I just spotted a post today on Allison Craig’s blog about an animated spot for MyMeebas, the digital tube toy that eventually reveals a plush doll. Allison designed and animated with Pam Friend, while Tony Andrade handled clean-up and color. The spot was produced at Titmouse. I like imagining that a saccharine-sweet MyMeebas scene is being animated just a few feet away from an animator on the death-metal series Metalocalypse, which is also animated at Titmouse.
The gang at Paris-based Mathematic Studio was recently tapped to create a series of Flash-animated spots for the French financial services company Société Générale. This spot below was directed by Jean Michel and Evelyne Badami was one of the many animators involved.
TBWA\London built a playful viral campaign for the sticking plaster brand Elastoplast (similar to a Band-aid). The advert below is an animated version of what you can create at the Elastoplast website, which offers a Flash-based storytelling toolset. The results of user-submitted work look more like a storyboard, but as the project is aimed at younger kids, this is more than enough bells and whistles. The site was produced by Skive out of the UK. It may be difficult to suppress a smile when the boy performing the voice over says “some boys were taking the mickey out of his long neck.”
The latest Esurance TV spot features another real customer. Kate Kessler, a mother who drives a 1998 Civic Coupe, is the focus of this commercial, which was animated at W!LDBRAIN.
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To help rebrand the hotel chain Econo Lodge, World Leaders Entertainment animated this :30 spot, which was overseen by Arnold Worldwide. Mike Foran, the Executive Creative Director at World Leaders, directed the spot, and Ben Stein produced. With Disney teasing their upcoming 2D feature The Princess and the Frog this week, Econo Lodge gets us in the mood with this spot titled Storybook Ending.
