- We can see a shift in the market.  Previously we outsourced visual effect shots to India, today Indian production companies are addressing us directly, says producer Ida Fiskerud from Storm Studios. 

This winter, Storm Studios produced the visual effect shots for a new commercial for Madhya Pradesh Tourism in collaboration with director Prakash Varma, Nirvana Films and Ogilvy & Mather, Mumbai. With shots depicting the Holi-festival, the commercial is produced to encourage tourism in the state of Madhya Pradesh in India.  Holi is a festival of colors that marks the beginning of spring. The participants throw colored powder at each other to celebrate creation and renewal. In the commercial the powder is used to shape famous landmarks, and this is where Storm Studios joined the team.

Storm Studios was introduced to the idea as early as in November last year and was therefore early on involved in the planning and pre-production. This gave us a good foundation for the following post-production work, says producer Ida Fiskerud.

- In January, our VFX Supervisor Morten Jacobsen went to India to be a part of the shoot. On set there were many challenges considering the powder. It became a very important task to consider whether the material was good enough to accomplish the digital-formations. While the director was focusing on the acting, Morten had the responsibility to make sure the powder had the preferred interaction with the environment, says Fiskerud.

We had the honour of working on Victoria directed by Torunn Lian, produced by Filmkameratene: John M. Jacobsen/Sveinung Golimo based on Knut Hamsuns world famous novel by the same name.
In 61 shots we took the city of Oslo back to the 19th century. A challenge that demanded heavy CG, loads of mattepaints and good compositing. The movie is out in movie theaters all over Norway. Go see!

We love candy! And we love the taste of CG simulated chocolate rivers and fluids, which we created for this charming commercial by Animasjonsdepartementet.

The world wide association of visual effects artists, VES, is hosting a screening of Kon-Tiki in Los Angeles.  The screening will be followed by a Q&A session with the directors and the visual effects supervisor.  This is the first time a Norwegian film has been showcased this way, and we are excited over the fact that lots of vfx professionals will have the opportunity to see our work!

Watch our VFX breakdowns here!

for the new NRK series The Half Brother (Halvbroren), based on Lars Saabye Christensen novel from 2001, and produced by Monster. We like to give the director Per-Olav Sørensen a special thank you for letting us on board this amazing project.

Its set to premiere 6th of January 2013, on NRK1 at 20:55, so we will soon release breakdowns of the work we did.

Click above to watch the trailer.

in this commercial for XXL - and the team at Storm Studios used visual effects to help the humans fight back.

The shoot took place in Miami, october 2012, and Storm Studios worked close with the directors Henrik Sander and Mathis Fürst back in Norway to create the visual effect shots. The main task was to duplicate the humans in the stadium shots, to let the humans be the majority to the zombies. Furthermore, the team ripped of a zombies arm, and animated a digital fotball, hockey pucks, and golfballs.

This featurette takes you behind the scenes of the amazing VFX work by Storm Studios on the Norwegian movie Kon-Tiki. It contains in-depth interviews with vfx-supervisor Hege Berg, lead effects td Magnus Pettersson, and producer Anne Sandberg. The interviews focus on different techniques used by the team, and the challenges they faced on various shots.
Directed by Jan Angelo Klepsland

Storm Studios and VFX-Supervisor Otto Thorbjørnsen won the award for Best Visual Effect for the work done on Canal Digital / The Man Who Lived In A Film. Gullbranson is the Norwegian advertising industry`s own award and the name is a tribute to Norwegian director Johan Gullbranson who has won the Cannes Lions 19 times and also won prizes in Clio, Epica, Eurobest and the New York Film Festival. No other Norwegian directors have managed something similar.

- Read more and see breakdowns here!

DDB and Einar Film have created 8 new commercials for SAS, to highlight the advantages of travelling with the airline company. The campain consist of 1 main profile film, and seven shorts. 

For the end part of the main film, Storm Studios contributed in creating a very interesting and seamlessly transition between two clips. Check out! 

(International Title: All That Matters is Past)

premieres on November the 2nd. It has been praised in Toronto, and is already highly anticipated.

Make sure to have a look at the latest offical trailer above, and get prepared for this years murder mystery! 

For director Nicolai Cleve Broch and production company Einar Film & Fortellinger, we  had the pleasure to create and animate the CG cow for this commercial for Nugatti. 

The plot is that Nugatti has released a new chocolate spread with more milk, to make it taste like delicious milk chokolate. Many, even the cows, is excited about that, as you can see in the acrobatic movements in the commercial.

