Jameson1780

According to the legend, a barrel has been stolen from the Jameson distillery by one of your Facebook friends. It’s your duty to determine who the thief is and return the barrel to its rightful place. Connect with Facebook and play a mystery game in the virtual streets of Dublin.

unit9 director Martin Percy, teaming with San Francisco based agency Evolution Bureau (EVB) presents an excitingly realistic web experience for Jameson® Irish Whiskey. The web experience lets the user explore Dublin in 1780, very much as John Jameson, (the founder of Jameson Irish Whiskey), would have seen it.

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Agency: EVB Brand: Jameson Director: Martin Percy Interactive Producer: Olivia Young, Fred Chak Technical Director: Yates Buckley Technical Lead: Marco Scabia Art Direction & Design: Jarrod Castaing Sound Design: Steve Nolan Live Action Executive Producer: Michelle Craig Live Action Producer: Louis Figgis Director of Photography: Carl Burke Live Action Production: Holster Studios Production Company: unit9

Trailer: Courtesy of EVB

McDonald’s Happy Meal

DDB Paris approached unit9 to create a Banner and gaming site campaign that will capture the imagination of kids in France with the roll out of the new McDonald’s Happy Meal toys.

unit9’s director Alex Jenkins designed and built a digital experience that merges 2D character design and 3D environment build in a game that allows children’s to control the Happy Character to fly around in the fast pace roller coaster 3D journey, dodge and avoid crashing into obstacles and collect the Happy Meal toys and earn points in the game play.

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Agency: DDB Paris Brand: McDonald’s Director: Alex Jenkins Interactive Producer: Fred Chak Technical Lead: Daniele Pelagatti Story board and Design Lead: Alex Jenkins Front End Development: Andrea Giuffrida Sound Design: Steve Nolan Production Company: unit9

Frank The Fruitcake

unit9 director Michael Sugarman and the Martin Agency present a unique and interactive Christmas gift for Walmart: Frank the Fruitcake is coming to your Facebook page for Christmas.

To keep the feeling real and less “digital”, Frank the Fruitcake was shot using puppetry on a physical set. When Frank arrives on your Facebook page as your special Christmas gift, he’s determined not to be sent away again. There’s only one problem: He never stops talking
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Fruitcakes are the Christmas gift nobody wants, which end up in an infinite cycle of passing on. That’s the idea behind Frank. A “send him away” button hovers above Frank as he goes on and on about himself, his special skills, and his hang-ups, but he’s not about to let himself be send away again without a fight.

Who would you share him with?

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Agency: The Martin Agency Brand: Walmart Director: Michael Sugarman Interactive Producer: Claudio Bellanga Executive Producer: Piero Frescobaldi Technical Lead: Keita Kuroki Developer: Tomasz Brunarski, Silvio Paganini Design: Jarrod Castaing, Josh Smith Animation: Edmund Fung, Benz Vontagnee Sound Design: Steve Nolan Live Action Producer: Michelle Craig Director of Photography: Carl Burke Live Action Production: Holster Studios Production Company: unit9

Domino’s Pizza Hero – iPad app

iPad owners now have the chance to learn the magic of pizza creation and play a game as a real life Domino’s Pizza hero, presented by unit9 director Fredrick Aven and CP+B.  The visual look of the game is highly realistic and the experience with the dough, sauce, cheese and toppings strikingly close to real life. Users can make a pizza onscreen and then hit the “Make An Order” tab to order their creation.

The gameplay of the pizza-making simulates daily work life at Domino’s. Starting at the “Pizza Prep School”, the player learns everything needed to make a pizza – just like taking part in the real program at Domino’s Pizza. Additional exciting mini games, from pizza cutting to bubble popping, encourage you to improve your pizza making skills and become legendary. Compete against other players on the leaderboard and share your scores on Facebook and Twitter. 

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Agency: Crispin Porter & Bogusky Brand: Domino’s Pizza Director: Fredrick Avén Interactive Producer: Carmela Di Prinzio Project Manager: Suyin Looui Technical Lead: Dimitris Doukas Lead Developer – Unity: Dave Rzepa Design: Helpful Strangers Design Lead: Anders Andersson Designer: Elena Lombardi 3D: Sophie Langohr, Felipe Hansen, Jarrod Castaing Sound Design: Steve Nolan Production Company: unit9

Jameson1780 – Walkthrough

According to the legend, a barrel has been stolen from the Jameson distillery by one of your Facebook friends. It’s your duty to determine who the thief is and return the barrel to its rightful place. Connect with Facebook and play a mystery game in the virtual streets of Dublin.

unit9 director Martin Percy, teaming with San Francisco based agency Evolution Bureau (EVB) presents an excitingly realistic web experience for Jameson® Irish Whiskey. The web experience lets the user explore Dublin in 1780, very much as John Jameson, (the founder of Jameson Irish Whiskey), would have seen it.

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Agency: EVB Brand: Jameson Director: Martin Percy Interactive Producer: Olivia Young, Fred Chak Technical Director: Yates Buckley Technical Lead: Marco Scabia Art Direction & Design: Jarrod Castaing Sound Design: Steve Nolan Live Action Executive Producer: Michelle Craig Live Action Producer: Louis Figgis Director of Photography: Carl Burke Live Action Production: Holster Studios Production Company: unit9

McDonald’s Monopoly Original Race

The McDonald’s Monopoly Original Race promotion is run every year, involving an on-pack promotion, which gives customers vouchers showing a promo code with products they buy from McDonalds. With this code, the customer goes online and enters the game designed this year by unit9, to be in eith a chance to win 10,000 Euro every day.

To make the win/no win situation more fun and engage users, unit9 director Fredrick Aven was asked to create a youtube channel takeover. The race takes place on a gigantic version of the Monopoly board in a flash based branded youtube channel. Using facebook connect, the users profile picture is embedded in one of the runners. In addition to the youtube channel takeover, unit9 also designed a trailer and an interactive MSN banner to direct users to the game.

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Agency: DDB Paris Brand: McDonald’s Director: Fredrick Avén Interactive Producer: Roxanne Nazrudeen Project Manager: Eleanor Bourdillon-Miller Technical Lead: Bruno Ribeiro Animation: Sam Cundall, Maki Yoshikura Design: Helpful Strangers 3D: Kettle Studio Production Company: unit9

Honda Civic 2012 – Follow Happy

Dawid Marcinkowski brings to life the story behind the Honda Magic Seats in this charming interactive experience. Follow Happy is part of the Honda Civic 2012 campaign and lives in the Honda Civic YouTube channel as a flash gadget.

Make the dog happier by blowing into your microphone to increase the speed of the car and discover why he inspired Honda to keep the seats in the new Civic.

Follow the unit9 team through the production process and see how the project came together in the link below.

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Client: Wieden + Kennedy London Brand: Honda Civic
Interactive Director: Dawid Marcinkowski Interactive Producer: Richard Rowe Lead Developer: Pawel Klimkowski Technical Director: Gilles Boisselet Design Lead: Josh Smith Music: Sam Sutton Sound Design: Filip Marcinkowski Live Action Director: Martin Sterling Director of Photography: Carl Burke Live Action Producer: Michelle Craig Live action Production: Holster Production Company: unit9

A Crystal Christmas by Swarovski at Harrods

Harrods approached Anrick Bregman to create the online component to ‘A Crystal Christmas inspired by Swarovski’, the 2011 Christmas window display for the world’s most iconic department store. Anrick brings to the web a magical and interactive version of the Swarovski Christmas story – a web experience which acts as the introduction to the story told in Harrods windows, and a film with subtle and playful interaction inviting you to join in.

Working together with the team at Swarovski, the film is the central focus of the experience, but viewers are also able to interact with crystal snowflakes, to browse and purchase items from Swarovski’s five product categories, and to learn more about the heritage of the Swarovski brand.

