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Rhino Scores 4 Telly Awards With The Wumblers Leave a comment Read more »

Rhino Scores 4 Telly Awards With The Wumblers

Posted on August 30, 2010 by Moo2u
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Premier VFX, design and animation house Rhino partnered with Gravity, are pleased to announce that the acclaimed animated TV series, The Wumblers, is the recipient of four prestigious Telly Awards for excellence in children’s television, executive produced and creative directed by Rhino’s North American CEO Zviah Eldar. Wumblers are multi-colored bulbous-shaped characters whose food falls from the sky, whose babies hatch in watermelon patches and whose stories blend inspiration, imagination and fun. The show’s aim is simple; to challenge children to think globally and embrace the idea that our differences can unite us.

Stardust Creates Environment For J-Power Leave a comment Read more »

Stardust Creates Environment For J-Power

Posted on August 30, 2010 by Moo2u
Posted in Animation, Commercials, Industry, Television Tagged

In cooperation with Japanese production company Kirameki, bicoastal U.S. creative production company Stardust Studios recently produced two HD spots for Tokyo’s Electric Power Development (J-POWER) through the creative team at McCann Erickson Japan. The two HD :30 spots entitled “Global” and “Environment” directed by Stardust’s founder and creative director Jake Banks began airing in April in Japan, where they will continue to run for the next year.

“The main focus of these spots was to show that J-POWER creates energy and makes everything possible for daily life,” Banks explained. “One was an environmental spot, and the other was a global spot that speaks to the industries, businesses, infrastructures and everything that the company powers.”

Kommitted Serves It Up Again for Microsoft Leave a comment Read more »

Kommitted Serves It Up Again for Microsoft

Posted on August 30, 2010 by Moo2u
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Kommitted’s founder and director Nathan McGuinness has reteamed with Microsoft and McCann Worldgroup San Francisco for the latest piece of the software company’s Windows Server® 2008 campaign. In a pair of whimsical new :30 and :15 spots, McGuinness adds a human touch to the face…

DUCK’s Kompost Helped Dixie Trixi Win By A Nose Leave a comment Read more »

DUCK’s Kompost Helped Dixie Trixi Win By A Nose

Posted on August 30, 2010 by Moo2u
Posted in Animation, Hot Picks, Industry, Shorts

For the recent Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film, five teams each consisting of two members, developed an animated film within 48 hours. Top honors were given to Dixie Trixi, a short film directed by DUCK’s Kompost. Each team used the same character, Trixi, the festival’s…

Larry The Cable Guy Gets Royale Treatment For Comedy Central Leave a comment Read more »

Larry The Cable Guy Gets Royale Treatment For Comedy Central

Posted on August 30, 2010 by Moo2u
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Motion design & production house Royale was called upon by COMEDY CENTRAL to create some fun and glitz for the show open for the “COMEDY CENTRAL Roast Of Larry The Cable Guy.”

The tattoo art-inspired sequence is driven by country boy heraldry including symbolic translations of the American flag, hunting and wildlife. Behind a dazzling array of arena rock lighting, the sequence opens with a sexy close-up of a bass fish tattoo emblazoned on a woman’s lower back bearing the Cable Guy’s trademark catch-phrase “Git ‘R Done.” As the tattoo-adorned Larry flexes his muscles and vaunts Dixieland’s finest, we’re introduced to Roast Master Lisa Lampanelli and the diverse cast of celebrity roasters including Warren Sapp, Gary Busey, Jeff Foxworthy and Toby Keith.

Absolute and Lowes Take It Outdoors For BBDO Leave a comment Read more »

Absolute and Lowes Take It Outdoors For BBDO

Posted on May 21, 2009 by Moo2u
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Absolute’s lead Flame artist Dave Smith and his team of VFX artists have crafted a dazzling array of special effects for home improvement giant Lowe’s new Spring 2009 campaign, via HSI director Gerard de Thame and BBDO New York. Starts at Lowe’s/Outdoor emphasizes the amazingly affordable outdoor products, machines and materials Lowe’s carries in its stores everyday. With the arrival of spring, barbecues, plants, lawn mowers and tractors come streaming out of a Lowe’s store and into the parking lot, much to the surprise of loyal Lowe’s patrons. The message is clear: spring has arrived and Lowe’s has everything you need to start living outdoors.

Terminator Salvation - May 2009 Release Leave a comment Read more »

Terminator Salvation – May 2009 Release

Posted on May 20, 2009 by Moo2u
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“Terminator Salvation” is set in post-apocalyptic 2018, where John Connor is the man fated to lead the human resistance against Skynet and its army of Terminators. But the future that Connor was raised to believe in is altered in part by the appearance of Marcus Wright, a stranger whose last memory is of being on death row. Connor must decide whether Marcus has been sent from the future, or rescued from the past. As Skynet prepares its final onslaught, Connor and Marcus both embark on an odyssey that takes them into the heart of Skynet’s operations, where they uncover the terrible secret behind the possible annihilation of mankind.

