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Simpsons Game a Parody Fest
The Simpsons team revealed at Comic-Con a couple of the popular titles that will be parodied in the upcoming video game as the show’s Emmy-winning writers and voice cast team up to bring gamers the ultimate interactive Simpsons experience. Created in partnership with Gracie Films, Twentieth Century Fox Television and [...]
Method Creates VFX for 300 Director’s Beer Spot
Having brought Frank Miller’s graphic novel, 300, to the big screen, director Zack Snyder took some time to sell some spuds and brought vfx house Method along for the ride. For the new Miller Lite spot ‘Break From the Crowd,’ Method employed Massive software and shot motion-capture data at Vicon [...]
Danger Rangers on New Mission
Proving again that animation can save lives, Educational Adventures has teamed with fire safety products manufacturer Kidde to launch a new national, multi-year sponsorship campaign designed to further fire safety awareness. A series of commercials and public service announcements will feature characters from Education Adventures’ popular children’s animated safety series [...]
W!LDBRAIN Goes Long for Esurance
Those who enjoy the Esurance TV ads animated by W!LDBRAIN will be able to catch the debut of the campaign’s first long-form commercial during the FX Network’s premiere of I,Robot on Monday, March 19, at 7:30 p.m. (ET/ PT). Titled ‘Carbon Copy,’ the ad features a cliff-hanger ending intended to [...]
S4 Brands Chiller Channel
Launching a new cable network can be a scary proposition, but that’s the whole point of NBC-Universal Cable Entertainment’s Chiller, new all-HD channel featuring 24-hour horror and thriller programming. To create on-air branding for the endeavor, the conglomerate turned to Hollywood’s S4 Studios, which used CG animation and effects to [...]
Blockbuster Scores With Bowl Ad
The latest Blockbuster commercial starring animated pet-store hamsters Carl and Ray led the pack of Super Bowl ads in a national study conducted by HCD Research. The group polled 600 viewers over the age of 18 on Sunday night and found that the majority picked the humorous spot from a [...]
Sedelmaier Goes Aboriginal for Outback
J. J. Sedelmaier Prods., the animation studio best known for collaborating with comedian Robert Smigel on cartoons for Saturday Night Live a few years ago, has informed us of its latest television project, a series of spots for Outback Steakhouse. The company worked with New York ad agency Kaplan-Thaler Group [...]
Kodak Fetes Animal Logic for Toohey Spot
Vfx house Animal Logic took the award for Digital Visual Effects and CGI at the 2006 Kodak Gongs Awards presentation and advertising industry party, held Friday, Sept. 8., at the Capitol Theatre in Sydney, Australia. The studio won for its work on ‘War of the Appliances,’ a commercial spot promoting [...]
Z Animation Helps Microsoft Realize Potential
Z Animation has created and produced the entire animation package for the third installment of Microsoft’s global ‘Realizing Potential’ corporate branding campaign. The live action/animated TV, print and Internet initiative was launched by ad agency McCann-Erickson/San Francisco in 2002, but this is the first time the campaign has been produced [...]
Blur and Lapin Blanc Partner Up to Make TV Commercials
Venice, Calif.-based animation house Blur Studio has joined forces with Lapin Blanc, the animation unit of London commercials and film company Lucky Elliot to launch a new commercial production venture. “Blur’s ability to tell great stories and create memorable characters in CG is gaining more and more recognition,’ says Blur’s [...]
‘Star Trek’ Beams...
Paramount’s Star Trek Into Darkness landed on top of the domestic box office...
Universal Releases New Clip...
Universal has released the first clip from Illumination’s eagerly anticipated...