The finale of the web experience transitions seamlessly into the vision of the actual Christmas windows at Harrods. This connection is the key of the project – a window from fantasy to the real world.

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Brand: Harrods/Swarovski Director: Anrick Bregman Producer: Henry Cowling Project Manager: Eleanor Bourdillon-Miller Lead Developer: Magic Socket Technical Director: Yates Buckley Design Lead: Luciano Foglia Music: Arlen Figgis Sound Design: Richard Nathan Live Action Executive Producer: Michelle Craig Live Action Producer: Elliott Tagg Director of Photography: Carl Burke Production Design: Caroline Story Live Action Production: Holster Studios VFX Company: Mainframe Production Company: unit9

Slavery Footprint: HTML5 site & iOS/Android app

What is your slavery footprint? Unveil the truth about forced labour. Director Robert Bader directed a beautifully engaging, fluid and animated experience for Call & Response through San Francisco based agency, MUH·TAY·ZIK | HOF·FER. The accompanying Made in a Free World app for iOS and Android lets the user check-in whilst shopping and earn Free World points by asking brands about slavery in their supply chain. Via the integrated share-function all actions and progresses can easily be shared on Facebook and Twitter.

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Agency: MUH·TAY·ZIK | HOF·FER Brand: Call & Response Director: Robert Bader Executive Producer: Emmanuel Saccoccini Interactive Producer: Carmela Di Prinzio Technical Director: Gilles Boisselet Project Manager: Eleanor Bourdillon-Miller Technical Leads: Maciej Zasada & Todd Moore Lead Designer: Luciano Foglia Developers: Todd Moore, Sam Brown, Maciej Zasada Christian Bianchini & Grzegorz Kedzierski Backend Developer: Tomasz Brunarski Designer: Elena Lombardi Production Company: unit9

Converse Desire: The Making Of

A sneak peak behind the scenes of Desire, the interactive music video shot for Converse. The project was filmed in London over two days, with Paloma Faith, Graham Coxon and Bill Ryder-Jones, as well as a cast of exotic extras.

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Agency: Anomaly Production Company: unit9 Director: Anrick Bregman Executive Producers: Valentina Culatti & Piero Frescobaldi Video Producer: Charlotte Loynes Live Action: Rebel 3D & Post Production: The Mill Interactive Producer: Fred Chak Technical Director: Yates Buckley

Mentos UP2U

UP2U is a browser-based experience holding eight very different, and yet subtly synchronised films. While watching, viewers can switch between different films, they have the choice to choose their flavour. The eight films were written and shot by Anrick and his team in London, each film with it’s own actors, set design, and a bespoke score composed for the project. The site structure making the experience possible was built in Florence by unit9 Italy.

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Agency: The Martin Agency Brand: Mentos Director: Anrick Bregman Producer: Michelle Craig Live Action Co-Director: Martin Stirling DOP: Carl Burke Technical Director: Yates Buckley Interactive Producer: Richard Rowe Design Lead: Jarrod Castaing Technical Lead: David Hartono Production Design: Caroline Story Editor: Alex Burt Post Production/VFX: Kettle VFX Supervisor: Jules Stevenson Music: Arlen Figgis Sound Design: Richard Nathan Production Company: unit9

Sugarman ‘Gives a Shit’ with The Viral Factory

To promote Vh1’s broadcast of the “Do Something Awards”, an awards show honouring celebrities and civilians who donate their time to charity, Michael and The Viral Factory created the bogus scatological charity Give A Shit. Loosely based on teachings of the Dalai Lama, G.A.S. had its own celebrity spokesperson, Nikki Reed of the Twilight films, who appeared in this spot urging viewers to turn their movements into a movement.

The live-action spot drove traffic to an interactive site, where users could sign up and dedicate their number twos to their number-one causes.

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Brand: Vh1 Director: Michael Sugarman Production Company: The Viral Factory

Welcome to Pine Point: Complete Walkthrough

A complete walkthrough of ‘Welcome to Pine Point’ – an interactive web documentary for NFB Interactive about a northern mining town that closed in 1988, and was subsequently demolished. This project was several years in the making, and started off as an idea for a book (about the death of photo albums as a way to house memory).

The internationally acclaimed project has scooped the FWA Award, Design Licks Site of the Day, Memefest, Communication Arts Web Pick of the Day, Dope Award, Bellaria Crossmedia Doc, FITC awards, and winner of two Webby awards.

Visit Pine Point

Fruit Shoot: Champion of the Playground

Kids can compete with each other in a virtual playground with Britvic’s Champion of the Playground, a branded online gaming platform that merges real world activity with online bragging rights.

Micro-chips embedded in bespoke digitised skipping rope and hackysack record a code when the child practices certain skills. Every kid in the country competes on one gigantic leader-board. The more they play, the higher they score. The website includes webcam games encouraging sporting activity at home.

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Agency: BBH London Brand: Fruit Shoot Director: Fredrick Avén Interactive Producers: Carmela Di Prinzio & Roxanne Nazrudeen Technical Partner: Yates Buckley Tech Lead: Kanish Patel Design: Fredrick Aven & Elena Lombardi Sound: Steve Nolan Production Company: unit9

Kellogg’s: Krave Krusader – now for iOS & Android

In your relentless pursuit, you must run through the Krave world catching as many Choc Chunks as you can, while trying to avoid or smash through all the obstacles and jumping the gaps. Collect the many different power-ups as you go to help you along the way to a winning score. Each week, one Top Krusader wins a limited edition prize pack!

Don’t forget to top up your score by collecting as many chunks on the move as you can in ‘Choc Pursuit’, which uses Google Maps to determine your location, and alert you to nearby chocolate…

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Agency: CMW London Brand: Kellogg’s Krave Director: Fredrick Avén Interactive Producer: Carmela Di Prinzio Project Manager: Suyin Looui Technical Director: Gilles Boisselet Technical Lead: Dimitris Doukas Production Company: unit9

Nissan: The Planet Zero

An interactive 3D microsite by ROXIK using his Sharikura engine. The project created for Japanese agency ENJIN, promotes Nissan’s new eco-friendly range of vehicles. Visitors explore ‘The Planet Zero’ in search of various methods of renewable energy, all set in the neo-futuristic, zero-emission world.

Currently, there are 4 worlds for users to explore whilst getting to grips with the intuitive controls, with loads more to come over the next few weeks. Head over to the movie theatre, where you can check out a host of ever-increasing movies featuring Plug and his friends – the game even has secret commands waiting to be discovered, allowing you to experience the game again and again. unit9 were also approached to build the ‘making of’ site, showcasing Dwarf’s process of creating the stop-motion films you find in the theatre, which you can visit by clicking the link below.

FWA Site of the Month: September 2011

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Agency: ENJIN Inc. Brand: Nissan Director: Roxik Character Design and Stop-Motion Animation: dwarf Sound Design: Otograph

Forget Me Not – Interactive Music video

unit9 director Dawid Marcinkowski has created an interactive version of “Forget Me Not” by Smolik and French actress Emmanuelle Seigner.

An online experience that blends the forgotten genius of three public domain masterpieces with an awesome track. Every user interaction is randomly rewarded with zombies, mutants, teenage werewolves or blood thirsty creatures descending from above.

In all 70 loops from three sci-fi movies from the 50’s – “The Brain that wouldn’t die”, “Teenagers from outer space” and “Attack from space” create a compelling experience with a refreshing lack of CGI.

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Client: Smolik Interactive Director: Dawid Marcinkowski Concept, Editing, Art Direction & Design: Kasia Kifert & Dawid Marcinkowski Flash Developer: Lok Neville Lee 3D Developer: David Rzepa Copywriter: Austen Morrow Live Action Direction & Cinematography: Pawel Edelman Production Company: unit9

Stella Artois: Black Diamond

An immersive mix of real-life cinematic theatre and online interactive storytelling, presented by Stella Artois Black. We follow the infamous black diamond as it passes from person to person and is eventually reunited with it’s rightful owner.

