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VIZ.NL has made a large number of beer commercials

.Here are a few examples of commercials involving mobile plumbing, pumping, pouring, spraying of beer in custom made aquaria,and over-size glasses... Clients include Heineken, Grolsch, Amstel, Kronenbourg, Palm, Duvel, Chimay, Hertog Jan, Bavaria, Bru...

 

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An eclipse of the moon made with Duvel.

. Below are some of the images we made with Stef Viaene for Duvel. The idea is to see a planet in the duvel glass. We made many glasses at 200%. Glasses without stems. Rigs to hold glasses from the top. Bubble generators in the glass.

 
   
 
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A "micro" shot of the underneath side of a head of beer.

. For the second Duvel commercial made by Stef Viaene, (now at Latcho Drom, Brussels) VIZ.NL made a giant aquarium of Duvel beer...

. In fact this shot was made in a giant (2000 liter) container of beer. The undulations in the foam which give this sea effect were made by letting off a compressed air mini-explosion in the aquarium.

 

 
   
 
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Kronenbourg.

. This is one of a series of 3 short commercials for Kronenbourg. We had to make beer look like a train, a space-shuttle taking off, and a beach. Made by Stef Viaene for Pix & Motion in Brussels.

The three commercials can be viewed by clicking on each of the images below...
 
   
 
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Beer Train Beer Shuttle Beer Beach
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Palm.

. We made the aquaria and rigs for these Palm beer commercials. It was directed by Stef Viaene for Latcho Drom in Brussels.

 
   

 


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Grolsch.

. The beer shots and the pack shot effects had to be carefully prepared for this latest offering by Grolsch - a premium light beer. The commercial used many stock shots of Marilyn Monroe who was also a famous blonde...

 
   
 
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Hertog Jan.

. The castle in this film was a model,(1m50 x 1m50), which was matted into real footage of a knight galloping home. Ronald Koetzier shot the commercial for Will v/d Vlugt Productions.

 
   

 

 
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. Here on the left are three archive photos of the rigging used on the second Duvel commercial

 
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