PEPSI NEX MOMOTARO EPISODE ZERO

TitlePEPSI NEX MOMOTARO EPISODE ZERO
BrandSUNTORY HOLDINGS
Product / ServicePEPSI
CategoryA09. Visual Effects
EntrantAlt.VFX Brisbane, AUSTRALIA
Entrant Company Alt.VFX Brisbane, AUSTRALIA
Advertising Agency YOMIKO ADVERTISING Tokyo, JAPAN
Advertising Agency 2 TUGBOAT Tokyo, JAPAN
Production Company TOHOKUSHINSHA FILM CORPORATION Tokyo, JAPAN

Credits

Name Company Position
Yasumichi Oka Creative Director
Shin Takaue SUNTORY HOLDINGS LIMITED Creative Director
Seijo Kawaguchi Art Director
Masakatsu Kasai TOHOKUSHINSHA FILM CORPORATION Producer
Sunao Nonaka Producer
Koichi Iguchi TOHOKUSHINSHA FILM CORPORATION Director
Taku Tada TUGBOAT Creative Director
Takeshi Takada Alt.vfx Vfx Executive Producer
Colin Renshaw Alt.vfx Vfx Supervisor

Brief Explanation

This epic new film that turns a classic folk story on its head to promote Pepsi Nex Zero. "Momataro," aka The Peach Boy, is about a young man born from a peach who goes on to befriend a dog, monkey and pheasants, who later band together to battle a big bad red demon. There is an avante-garde, music video style twist to the story, depicting the characters in stylish costumes as they take on the intimidating red beast(ONI). The modernized update serves as a perfect metaphor for the battle brand Pepsi faces against its biggest (red) rival

Creative Execution

Based on the Japanese fable 'Peach Boy' or Momotaro, the first installment of a three episode series required Alt's creature design expertise to build a giant 100m lava demon or Oni. This makes cameo appearance in the first two installments setting up for the final showdown in the third. Shot entirely in LA and Nevada.