Anrick wrote the Black Diamond in collaboration with Mother and Punchdrunk, and then developed the online component of the story, an interactive film designed to offer the user their own perspective on the Black Diamond story. Set in Paris in the swinging sixties, the story is told through stark black and white imagery, a series of interconnected characters and a rich and immersive stereoscopic soundtrack. The slow drawn out pace and reflective feel set a contrast with the current fast paced action enjoyed by online viewers.

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Agency: Mother London Brand: Stella Artois Director: Anrick Bregman Executive Producer: Piero Frescobaldi Interactive Producer: Fred Chak Technical Director: Gilles Boisselet Design Lead: Jarrod Castaing Trailer Director: Gustavo Sousa Front End Development: Marco Corti Back End Development: Thomas Pedoussaut Sound Design: Richard Nathan Production Company: unit9

Summer Camp

A transmedia project including website, music video, photography and graphic design created by Dawid Marcinkowski and photographer Kate Kifert for London-based band, Summer Camp. A perfect example where sophisticated concept album meets complex interactive visual storytelling.

Dawid and Kate created Condale – a fictitious suburb of Los Angeles, where the time is always 1984. The story begins with the website where users explore audio tracks triggering a unique insight into the interactive diary of teenagers of the 80s.  From here one can follow the characters through a diversity of other media – watch the music video, read the scrapbook or find editorials from Condale in lifestyle magazines.

So… visit Condale and re-experience teenage angst, naivety, loneliness, love, jealousy and desire. Everything changes when you grow old.

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Client: Summer Camp Director: Dawid Marcinkowski Concept, Editing, Art Direction: Kasia Kifert & Dawid Marcinkowski Lead Flash Developer: Lok Neville Lee Flash & Backend Developer: Sam Brown Production Company: unit9

Kellogs: Krave Krusader for Facebook

Kellogs Krave cereal, is reaching cult status amongst students in the UK. Krave, the most successful product launch in Kellogs history was already using Facebook as its central online presence.

We created a game for Facebook, that integrates mobile activity. The game adopts a classic running platform style that we’re all familiar with – Challenge your friends, or form your very own Krave Krew, in your quest to munch as much choccy as you can and unlock Krave outfits to win groovy apparell.

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Agency: CMW London Brand: Kellogs Krave Director: Fredrick Avén Interactive Producer: Carmela Di Prinzio Project Manager: Suyin Looui Technical Director: Gilles Boisselet Tech Lead: Dimitris Doukas Tech Lead (Back End): Thomas Pedoussaut Lead Design: Anders Andersson Sound: Mind Funk Production Company: unit9

MINImaps

MINImaps is a massively multiplayer driving experience, where users can challenge their friends to a race in a MINI car, location, time of day, track and length of their choice. Can’t seem to catch your friends online? Go ahead and challenge a complete stranger to burn MINI rubber, or to beat your hottest time on your very own track.

The creative approach was simple: We had to make the MINImaps driving experience as much fun as possible.

MINImaps uses many things which, technically speaking, don’t particularly like each other; Google Maps, Flash and Facebook – In addition to real time multiplayer gaming, local weather data for each location, individual cars and sounds and crucially, realistic and engaging driving-physics.

“We had to tune creative requirements with technical possibilities, to reach the best possible balance between the two” Recalls Christian Etter, the Director on the project. The project required a particularly experimental approach to successfully combine these technologies in a new way.

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Agency: DDB Paris Brand: MINI Director: Christian Etter Interactive Producer: Richard Rowe Technical Director: Gilles Boisselet Tech Lead & Developer: Maciej Zasada Visual Flash Developer: Pawel Klimkowski Back End Development : Stefano Guidolin & Thomas Pedoussaut Designers: Edmund Fung & Felipe Hansen Sound Effects: Christiano Sossi Production Company: unit9

Brand Toys

Brand Toys revolutionizes the way we see brands and their characteristics. With careful creative direction from Takayoshi Kishimoto and Roxik’s pioneering 3D engine, Brand Toys breaks the mould in brand data visualisation as we know it.

The Brand Toys engine analyses intricate data from Millward Brown’s BrandZ survey (as well as social media inputs) and generates a toy that reflects each brand’s personality and standing in the world, from thousands of possible outcomes. Users are able to search brands, do side by side brand comparisons and even get their chosen toys built in the real world. The team was expertly led by Technical Director Yates Buckley, for JWT London.

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Agency: JWT London Brand: JWT Director: Takayoshi Kishimoto & Roxik Executive Producer: Valentina Culatti Technical Director: Yates Buckley Project Manager: Eleanor Bourdillon-Miller Designer: Anders Andersson Production Company: unit9

Got Milk: Green Lantern

In anticipation of the 2011 movie release of “Green Lantern”, unit9 were approached by Deutsch to build a website consisting of augmented reality games that challenge and entertain users, to see if they have what it takes to join DC Comics superhero elite.

By competing in a bunch of online challenges that utilise webcam technology and augmented reality, users can pass a variety of challenges.

This unique but highly immersive method of manipulating gameplay, was a huge technical challenge. Hand detection algorithms tend to be based on highly optimised C++ libraries that perform pattern recognition in order to detect the hand. But we had to develop a hand detector based on Flash in Actionscript3 (a slower language than C++) we used lots of mixed digital media to keep the site fast and responsive so it would work seamlessly on a low bandwidth, without compromising playability or design.

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Agency: Deutsch Brand: Milk PEP Director: Fredrick Avén Interactive Producer: Carmela Di Prinzio Project Manager: Pritty Gilbey Design: Josh Smith & Edmund Fung Tech Lead: Marco Scabia Lead Developer: Bruno Imbrizi Development: Anthony Boutet (Little Suckers) Motion Graphics/Animation: Edmund Fung, Benz Vongatanee, Josh Smith & Maki Yoshikuro 3D: Sophie Langohr Sound: Steve Nolan Production Company: unit9

Skoda Puzzle

Fallon London approached unit9 to create a fun and challenging online puzzle game for VW Skoda, the new sponsors of Channel 5’s ‘CSI: Crime Scene Investigation’. Users are to pick up cryptic clues from the Skoda TV idents before and after the show.

Each week’s puzzle is unique. From traditional code breaking, to working with Google’s Street-View API to create challenging interactive games – all of which live on fully bespoke branded YouTube channel.

Got home late from school, or didn’t catch the clue? Don’t worry, each week’s idents can be watched again easily before trying to crack each puzzle, by clicking the Skoda Puzzle link below.

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Agency: Fallon London Brand: VW Skoda Director: Anrick Bregman Interactive Producer: Fred Chak Lead Design: Jarrod Castiang Tech Lead: Keita Kuroki Backend Lead: Rachid Belaid Creative Technologist: Stephan Bischof Java Script & HTML Developer: Todd Moore Production Company: unit9

Converse: Desire

Contemporary interactive storytelling meets traditionally branded music video in this seamless flash-driven microsite for Converse.

unit9’s Anrick Bregman directed ‘Desire’ for Anomaly London, with live action by Rebel and post production by The Mill.

A very collaborative project that gives Facebook users and their friends a chance to feature in a music video alongside Blur’s Graham Coxon, Bill Ryder-Jones (formerly of The Coral) and Platinum-selling artist Paloma Faith.

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Agency: Anomaly Brand: Converse Director: Anrick Bregman Executive Producers: Valentina Culatti & Piero Frescobaldi Video Producer: Charlotte Loynes Live Action: Rebel 3D & Post Production: The Mill Interactive Producer: Fred Chak Technical Director: Yates Buckley Production Company: unit9

Sony: Project Shiphunt

The specialist games team at unit9 have crafted an engaging gaming experience for Sony – Project Shiphunt: Oceans of Treasure.

