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Squirrels Invade Dan & Jason Blip Episode

aaron — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 17:13:11 +0000

Hornet Inc’s directing duo Dan & Jason have revealed a new original micro-short. Squirrels is the latest installment in their Dan & Jason Blip series.

Dan and Jason’s Animated Chain Reaction

aaron — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 16:12:39 +0000

Following up on their confused.com spots from 2010, Hornet Inc’s directing duo Dan & Jason have produced yet another musical-style animated spot. This one revolves around the Diana Ross track Chain Reaction, and is no less ambitious than the previous ads.

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Directed by: Dan & Jason
Executive Producer: Michael Feder
Producer: Jan Wohrle
Animators:
Keelmy Carlo
Joe Andriola
Frank Summers
Connie Li Chan
Mark Pecoraro
Lizzi Akana
Efrain Cintron
Compositing:
Max Kornev
Yussef Cole
Andrew MacFarlane
Julien Koetsch
Peter Fink
Editor: RJ Glass

Dan & Jason Direct Confused.com Spots

aaron — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 15:09:44 +0000

Hornet Inc’s directing duo Dan & Jason recently delivered a series of new, animated spots for confused.com, a UK-based price-comparison insurance company. All character animation in this ad, titled Somebody To Love, was done in Flash and then the team composited the piece in After Effects. The lead animator on the job was Mike Luzzi, and full credits are below:

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Directed by: Dan & Jason
Executive Producer: Michael Feder
Producer: Jan Wohrle
Lead Animator: Mike Luzzi
Animators: Connie Li Chan, Jake Armstrong, Mark Pecoraro, Joe Andriola, Keelmy Carlo, Frank Summers, Joe Cappabianca, Rachel Yonda, Efrain Cintron, Lizzi Akana
Compositor: Yussef Cole
Editor: R.J. Glass
Produced at Hornet Inc.

Dan & Jason Animate Mary For Maryland Lottery

aaron — Thu, 06 May 2010 15:06:28 +0000

Hornet Inc’s directing duo known as Dan & Jason polished off yet another Flash-animated spot for the Maryland Lottery. Like the one we posted back in December, Dan & Jason had help on the animation front from Alan Foreman, but Mike Luzzi also joined the effort this time.

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Delicious Animated Holiday Leftovers

aaron — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:48:13 +0000

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.

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SuperNews! – Santa Saves Christmas (also – watch the entire episode, The Christmas Bailout, over at YouTube)

Dan & Jason Win Maryland Lottery Campaign

aaron — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 17:21:05 +0000

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:

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Dan & Jason Plot an Upturn Timeline For AT&T

aaron — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 15:54:23 +0000

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).

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Santa Maria Blankets the Web With Blog Smog

aaron — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 15:31:01 +0000

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.

Stewart Peels Off The Bloody Band Aidz

aaron — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 16:22:41 +0000

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.

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Hornet Loans Stewart to Fulton Bank

aaron — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 16:52:35 +0000

Aaron Stewart is a master of the flat, graphic look that Flash production is so often paired with, but in this latest series of spots for Fulton Bank, he adds textures to create a fresh look. In total, he directed 4 spots for the bank campaign, which was produced out of Hornet Inc, and overseen by the agency Pavone. Stewart had help from Jonathan Carroll and Efrain Cintron on the animation front. Here’s the spot titled Leverage:

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Head over to the Hornet site to see the other spots, or go read the 2005 ColdHardFlash interview with Stewart.