Make believe made easy


2012 summer showreel

In our first full year of business, we collected a Visual Effects Craft Loerie for Allan Gray Time Flies and produced a string of quality CGI-driven commercials.

Among other intensive visual effects and compositing projects, our Cape Town post production facility shrunk actors’ heads for Cannes Gold-winning American director Chris Nelson and 7 UP; composited a futuristic plane for Belgian director Gil Bauwens and Audi; and, most impressively, created a photo-real CGI museum for Velocity Films’ Keith Rose and VW Amarok.

“We’ve built Searle Street Post on a scalable model,” explains creative director Heino Henning. “With our reliable pool of local and international VFX and CG artists, we are in a position to assemble a bespoke team to best serve the nature of each specific project. Gone are the days of being tied to a permanently employed team of generalists; we are now always using people within their niche specialty.”

Heino works closely with lead compositing artists Udesh Chetty and Charmaine Greyling to oversee these bespoke teams. “This international model has paid off beautifully for us,” Heino says. “The work speaks for itself and our tried and tested CG pipeline can be scaled up or down as required.”


Technical reel

KEITH ROSE:
VW AMAROK – MARVELLOUS MACHINE

Searle Street Post assembled a team of top VFX and CG artists for Marvellous Machine, the new VW Amarok ad, conceptualised by Ogilvy SA and directed by Keith Rose of Velocity Films.

Searle Street Post’s David Grant handled the grade, with Udesh Chetty and Charmaine Greyling as the online artists working overseeing the team of Heiko von Fintel, Matthew Desmond-Smith, Pete Herbert, Theuns van Rensburg and Alexander Gilfillan.

Technical breakdown:

LEE DOIG: OUTSURANCE – DOORS

Searle Street Post handled the post production on the latest Outsurance ad, directed by Lee Doig of Let It Rain Films.  Searle Street Post’s online artist Udesh Chetty, assisted by Charmaine Greyling and CGI artist Alexander Gilfillan, used some clever compositing to create the seamless transitions. Look out for their CGI trees. Searle Street Post’s Heino Henning supervised the VFX onset, while David Grant handled the grade. Richard Starkey edited the spot at Priest.

GREG GRAY: BELLS – THE SEARCH

Searle Street Post handled the post on Bells – The Search, directed by Velocity Films‘ Greg Gray for King James. Searle Street Post’s David Grant was the colourist and Charmaine Greyling was the online artist. Ricky Boyd edited the spot at Deliverance.

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