Chanel – Checkmate
Play Pure magic to once again work on Chanel Coco Mademoiselle with Keira Knightley, and Bafta and Emmy award winning director Johan Renck. Just like Bergman, Renck chooses a game of chess as his main topic for this beautifully narrated commercial. The chess game took place in Paris and is a follow up on a […]
Rakuten – Rocket Man
Play During the fall 2020 Syndicate had the honor to do the VFX work for Rakuten. Directed by one of our favorite directors who’s work has been screened several times during super bowl, directing commercials for brands such as Coca Cola, Playstation and Chevrolet to name a few. This campaign is a launch for the […]
RYDS Bilglas – Pee Break
Play This is another true Syndicate production. Huge thanks to Daniel Olsén and Lasse Edholm, The creative duo at Shiny Happy People letting us work on such loose leash. The film is a flirt and tribute to the famous Swedish director Roy Andersson and the commercials he made for Trygg Hansa some 30 years ago. […]
Partisan – Viaplay / Warner Bros
This was a Warner Brothers production and it premiered on Viaplay in august 2020. A thriller series directed by talented rockstar Amir Chamdin who wrote the script together with Fares Fares known from the Emmy and Bafta awarded Chernobyl. Syndicate had the honor to do all the VFX work for this production that was mastered […]
Chanel – Coco Mademoiselle
Play We are very honoured to once again been given the trust to finalize another Chanel fragrance commercial. Together with the one and only, director Johan Renck, starring gorgeous Kiara Knightly. We did it avec plaisir. Huge thanks to dream team Johan Renck, SoixanzeQuinse Film and everyone involved. Team list Client: Chanel Director: Johan Renck IMDB Lead Actress: Kiera […]
Acquisition
As much as we love beautiful images we fetisch the tools making such. So trough the years we happen to gathered quite an arsenal of camera equipment. Below is some of the stuff we bought for various projects and hold at the moment. Syndicate tools for acquisition. Red V-Raptor 8k 120fps VistaVision / FF. Kippertie […]
ATG – Mer Spänning
Play Director: Daniel Wårdh Production Co: Acne Agency: Åkestam Holst Syndicate built and filled the stands in the stadiums and other things for this production that was shot during the second wave of the corona pandemic. See the before and after film below for more details. ATG – Mer Spänning 45s ATG – Before & […]
David Bowie – Lazarus
Play For us this is all very humbling and hard to grasp. The stars looks very different today. Team list Director: Johan Renck Producer: Svana Gisla DoP: Crille Forsberg We also did Black Star for Bowie, read all about it here.Click Here
Lärarförbundet – Allt börjar med bra lärare
Play Our task: Provide some futuristic looking interactive Metabolic model projections and other things. You know all that kind of technical stuff that future teachers of tomorrow most likely will have to deal within their every day life. When you need such yet none existing stuff, look no further Syndicate has you covered. Team list […]
Chanel Nouveau N°5 – L’EAU
Play A promotion film for the release of the new Chanel N°5 fragrance fronted by Lili-Rose Depp. Produced by Soixan7e Quin5e and shoot in two beautiful weeks during the spring 2016 in Paris. For little Syndicate it was a great honor to participate, a grandiose spectacle of production it was.Big thanks goes to Director Johan Renck, […]
Louis Vuitton
Play Team list Client: Louis Vuitton Agency: Wednesday AND Production Director Travis Rathbone DoP: Timur Civan Big thanks to Ashley Scott NY for bringing us in on things like this. Louis Vuitton – Jour Se Leve Team list Prod Co: Camp David Films Director: Henrik Hallgren DoP: Jo Eken Torp
Jura S8 – Roger Federer
Play We are happy to have, yet again, worked together with Mr Federer. This time together with Markenfilm Zurich and Russell Bates. Syndicate catered for VFX supervision and mocap on set, using the MVN mocap suit from Xsens. In post our task was to create the “household robot” for Roger. The plot: The robot makes a […]
Gröna Lund – SNAKE
Play During the last couple of years Syndicate have produced a series of advertising campaigns for Parks & Resorts. First assignment was this campaign for “Snake” a ride that was brought in as a “fillout atraction” during a park reconstruction at Gröna Lund during the summer of 2019. a film inspired by Steven Spielbergs early […]
Eton – Shirts
Play During the last couple of yeas Syndicate has collaborated with Johan Collskog, Joachim Thörnquist and ETON and made a vast amount of shirt commecials. Every season came with a new batch of films. New location, new male models, new challenges. but most of all new Eton shirts and a lot of them. All the […]
PWC – Trustfall
Play Director: Filip Nilsson. Our task: loose all strings… https://vimeo.com/313348032 PWC – Trustfall
Bausch & Lomb – CinemaScope Baltars.