The game equips players with Sony and Intel technology, allowing them to search and scan the depths of the oceans around us from their living room in search of sunken shipwrecks for the chance to win real loot.

One of the first ever fully story-based games created in Google Earth, we’ve stretched the Google Earth API capabilities (which were never intended to be used as a gaming platform) to provide a beautifully fluid gaming experience requiring constant communication between the intricate Flash elements and the customised backend. Click below to log into your Facebook account, and get hunting.

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Agency: 180 Los Angeles Brand: Sony Electronics Production Company: unit9
Director: Robert Bader Interactive Producer: Rob Corradi Executive Producer: Valentina Culatti Technical Director: Gilles Boisselet Design: Jarrod Castaing Technical Lead: Keita Kuroki Front End Development: Silvio Paganini Back End Development: Artjom Vassiljev
Motion Graphics: Sophie Langohr Sound Design: Steve Nolan
Music Company: HUMAN Music and Sound Design

Bali: Temple Explorer

We love TV documentaries about art and travel. But even the best of them inevitably suffers from what you might call “the tyranny of the edit”: the director/editor chooses what you see and for how long. By contrast, the Bali Temple Explorer demonstrates a whole new way to explore a location shown with video.

The website lets you explore a Balinese temple, shown with over 150 interlinked HD videos. But you are in control of your filmic exploration – you can follow your own interests at your own pace, thus allowing a stronger emotional experience. 2011 Webby Honoree & Winner.

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Live Action & Interactive Director: Martin Percy Interactive Producer: Richard Rowe Hybrid Designer/Developer: Lok Neville Lee Tech Lead: Sergio Garcez Lead Designer: Billy Burgoyne Design: Simone Nunziato & Adam Ridovics Production Company: unit9

Tropicana: Energie Naturelle

A schoolboy science experiment gone haywire? There is no trick. The science is simple. We have all done it at school. We just had to make it big enough to power the signage, and make it into a charming stylishly designed billboard in the heart of Paris. What fun.

DDB’s creatives initiated this and we had only a few weeks to go. Johnny was sport enough to accept to play with this and we all had great fun.

A wall of zinc and copper spikes with over 2500 oranges (all dutifully recycled), some plexiglass and led based lighting, and a sunny day, was all we needed to attract the desired attention. Thanks DDB and thanks Tropicana.

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Agency: DDB Paris Brand: Tropicana Director: Johnny Hardstaff Interactive Producer: Michelle Craig Production Design: Alex Marden Production Company: unit9

Nano Panda: New game for iOS & Android

unit9.apps have crafted an entirely bespoke game for the iPhone, iPad and Android platforms – Nano Panda. Solve brain-bending particle physics puzzles in this addictive and dynamic Unity3D game.

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Technical Director: Gilles Boisselet Producer: Suyin Looui Art Direction & Design: Lok Neville Lee Graphic Design & Animation: Giedre Domzaite Interface Design: Jarrod Castaing Unity3D Programming, Level Design, Additional Game Design: David Rzepa Game Design, Level Design & Additional Programming: Dimitris Doukas Sound Design: Adam Janota Bzowski

Best Buy: Telephone Time Machine App

unit9’s dedicated apps team have developed an app to promote their new ‘Buy Back’ program, which allows customers to sell their tech goodies back to Best Buy, in exchange for vouchers to put towards a new purchase.

A free download from the AppStore, simply select the type of product you bought and how much you paid for it – the app does the rest. You can also take advantage of the built-in smartphone ‘Upgrade Checker’ – simply enter your phone number and carrier, and the app will tell you when your upgrade’s due. You can even tell the app to remind you and add it to your calendar so you never miss the latest gadget you’re entitled to.

And for a bit of fun, don’t forget to check out the ‘Time Machine’ feature – turn back time and make calls from within the app on a telephone keypad from your chosen year. For the super patient (old rotary phone) and the super curious (futuristic mind reader phone).

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Agency: Crispin Porter + Bogusky Brand: Best Buy Interactive Producer: Luis De Jorge Ladrero Tech Lead: Dimitris Doukas Developers: James Beith & Filippo Tosetto Production Company: unit9

Calvin Klein

unit9 have crafted a seamless augmented reality microsite for Calvin Klein, giving users a whole new way to navigate the traditional branded microsite.

Users can hold a printed magazine advert up to their webcam, which will then transform the flat 2D printed advert, into a fully 3D augmented reality cube. The entire user interface on the microsite is manipulated with the printed page – no longer the mouse.

Spin the page in your hand, the cube spins in time with you. Lift the page up flat to reveal the CK video and twist and spin the underwear-clad hunks, until you have just the angle you wanted. For Syrup NY.

Agency: Syrup NY Brand: Calvin Klein Interactive Producer: Fred Chak Tech Lead: Gilles Boisselet Production Company: unit9

1000 Cranes for Japan

One Thousand Cranes has asked artists to donate designs which can be folded into origami paper cranes. When individuals make a donation to the relief fund, they can pick a design, print it, and make their own crane.

‘Last weekend we were discussing how we could contribute our resources and our thinking as a creative agency to those affected by the disaster in Japan,’ explains Alfred Malmros of Anomaly. ‘We wanted do something that was more contemplative, that made people stop, reflect and send their thoughts and wishes to the people of Japan.’

In Japan, folding a paper crane is an act of healing and recovery, and an ancient legend says anyone who folds 1000 cranes will be granted a wish. Malmros says the designers were inspired by this and felt the image of a crane might also compell others to donate.

Anomaly approached unit9, who quickly created a website, and within a few days they had crane designs donated from illustration agencies and artists like Todd Selby, CIA, Jelly, Dutch Uncle and Blinkart.

‘We’re hoping to get people to spend a few minutes folding cranes and send their thoughts to Japan, offering them an opportunity in a moment of crises take a time out and contemplate,’ Malmros says.

Courtesy of Framemag.com

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Agency: Anomaly London Brand: Just Giving Japan Fund Interactive Producer: Luis De Jorge Ladrero Design: Luciano Foglia Tech Lead: Rachid Belaid Front End Developer: Todd Moore Production Company: unit9

SixToes: “Low Guns” Music Video

A station platform; 1 take, 7 seconds, 40 volunteers, 500 frames per second. unit9 presents “Low Guns”, a Henry Cowling Film for the band SixToes.

The action on the station platform in “Low Guns”, took place in just 7 seconds and was shot in slow motion through the window of a passing train. The video was inspired by a YouTube clip called ‘Glide2′ by “StrayLight”, and came to fruition by creating a facebook group on the bands page asking for volunteers to take part in a music promo shoot, somewhere in West London.

Director: Henry Cowling AD: Richard Rowe Producers: Henry Cowling & Richard Rowe DOP: Carl Burke Camera Op: Edward Edwards Online Editor: Sarah Zappon

Rich Media Banners: John Lewis

We’ve crafted some banners for adam&eve to showcase the new John Lewis fashion range for Spring 2011.

The banners utilise geolocation technology and a smart weather API to determine the users local weather condition. Based on this information, the banner shows the outfit that is most suitable for the local conditions. The user can interact by scrolling forwards and back through the various looks to suit a variety of weather conditions. On rollover, every single item of clothing and accessory can be shared by facebook, twitter and mail, or simply bought directly from the John Lewis store.

The challenge was to create rich, visually stunning banners that incorporate 3D and CGI effects, with high quality video shot at 1000fps, and include a host of features and user interactions within the rich media file size limit.

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Agency: adam&eve Brand: John Lewis Director: Robert Bader Interactive Producer: Richard Rowe CGi / 3D: Jules Stevenson Tech Lead: Mario Ballario Designer: Rafa da Silva Production Company: unit9

Fruit Shoot International

For BBH London, unit9 have crafted an interactive website for kids to learn, play and share comments in a fun and engaging way.

