Portland, Oregon-based Will Vinton Studios has completed two spots. "Diner"
is a stop-motion animated spot for the Maryland Lottery, and won a 1999
Bronze Clio. Skeets McGrew directed for Agency Eisner & Associates.
"Bunnies" is a spot for Citibank and uses reference footage based on an
origami artist's work which was manipulated using Maya software. Skeets
McGrew directed for Agency Y & R New York.

Los Angeles-based Class-Key Chew-Po Commercials and Absolutely Productions
Limited have created "Lunch Order," a spot for Procter & Gamble's Head &
Shoulders Menthol shampoo. The spot features an animated "Jittery Julian"
who transforms into a confidant "Cool Jules" after using the shampoo.
Class-Key Chew-Po's Stig Bergqvist directed for Agency Saatchi &
Saatchi/London.

San Francisco-based The Attik has finished "Deep Sea," a :30 PSA for The Monterey Bay Aquarium. The spot contrasts the depth of the ocean with the highest points above sea level such as the Empire State Building and Mount Everest. It combines live-action vignettes, taken from stock footage, with computer rendering. Simon Dixon directed for Agency Goldberg Moser O'Neill Adverting.

San Francisco-based (Colossal) Pictures has completed "I Scream" for Kraft Foods Marshmallow Alpha-bits. Directed by Charlie Canfield for Agency Ogilvy & Mather L.A., the spot is about a group of marshmallow vowels joining up for a rowdy "I scream for ice cream" game. The spot uses traditional cel and computer animation. San Francisco-based Giant Killer Robots did the CGI.

New York-based Spontaneous Combustion has created the CGI for "It All Starts with ABC," a :15 spot for Post Alpha Bits cereal created to accompany PBS' ARTHUR. In the spot the camera slowly pulls back from Alpha-Bits-like letters to reveal that they are part of words on a page, and that this page is in a book, and that this book is part of a stack which grows past a UFO in outer space. The spot used Adobe After Effects to create matte paintings which were nested inside one another to create the cosmic zoom effect. 3D Studio Max was used to create the books.

New York-based J.J. Sedelmaier Productions created "Dream Job," a :10 film for NBC's TODAY SHOW's Al Roker, which shows the morning talk show's weatherman together with sun and cloud characters. J.J. Sedelmaier directed.

London-based Passion Pictures has created a :60 spot for Virgin Cola,
"Roller Girl," which features a roller-blading 2D animated heroine designed
and conceived by Jamie Hewlett, creator of TANK GIRL. The spot was directed
by Robert Valley and Chris Hauge for agency Rainey Kelly Campbell Roalfe.
The spot was first pencil drawn and hand painted before being computer
painted in Toonz, with traditionally painted and airbrushed backgrounds
added.

Loop Filmworks has completed "The Honeymoon Suite," a stop-motion animated
spot for HBO. Directed by David Chartier, the spot features a
Brooklyn-accented bellhop who guides a newlywed couple through their
honeymoon suite. The couple are uninterested in what the bellhop says until
he mentions that the room comes with HBO.

Passion Pictures has created a new fully computer generated spot starring
Willy Wonka (WILLY WONKA AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY). Launching Rowntree's
new Wonka Xploder chocolate bar, the :20 spot shows Wonka and his chocolate
factory where teams of robots stir vats of bubbling chocolate, and brightly
colored machines create delicious chocolates. Willy tests his new
invention, the Wonka Xploder, on two boys who are inside a sealed testing
room. The boys are startled when the chocolates explode and the secret

J.J. Sedelmaier Productions has created "Lintbrush," a :30 spot for Quilted
Northern bathroom tissues. Directed by J.J. Sedelmaier, and designed by
Bonnie Timmons, the 2D animated spot shows quilters at work while they
discuss the amount of lint in other tissue brands, as compared to Quilted
Northern tissues.