These lenses will be ready and available for rent for special projects beginning 2019. Click the image above to see and download full resolution stills. More info and test footage will be added to this page over time. Here is some footage shot with these lenses. 75mm test clip. 100mm and some 35mm and 40mm test […]
Syndicate PL modifed – Bauch & Lomb Baltar Cinemascopes.
Some background info: The film format “Cinerama” had guided the film industry into wide screen presentations. Studio executives ran for the doors after seeing Cinerama’s premiere in New York. Representatives of 20th Century Fox and Warner Bros. literally raced to France to meet with Prof. Henri Chrétien, the inventor of a filming process that he […]
Cembra – Waiter
Play Syndicate had the honor of doing VFX for the Swiss bank Cembra’s film. The task was to create a robot that challenged the Average Joe in his daily work. In the end Cembra offers Joe an opportunity to get a higher degree of education through student loans. What made the project extra interesting was […]
Brämhult – The Last Drop
Play Brämhult is a Swedish Juice brand that stands for freshly squeezed oranges without preservatives. Every bottle and every day a new juice is made and its always composed of a unique group of oranges, where taste is colored by the conditions of the oranges. Syndicate where happy to put together this film for Anders […]
Gröna Lund – Built with love
Play Parks & Resorts marketing department came to us with this project and a story revolving how Gröna Lund came together. The commercial is a spin off on the true story how the amusement park Gröna Lund is built on the love between the kids of two rivaling families that where both running amusement parks […]
Scania Trucks – Launch film 2018
Play Here is some films we created by filming a still standing truck in a grey cyclo studio at the truck factory with our Ronin and Red Helium. Then we also shot 3d mapping plates of the truck with the DJI spark drone and also some drone plates of the houses across the street from […]
Syndicate Motion Capture
Syndicate are proud owners of a Rokoko MoCap suit. This gives us the possiblity to add that extra nerve to our animation. Things that would take months to animate can be acted out and directed in real time. The cool thing with Inertial Motion Capture is that it can be done in pretty much any […]
Hassel – Nice Drama / Viaplay
Play Trailer During 2017 Syndicate had the honor to cater for the online, grading and VFX work for “Hassel” a 10 episode 45 minute Police drama serie.Its the first of its kind in Sweden to be mastered in full UHD 10bit from native R3D raw 7k source files. Directors:Amir ChamdinErik EgerEshref Reybrouck DoP’s:Crille ForsbergCalle PerssonJohan PhillipsChristophe Nuyens […]
H&M – Christmas campaign
Play H&M’s have unveiled their magical new Christmas campaign starring Nicki Minaj alongside Jess Williams and John Turturro. A modern take on the classic fairytale, the film centres around a heroic little girl who tracks down the evil brother of Santa Claus to save the Christmas season from his selfishness. https://vimeo.com/528627675 H&M – Christmas Team list Johan RENCK […]
IWC – Karolína Kurková & Adriana Lima
Play Two of the worlds top supermodels spins in the International Watch Company’s “Cinema carousel” during the 2017 New York Film Festival. Syndicate where happy to be called in not only to capture the moments but also post and upload the footage straight from set. Huge thanks to Michael Gloor at Markenfilm for having […]
Sunrise – Roger Federer