Kids are given the chance to master cool skills such as beat-boxing, cup stacking and skateboarding in this engaging microsite for Fruit Shoot. Master four addictive flash games (accuracy, movement, balance and rhythm) and view the latest comments to get the lowdown on the word on the digital playground.

visit Fruit Shoot International

Director: Fredrick Avén Interactive Producer: Carmela Di Prinzio Technical Partner: Yates Buckley Lead Designer: Elena Lombardi Tech Lead: Kanish Patel Project Manager: Roxanne Nazrudeen Production Company: unit9

Martin Luther King: The Reading Project 2011

Chevrolet honours Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in this engaging interactive experience, that allows users to record and share various quotes from some of his most famous speech’s, giving users the sense that the words truely are “of the people”.

The simple act of reading Dr. King’s message aloud reinforces it’s timelessness – click the link below to record your contribution and hear other recordings from around the world.

record your very own symbol of support

Agency: SS+K Brand: Chevrolet Interactive Producer: Fred Chak Art Direction and Design: Luciano Foglia Production Company: unit9

Vitamin Water: Psychic Caesar

As part of Vitamin Water’s new campaign; “Hydration with Excellence”, unit9 have worked closely with Droga5 to create this clever little Facebook App. Psychic Caeser will dynamically pull content from your wall, to provide you with an entertaining, personalised horoscope for 2011.

visit Psychic Caeser, and learn your fate…

Agency: Droga5 Brand: Vitamin Water Director: Anrick Bregman Interactive Producer: Fred Chak & Luis De Jorge Ladrero Design: Jarrod Castaing Technical Lead: Rachid Belaid Motion Graphics/Animation: Edmund Fung Production Company: unit9

3D Photo app: Photography enters 3rd dimension

Its easy to transform any image using 3D Photo – either select one from your camera reel or take a new image from within the app. Touch, or use the accelerometer to manipulate your new 3D image, before showing the world.

Instantly share your 3D photos with friends, family and colleagues – Just email, tweet or post to Facebook and Flickr.

Features:

* Take a photo or choose one from your Photo Album to add 3D effects
* Get a live preview of 3D templates as you take photos
* Save photos to your Photo Album
* Share on Facebook, Twitter, Flickr
* Email your photos to all your friends

Simple Touch Controls:

* Swap 3D templates easily by touching the arrow buttons
* Touch & drag your finger across the screen to rotate 3D templates
* You can also touch & drag to get different 3D views of photos in your Gallery

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Director: Robert Bader Production Company: unit9

unit9 bathroom gets a lick of ink

We commissioned one of our favourite illustrators, Martin Wollerstam to create a mural for our bathroom.

His brief was to include orgy scenes, technical expertise and an international flavour – certainly no easy task but Martin did a fantastic job.

see more of Martin’s work here

Producer: Susan McCrystal DoP: Sophie Langohr & Billy Burgoyne Interactive Production Company: unit9

M.O.Test yourself: autoQUIZ

autoQUIZ is an engaging Facebook quiz designed specifically for car lovers or those who really know what a camshaft is.

Using your best efforts you need to navigate 5 rounds of 10 questions and conquer 5 different interactive questions at the end of each round.

At the end of your game you’ll receive your autoTRADER AQ score, which you can proudly present on your Facebook wall.

take the quiz now!

Agency: JOHN ST Brand: AutoTrader Canada
Director: Geo Freitas Producer: Luke Ritchie Lead Developer: Jay Moretti
Design: Vitor Veras Animation: Rafael daSilva Production Company: unit9

Harajuku Lovers

Harajuku Lovers is singer Gwen Stefani’s brand of apparel, fashion accessories, and stationery. The concept for Harajuku Lovers revolves around the Tokyo area of Harajuku – so we’ve created a fittingly cute and interactive site, to promote the range’s new fragrances. For Syrup, New York.

Agency: Syrup, New York Brand: Harajuku Lovers Interactive Director: Anders Andersson Technical Lead: Keita Kuroki Producer: Fred Chak Interactive Production Company: unit9

BBC Primary Languages

A site to improve children’s language skills in a fun and engaging way, kids are given the choice of brushing up on 3 languages, with interactive flash games, videos and sounds to help them along. Over the next few months, new instalments will include four more entirely bespoke flash games.

BBC Primary Languages

Agency: BBC Brand: BBC Interactive Director: Elena Lombardi Technical Lead: David Hartono Producer: Richard Land Illustrator: Elena Lombardi Interactive Production Company: unit9

Heinz: The Secret Ingredient

Chef and daytime TV personality Paul Rankin invites you to join him in the kitchen. Help him rustle up 3 delicious recipes that we all know and love, which all contain one secret ingredient in common….

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Agency: AMV BBDO Brand: Heinz
Interactive Director: Anrick Bregman Technical Director: Yates Buckley Producer: Sam Becker Designers: Luciano Foglia & Jarrod Castaing Interactive Production Company: unit9

Interactive Anime: Attraction Trailer

Attraction is an interactive anime created in collaboration with Koji Morimoto.

It tells the story of Hiro, Koichi and Ren, three kids in Tokyo 2040 who go on an adventure together. And it teaches young people in an engaging and innovative way about the dangers of smoking.

Experience Attraction

Read the Manga comic

Agency: DDB Paris Brand: Inpes, French Ministry of Health Interactive Director: Anrick Bregman & Kishi Kishimoto Technical Director: Yates Buckley Lead Developer: David Hartono Producer: Sam Becker Interactive Production Company: unit9

Interactive web-based movie: Sufferrosa

“Cutting-edge interactive detective noir” The Guardian

“I’ve seen the future of Hollywood and it’s from Poland” Ernie Schenck

Sufferrosa is a Webby Awards nominated interactive web-based movie by Dawid Marcinkowski, and is one of the biggest storytelling projects combining cinema and the web ever made.

Marcinkowski worked with 25 international actors, including legendary polish actress Beata Tyszkiewicz and bands such as Sonic Youth, Memory Tapes and Glass Candy.

Since its recent release, Sufferrosa has enjoyed critical acclaim, having won the Audience Award at the 24th Stuttgarter Film Winter and recently being awarded the FWA Site of the Day.

Sufferrosa is the first interactive movie regulary presented both at film and new media/design festivals, including: OFFF Barcelona, Fantasporto IFF, Geneva IFF, Moves 11 – International Festival of Movemet on Screen.

Sufferrosa has been also presented as a live cinema performance for Canadian Film Centre New Media Lab and BAFTA/onedotzero.

Experience Sufferrosa for yourself | Read the Interview in Imperica

Live Action & Interactive Director, Editor and Designer: Dawid Marcinkowski

iMeet: Visual Conference Call

iMeet revolutionises conference calls, by putting a face, to a name – blankly staring at the speakerphone is now a thing of the past.

unit9 collaborated on this project by working on the front end of this new tool, establishing the information architecture and designing the user interface. We then used an iterative series of creative prototypes to streamline the collaboration with MUH·TAY·ZIK | HOF·FER and the development team at PGI to help realise this revolutionary new tool for sharing ideas.

Take a look at iMeet, Try a Free Trial

Agency: MUH·TAY·ZIK | HOF·FER Brand: iMeet Interactive Director: Robert Bader Technical Director: Gilles Boisselet Technical Lead: Kanish Patel Producer: Carmela Di Prinzio Design: Luciano Foglia Animation: Edmund Fung & Benz Anuwat Vongtanee Interactive Production Company: unit9

MOVE: Choreographing You

Move Choreographing You is the first major exhibition on the interaction between art and dance/movement/choreography since the early 1960s. The exhibition has been designed by Amanda Levete Architects. Inspired by the photographic motion studies of the human body of Etienne-Jules Marey and Eadweard Muybridge.

At points throughout the exhibition visitors can pause to explore a digital archive designed by Unit9, that will re-present the history of the longstanding affinity between art and dance.

