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First L.A. Anime Fest Tomorrow
The American Cinematheque at the Egyptian Theatre kicks off the 1st Annual Los Angeles Anime Festival tomorrow. Sponsored by the Japan Foundation, the fest will run from May 2-15. Audiences will be introduced to some of the newest and most challenging works from Japan, including the U.S. premieres of the [...]
Uli Meyer Studios Stitches Up Frankenred
Uli Meyer Studios recently completed Frankenred, its eighth promo for the current BSKYB Sky Active campaign featuring the character Lil Red. This latest spot introduces the CG character Uli, Frankenred’s little helper. Set in the laboratory of Frankenred’s castle, the spot has Uli showing the mad scientist how to download [...]
The Mill Goes Fetal
When you think CG, that dancing pink thing from Ally McBeal probably comes to mind. But for “Baby,” a new spot for German building society Badenia, The Mill took digital baby making to the next level. In the spot, a baby inside its mother’s womb is momentarily disturbed by a [...]
Uli Meyer Animates Vbirds Promo for Cartoon Network
Cartoon Network and EMI contracted Uli Meyer Animation Studios to animate a promo for “Virtuality,” the first single from the digital girl band known as VBirds. The characters, D:Lin, Boom, Bling and Wow are animated in Flash and have been combined with CG backgrounds and special effects created in Maya. [...]
The Mill Goes Wooly Bully for Levis
Even the best of animal wranglers would have a tough time keeping hundreds of stampeeding buffalo in line for a shoot. That’s why effects house The Mill was called upon to create the illusion for the new 60 second Levi’s spot Stampeed, which premiered during the Super Bowl this year. [...]
It’s Not Easy Being CG?
With the signature line "It’s not easy being cheesey," Chester Cheetah has been helping to sell Frito-Lay’s Cheetos brand snack foods. Now, at the hands of ad agency BBDO, New York and New York-based visual effects company Quiet Man, the traditionally cel-animated Chester is getting a CG makeover. A new [...]
SecondSun Completes First Animated Spots
Recently formed by combining 2D studio Delaney and Friends, 3D company Brainchild Studios and interactive games producer Furious Ent., animation house SecondSun Ent. has completed its first two animated commercials. For Helix, a spot promoting agricultural products company Syngenta, SecondSun superimposed a 2D animated character, Cam Canola, and live actors [...]
Uli Meyer Studios Raids Lil Red
Uli Meyer Studios has completed the latest in a series of animated commercials for BSKYB. Featuring Lil Red and Tomb Raider’s Lara Croft, Rock Idol is part of BSKYB’s skyactive campaign to entice viewers to play Tomb Raider as part of their interactive games palette. The spot follows Croft as [...]
11:11 MediaWorks Animates Rick Dees
For a new 30-second spot promoting KIIS-FM’s Rick Dees radio program and ClearChannel Radio, digital visual effects company 11:11 MediaWorks traded in their pixels for puppets. The company’s first stop motion animation project is a spoof of the Rankin & Bass style of animation immortalized in the original Rudolph the [...]
Unbound Out to Lunch for British Spot
Hollywood-based Unbound Animation has completed an animated commercial for popular British kids lunchbox product Munchsters Lunchpods. Set to air on Nickelodeon UK, the spot will be part of Viacom Brand Solutions’ Munchsters Megabowl promotional campaign for Glanbia Food Ventures. The spot’s concepts, script, storyboards and animation were all created in [...]
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