Play Another Roger Federer film we where happy to do the VFX work for. Backplates from space and also from a paradise beach in Thailand. The aliens where partly “man in suit animatronics with moving eyebrows” and partly CG. Things like facial expressions and also the eyeballs where replaced with Cg eyeballs that we could […]
Tory Burch – By Giovanna Engelbert
Play Some work we got to do for Giovanna Battaglia Engelbert on her fashion films for Tory Burch. https://vimeo.com/528643850 Tory Burch – By Giovanna Team list Prod Co: AND Production / Wednesday NYDirector: Giovanna BattagilaDP: Gösta ReilandOnline / VFX /Grade : SyndicateEditor: Marcus Remberger
SwissMilk – Ski
Play We are very happy to have this second film for Swissmilk under the belt. What a lovely assignment: -“Go play in the mountains, make a skifilm, a cow skifilm…” Huge thanks to Swissmilk and everyone involved. And especially to the ladies at Onfilm, Ruf Lanz and Cem van der Schaar for putting up with us.The film was shot […]
DKNY – Nectar Love
Play Syndicate where happy to do the VFX work for this Fragrance film. Client: Estelle LauderAgency: Wednesday NY / ANDProduction NY Thank you Ashley Scott and Catherine Wright and the rest of the Wednesday team for putting your trust in us. https://youtu.be/O07tejROGA0
Michael Kors – Sexy Ruby
Play Syndicate where happy to do the online and VFX for this fragrance commercial. Shot in the LA Hangar Studios, late 2016, aired fall 2017. Team list Client: ESTÉE LAUDERAgency: WednesdayAgency Producer: Tracy WhitingProduction: Reset Content / AND ProductionDirector: Johan RenckDP: Daniel LandinTalent: Edita Vilkeviciute https://vimeo.com/228088061
IWC – Lewis Hamilton
Play We where happy to do the VFX work for this IWC commercial featuring Formula1 World Champion Lewis Hamilton.The film was shot in one day on the Circuit de Barcelona – Catalunya racetrack. Team list Director: Lukas WaelliDP: Rasmus HeiseProducer: Michael GloorProduction Co: Markenfilm Switzerland AG / Zurich https://vimeo.com/313344334
Boxer – Snow
Play Two films we worked on in collaboration with Director Henrik Sundgren, DP Joakim Thörnquist, Roberts Head replacement Milford and Producer Marcus Henricsson at Giants and toys. Our task was to bring the winter and stitch together some takes for the film shot inside the house. As winter came late, (if it did at all) […]
Glade – Scents
Play We where happy to get to do the VFX work for this commercial that was shot during a week in Prag late 2016 and finalized to feb 2017. Team list Client: GladeAgency: Ogilvy ChicagoLine Production: Sofa Unit, PragDirecor: Johan Renck https://vimeo.com/313341405 Glade – Scents
Target – Marimekko
Play Director Johan Renck gave us the honor to extend his studio sets for these 4 films for his Target / Marimekko campaign produced by Reset Content in LA. The films where shot in a greenscreen studio environment and Björn had to sacrifice himself not only to fly to sunny LA to attend the shoot but also make a […]
Electrolux AEG
Play Syndicate had the honor to collaborate with iDfuel creative director Christian Almroth when creating this visualization piece for the new line of kitchen appliances for Electrolux. A small shoot was arranged at the Electrolux AEG head courters and hand interaction plates where captured and the rest was created in 3DSMax. During a few weeks production […]
H&M – Foundation
Play “Looking good should do good too. That´s what our sustainability work is all about. To make sure our customers wear our products with pride we have to be conscious in all our actions.” This quote from H&M Foundation says it all. Together with MinkMGMT and Directors Thomas Klementsson and Hedvig Jenning we made these spots […]
SwissMilk – Mountain bike
