Commercials
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| Raimund Krumme's Kick in the Shins spot for Bank Atlantic. Image courtesy of Acme Filmworks. |
Spotlight. Hollywood-based Acme Filmworks produced four 15-second commercials for BankAtlantic, directed by Raimund Krumme (Passage). The spots use Krumme's signature black & white line art to depict a bank customer literally battling with obstacles customers face when dealing with the corporate banking machine. . . . London-based aka Pizazz created three 30-second animated spots for travel agency Lunn Poly/Thomson. They were animated by Mic Graves, Robin Shaw and Joris van Hulzen, using the Animo system, and will air in the U.K. . . . San Francisco-based Curious Pictures and New Zealand-based Flea Circus Films director John Robertson co-produced six seconds of character animation for a spot for office-supply manufacturer Manco, Inc. It depicts the company's character, Manco T. Duck interacting with a live-action scene. . . . New York-based Pixel Liberation Front created 3-D computer animation for the opening sequence of an advertisement for a new Acclaim Entertainment video game called Forsaken.. . . . San Francisco-based Radium created 3-D animation and visual effects for a spot introducing an energy food bar called Boost. . . . New York-based studio Quiet Man created visual effects for a 30-second Duracell ad entitled Anthem. The effects were generated with a Flame system by effects artist Johnnie Semerad under spot director Joe Pytka. . . . Boston-based Fablevision Studios created thirteen animated bumpers for Zoom, the new (remake) live-action kid's series being produced by WGBH. . . . Boston-based Viewpoint Studios and Seattle-based Heck Yes! collaborated on visual effects and 3-D animation for a Discovery Channel network promotion for "Shark Week." In the sequence, a shark's fin is seen swimming out of the ocean, onto the shore, through town, into a viewer's living room and right through the television set. Animator Perry Harovas used Alias|Wavefront's Maya to create the shark's fin.
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