ANZ launched their new campaign through DDB to challenge New Zealand to come up with ideas on how to welcome visitors to the Rugby World Cup 2011. Assembly partnered with our good friend Nik Beachman from Thick as Thieves who produced the job for us, from shoot through to delivery. Thanks Nik. You're ace.

We were blessed with good weather and a great crew who made everything a pleasure. There were some challenges around making a stadium full of 30,000 people using a couple of hundred extras, but with some quick calculations from VFX Supervisor Rhys Dippie we were able to film multiple angles with multiple cameras to cover all eventualities.

Nigel Mortimer from Blockhead did a great job of pulling everything together with Pete Ritchie handling the grade. Craig Speakman also lent us some of his 3D magic on "Fish and Chips"

Giant party popper on top of Mt Ruapehu......Check.

Fish and chips for all......Check.