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Z Animation Opens in N.Y., L.A.
Veteran exec. producer Peter Barg has founded Z Animation (www.zanimation.tv), a new production house specializing in television commercials. With production offices in both New York and Los Angeles, the company will employ an award-winning roster of 16 directors, graphic artists and illustrators. Most recently, Barg served as head of production [...]
Bent Image Gets Skinny on Klondike Spot
The much-loved Coca-Cola polar bears are a hard act to follow but Portland, Oregon-based hybrid animation laboratory/live-action production studio Bent Image Lab was up to the challenge for a series of spots for Klondike ice cream bars. To promote its sister product, Slim-A-Bear, Bryer’s Good Humor recently launched the new [...]
Millimages Makes First Commercials
French animation producer Millimages has made its first foray into commercial production. The new business focus on creating animated spots was launched and supervised by Philippe Gompel. The company won its first bid from advertising agency BETC Euro RSCG and produced a new French TV advertising campaign for mobile telephone [...]
Steele VFX Makes Funky Chickens for BK
To promote Burger King’s Big Kids meals, featuring lightning bolt and star-shaped Chicken Tenders, ad agency Campbell Mithun, Minneapolis and Santa Monica, Calif.-based production company Visitor called on Steele VFX to create some birds of an entirely different feather. Titled Maybe Not, the spot opens on two boys sitting in [...]
Acclaim President Steps Aside
Greg Fishbach, co-founder and longtime CEO of struggling video game publisher Acclaim Entertainment, has resigned and will be replaced by Rodney Cousens. Fishbach, who helped start Acclaim in 1987, will remain the company’s co-chairman. The past year has been a challenging one for Acclaim with a series of under-performing games [...]
Edgeworx UK, Loose Moose Chip Away at Cookie Spot
Post facility Edgeworx UK and London-based animation house Loose Moose have teamed up again to produce a second stop-motion animated commercial for Nabisco’s Chips Ahoy! brand cookies. Working in multiple resolutions, Edgeworx performed compositing and finishing on the footage animated by Loose Moose. The previous spot, promoting Chips Ahoy! Cremewiches, [...]
AICP Hosts First Honors in Brand Integration
The Association of Independent Commercial Producers (AICP) has announced an inaugural program honoring innovative work in screen-based integration of branded content. Part of the 12th Annual AICP Show, the Brand Integration Honors will take place June 9th at the MoMA Gramercy Theatre, located at 127 East 23rd Street. The AICP [...]
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 [...]
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