Here we are with four of the most fantastic headphones to ever peep the light of music. They’re made by the CandyLab Limited group, known in the advertising world for their top-class 3D rendering, animation, and illustration. Each of the phones you see in this post is for a campaign working for Nokia telephones, but the earpieces themselves work wonders for your eyeballs on their own. The set you see above is based on Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea. Utterly fantastic realities created by hands in the real.

Each of these headsets is modeled in Maya and rendered in Mental Ray. The cell-phones are modelled by Michael Strathearn and rendered by Fabrizio Fioretti, and all of the headphones are created by James Bowron. Included in these four are: Jukebox (pink), Reggae (rugged, boxes and cantops), Organ (pipes and fire), and Jules (horns and padding.) All of this is CandyLab.

These headphones remind a fellow of the positively undeniable benchmarks set by gigantic blockbuster films such as Return of the King or Speed Racer. Every time I take a peek at these headphones or those films I get all pumped up. If you watch the “making of” Star Wars that comes with the slightly-recent Silver-box DVD set, you’ll see an older gentleman who describes his first viewing of A New Hope in the theater. He says he sat down with his family for dinner and told them that his whole life had been changed. Believe that.

When people take the time to make something as magnificent as these headphones, even when its for something so trival as a cellphone advertisement, it matters to everyone, even the people who never get to see it exist. The bar is set, and it inspires everyone. Shockwaves are sent through the industry, advertising to graphic design to the people who aren’t even working for cash money profit.

Above and below we’ve got a gallery of the four sets of 3D-rendered headphones created by CandyLab for the Nokia phone campaign, plus a few extras from the CandyLab archives for some extra excitement. To get in contact with CandyLab for hiring purposes, choot an email over to jobs@candylab.co.uk, find them on http://twitter.com/candylab_uk/, or peek at them on their utterly lovely candylab.co.uk for shiny moving images.

NOTE: the last image in this gallery is called “Anti-Venom” and it was created by Candy Lab’s Creative Director Fabrizio Fioretti to promote the organic abilities of the studio. Modelled in Maya. Detailed in zBrush. Rendered in Mental Ray. Extremely hot’n'heavy.

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