Play Thank you SwissMilk, RufLantz and Onfilm for having us. We where told it was the rainiest time in Europe for the last 40 years when we where down in the Swiss alps to shoot this film. To say the least, the weather came with some challenges. Not to mention getting a cow on a […]
Idrottsgalan 2016
Play Idrottsgalan 2016 We had the pleasure to work again with the very talented mr Thomas Klementsson and producer Sophie Smirnakos on this spot for Idrottsgalan 2016. Shot at Bosön, Lidingö we used Phantom Flex 4k for the slow motion effect.Big thanks to Garbergs aswell. At Syndicate Marcus Remberger did the editing, grading and Online […]
Airbar
Play Syndicate where happy to cater Snask Film with both moco and VFX services for this production. An animatic was made and pushed trough the syndicate 3D department into milo/flare. 7 laptops scenes where built infront of the milo and the actors did their acting against a “green on green” video playback that run in […]
Swisscom
Play Syndicate where happy to deliver the future for this Swisscom commerical by Marken film Schweiz AG and their director Laurentius Emmelmann. With a tight schedule of 7 days from locked edit to delivery, little Syndicate catered for the following, in order of apperance: Industrial robots working next to a prop built conveyor belt. Delivery drones picking […]
David Bowie ★ Black Star
Play Director: Johan RenckProducer: Svana GisladottirDP: Darren Lew and Crille Forsberg Pitchfork article about the video David Bowie released his new album ★ (pronounced Blackstar) on January 8 2016. Ahead of the record, he’s shared the title track, Blackstar for “The Last Panters“, also directed by Johan Renck. The video begins in space and gets crazy. There’s a dead […]
Ahmad Tea – Christmas in Russia
Play Animated product package graphics for christmas. Thanks for having us. Ahmad Tea, Clap Hands / CD Andrei Iliassov and Workshop
Luft Hansa – The unhappy 1%
Play The talented creative duo, Joakim Khoury and Daniel Vaccino, at DDB Stockholm contacted us regarding this project. Normally when making big airline films there are long schedules a lot of ppm meetings etc, but for this little production things where a bit different, the creatives had a just a few days to set the concept […]
Syndicate OmniSliderServo.
Motor – High performance Servo. Horizontal operational payload – 70kg Vertical operational payload – 12kg Underslung – 25kg Length 2.0m Max speed – 1m / 3.85s Min speed – 1m / 459 days Precision – 0,1mm = 10000 steps/meter Operational temperature range -25 to 45C. Power supply 11.4-14.4V Power Consumption in standby 0.2A AC power […]
Memory Lane
Since year 2000 we worked on more than 2000 productions. There has been a lot of projects we very proud of, some really old, some more recently made. Any way, here is “100 oldies goldies” in alphabetical order. Enjoy! Adress ändring Paris – Callboy / Max Vitali: https://vimeo.com/50754712 AG Glommies: https://vimeo.com/29827389 AGA “Aqvia” – MTG: https://vimeo.com/28450088 Alkoholkommiten “Baby” […]
Betsson – Storband
Play We had the honor to do the VFX work for these films directed by Markus Johnsson and Produced by Anders Eklund from FilmDeLiberte. The films where shot down in Vilnius and lineproduced by the Vilnius locals from Sosnaked. Team List Agency: Masscreation Creative team: Jörgen Lindquist & Henrik Levahn DoP: Carl Rasmussen Grade: Edward Negussie, […]
Syndicate Before & After Reel 2104.
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CG Creatures
Fiddling with computers an bringing pixels to life, give them emotions, the correct kind of physics, textures, fur etc. Thats what it’s all about. Thats what we love. So please, add a little clayman, snake, dinosaur, monster, robot, smurf or hamster to your script … Syndicate creature reel.
