Paul Patrick Quinn describes the telco mission given the crew at Vancouver special effects shop Northwest Imaging & FX.

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High realism was the challenge presented on a 30-second commercial for B.C. Tel. In it, a simple suitcase standing alone in a train station is suddenly bombarded by a flurry of travel stickers. The barrage becomes so intense that the case is eventually knocked over.

The suitcase and the stickers were produced and animated by the computer graphics department at Northwest and composited into live-action film via Northwest’s digital compositing suite. ‘We rest our case.’