I’m just back from a week off, and a few new Flash-animated holiday shorts snuck in while I was chugging egg nog.
Ben Lane’s animated Christmas card:
And here’s Aaron Stewart’s VH1 holiday parody short that he created with Hornet Inc.
SuperNews! – Santa Saves Christmas (also – watch the entire episode, The Christmas Bailout, over at YouTube)
Hornet Inc’s Dan & Jason recently tried their luck in the realm of lottery ads. Along with animator Alan Foreman (Cat Slap), they created a series of Flash-aniamted spots for the Maryland Lottery featuring voicework from real lottery winners. The campaign was initiated by the agency GKV, and below is the spot titled James:
Hornet Inc’s Dan & Jason recently helped AT&T share an emotional message for a nation in need of a pep-talk. The twosome’s direction paints a portrait of our ability to overcome difficult times using the metaphor of a stock market line graph. Below is the ad, titled Timeline, which was overseen by BBDO, and animated by Alan Foreman (Cat Slap).
Hornet Inc’s Santa Maria (a twosome consisting of Josh Goodrich and David Hill), recently chewed through a new viral spot for Dentyne gum. The result of their work is a 1-minute, Flash-animated short titled Blog Smog for Dentyne’s Make Face Time campaign. And of course – they’re ganging up on me and my fellow bloggers. While we may disregard our hygiene here and there, we’re curing people of the horrible scourge of boredom, dammit! The ad, which was produced for the McCann-Erickson agency, was animated in Flash and composited in After FX.
A new TV series pitch has emerged from Hornet Inc. It’s called The Bloody Band Aidz, and it follows a group of world-travelling, hell-raising rockers who happen to be blood-soaked band-aids. Well, in the series, they group is no longer travelling anywhere – as part of a court-ordered mandate, the rockers have been ordered to be the house band at a New Jersey dive called Dongs Place. The series was created by Aaron Stewart (who we interviewed back in 2005) and Todd Lamb. Stewart directed this music video below, and Efrain Cintron animated.
[NSFW - animated nudity and sex and buckets of red-hot bloooooooood!]
