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Dan & Jason Give Flight to Animated PPL Spot

aaron — Thu, 10 May 2012 12:02:10 +0000

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.

Rutan Leads Team On LeadMD Project

aaron — Wed, 02 May 2012 12:32:57 +0000

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:

We Prescribe a Single Viewing of Jaspaert’s Antacid Spot

aaron — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 14:00:45 +0000

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:

Client: Bayer
Agency: JWT
Production Company: Tandem
Director: Jeroen Jaspaert
Animation: Jeroen Jaspaert, Pete Baynton, Tim Dillnutt
Assisting: Filipe Alcada

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.