Hornet Inc’s directing duo Dan & Jason have just delivered a new spot for PPL Electric Utilities. The ad, titled Birds, was drawn in Flash, however the team used the software as an ink and paint tool, animating ‘traditionally’ as you’ll see below. The line work was also run through a texture mask to give it a pencil line quality. The animation on the spot was handled by Mike Luzzi and Mark Pecoraro.

Bob Rutan, who has recently worked on projects like Monster High and The Ricky Gervais Show, designed, directed and animated this new promotional video for LeadMD. The subject material is a bit dry, but Rutan helps add style and energy to the 2-minute piece:

Jeroen Jaspaert was recently invited to create a new spot for Rennie Peppermint, an antacid product. By way of Tandem Films, he re-designed the characters, riffing off the ‘Cartoon Modern’ style, using Flash as his primary weapon. No symbol animation here – it’s traditionally animated, Cyntic-style. Full credits below:

Check out this new Flash-animated (I think) Super Bowl spot for MetLife, who happen to own the majority of my house. It was lead by the amazing team at Psyop, but I’ve heard through the grapevine that the gang at Six Point Harness in Hollywood handled the 2D animation on the project. I’ve contacted the 6PH for the scoop, but I haven’t been able to verify this. But if it is in fact true – brilliant work, everyone. Here’s the spot titled Everyone, which includes a whole village of classic animated characters including Peanuts, He-man, Pepé Le Pew, Scooy Doo, Yosemite Sam, Marvin the Martian, Richie Rich and too many others to name.

CalArts-trained animator/designer Ashley K has put Flash through the traditional-animation paces for a new car ad. By way of SDF-1, Ashley’s work helps promote the Toyota Toyotag, a way to connect with Toyota from a smartphone.