July 3 | 2013
Distill an Idea: the Volkskrant Creative Press Challenge

Great projects coming out of the SuperHeroes hideout! Here’s a really special one, called the Creative Press Challenge for the Volkskrant, one of Hollands’ leading news papers.
The Creative Press Challenge is a competition that takes advertising back to its core; it focuses on on print as an advertising medium pushes for the purity of ideas.
Creatives are challenged to strip an integrated campaign down to a single print ad, in which the true strength of the idea should unfold…
SuperHeroes was part of a team of incredible creatives making this film work.
Our fellow hero Thijs Biersteker did the creative direction, together with the lovely Corriette Schoenaker.
We chipped in our post production and VFX skills. The SuperHeroes motion graphics department is powering up to levels never seen before, and is profiling itself in an amazing way again.
Here’s some further insight in the how-we-did-it. We used our super secret powers to control the density of smoke and shape it to a dragon’s body (amongst other effects). Here’s a breakdown of our development process (for the curious, our hero Fred has a technical writeup on his blog):
The full credits, a great collaboration of:
Director: Corriette Schoenaerts
DOP: Hessel Waalewijn
Creative director: Thijs Biersteker x Nomadic
Copy writer: Pieter van den Heuvel
Art Department: Dirk & Hans x Jelier & Schaaf
Light: Mick Durlacher
VFX: Superheroes Amsterdam
Editor: Will Judge x The Gentlemen’s Club
Grading & compositing: Scott & Lise x Glassworks
Audio post & sound design: JONS
Music: Amp.Amsterdam
Production: Yasmin x UNIT c.m.a.
EQ: 711 Rent, Golden Eye
Studio: Allard Studio’s
Special thanks: Cam-a-lot