We needed to create an interactive archive that felt like a natural progression from the partitions and spaces created by Amanda Levete Architects and still maintain its own distinctive identity. We created a in interactive archive conceived as a ‘time machine’ it replaces the notion of a traditional time line with a circular navigation which brings together photographs and films of 120 of some of the most important performance works. The archive was written in C++ and runs on specially configured computers. The digital archive has been co-curated by André Lepecki, Professor of Performance Studies at New York University.

Ongoing exhibition, from 13th October 2010 – 9th January 2011

move.southbankcentre.co.uk

view the archive

Agency: Amanda Levete Architects Brand: The Hayward Gallery Producer: Wai-Ming Wee
Creative Diector Takayoshi Kishimoto Interactive Director / Developer David Hoe Interface Design Luciano Foglia Interactive Production Company: unit9

unit9.apps: Interactive Street Game

Come and play our interactive street game during Internet Week Europe 8-12 November 2010.

Using a carefully set up night vision camera and electro-magnetic field detection technology, the public on the streets below can all join in with our interactive street game – escape the following ghost, collect evil pumpkins and rack up the highest score you can.

Come and play in Hoxton Square, London 8-12 November 2010 (In the evenings)

internetweekeurope.com

view the making of

Interactive Producer: Stephan Bischof Designer & Developer: Lok Neville Lee Interactive Production Company: unit9

IBM PointStream: The Tutorial

IBM Pointstream utilises a variety of technologies, including Flash 10, html, php and Java (IntelliJ IDEA). The user can easily switch between any game currently being played, and view detailed data on any current or completed set – ensuring you don’t miss a thing. What’s more, each point within every game can be selected, presenting you with information regarding faults, rally count and even serve speed.

PointStream is live NOW – click here to check it out

Agency: OgilvyOne Worldwide New York Brand: IBM Technical Director: Yates Buckley Producer: Fred Chak Interactive Director: Christian Etter Designer: Edmund Fung Interactive Production Company: unit9

TweetFeed for iPhone

Tweet feed is an app developed independently by unit9. Need up to the minute information on an subject or event? Want to stay in tune with breaking news? Need to stay up to speed with someone’s tweets?

Keep your eyes on the twitter sphere while working, in transit, at a conference, or just watching tv. Tweet feed keeps your tweets coming in as and when they are available in a simple stream of live-updates.

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Director: Anrick Bregman Production Company: unit9

Glenfiddich Slumbering Warehouse

Glenfiddich throws open its distillery doors and invites visitors to explore their warehouse. Can you find the 3 hidden secrets of what makes the finest whisky? There’s all sorts of tasty prizes up for grabs. For Ruby London.

Explore the distillery

Agency: Ruby London Brand: Glenfiddich Tech Lead: Sergio Garcez Producer: Richard Rowe Live Action & Interactive Director: Martin Percy Designer: Billy Burgoyne Sound Design: Steve Nolan Interactive Production Company: unit9

IBM PointStream: Tennis Visualiser In Action

If you love your Tennis, make sure you have your laptop at your side. New for the 2010 US Open, The IBM PointStream visualiser aggregates and displays match data and stats in real-time to give you insight into the way your favorite players are performing.

How it works

PointStream is live NOW – click here to check it out

Agency: OgilvyOne Worldwide New York Brand: IBM Technical Director: Yates Buckley Producer: Fred Chak Interactive Director: Christian Etter Designer: Edmund Fung Interactive Production Company: unit9

Xtreme Xrunch Kart – Official Trailer

Available in the AppStore from September 2010.

Be one of the first to see a sneak preview of our latest fully 3D iPhone4 game, for our friends at Crispin Porter + Bogusky Colorado.

visit the official XXK website

WIRED feature Xreme Xrunch Kart!

Agency: Crispin Porter + Bogusky Brand: Baby Carrots / William Bolthouse Farms Inc. Interactive Director: Anrick Bregman Technical Director: Gilles Boisselet Producer: Sam Becker Tech Lead: Dimitris Doukas Interactive Production Company: unit9.apps

Adobe Museum of Digital Media

Here, artists and innovators have a unique freedom to create work that wouldn’t be possible in a traditional museum.

Unlike brick and mortar museums, AMDM is accessible from anywhere, 365 days a year, 24 hours a day. In the coming months, exhibits will feature video artist Tony Oursler, RISD President John Maeda and Japanese artist Mariko Mori.

read more at adobe.com

adobemuseum.com

Agency: Goodby Silverstein & Partners Producer: Mel Di Prinzio Tech Lead: Keita Kuroki Interactive Director: Fredrick Avén Interactive Production Company: unit9

Syfy – Imagination Springs

Combine objects, rearrange reality, and unlock medals by creating mind-blowing evolutions, in this 3D city. Push your imagination to the max, as you explore imagination springs in search of all those hidden unlockables – can you find them all?

Can’t seem to unlock the bouncing bunny rabbits? Looking for a way to reach the sky level, or stuck underwater? Click below to put your imagination to the test!

Imagination Springs

Agency:Fallon Worldwide Minneapolis Brand: Syfy
Producer: Luke Ritchie Tech Lead: Tony Volpe Interactive Director: Fredrick Avén Interactive Production Company: unit9

Air Tennis on The Gadget Show

Can’t bare to tear yourself away from Wimbledon this summer? No need, with unit9’s Wii-inspired app, Air Tennis. Our friends over at The Gadget Show review (and love!) Air Tennis and we think you might too – so get practising, Centre Court awaits!

Pollyanna and the Gadget Show team prove that Air Tennis can be enjoyed and mastered by anyone and everyone, after she wiped the floor with Unit9’s man (when the cameras weren’t rolling, fortunately…)

We’d also like to apologise to Channel 5, for causing a dramatic decline in productivity over at The Gadget Show HQ – but what can we say, addictive apps is our thing!

So what are you waiting for? Air Tennis is available in the App Store now.

iTunes App Store

Tech Director: Gilles Boisselet Interactive Director: Robert Bader Interactive Production Company: unit9

Wi-Fireworks / html5 for multitouch devices

Wi-Fireworks – An engaging concept piece to illustrate the depth of engagement that can be generated by linking a multi-touch device to a digital out-of-home screen.

Pull out your touch sensitive device, a smart phone or iPad. Open a browser. We beam free wi-fi from our windows. The device detects our free wi-fi as the strongest signal and we automatically redirects the phone to an HTML5 page optimised for multitouch devices running a simple drawing tool. Whatever you draw on the screen, appears on the windows in real time. Click explode, and watch your doodle explode as a firework. Its not an app. It’s a wi-firework experience in HTML5.

As evidenced in the video, the digital out-of-home screen functions as a megaphone to spread the experience to others. What starts as a one-to-one interaction clearly draws the engagement of those nearby.

Creative Director: Takayoshi Kishimoto Technical Director: Gilles Boisselet Technical Lead: Keita Kuroki Producer: Susan McCrystal Backend Developers: Richard Venn & Thomas Pedoussaut Designer: Anastasia Cohen Interactive Production Company: unit9

Pacifico Beer – Mexico Via Pacifico

A website that can be visited not just online, but in the real world. A website made up entirely of live webcams pointing at murals painted around the USA and Mexico streaming the action live 24/7. Each mural acts as a different section of the brand’s website.

The walls are located at Ody Surf Boards in Puerto Escondido, the courtyard of Hotel California in Todos Santos, in a random alley near the birthplace of Pacifico in Mazatlan and on a Venice Beach, CA hotel. More walls coming soon.

Mexicoviapacifico.com

Agency:Creature Seattle Brand: Pacifico Beer
Director: Anrick Bregman Producer: Sam Becker, Eleanor Bourdillon-Miller Tech Director: Gilles Boisselet Interactive Production Company: unit9

W.A.R.P. unity3d game for iPad/iPhone/iTouch.

