Mercedes S-Class

This seriously stunning advert for the new Mercedes S- Class Coupé takes us with the car as it travels through an almost deserted city, and the vast landscape beyond. Beautiful scenery and clever camera shots highlight the sleek power of the car, and Munky were thrilled to be a part of the team that worked on such an engaging, international campaign. We were heavily involved in this project for a couple of months, working on everything from clean up shots and stabilisation, to lion fish ‘wrangling’! Due to the need for an almost immaculate landscape for the Mercedes to travel through, our lead VFX Artist Vinny spent weeks making sure everything was as clean and visually appealing as possible. He made street marking, traffic lights (and even people) vanish, he added speed ramps, colourised the sky to make it pop on screen, as well as getting rid of studio lights and crew shots in the very tricky mirror sequence. He also paid a lot of attention to the ‘horse’s eye’ shot. Making the reflection both obvious and realistic in that one shot was tricky, but the finished product looks beautiful. We also knew we wanted to get exactly the right look for the lion fish shot, and so two of our other artists, after phone calls to various London aquariums, went to shoot an actual lion fish in its tank. The shots were then inserted beautifully into the final edit.