Posts from category "Commercials"

Z Animation Builds for Longford Homes

May 2, 2005 by Sarah Gurman No Comments divider image

Claire Armstrong and Joel Parod, Z Animation’s husband-and-wife directing duo, have wrapped up production on a southwest-flavored, 30-second animated spot for Longford Homes, a residential and commercial developer operating out of Albuquerqe, New Mexico. Peter Barg of Z Animation exec produced "Home of Your Dreams," a client-direct commercial aimed at [...]

Marvel Heroes Unite for Super Bowl Ad

February 2, 2005 by Ryan Ball No Comments divider image

What kind of cataclysmic event could bring Marvel’s best-known superheroes together in one place? Apparently, all it takes is someone losing their check card. That’s the premise of a new Visa ad set to debut during the Super Bowl this Sunday. In “Super Heroes,” a woman cries for help after [...]

Vinton Studios Taps Ad Directors

February 1, 2005 by Ryan Ball No Comments divider image

While Vinton Studios is making the leap to features with Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride (Halloween 2005) and Henry Selick’s adaptation of the Neil Gaiman book Coraline, the studio is best known for animated commercials such as the California Raisin spots. The stop-motion, CG and cel animation house is showing its [...]

Turbo Squid Goes face2face with Mobile Toons

January 25, 2005 by Ryan Ball No Comments divider image

Turbo Squid, a web-based provider of royalty-free 3D products, has launched a new line of mobile content through a partnership with New Jersey-based face2face animation. AniTones mobile character player from face2face is now available through the Turbo Squid Mobile Content Portal, which enables users to access streaming animation on cell [...]

Turbo Squid Goes face2face with Mobile Toons

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Zoic Puts MasterCard Spin on Game of Life

January 18, 2005 by Sarah Gurman No Comments divider image

Zoic studios recently collaborated with Smuggler’s directing team, StyleWar, and advertising agency McCann Erickson to produce "Career Path," a 30-second spot announcing the opportunity to win an internship courtesy of MasterCard. The spot employs a stylized blend of live action and CG animation to depict the career search of a [...]

Telly Awards Accepting Entries

January 6, 2005 by Ryan Ball No Comments divider image

The Telly Awards has issued a worldwide call for entries in its 26th annual quest to single out the world’s finest local, regional and cable television advertising and non-broadcast film and video productions. Submissions are being accepted for television commercials in categories including Local TV, Local Cable, Regional TV and [...]

Scooby Bends it with Beckham

September 28, 2004 by Ryan Ball No Comments divider image

Soccer sensation David Beckham gets animated and joins the Mystery Inc. gang in a new commercial spot for shoemaker adidas. Produced by Cartoon Network U.K., the 60-second ad will hit cable and satellite channels across Europe on October 1st, marking Beckham’s animated debut. The spot is part of adidas’ Impossible [...]

New Mill Spot is for the Birds

September 20, 2004 by Ryan Ball No Comments divider image

Visual Effects House The Mill lent a touch of Hitchcock to a new ad campaign illustrating how Arca Ex trades $14 billion in U.S. shares a day. In a spot titled “Birds,” an unsuspecting couple is sitting on a park bench throwing popcorn to a few hungry pigeons when they [...]

Sony Animation Hanging 10 with Penguins

August 19, 2004 by Allan Neuwirth No Comments divider image

Endless Summer meets Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom in the latest CG feature film announcement, made today by Sony Pictures Animation. The studio, which is busy at work on the animated comedy, Open Season, today spilled the beans on the second animated movie in its production slate. Where Open Season [...]