Earth is facing a relentless asteroid bombardment – Use gravity wells to deflect asteroids away from collision course with the Earth.

You are the only one that can control W.A.R.P, The Wayward Asteroid Redirection Program, designed to defend the planet.

Play against your best score and unlock over 25 achievements testing your skill against an ever increasing number of asteroids with different properties.

You can only have 3 active wells at a time so use them wisely!

Get the app from the iTunes store
Universal App – You can enjoy it on your iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch.

Interactive Production Company: unit9

Philips Cinema: Parallel Lines

In DDB London’s new campaign for Philips, five RSA directors were commissioned to create a series of short films all using the same script. There are millions of ways to tell a story. There’s only one way to watch one. The Philips Cinema 21:9 television.

unit9 was commissioned to craft a special online media player to premiere the films. The player not only recreates the effect of the Ambilight technology and allows the user to switch between the films, It features a dynamic loader that never makes you wait – specifically engineered to create a seamless user experience, all perfectly framed to emphasise the Tv’s cinematic qualities.

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Agency:DDB London / Tribal DDB Amsterdam Brand: Philips
Interactive Director: Robert Bader Technical Director: Yates Buckley Tech Lead: Kanish Patel Producer: Richard Land Production Company: RSA Interactive Production Company: unit9

Movie nights with Pop Secret

PopSecret popcorn make organising a movie night, easier. Simply pick your mood, film genre and audience and let the kernels offer up their movie suggestions. As soon as you make a choice the site helps you quickly create a movie night event on Facebook.

The website content was generated by integrating 3 separate data feeds. Screenplay for the trailers, IMDB for the cast, synopsis and rating of the films and jinni, a specialised search engine which applies complex algorithms to suggest movie selections.

popsecret.com

Agency: Goodby Silvertsein & Partners Brand: Pop Secret
Interactive Director: Anrick Bregman Tech Lead: Kanish Patel Producer: Carmela Di Prinzio Interactive Production Company: unit9

Guinness – Bring It to Life

Guinness have extended their recently launched ‘Bring It To Life’ campaign through the launch of a Bring It To Life partnership with Google Earth.

Visitors can use customised Google Earth technology to create their own planet, then ‘Bring It To Life’ by selecting terrains and designs for the planets’ landscape. Facebook integration allows creations to be shared with Facebook friends and Facebook friends can be invited to co-create and participate in the development of Bring It To Life planets.

Prizes are unlocked as the game progresses and players can win crates of Guinness, with the ultimate winner getting a years supply.

Check out the piece on Contagious

bringittolife.tv

Agency: AMV BBDO Brand: Guinness
Project Director: Piero Frescobaldi Tech lead: Gilles Boisselet Producer: Fred Chak Interactive Production Company: unit9

The Flavourhood

The Flavourhood is not just a Facebook App. It’s a pledge of allegiance. It’s a line in the sand. It’s where you say what your favourite food is at McDonald’s and say it loud.

First log in to Facebook.

Then click…apps.facebook.com/theflavourhood

Agency: Razorfish Brand: McDonalds
Interactive Director: Anrick Bregman Tech lead: Gilles Boisselet Producer: Rakesh patel Interactive Production Company: unit9

Orange Friend-o-meter

A quiz that makes the Questions relevant to the user by pulling information from several of the user’s social network sites. The directive: build a website with an animated character, sounds, fun and excitement…make it a quiz…store the info to give away a phone a day…and pull the information from several of the user’s social network sites. And do it in just over 2 weeks. Design, animation, sound, build, back end.

friendometer.orange.co.uk

Agency: Fallon Brand: Orange
Interactive Director: Anrick Bregman Tech lead: Gilles Boisselet Producer: Sam Becker
3D: Mainframe Interactive Production Company: unit9

Easy on the Soy Sauce! The FSA – Salt Calculator. Don’t just take our word for it; trust the advice from Her Majesty’s Food Standards Agency. Made in collaboration with LBi, this handy iPhone app is currently available in the UK App Store which not only allows you to calculate your salt level per serving size based on the salt/sodium amount on the label, but also provides helpful tips and a nifty salt shaker sound (and shaking mechanism) as well. Get it from the iTunes Store more from this director

Agency: LBi Brand: FSA
Interactive Director: Anrick Bregman Producer: Sam Becker
Tech lead: Gilles Boisselet Interactive Production Company: unit9

giffgaff animation

A pixel styled animated commercial made to launch giffgaff, a new people-powered mobile phone network. We worked on this together with our friends at Alboin and created it in a single week, with a small but very dedicated team.

giffgaff.com

Agency: Albion London Brand: GiffGaff
Interactive Director: Anrick Bregman Tech lead: Yates Buckley Project Manager: Richard Rowe Interactive Production Company: unit9

AIR TENNIS. The awesome 2 player tennis game from unit9 is here. With your iPhone as the racket you’re always on centre court. You’ve heard of Air guitar? Well now there is Air tennis. You can pretend to play tennis with a friend wherever you are. Play at home, the office, or even at the grocery store, play with your kid in the playground. But no cheating! The umpire will call out the score and tell you how well you’re doing… What are you waiting for, hurry go go go while stocks last! Get it from the iTunes Store Find out more

Interactive Director: Robert Bader
Tech lead: Gilles Boisselet Interactive Production Company: unit9

My summer is…. 140 characters to share with the world what summer means for you.

myspeedo

Agency: Razorfish Brand: Speedo
Tech lead: Gilles Boisselet Producer: Rakesh Patel Project Manager: Fred Chak
Interactive Production Company: unit9

Visa Security Banners – Making of

Life is just sweeter with a credit card. Some sweet live action packed into these banners for Visa. Click play to see the making of video.

see the banners

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Agency:Saatchi & Saatchi London
Brand: Visa Interactive Director: Robert Bader TV Director: Henry Littlechild (Outsider)
Tech lead: Tony Volpe Producer: Valentina Culatti Alisi TV Production Company: Outsider Interactive Production Company: unit9

Orange – Spot The Bull

The 2009 edition of the Orange Spot the Bull competition. Orange is giving away tickets to Glastonbury if you can predict where a bull will be in a field at a certain time of day.

The website tracks the wanderings of a nice bull called Desmond, people on the ground post his position every 5 minutes, take pictures using a mini-dv camera and tweet throughout @spotthebull. Statistical information is being built up around where the bull will be over the day, plus the tweets will let you know what Desmond’s favourite places are. You can start to predict the bull’s behaviour.

www.spotthebull.co.uk

Agency: Poke London Brand: Orange
Interactive Director: Takayoshi Kishimoto Tech lead: Gilles Boisselet Producer: Rakesh Patel
Interactive Production Company: unit9

Promoting Nokia’s music service.

Agency: JWT beirut Brand: Nokia
Producer: Henry Cowling Project Manager: Fred Chak Interactive Production Company: unit9

Doritos Dodgeball Challenge

Fire web controlled cannons at UK dodgeball teams competing LIVE for a trip to Las Vegas. This ultimate test of dodgeball skill lasted for one action packed month. A unique way of launching Doritos brand new flavour – Flamin’ Cheeseball. Click on the screen and inflict some pain.

dodgeball.doritos.co.uk

For more info: More project videos or The making of

Agency: AMV BBDO Brand: Doritos
Project Director: Piero Frescobaldi Producer: Henry Cowling Technical Director: Yates Buckley Project Manager: Fred Chak
Interactive Production Company: unit9

Audi Q5 – We’ve unboxed the box.

A very striking and technically challenging “page peel” format ad, in which the character appears to start from a corner of a website and fold it over to reveal the ad. The campaign ran on the Telegraph website and had 3 levels. A homepage takeover, the full-page peel and individual expandable formats. A 30% increase in web visits and 70% increase in brochure requests during the campaign period.

see the banners

Agency: BBH London Brand: Audi
Interactive Director: Takayoshi Kishimoto Tech lead: Yates Buckley Producer: Wai Ming Wee
Interactive Production Company: unit9

Comcast Town

Welcome to Comcast Town. A website that mixes gaming, with social networking and engaging user interaction.