Storm Studios made the main hero cow in full CG, and also animated the product in the packshot. 

Behind every candy, is a VFX-house

PRODUCTION COMPANY:

Animasjonsdepartementet

AGENCY:

TRY

DIRECTOR:

Martin Engh

of television commercials for insurance for young people.

Directed by Aksel Hennie, these are a series of fun and visually interesting films. The one you can see in this article is about a hysterical young girl who has just been dumped by her boyfriend, and who needs to be with her friend until she stopped crying. And this, of course, means tears.. lots of tears!

Together with Shortcut we were able to provide the whole post-production pipeline, including editing, sound design, grading, online, and VFX, all in-house. A great example of the collaboration between our two sister companies.

PRODUCTION COMPANY:
Einar Film

AGENCY:
Try/Apt

DIRECTOR:
Aksel Hennie

has now been released, and Storm Studios is proud to be part of the adventure. Along with directors Espen Sandberg and Joachim Rønning we created images of  a 1946 New York. This was achieved by using a combination of footage from the set in Bulgaria, Matte Paintings, actors shot on green screen, CG cars and CG smoke.

Storm Studios has also replaced much of the pacific ocean with digital simulated water - one of the most challenging tasks in visual effects. Effects Supervisor Magnus Pettersson worked several months on developing the water pipeline. According to Magnus one of the most challenging tasks was to handle all the data that the water simulations created. Each version produced 1TB of data that needed to be processed and rendered. When our simulation machine with 96GB of RAM ran out of memory, we knew we were in for a treat.
We are very excited about our raging seas in broad daylight for the film's big climax, and Mode Steinkjer from Dagsavisen Newspaper says "the special effects are impressive, whether they represent the actual events or contribute to the metaphysical buildup of the crew's psychological state of mind".

had an amazing night at the royal premiere of Kon-Tiki yesterday.

The trailer for this year's most anticipated Norwegian film Kon-Tiki is now launched, and Storm Studios is proud to be part of the adventure. Along with directors Espen Sandberg and Joachim Rønning we brought Thor Heyerdahl to New York, and the Kon-Tiki raft on an extreme journey across the pacific ocean.

Storm Studios has reconstructed New York´s skyline, cars and atmosphere anno 1946. The technique used is a combination of mattepaints, CG and photos. Storm Studios has also replaced much of the pacific ocean with digital simulated water - one of the most challenging tasks in visual effects. We are very excited to show you raging seas in broad daylight for the film's big climax.

Kon-Tiki premieres on 24th of August.

Everybody said that it would´t work - but we like to think different here at Storm. We teamed up with India and created two cool commercials with Nirvana Films. At this point they have been watched by more than 3 million on youtube. Will you be the next to click?

We have just finished our collaboration with Jan Troell. A true legend and master of moviemaking. We are so proud to present our work on "Dom Over Död Mann" this autumn.

Photographer: Magnus Grubb

Proudly awaiting the Kon-tiki premiere - we will publish some really nice stuff for you later - we had our long awaited Kon-tiki wrap party. The theme was of, course, rafting. Courageously we entered Akerselva in small dinghies - Thor Heyerdahl would have been so proud!  - before we - well deserved - danced the night away.

Storm Studios is the largest supplier of VFX for feature films in Norway. Our services range from conceptual development, art direction and on-set vfx supervision to animation on films such as Max Manus, The King of Devil`s Island and Kon-tiki, as well as work on numerous commercials. One of the latest is the new Canal Digital commercial “The man who lived in a film” that was voted best non-US commercial on  "Clash of the Commercials" on CBS.
As part of an industry in constant development it is vital for Storm Studios to be at the cutting edge of new VFX and CGI technology. We have garnered a vast experience with explosions and debris, smoke, weather elements (snow/rain), set-extensions as well as creature work.
In 2010 Storm Studios co-founded Shortcut Norway with Nordisk Film. Shortcut is a post-production company that does film editing, color grading and sound work, giving clients a complete VFX and post-production facility in-house.

Kon-Tiki is closing in on the Oscar. See our work on the feature here, and read more about the other 8 candidates here http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-207_162-57560517/9-foreign-films-on-oscar-shortlist/

for best visual effects at the Indian ad festival, Goafest!

Goafest is arranged every year in april, and is an advertisement festival for all people who believe in the power of ideas. Cadbury Gems also brought home a silver award for best direction. Congratulation to director Prakash Varma and the team at Nirvana Films.