Congratulations to all involved in creating our four winning commercials! And congratulations and thanks to the clients who chose iloura to work with them on these award winning spots.

Category 67: Award for Best Post Production Special Effects

Iloura for Marmalade for Metlink - Better Way

Category 68: Award for Best Animation

Iloura for Marmalade, VicRoads - Share the Road - Tunnel Launch
Iloura for HAKUHODO Inc Japan, UBE SHADOW, Ubekosan Japan
Iloura for Marmalade, VicRoads - Share the Road - Model City

WINNING CLIPS

We are pleased to announce that we are working on Australia, the highly anticipated new feature film by Baz Luhrmann for Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.

Click here to view the trailer:
http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/australia/

MAGDALENA BISOGNI RETURNS

We are delighted to welcome Magdalena back from maternity leave! Mags is back working part time with the old team and looks forward to catching up with you all.

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Kicking off the winter season iloura sweeper Julian Dimsey jetted north to Kiev in the Ukraine to take on the VFX supervision of the new Coke Russia commercial 'Scream'.

Designed to run in the lead up to Euro 08 and targeting crazy Russian soccer fans the campaign's aim was to show that your lone voice really can make a difference and change the outcome of any game.

The spot was created by the team at Publicis Mojo Melbourne and directed by Mark Molloy of Exit Films.

Christy Peacock of Publicis Mojo: "We wanted the film to feel as if two communities had spontaneously come together to create this unusual game of football. Finding the perfect location wasn't easy, it had to look and feel like nothing we'd seen before. It had to be unique to that part of the world. Mark found this old bus station in Kiev and everything about it was awesome, the look, everything. It was the perfect size and scale that we were looking for and to create our game in. The only problem was I thought, how do we fill the bloody thing?"

That's where iloura stepped in.

"Although we had 450 extras on both days of shooting, to meet Mark's vision Julian and his team made it look more like thousands. Having Julian on set meant that Mark could have maximum freedom with his direction, knowing that iloura could deal with whatever he shot". Christy said.

Not only has crowd duplication been added but, the real football players, filmed on the day, were also removed.

"Both Christy and Mark wanted ultimate reality in regards to performance of the ball - including all those subtleties you can only get through human movement. It was decided that we would shoot real players passing the ball around and then simply remove the players." said Julian "In the end there are only two 3D ball shots in the whole thing and I bet you can't pick them!"

"I can't." Christy adds, "It is hard to believe there is any 3D in the entire film! Now when I watch the film back I can't see any VFX or 3D at all!"

What is your full name?
Simon Patrick Nix. According to my father I was very nearly Crispin, Benedict, or Clement. According to my mother I was never very nearly any of these.

What do you do at Iloura?
I am the Tape/New Media Operator. When you need Masters, DVDs, Quicktimes or MPEGs (please say Quicktimes), tape duplication, etc; that's me. I also drink a lot of coffee.

Choose one line from a song that perfectly describes you.
A flash of clean light hope

Favourite morning television personality?
I can't take people with personality in the morning.

If you were a super-hero, what would your super-powers be?
Luck - it's a kind of invulnerability, really. It doesn't matter what you get yourself into - it'll always pan out.

What is your favourite kind of pie?
I used to really like pumpkin pie before I became a tree-hugging hippy vegan weirdo. La Panella in Preston makes vegan meat pies, which are quite convincing... Suspiciously so.

If you had to assimilate the life of a celebrity, whose would it be?
Ewan McGregor. I could deal with being able to sing, dance, act, ride a motorbike across Europe, work for UNICEF, act in Star Wars, run a production company, and shill for cologne. He brushes up well, too.

What is your favourite word?
Most recently, magniloquent

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RED RADDICCHIO PASTA (for rough pastas, i.e. those with lines, penne rigate etc..) 1lb Radicchio (cleaned and dried. Slice thin into julienne strips) 3oz Bacon (must be smoked. Slice super thin, almost see through, then stack the strips and slice all the way down the stack, so you have thin strips) 1cup cream

METHOD

Put bacon in the pan on high heat so fat melts and bacon roasts. Continue until bacon is nicely browned.

Add radicchio, continue to incorporate flipping from bottom up. You will see the radicchio turn brown. Keep the heat high or the radicchio will lose its water and boil instead of fry.

When radicchio is all brown, add cream. Then pepper and salt to taste. Lower fire and cook for 4-5 minutes until cream thickens a bit. If preparing ahead, stop cooking almost immediately and wait until pasta is boiling to cook for 2 more minutes.

Mix in al dente pasta and serve with fresh parmesan.

Mmm... deliciously bitter goodness!