What do a stampeding elephant, a sumo wrestler, and a wrecking ball have in common? None of them can knock over Western & Southern Financial Group's even-keeled spokesperson in the latest creative spots from Anonymous Content Director Christian Bevilacqua.
Working with Uber Content Director Jeffrey Fleisig via Arnold, Manic VFX recently wrapped up work on a four-spot campaign for Progressive.
As 3D enters the fast track to dominant media format and studios race to Working in collaboration with Elastic People Director Carlos Perez via El Cartel/Sony Records, SUSPECT's team rallied to show off the studio's advanced stereoscopic 3D VFX capabilities in the latest video - and first 3D project - for Latin Grammy Award-winning recording artist Daddy Yankee.
Building on a successful string of projects - including an award-winning documentary and a recent lively brand video - TEAK further cemented their status as the go-to production company for backpack giant JanSport with a pair of entertaining promos advertising their innovative bag designs.
Beast, one of the country’s top editorial facilities, announced today that it has hired Dominique Anzano as senior producer at its Los Angeles facility.
Ad industry veteran Thor Raxlen is firmly ensconced in his new LAIR (www.lair.tv), a live-action, visual effects, character animation, design and post finishing studio.
The winners of the Rushes Awards for short format work (www.sohoshorts.com) were announced last night.
Reinforcing their status as an incubator of up-and-coming talent, TEAK has successfully ushered the first live-action television directing job for accomplished still photographer Kate Powers.
A new package of four intensely cinematic identities for Nicktoons, created by motion graphics + live action studio nailgun* are guaranteed to raise the eyebrows, (and quicken the pulse), of pre-teen boys watching everywhere.
In anticipation of the launch of the 2011 Ford EDGE this fall, the agency creatives at Team Detroit called on the talent and proprietary Drive-A-Tron technology at SWAY for a series of computer-generated short films for the Ford Edge web site www.fordvehicles.com/edge.
East Coast commercial visual effects studio Animal has gone bicoastal with the launch of a West Coast studio to serve its growing roster of national and international agency clientele.
In Head, Heart and Hand, Guest Bloggers Kinda Akash and Geraint Owen of Superfad explore the importance of design and what that means for effective, persuasive experiences.
Mark Simon discusses a growing trend in animation.
Simon Ratigan has directed McDonald’s latest spot, a celebration of Britain’s weather highlighting the all-important role of local farms. ‘Weather’ was produced by Claire Taylor at Leo Burnett and Lisa Trnovski at HLA.
Artist owned-and-operated bi-coastal effects boutique Brickyard VFX has just completed work on the new "Yahoo! Lip Sync" campaign via ad agency Goodby, Silverstein & Partners and Hungry Man director Bryan Buckley.
Nothing says ‘guy-fun’ like rocket science and the possibility of things blowing up. Those two elements are conveniently combined in Science Channel’s new show 'Large, Dangerous Rocket Ships.'
Troika , a multidisciplinary brand strategy and design agency, announces the addition of Executive Producer Connor Swegle.
In Bodyguard, the latest MasterCard spot out of McCann Erickson NY, Mr. T looks as tough as ever (albeit a little older), standing, arms crossed, beside a woman as she goes to the dry cleaners, the beauty salon, and the grocery store.
Upwardly mobile London-based Animation Studio Not To Scale have signed an exclusive representation deal with JP Reps for them to represent Not To Scale in Canada.
Company 3 recently completed work on Lady Gaga’s newest music video, “Alejandro,” which was released on the web on June 7.
Enthusiastic fans of the NBA’s Minnesota Timberwolves are an animated bunch, but even they were surprised to see themselves rendered as naive line art in a series of four whimsical, hand-drawn animated spots created for the team by CRASH+SUES for Hunt Adkins/Minneapolis.
Sony Computer Entertainment reached out to Zoic Studios to produce a compelling live-action teaser trailer to launch the return of Twisted Metal in what proved to be the ultimate E3 surprise.
Beast, one of the country’s top editorial facilities, recently completed work on a web and broadcast campaign for GMC from Leo Burnett Detroit featuring basketball trick shot team Dude Perfect.
Working with top artists Akon (featuring Keri Hilson) and Robin Thicke (featuring Snoop Dogg), MERGE@Crossroads Director Gil Green recently turned out a duo of memorable videos.
Method Studios has brought Jay Lichtman on board as Executive Producer for its New York facility.
