SAP "Run Better"
Client: Hasbro / SAP, Means of Production, Knucklehead UK
Animated stop motion sequence: Semi truck transforms into OPTIMUS PRIME, using the actual Hasbro toy.
Traction Creative Communications - Vancouver
West Coast ReductionsLtd. "Local Food Heroes "
Produced a 6 minute corporate DVD that combined live action and stop motion animation sequences, that helped educate the public on the Rendering Process. Demonstrated how they recycle inedible animal by-products from the meat, poultry and fish processing industries, into quality protein meals, fats and oils. .
Wasserman & Partners - Vancouver
Encore Pacific: "Return It" Electronics"
Produced 9 commercials for Encorp Pacific Recycling, encouraging and informing the public on what type of packaging and electronics that can be recycled.
Linguis - Seattle
Western Wireless Communications, Cellular One, Holiday TV Kyocera - Nokia.
"The Christmas Talking Toys."
This humorous 30 second Christmas spot, featured stop motion characters “Missy”, a Rag Doll with attitude, “Norbert”, a nerdy Jack-in the-Box and a stoical wooden soldier, all shot within a live action set.
Palmer Jarvis DDB Vancouver
Aviator Pictures, Mc Donald's Restaurants, "The Big Cheese Event"
Created and animated a foam rubber latex mouse which was then composited with live action to create a fat little mouse sitting on a hard wood floor who has apparently eaten a bunch of cheese burgers and left a trail of wrappers. - 30 second spot
Palmer Jarvis DDB, JMB Post, Vancouver
ICBC (Insurance Corporation of British Columbia) "Cheque Unfold"
30 Second spot: The spot promoted ICBC's safest driver's "Road Safety Dividend Cheques" campaign.
A large format paper cheque (22"x 9") was rigged into a crumpled paper cube. Using Stop Motion Animation, the cheque was opened frame by frame in sync with sound effects of twisting metal into the end position of a open faced cheque. In postproductions a hero cheque was matched and the composite of asphalt was layered.
Foote Cone Belding (Toronto)
Teddy Bear Productions, GENERAL MILLS Cinnamon Toast Crunch Cereal
Conceived by Toronto agency FCB (Foote Cone Belding) art director Barry Chemel and writer Jody Overend. This 30-second spot features two animated plug character puppets (created by Jon Craney) - an electrical circuited little boy and girl. Each was created out of electrical wires, plastics, urethane, various light bulbs and a lot of TLC. With 16 different wiring circuits for the set, a hand blown glass refrigerator and a checkered floor which lit up from below, the two characters were electrified through a breakfast morning of bodies sparking, eyes glowing and the lighting flashing. All from the electrifying boost provided by their high voltage Cinnamon Toast Crunch Cereal.
Ogilvy & Mather
Circle Productions, Telus, "Short Film"
Bowes Productions was faced with the humorous challenge to digress back in time to our roots back in Art College and use some of those pure undeveloped yet bold animation skills and create an amateur looking Clay Animation short film. The result was a simple looking character doubled framed interacting with clay props, phone, clock, numbers, etc Promoting Telus "Value Bundle Pack" campaign.
Wasserman & Partners Inc.,
The BC Injury Prevention Centre, "Hemorrhage Hank and Lil Snicker"
Hemorrhage Hank and Li'l Snicker"
Created two 30 second spots using (2) clay characters Hank and
Snicker which were combined with line drawn backgrounds to create a unique
way of informing children of crosswalk signals and the importance of wearing
safety helmets while on roller blades.
Web Site: injuryfreezone.com
Glennie Stamnes (Vancouver), Arron Acceptance, "House
Build."
Created a very unique 30-second spot using 2-dimentional drawings, which were cut out and glued to foamcore, then traced with felt markers to outline characters, house, van and a boat giving a 3-dimensional look. Each individual cutout was then placed in front of the camera and shot at 24 frames per second.
Media Foundation / Bowes Productions, "The
Talking Rainforest"
30-second clay animated commercial, which was created for an international audience to make people aware of our vanishing Pacific Coastal Rain Forests. Produced with Vancouver's Media Foundation the commercial has aired on a variety of North America networks including CBC "THE NATURE OF THINGS" and the PBS program, NOVA.
Bryant Fulton & Shee (Vancouver), London Drugs, "Pill Face".
Using a photograph of a woman's face placed under a sheet of glass, an estimated variety of three thousand prescription pills were placed over top, following the photo to create a very detailed image of the woman's face. The "Pill Face" was then placed under an animation stand and animated in reverse by removing the pills frame by frame, the film was then transferred forward. The end result was pills swirling throughout the 30-second spot eventually forming the woman's face following the final audio slogan "At London Drugs we get to know the people behind the prescription".
CHEK 6 TV (Victoria), "Spring Campaign - Checkered Dinosaur"
Created a 15-second clay animated station I.D. for Vancouver Islands local television network. The spot received the BPME Golden Medallion Award in Seattle, Wash., and was nominated at the Yorkton Film Festival for "Best Commercial Short", in addition to placing Semi-finalist at the New York Film Festival.
Young and Rubicam (New York)
Rocket Films, Fisher Price, "RC Rally"
Animated the actual toy, "RC Rally", from a convenient carrying case into the full size racetrack layout (14 feet) while the remote control car raced around the circuit.
Glennie Stamnes Agency, Orca Bay, "New Grit"
Provided the ending to a 30-second spot using a variety
of different animation techniques including stop-motion, pixilation and
paper tears composited using greenscreen.
Glennie Stamnes Agency, "G Strategy"
Stop-Motion Animation was used on the opening and closing
of their corporate demo reel based on the agencies company brochure. Using
a replica of the word board game "Scrabble", the wooden letters
were flipped over to spell the phrase "G STRATEGY" and "ITS
DIFFERENT HERE".
Wasserman & Partners Inc.
Boz Films, Toyo Tires, "Tough Nut"
Fabricated model replicas of "walnuts" made out of clay
for a conveyer belt scene, along with models made out of sculpty which
were used as break away props for the actor in a humorous tire commercial.
Their logo was animated on cel and later composited on post.
Young and Rubicam (New York)
Rocket Films, Fisher Price, "Sparkling Symphony Gym."
Animated the toy, Sparkling Symphony Gym, transforming from an infants mobile into a toddlers musical piano synthesizer. Using special rigs, our animators were able to attain the illusion that objects were flying around the toy into a final resting position on the piano synthesizer.
Griffin Bacal (New York)
Rocket Films, Mattel Inc. "Lite Brite"
Animated the toy "Lite Brite" supplying 5 seconds of stop
motion for the company Milton Bradley.
BBDO (Vancouver)
Apple Box & Teddy Bear, BCAA "Back Grounds"
Supplied animated backgrounds in sand
for B.C.A.A. campaign working with Apple Box Productions.
Wasserman & Partners Inc., Pharmasave, "Faucet"
Worked with Apple Box Productions, Vancouver, on a 15-second cold remedies spot using a live action stop motion technique to create the effect of a faucet (water tap) forming on the actors nose.
Bryant Fulton & Shee (Vancouver), London Drugs, "Pill Spill"
Using the stop motion technique, a London Drugs Pill Bottle rolls across the screen spilling out pills, forming the words "London Drugs." It then dissolves into their logo.
Bowes Productions, Demo Reel
Animated the Lego toy pirate ship from one block of lego to the existing full ship, plowing through the high seas of coloured sand.
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