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VIZ.NL provides the animatronic puppets for Jaegermeister

. Viz combined a large team of special effects technicians to create the Jaegermeister puppets Ralf & Rudy.
Producer Dennis Keyner asked us to make two animatronic puppets to feature in a series of quick commercials for Jaegermeister.

Animatronic Puppets for
Jaegermeister commercials

Client: Jaegermeister
Director: Jelle Mulder
Producer: Notcom

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. (Click here to see a QuickTime movie of the work that went on behind the scenes)

. VIZ was asked to make puppets which would be recognisable as being the Jaëgermeister deer while making them funnier and less "artificial" than the original puppets. Art -director Frank Langerack and copy writer Thijs de Boer of PPGH/JWT had conceived of a new set of six short commercials as the start of a series of easy to make commercial.

This new concept required new puppets....more flexible, more adaptable. In the end production house NOTCOM was able to shoot six commercials plus a "tag - on" in three days, quite a feat considering the technique involved.

Each character was first sculpted in clay. Casts were made in polyurethane rubber. A skull was made to contain the mechanical eyes and to support the animated ears and horns. To achieve full animation each puppet required a team of four operators behind the scenes.

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