The Aardman Animations commercials division has posted a number of their spots on YouTube, and several were produced in Flash. We’ve featured the McLeod’s Aardman work before (IPA Effectiveness), but here’s a commercial Tim Ruffle directed for Webbliworld. It’s titled Wij’s Discovery, and it was discussed briefly in our message boards, where we learned the project team also included Joe Wood (mentioned earlier this week), Dave Connolly and Garth Jones.
Next up is a spot directed by Peter Peake for YoToy. The product, called Zoomz, is a secret toy that hides in your shoes. I myself prefer a secret shoe that hides in my toy, but that’s neither here nor there. The agency on the spot was St Luke’s Communications.
Tim Ruffle, one of the lucky few listed on the Aardman Animations Director’s Roster, was called upon to animate a spot for Spanish TV. The Flash-animated commercial was for Hipotecas, a company offering home loans. Ruffle and his team produced the animation back in 2006. His animation team was four-strong – Tom Evans, Joe Wood, Steve Whittle and Dave Cropley. Tim and Louis Jones designed the characters and the world.
Aardman Animations, the amazing UK team behind Wallace & Gromit, Creature Comforts and Chicken Run, has chosen to animate their next TV series in Flash. Little J, an 11-minute series, will be a collaboration with Jamie Oliver, the British celebrity chef.
According to the BBC News, the series will go back in time and follow a 10-year old Jamie as he fights off a mad scientist named Eggs Benedict and jams with his band The Vulgar Vegetables.
The Brothers McLeod, who recently premiered Fuggy Fuggy 2 here at CHF, have produced a two new shorts for the 2007 IPA Effectiveness Awards. Working through their rep’s Aardman Animations, Greg and Myles teamed up with MCBD, an ad agency in London to create 2 Flash-animated ‘viral’ shorts. Here is one titled Helen, which features an Advertising Planner with a planet sized brain.
