_id=5929

Trolljegeren (The Troll Hunter)

Hunting season is approaching. We hope you will be joining Filmkameratene hunting trolls in a couple of months. Gimpville has created the Jotne (Giant troll), which is a mountain troll reaching 80 meter above the snow covered landscape. Creating this troll has been one of our most challenging and fun tasks ever. We will soon attach a complete visual effects video breakdown to this article.

The Jotne is depicted in the image below. 

"The CGI trolls are terrific, and often look like incredibly complicated animatronic suits, which is about the highest praise I can give to digital FX of this kind." 
"A couple of them are also taller than you can fathom, and the effect of having the trolls interact with the human occasionally is nearly seamless."
aintitcool.com

"...None of this would work, mind you, were it not for incredible CG effects, and Ovredal never allows those effects from falling short of amazing..."
firstshowing.net

Visit The Troll Hunters facebook profile and get prepared.

Winner, best corporate animation - Volda animation festival

Gimpville won first place at this years Volda animation festival with their CGI contribution to the corporate film "Statoil - crossing energy frontiers". The movie was produced by Motion Blur for Mccann.

VFX for «Max Manus»

We produced several of the VFX shots in the norwegian WW2 resistance movie «Max Manus» Click the image above to see a montage of our shots in the movie.

Production by Filmkameratene

Directed by Roenberg

Gold and silver in the US international film & video festival

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!

Olve Askim joins Gimpville

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.