Users design their ideal Comcast crib. Then, they fine-tune it and start to accrue currency. And finally, they engage in the world full-on.

Personalization is the key. We designed an interactive environment where users can select, buy, change layout, and make up their room as a reflection of themselves. Residents can even add a note to each item of they have. So that the visitors can glean more of the resident’s personality.

unit9 Technology worked closely with Facebook to provide one of the few Facebook Connect enabled Flash sites online today. It allows users to quickly register by using their Facebook account and seamlessly invite friends, and share activities in the Comcast Town.

comcasttown.com

Agency: Goodby Silverstein & Partners San Francisco Brand: Comcast
Interactive Director: Takayoshi Kishimoto Art Direction and Design: Helpful Strangers
Tech lead: Tony Volpe, Gilles Boisselet Producer: Valentina Culatti
Illustration, Character Design & 3D Animation: Nexus
Interactive Production Company: unit9

Happy Valentines from Häagen-Dazs

A banner campaign that became a TV commercial to show how Häagen-Dazs facilitates shared moments of closeness on Valentine’s Day.  A simple message “Every spoonful brings you closer”.  That’s romance already!

Brand: Häagen-Dazs Interactive Director: Robert Bader  Tech lead: Tony Volpe Producer: Valentina Culatti Alisi  Design: Helpful Strangers Sound Design: Pierre Thiebaut 
Post Production: JS3D Interactive Production Company: unit9

Heineken: Know The Signs

“Know the signs” is part of the “Enjoy Heineken responsibly”™ marketing plan through which Heineken aims to provide comprehensive information about the advantages and the disadvantages of its products in order to facilitate a balanced consumer choice.

Welcome to my bar. Keep an eye on a crowded bar via CCTV camera. You are looking out for  the signs of people drinking too much. The film shot for Internet contains signs of these transformation that users are engaged to find. Once a sign is discovered, user can send their friends an Oddcast viral. Because personal relevance of the Archetypes will drive the viral mechanism, the capability for personalisation is key to the success of the campaign.

unit9 collaborated with TV production company Outsider to set up the interactive logic and also assisted in the shoot of a bar under surveillance, which provides for alternative realities at certain key moments. We created a strong visual identity – a contemporary and fun approach to deliver the underlying message of responsible drinking.

There is a great post on viralblog about the rest of the integrated campaign. Read the news story in Contagious magazine. Or check it out in Contagious DVD Eighteen.

knowthesigns.com

Agency: Red Brick Road / Ruby  Brand: Heineken
Interactive Director: Robert Bader  TV Director: Henry Littlechild (Outsider)
Exec Producer: Valentina Culatti Alisi Tech lead: Yates Buckley Sound FX: Steve Nolan
Producer: Dani Michelon Producer: Ben Roberts (Outsider)
TV Production Company: Outsider Interactive Production Company: unit9

Toshiba – The Journey of Innovation

An experiential website bringing to life Toshiba as a brand, as well as reaching out to and engaging users by allowing them to spend time with Toshiba’s innovations and products in a new and innovative way. Be curious and creative, experiment and play with your environment and in doing so, find new perspectives and explore What’s Next?

The website detects patterns – we call it gesture navigation. Interact by drawing a zig-zag line, a spiral, an infinity sign. Move around the site simply by drawing a line to where you want to go. Interact with the characters you meet by drawing on them.
We use the loading time as a tutorial. The users interact and play, understanding the grammar we are using to navigate the website.

leading-innovation.com

Agency: Grey London Brand:Toshiba Director: Anrick Bregman Tech lead: Yates Buckley Producer: Rakesh Patel Background illustration: Saizen Media  Project Manager: Fred Chak Production Company: unit9

Adobe Adweek
A banner for New York Adweek, showcasing some of the great projects made with the Adobe Software.

Agency: Goodby Silverstein & Partners San Francisco Brand: Adobe
Interactive Director: Pablo Marques Producer: Henry Cowling Tech lead: Riccardo Giraldi, Gilles Boisselet Project Manager: Fred Chak
Interactive Production Company: unit9

Battlestar Galactic

Expandable banner, building up expectations for the January launch of a new series on the Sci-Fi Channel.

see the banner

Agency: Tribal DDB New York Brand: Sci-Fi Channel
Interactive Director: Robert Bader Tech lead: Tony Volpe Producer: Valentina Culatti Alisi
Interactive Production Company: unit9

Samsung – Music

Samsung have teamed up with Bang & Olufsen for the speakers in their new phones. The Microsite highlights these attributes, But beyond the obligatory slick brochureware we were asked to create an interactive component that would engage visitors and reinforce the association between Samsung and Music.In order to facilitate the rollout into 30 territories the solution needed as little copy as possible.

What better way to create the association than let you compose music.  Taking the Japanese Zen Garden as a reference, we imagined a minimal, interactive music tool enabling you to compose and create personalized music in a 3D soundscape. Fly through it, Then save it to the gallery or export it to your blog.

Instead of Zen Garden’s stones we use coloured blocks that dance to the sound and rhythm of your music. All controlled by code with an infinite number of possible combinations, the site gives a unique experience every time. A space to be filled with your imagination.
music.samsungmobile.com

the making of

Agency: Mather London Brand: Samsung Mobile
Interactive Director: Takayoshi Kishimoto Tech lead: Yates Buckley Producer: Rakesh Patel Project Manager: Fred Chak
Interactive Production Company: unit9

The Eco Zoo

The Eco Zoo. If you take a close look at the animals there you might be able to get some tips to live in a more environmentally friendly way. Includes lots of 3D pop-up book fun.

ecodazoo.com

The Eco Zoo site by Roxik has recently been awarded FWA Site of the Year 2008.

Agency: McCann Erickson Japan
Interactive Director: Roxik

Brains Boogies to webcam
A web experience that builds on the TV element and reinforces the campaign message. Test your mental performance by making Brains dance using your webcam. Funky motion detection code from unit9 R&D extends the interactive experience beyond the browser.

The motion detection module is complex software in it’s own right. But the challenge in this application was to create an accurate detection but also make sure it was responsive so that the playability would be good.  The requirements of precision, sensitivity and speed of response are all interdpendent and generally tug in opposite directions.

www.drenchwater.co.uk

Agency: CHI & Partners London Brand: Drench Water
Interactive Director: Nick Wavish Tech lead: Jason Reeve Producer: Valentina Culatti Alisi
Interactive Production Company: unit9

got milk?
The new flagship website for Got Milk?. Play some games and enjoy yourself in the land of milk. We created a factory of games and quirky characters to communicate the key benefits of milk in a fun and informative way.

www.gotmilk.com

Agency: Goodby Silverstein & Partners San Francisco Brand: California milk processing board
Interactive Director: Alex Jenkins Tech lead: Riccardo Giraldi, Gilles Boisselet
Interactive Production Company: unit9

Häagen-Dazs Loves Honeybees

Did you know Honey bees are having a really hard time? Explore a luxurious field and discover just how important bees are to us. Customize your own bee-mail to raise awareness and help save our stripy pollinating friends.

www.helpthehoneybees.com

Agency: Goodby Silverstein & Partners San Francisco Brand: Häagen-Dazs
Interactive Director: Fredrick Avén Tech lead: Tony Volpe Producer: Valentina Culatti Alisi
Interactive Production Company: unit9

Agency: Atmosphere BBDO New York / BBD New York  Brand: at&t Cingular
Interactive Director: Christian Etter Tech lead: Yates Buckley, Tony Volpe Project Manager: Fred Chak Interactive Production Company: unit9