Superfad Win Clio Awards for Durex 1 Comment Read more »

Superfad Win Clio Awards for Durex

Posted on May 20, 2009 by Moo2u
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The 2009 CLIO Interactive Jury awarded Superfad a Gold CLIO Statue for Durex “Get it On” at the gala awards presentation in Las Vegas on May 13th. The spot was then awarded a Silver Clio for Animation at the TV/Cinema Awards the following evening. The Durex film, featuring three energetic condom balloon animals, was recognized for both its creativity and viral success. The CLIO Awards is the world’s most recognized global awards competition for advertising, design, and interactive. For nearly five decades, the CLIO Awards has maintained its original commitment to celebrate and reward creative excellence, honoring a powerful form of communication and its impact on modern culture. At the same time, the CLIO Awards remains focused on evolving with the industry in order to acknowledge the most current, breakthrough work. CLIO’s iconic statue is the most widely recognized and coveted symbol of the industry’s creative accomplishments.

Brand New School Bring Coke to LA Live Leave a comment Read more »

Brand New School Bring Coke to LA Live

Posted on May 13, 2009 by Moo2u
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Brand New School recently created a series of profoundly energetic, decidedly athletic films for a new Coca-Cola installation. The films will be featured outdoors at L.A. Live the 5.6 million square foot Los Angeles complex that includes apartments, ballrooms, bars, concert theaters, restaurants, movie theaters and a 54-story hotel and condominium tower.

In addition to their formidable production and post production talent, Brand New School’s efforts on the project included design of a 50-foot long Coca-Cola logo and the casting of more than 40 highly-skilled athletes, including tennis players, skateboarders, yoga practitioners, and more.

Elastic & a52 Create Artistic Opening for Festival Leave a comment Read more »

Elastic & a52 Create Artistic Opening for Festival

Posted on May 9, 2009 by Moo2u
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Full-service design company Elastic has recently worked with 3D and visual effects supervisor Andy Hall of VFX boutique a52, on an artistic animated short for the 2009 Newport Beach Film Festival. Working through Elastic and in collaboration with advertising agency RPA, Hall directed the festival’s official :30 opening short. The fully computer-animated opening was designed by Hall to look and feel like one of the epic stop-motion masterpieces of Terry Gilliam or Tim Burton. The content artfully presents a take-off of the strangely similar aesthetic of studio titles – like Hollywood with a dramatic twist – that welcomes viewers to Newport Beach and their 10th annual celebration of film with wit and charm.

The Autodesk Imagine Tour Leave a comment Read more »

The Autodesk Imagine Tour

Posted on May 9, 2009 by Moo2u
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Join the Autodesk Imagine Tour and discover how Autodesk® 2010 creative software can benefit television and film professionals as well as game developers. Today, television and film facilities as well as game studios are being asked to deliver more content than ever before, faster than ever before. And with growing audience expectations, it’s crucial that the quality of this content be second to none. Fortunately, Autodesk offers industry-leading creative tools for film and television professionals and game developers.

Mekanism Creates Bollywood for Interactive One Show Leave a comment Read more »

Mekanism Creates Bollywood for Interactive One Show

Posted on May 8, 2009 by Moo2u
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Mekanism has been tapped by The One Club to create the promotional creative for 2009’s One Show Interactive awards. One Show Interactive takes place in New York City, May 7-8, and is the industry’s most prestigious awards competition celebrating the year’s best in digital media and web design. The promotional material is based on this year’s Bollywood theme and is a sequence of moving portraits, as a parade of characters takes their turn on screen in their rawest emotional states. Bright, solid-colored background focus attention on each cast member as they play their part in the mini drama. The edgy, interpretive storyline is an ideal representative for the type of creative work honored at the One Show Awards.

89’s Shepherd Edits Magnificent for U2 Leave a comment Read more »

89’s Shepherd Edits Magnificent for U2

Posted on May 8, 2009 by Moo2u
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89 Editorial’s Duncan Shepherd has teamed up with director Tom Krueger for a new video from the rock legends U2.

The video features U2 playing to a small crowd in an intimate venue in Somerville, Massachusetts. The Somerville Theater is known for being the first place the band originally played in the US. Kreuger shot the video on eight HD CAM cameras and four HDV camcorders in a freewheeling experiment designed to harken back to the days of punk rock, resulting in a variety of interesting, ever-shifting camera angles.

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