BATH & BODY WORKS
Find Your Gingham
Taylor James collaborated with Bath & Body Works to develop the 'Find Your Gingham' campaign, showcasing their latest fragrance collection. The 30-second, fully CGI-animated spot features Gingham Gorgeous, Fresh, Vibrant, and Legend, each represented by their corresponding fruit and floral aromas. These include blossoming peonies and pink strawberries, succulent pears and effervescent clementines, as well as wild blackberries and candied violet.
pre-PRODUCTION | style frames
PRE-PRODUCTION | FRAME DEVELOPMENT
Storyboards and 3D animatics allowed us to plan the layout and choreography of all the elements and to carefully consider a nice composition for horizontal and vertical crop formats.
PRE-PRODUCTION | CGI MODELS
Creating all the elements in CGI gave us full control over the motion, allowing us to choreograph movements to feel light and airy with a sense of breeze carrying the different aromas. To help enhance this, we decided not to use camera cuts, but to instead find creative ways to transition the camera and reveal each shot. Using orbiting cameras, focus pulls, close up swipes unfolding backgrounds, we introduced the 4 different products in a seamless flow, carrying the viewer effortlessly along this journey of aromas.
PRE-PRODUCTION | ANIMATION TESTS
We also added a subtle breathing rhythm to the animations, by accelerating and easing the speed of the elements and the scaling of the products in the camera, to re-enforce the sense of inhaling and exhaling the scents of each product. Both keyframe animation and dynamic wind simulations were used to control the movement of flowers. This helped to create a natural response to the air friction and achieve the delicate flutter of the petals.