Freedom Nissin Cup Noodles poster ads Fall edition, Part 1

Posted By yonghow on December 1st, 2007


A new series of Freedom Nissin cup noodles print advertisements now appearing in periodicals and billboards over Tokyo. Work on the these print ads usually involve only Freedom’s character designers/concept artists Sajiki-san and Somo-san, but this particular series was a little different because of the special call for entries from the entire Freedom committee team.

With the Freedom Nissin Cup Noodle design as the background template, we could choose from the Freedom series any character of our liking and get him/her to strike a neat pose inside LightWave. The best designs are then used as references for the illustrators to create the poster ads.






Response from the animators were overwhelming as everyone took a stab at it, with poses ranging from the chic, dashing to absolutely playful. Its a pity I can’t show the more outrageous ones here, but Ao’s Planet Terror parody, done by my lighting chief Matsui-san, was a hot favourite in the studio. Although it didn’t make the final selection, folks in the studio clearly adored it enough to use it for other purposes. (below)


(above) Instructions for the magazine ad design contest pasted on a “sticky board” in the studio. If you take a closer look you can see that characters from Akira were used as examples for some good poses to consider. Also check out this older post.

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6 Responses to “Freedom Nissin Cup Noodles poster ads Fall edition, Part 1”

0rion

Good stuff! I like the variety in the different designs. Wish we could have seen more of the funky creative ones. 🙂

Ahboon

hell, i wished they’d had more of these funky cool stuff here in Singapore man… How come Maggi noodles neber launch these sorta stuff??? Alot of ppl in Singapore also like anime wat… I’m sure. but then again, we do have weird ideas of what is creative, think MDA’s latest MTV.. y’all, rock on.. y’all…

yonghow

orion – :] Maybe next time !

Ahboon – That MDA rap’s kinda creepy…but I heard it generate quite alot of buzz, so its not such a bad thing after all.

Blooker

Fantastic images! Is there any way you could upload lager versions of them, perhaps around 1920 pixels wide? These would make beautiful desktop wallpapers.

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