There’s only 4 more evenings of Monday Night Football left, and tonight should be one to remember. Carl from ATHF (new episodes in February) agrees, and he offers up his Stone Cold Lock Of The Century – Of the Week for tonights Jets/Patriots game:
We’re about a month away from the premiere of FOX’s new animated series, Bob’s Burgers. It’s the creation of Loren Bouchard, who previously created Dr. Katz and Home Movies. FOX aired a 2-minute show teaser of Thanksgiving, which you can see below. The comedy is more apparently subtle and less pop-culture based than FOX’s other shows like Family Guy and American Dad, and I think this type of variety is much needed on the network. The series premieres on January 9th.
The Buck team recently delivered this new spot for Smart Car, which is disguised as an anti-consumption PSA. If it wasn’t so artfully crafted, I’d scoff at an ad that sells you you something while also attempting to curb your purchases. Make up your mind Smart Car! Do you want me to buy stuff or not? Is that Drew Barrymore behind the microphone?
Here’s a beautifully-animated new music video for the band Seymour Bits. Put It Back Down was directed by Michiel ten Horn and Maarten J. Berkers, who both reside in Amsterdam. They were joined on the animation effort by Dirk Verschure, Ramon Oranje and Dirk Marbl.
by Dan Forgione
On multiple occasions we have posted about the personal short film Leonardo, by Pixar story artist and director Jim Capobianco. 
After ten years in production on this pet project, the finished product has garnered numerous accolades and screenings at various festivals across the globe. [watch a trailer here]
With the recent DVD release of the film, Leonardo: The Complete Codex, and in conjunction with his upcoming appearance at the CTN Expo in Burbank this weekend, Jim was kind enough to send us a copy to check out. If you haven’t seen it yet, it’s a great short about Leonardo daVinci’s creative quest to explore his dream of flight. Animated traditionally on paper, the film takes inspiration from daVinci’s very own notebooks, complete with rough, and sometimes even unfinished, animation, timing and drawing notations, and subtle color variations of the parchment-like background. Through accurate depictions of flying inventions daVinci himself drew, we are treated to a number of gags, some of which have a Warner Bros. feel to them, as the film’s hero makes several failed attempts to test fly his inventions, and leads to a conclusion that often alters the lives of many great men, even today.
If you’re a fan of traditional animation, and collect DVDs for the sole purpose of checking out the DVD extras, then you don’t want to miss out on getting a copy of the film. In my opinion, it is what every DVD should come packaged with. Inside the well crafted packaging made from recycled materials and images from the film, you are treated to a bunch of cool extras, including 4 versions of the film with commentary at various stages in production, stills of preproduction sketches, as well as final designs, descriptions and facts about various inventions that can be seen throughout the film.
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By way of Cube Creative in Paris, Wassim Boutaleb J and Amélie Falière directed this spot for Pepsi Green, which I believe is a fictional product (or is it?). Jérémy Guiter and Matthieu Gaillard helped on the animation front. This is titled The Right Wave:
The latest Bird Box Studio short for BBC Comedy takes a look at all the fun buttons we can now push from our seat on the plane. Some are more fun than others, so be careful:
