Hello Dear Friends -
October found Esther and I in Austin, Dallas and San Francisco for the learned panels and to visit pals at AICP & NEXT. Also traveling with EMOTO Music's featured artist Opus Orange for in-agency concerts. At The Richards Group, we met THE Stan Richards, an advertising icon & professional banjo player, who was smitten with the uber talented EMOTO Partner/Composer, Paul Bessenbacher.
November brought wonderful work from our C&C partners to our door: a feast of sophisticated & fantastical photoreal CG to a dash of whimsical & heartfelt 2D & a meme-worthy music video.
Give Thanks for Family & Friends!
Picasso Pictures - Cosatto
Breakfast of Champions, a director duo at Picasso Pictures, creates stunning design with a 100% CG spot for stylish Cosatto prams. Totally fooled us!
Make-A-Wish® Alaska and Washington and World Famous are proud to release Alexis's Wish, the unprecedented wish of six year old Alexis, who recently battled acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Alexis wished to create a cartoon that would tell her own story in a way her friends could understand and bring awareness to pediatric cancer. The World Famous team banded together to bring Alexis's story to life. The resulting three-minute film, "Alexis’s Wish," is a powerful yet whimsical fairy tale starring Princess Alexis as herself battling the dragon “Kemia” with the help of her family and friends. Cast Alexis Hwa as Herself Angela Hwa as Herself Jamie Chung as the Narrator Director Dan Brown Art Direction, Character Design & Backgrounds Juan Carlos Arenas Madrid Executive Producer Alan Nay Editors Shawn Fedorchuk Thomas Price Andy Seaver Lead Animator Rogelio Salinas Lead Character Animator Yassir Rasan Animators Ben Bullock Cody Cobb Joe Garber Chase Hochstatter Corey Lewis Alan Llave John McIntosh Andy Musser Carl Nelson Stieg Retlin Jake Wegesin Lawrence Wyatt Composer Jason Staczek Audio Mix and Voice Recording Clatter&Din Sound Design and Surround Mix Eric Johnson Sound Design Ben Kersten Foley Artist Jamie 'Foley Rambo' Hunsdale Special Thanks Caleb Albrecht Megan Ball Peter Barnes Jamie Chung Cinerama Phillip Finger Tony Fulgham Kelly Green Steiner Kierce The Make-A-Wish Team Megan Griffiths Christopher Harrell Lindsey LeDuc Chris Ophoven Stephanie Peirolo Glen Rockowitz Casey Steele Kathleen Tarrant Everyone at World Famous & Our Family and Friends
World Famous - Alexis's Wish
Make-a-Wish Alaska & WA asked World Famous to grant a 6 yr. old cancer survivor's wish with her very own cartoon...and so they did, thoughtfully with love.
P.S. Alexis's Wish was picked up by Upworthy!
Picasso Pictures - Spring Chicken
Leave it to Jerry Hibbert, Picasso Pictures' director & former Bill Clinton impersonator, to enliven an explainer piece with a 2D quick-witted chicken (voiced by UK Comedian Harry Enfield).
Hotline Bling (Official Video) Available for download here! http://republicrec.co/DrakeHotlineBling Share/Stream "Hotline Bling" on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/6nmz4imkDcmtwMjocAzFSx Directed by Director X Produced by Evan Landry Edited by Laura McMillan Production Company: Creative Soul Music video by Drake performing Hotline Bling. © 2015 Cash Money Records Inc. http://vevo.ly/R0NNDX
Smith - Hotline Bling
Smith (an S8 company) completed post duties for Drake's latest music video, directed by the infamous Director X. Naturally, it went viral on the Internet and has garnered just over 62 million views!
Which is your favorite Hotline Bling meme?
Commercial produced by Tax Free Film for Tic Tac Breeze Ferrero taxfreefilm.it Artistic Direction by Franco Tassi Directed by Andrea Gasparo Agency: Providence Milan Tax Free Film Team: Andrea Gasparo, Andrea Lazzarotti, Federico Ghirardini, Alessandro Bandinelli, Cristian Guerreschi, Alessandro Mattei, Silvia Capitta, Emma Vasile, Gabriel Guerreschi, Brian Chinnery, Nicolò Graiani, Francesco Tassi Compositing, Color Grading: Federico Ghirardini Concept Design: Giacomo Tappainer Portraits shooting: Maurizio Cigognetti (Zero Table Top) Music: Quiet Please! Executive Producer: Giulio Leoni
Tax Free Films - Tic Tac
Need beautiful storytelling with CG visuals? Check out the multi-talented Tax Free Films artists who continue to blow us away with beauty and innovation.
Dates to remember
December 10 - AICP West Holiday Party
December 18 - Star Wars: The Force Awakens releases
January 21 - Sundance Film Festival 2016 at Park City, UT
February 7 - Super Bowl XIX at Levi's Stadium
March 11 - SXSW at Austin, TX