Before his appearance yesterday lasting only one minute, crowned by a second goal against Ukraine in the final minute of the game, Bastian Schweinsteiger had been injured for a long time in the run-up to the European Championship and was unable to train with his team, which appears to have led him to discover the browser game “Clash of Kings” for himself. At least, that is what the spot “You rule”, starring him, suggests.
You can watch the spot here on the nhb website.
For the commercial, nhb created a CG crowd with Maya and Golaem, as well as Arnold for rendering; the CG smoke was created with Cinema 4D and TurbulenceFD using the Physical Renderer. The team did the compositing in Nuke.
In one of the next issues of DP, the nhb team from Berlin will tell us more about the production process. Here is the clip’s breakdown video:
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