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Flash Animated Super Bowl Spot For MetLife?

aaron — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:53:25 +0000

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.

Ashley K Fuels Toyota Spot With Flash Animation

aaron — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 15:03:14 +0000

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.

Nathan Love Delivers Tasteful Sweet’N Low Spots

aaron — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 16:31:06 +0000

Anca Risca at Nathan Love recently directed a pair of Flash-animated spots for Sweet’N Low. The animation team was comprised of Brian Muelhaupt, Maasa Kuwana-Muelhaupt and Pasquale Ricotta.

Pencil Test Studios Pours Work Into Public Storage

aaron — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 19:14:57 +0000

Pencil Test Studios recently completed a series of spots for Public Storage, the Glendale, California-based self-storage team. The crew, based in Orange County, CA, used Toon Boom and After Effects to bring the stick-figures to life:

JibJab Sues Toyota For Some Dead Presidents

aaron — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 14:43:53 +0000

Animators – you might want to put a LoJack on your animations, because Toyota Motor USA seems to be in a stealing mood. I’ll let JibJab’s official complaint for damages explain why:

“Toyota recently ran a commercial promoting its 2011 President’s Day sale, which incorporated elements identical (to) and/or substantially indistinguishable from JibJab’s Founding Father’s Rap and Starring You Tap Dance videos.”

The TV spot in question was produced by Hoffman Lewis, who simply shoulda known better. The whole dancing president thing certainly feels JibJab-esque, but wait until the end for the little “Ends Soon” tag – it’s a blatant rip. Watch for yourselves, ladies and gentlemen of the jury….

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(Full disclosure – I worked a JibJab many years ago, but that’s not how I discovered this.)

WÖNKY Gets Credit For Clearer Capital One Campaign

aaron — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:02:58 +0000

Miki Cash at Bristol-based WÖNKY Films recently directed a series of 17 interlinking shorts for Capital One’s Credit Made Clearer campaign. The WÖNKY team chose Flash as their animation tool.

Dancing Line Creates New Spot For Eskaton

aaron — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 15:25:03 +0000

Vancouver’s Anik Rosenblum designed and animated this new TV spot for Eskaton, an organization providing services to seniors. The ad was produced out of Dancing Line Productions, the studio founded by Rosenblum, who animated the ad traditionally in Flash. The spot is titled Live Well.

Kim On Loan to Guru For Bank Spot

aaron — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 15:51:22 +0000

Last week we featured Angela Kim’s Sheridan short Orlegi, and this week we’ve got some of her commercial work to show. She was called into Guru Studios to help design and animate this spot for Community Bank, which was directed by Matt Hammill.

Crunchdog Dials Up Heyah Commercial

aaron — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 16:05:45 +0000

Here’s a new, Flash-animated TV spot for by Crunchdog, a studio in Poland. Pretty simply stuff here, but it moves nicely. The service here is Heyah, a pay-as-you-go cellphone service.

Do You Like Waffles? Yes, Arby’s Definitely Does

aaron — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 13:32:42 +0000

Flash animator Nathan Mazur was the animation muscle behind the 10 million view YouTube sensation Do You Like Waffles? It was a music video for Nerf Herder lead singer Parry Gripp’s song, and something cool happened after that. Here’s Mazur’s recounting, “recently, Arby’s contacted us about doing an ad for them. I jokingly suggested we rework the waffles song and make it for roast beef, Arby’s main food item. Turns out, that’s exactly what they were looking for.”