Category: Commercials

DUCK Studios, a.k.a. Duck Soup Studios, recently completed a trailer for midwest theater chain, GKC Theatres. Formed in 1985 by George Kerasotes, GKC Theatres is now the 15th largest theater chain in the U.S.

Brickyard VFX has created a series of commercials for Volkswagen that are airing during the 2004 Athens Olympic Games. The spots, completed via agency client Arnold Worldwide, production company Anonymous Content and director Malcolm Venville, promote VW's Touareg and Phaeton automobiles, respectively, with ads titled PICTURE and WARP SPEED.

Ad agency Young & Rubicam, New York, and Sony have teamed up with Trollbäck & Company to brand some of Sonys newest products, including the Wega HD Television, DVD Handycam camcorder, thin-bodied T1 Cyber-Shot Digital Camera and Network Walkman. The series of end tags, featuring animated illustrations of the various Sony products and the tagline Like No Other, recently began airing not only in conjunction with TV spots, but independently from them.

French brothers Didier and Thierry Poiraud have returned to the U.S. commercial market after releasing their feature debut, ATOMIK CIRCUS, in Paris last week. With leading commercial production company Tool of North America, the brothers co-directed a spot for HPs Printing division, PRINTER, which has been airing in key markets in Western Europe since June. Together with François Vogel, the Poiraud brothers direct U.S.-based projects through Tool satellite company Paranoid Projects @ Tool.

Filmtecknarna's Jonas Odell has directed three commercials for the launch of the BMW 1 series. Animation and post-production were provided by Filmtecknarna.

Framestore CFC recently completed digital effects work on a new three-spot campaign for BT, highlighting the company's Customer Care program. St. Luke's was the agency on SNOW, FOOTBALL and SOUNDS with Outsider films as the production company. SNOW and FOOTBALL were directed by Dom and Nic with Nick Gordon helming SOUNDS.

As part of its 25th Anniversary celebration, ESPN has brought back some of its classic SportsCenter promo spots, featuring a new animated character named Reph, which was produced by J.J. Sedelmaier Prods. The commercials, which won numerous creative awards, were created by ESPN's longtime agency, Wieden + Kennedy. The Reph characters helps viewers know they're watching a classic spot by fruitlessly attempting to get into the ESPN vault. The character was designed by J. J. Sedelmaier, who produced and directed the animated segments.

Framestore CFC has wrapped work on a new spot titled ILLUSIONS for the Audi A6. The spot features an Audi A6 traversing a cityscape that seems at first to be normal, but gradually warps and transformations of the streets and buildings that create impossible paths and spaces form.