The VFX was all done here in New Zealand at Digipost. Took a team of 4-6 artists 18 weeks, from character design, supervising the shoot, high res print stills and then working through 52 shots in a 60 second commercial.
Directed by Jesse Warn of Film Construction and DOP by the legendary John Seale (Oscar winner for The English Patient, plus noms for Rain man and Witness). The agency was Badjar.

Modeled with Maya and Zbrush.
Camera and object tracking - Syntheyes
Animation - Maya
Rendering - Mental Ray and Renderman for Maya
Compositing - Shake and Flame

VFX Supervisor - James Cunningham
3d Artists : Nick Wilson, Matt Sutherland, Jay Renner, Leslie Chan, Glen Dawick, Kei Kasai.
BG masks by Glasshammer.

For more info click the links below :
CGSOCIETY
features.cgsociety.org/story_custom.php?story_id=4329&page=
DIGIPOST
digipost.co.nz/