Heizen Mit Öl
Play During the spring 2014 Syndicate had the honor of supervising the shoot and do the “cold breathing” effects for these films that where shot down in. Big thanks to Onfilm producer Michael Gloor for pushing projects like this our way. The back story was that Michael called us and asked if we could do […]
Johnnie Walker – Black Label
Play Agency: AnomalyAgency Producer: Matt FlahertyProduction Company: Reset ContentDirector: Johan Renck During the late spring of 2014 we had the honor to do the post/VFX work for this commercial. In this commercial there are luxurious objects, a grand piano and a Jaguar etc. that artist Mattia Biagi who’s trademark is to cover everything with […]
Juhayna Mix Drink
Play Syndicate had the honour to VFX supervise and do the vfx for this project that was shot down in Cairo early summer 2014. The film is featuring the Juhayna (big milk brand in the Arabic region) Mix logo character that takes a bored boy on an exiting trip trough the internet. Syndicate did the […]
Peptobismal – Boy Raised By Goats
Play Peptobismal – Boy Raised By Goats This is a project Syndicate had the honor to vfx supervise down in New Zeeland and also do all the VFX work for. In other words give life to the goat heads, adding eyes, making facial expressions etc to all shots with goats in them, among other things. […]
Felix
Play Felix – Fler goda stunder During the spring we had the honor of working together with Anders Eklund and Markus Johansson from Film de Liberte. The idea was to create 3 food films all with a bit of handheld one take feel feel to them. These three films would also be slightly edited and […]
Nordic Bet – Sure Thing
Play Nordic Bet This film was shot down in Johannesburg SA right before christmas 2013 and Syndicate was awarded to do the VFX supervision and post production for the film and also provide the Syndicate Epic and Hawk Anamorphic lenses and most other camera equipment. The shoot took place in the Johannesburg FNB Stadium, a […]
Oscar Jakobson
Play Oscar Jacobson Once again, we are proud to be a part of making the latest spot for Oscar Jakobson, the famous clothing line. Together with fashion photographer Thomas Klementsson and Tua Nordqvist from Link Directors. This “motion for stills” production was shot with the Syndicate RED Epic and a Scarlet together with Optimo lenses. […]
Live2Ride
Play Here is a little film we produced. Shot in Täby outside Stockholm featuring bike rider Alec Eklöw who also composed the music for this piece. The film was finished in UHD
Folksam – Scubadogs
Play Folksam The two creatives, Filip Laurent & Johan Landin at Åkestam Holst, has taken their client, the Swedish insurance company Folksam to yet another level. To be more exact, this time they decided to go about 45 feet down below in Sodwana bay, South Africa. A place known for it’s fantastic marine life and beautiful coral […]
TV3 – Pool Party
Play MTG invited everyone at TV3 to a pool party.Posted at Syndicate and shoot with Syndicate HAWK-C lenses. Team list Client: MTGProduction Company: Film de LibertéDirector: Joakim Eliasson https://vimeo.com/313347302
Lifebuoy – A sneaze is not just a sneaze
Play Lifebuoy – Sneeze This film was produced by Kirk Dias, Bakery films Bombay and was line produced by Benetone films in Bangkok Thailand. Director was Eric Hillebrand and DoP Michael Schreitel both from Germany. Shooting in Bangkok was quite an experience and so was working on a production of this magnitude a lot of […]
IKEA – Living with Children
Play IKEA – Living with children In the early spring of 2013 Syndicate where happy to be awarded this project trough Joi Persson, executive producer at Folke Film and their very talented director Andreas Nilsson. Syndicate got to cater for the pre visual animatics, milo programming, Milo operation, VFX supervisor, RED Epic Camera Equipment, HAWK […]
Beeline – Pterodactyl
Play Beeline – Pterodactyl Beeline – Pterodactyl The setup was simple: We had a two days blue screen / studio shoot in Prague. A Limited budget and also a limited time frame. We had a set built as a terrass and another set built as a giant bird nest together with some big blue screens. […]
Arla – Mjukglass
Play Arla – Mjukglass A delicious film promoting the new Arla diary product, “soft home ice cream”. Film de Liberte went to LA and shot a very nice costume using Kowa anamorphics. Syndicate got the honor to create the ice cream stand and also give the ice cream guy some life by animating his eyes, […]
ICON – Motion Pictures
Animated logo that we made for Chad Lancaster’s production company. All rendered in full 4k resolution. Redpipe Sound design helped us with the audio. Looking forward to see this as a full blown 4k DCP.
