BRAND YEW FRIENDS For Yankee Candle

Brand Yew Friends is a multi-disciplinary creative collective whose goal is simply to solve client’s problems while doing great work. We use our 20 years of experience in the design and animation industry to facilitate unique collaborations for agencies and brands. We are a solution-based team with the ability to offer full-service capabilities for all budgets through one or multiple partners. There isnt a board we cant solve, a team we cant build, or a project we cant make.

Our capabilities include 2D/3D Design/Animation, Live Action, Photoreal CG, Unreal Engine and Volume Stage Production, VFX and Comp, Offline Editorial, Color & Finishing, and Audio Post.

The following are our partners that we feel are a perfect fit for this project.

Ergin kuke - Multi-HYPHENATE DIRECTOR, CREATIVE DIRECTOR AND VFX SUPERVISOR.

Through the years he has been a child actor, bartender, literary translator, writer, teacher, publisher of a sociopolitical newspaper, war guide for the Washington Post, art director, visual effects supervisor and advertising creative director.
Arguably, his most useful work is his series of After Effects tutorials which have been cracked and downloaded worldwide; hopefully helping the next generation of artists.
He has been nominated for an Emmy, MTV music video award, was somehow awarded a cultural ambassador order from the president of Albania and his work is on permanent display at the Petersen Automotive Museum.
Shifting restlessly through the years from one discipline to the other has created a wide body of work across visual storytelling that spans live action, vfx, live event, theatrical and experiential, emerging tech and interactive.
He has a love for and a decent collection of paperback sci-fi, exploring far places on motorcycles and single malts. In the almost nonexistent time between work and trying to raise his children to be astronauts (so he can live vicariously), he handcrafts leather luggage in his garage, is currently hoping to finish his translation of Asimov’s Foundation and is trying to reimagine the blinker.

JUICe - Motion Design & Post production

A full-service visual effects, design & audio powerhouse.

Juice blends VFX, 2D/3D animation, Unreal Engine creations, original score, sound and visual design, brand identity, mixing, and postproduction to produce moving experiences in film, audio, and digital spaces. Our tight knit family of directors, composers, artists, and dreamers has helped transform and redefine work for NETFLIX & HBO, BMW & Mercedes, Coca-Cola & Nike, Virgin Mobile & Dolby, Sony Entertainment, CD Projekt RED, and the BBC. We’re suckers for how big ideas look and sound, and we’ve traded many a weekend for sweating out the details that make them come alive.

Cosmopolitan, shapeshifting, award-winning,

Juice.