Dancing Swiss Malt TVC

Here are some 'frames' from our animated TV commercial from the 1990's. Also some of the behind-the-scenes images that were created during the making of the commercial. All the "characters" were built as 3D computer models and then animated to move in time to the music.

Watch the Dancing Swiss Mountain Malt Commercial.

The idea behind the commercial was created by our promotions department and the final animation produced by a talented Melbourne company called Unreal Pictures who produce many of the animated television commercials on air as well as special effects for movies.

To create the pancakes we had one of our chefs cook some 'perfect' pancakes, making sure they were browned just right. These were then scanned into the computer and applied to the 3D models that were built, creating some very realistic-looking pancakes for the commercial.

To produce the 30 second commercial there is a sequence of over 750 computer generated images.

The main character in the commercial was our Swiss Mountain Malt. Although the Malt had a brief 'non-speaking' part, this character has developed quite a following.

Immediately the commercial was on air, we had a lot of requests for 'that big drink in the commercial' at the restaurants. 

We are still serving the swiss mountain malts in the restaurants however they now come in large pint mugs.