Länsförsäkringar
Play Länsförsäkringar – Västerbotten A motion control project with a Miniature, motion control and macro one take shot, what else is there to like. https://vimeo.com/313345162 Länsförsäkringar – Västerbotten And here is the BTS:
118118
Play Directed by Ensrettet / Acne for the Swedish agency Forsman Bodenfors and their client 118118. Syndicate created the visual effects for the six spots. 118118 – Väginfo 118118 – Pizza 118118 – Personsök 118118 – Kommun 118118 – Öppettider 118118 – Blommor
The Lost Files…
A collection of random tests, pre-visualizations, before/after shots and some random stuff that we’ve done through the years. Many of these pieces didn’t make it to the official screens, but it’s great to see the process. We’ll gather most of our “behind the scenes” videos here. Enjoy! https://vimeo.com/63314922 https://vimeo.com/60769763 https://vimeo.com/58801853 https://vimeo.com/58612268 https://vimeo.com/58611977 https://vimeo.com/58611650 https://vimeo.com/58611649 http://vimeo.com/58451044 https://vimeo.com/58451045 […]
Skåvsjöholm – Prickfria möten
Play Skavsjöholm – Prickfria möten This commercial was produced and directed by David Kvart and DP’d by Martin Grafström shooting with the Syndicate RED Epic and Hawk-C anamorphic lens set. All the grading and post work was completed by Syndicate, straight from the RED native r3d files and finished in full “5KANA” resolution with Fuji print emulsion LUT’s. Skavsjöholm – […]
K-rauta
Play K-Rauta – Rätta virket Directed by Joakim Eliasson at Film De Liberte – with DP Henrik Stenberg shooting with Syndicate’s own Hawk-C:s on an Alexa Studio – Syndicate created the CG forest sauna and the seaside summer house. https://vimeo.com/315462787 K-Rauta – Rätta virket Before and after 3D sauna: https://vimeo.com/515318558
VFX REEL
CG Flowers for H&M
Play Syndicate was thrilled to create these CG flowers in bloom for the director duo Ensrettet and Acne production. The spot screened at the Grand Spring opening at the H&M flagship store in Paris.
Citygross – 5000 products
One man, a green screen and 5000 products. Lovechild and director Stefan Nipstad awarded the Syndicate team yet another project for City Gross. This time the task was to create a world of giant products. Utilizing the Scorpio crane, 5K green screen plates were shot at Independent Studios. The products were shot on a table […]
Försäkringskassan – Valsverket
Play Försäkringskassan – Valsverket The Syndicate team is very proud of their visual effects work for this spot directed by Johan Kling. Most of the backgrounds for the vals / factory film are CG creations. The production was also shot on the Syndicate Anamorphic Hawk’s and Kameraten’s Arri Alexa Studio. The spots were finalized in […]
Fruit sale!
Play Citygross – Medlemskort A Syndicate table top production produced in collaboration with Production company Lovechild. Start with one pineapple, forty apples, fifty melons and about eight dozen veggies. Toss in a catapult, a samurai swordsman, one high speed camera and a few super sharp Leica summilux C lenses.
Roy Andersson – Feature work
For the past year, we’ve had the honour to work with renowned Swedish director Roy Andersson, who Ingmar Bergman proclaimed “makes the best commercials in the world”. Awarded nearly every advertising accolade in Sweden as well as the 2000 Cannes Jury Prize for his film, Songs From the Second Floor, Roy typically works with very […]
I-Reel Milo service
Play During the last couple of yeas Syndicate has collaborated with Johan Collskog, Joachim Thörnquist and ETON and made a vast amount of shirt commecials. Every season came with a new batch of films. New location, new male models, new challenges. but most of all new Eton shirts and a lot of them. All the […]
Century Link – Slinky
Play Five :15 shorts that we shot, edited, completed all effects and final polish here in Stockholm for U.S. telecom CenturyLink. We skyped daily with the LA based agency producer, Nancy Rose, and the creative team, Jay Sunny and Mark Toft, back in Denver at Monigle Associates. We had several live internet shoot and post […]