Starting last September, Marmite, the food spread popular in the UK, invited Michael Bond’s creation Paddington Bear to join their ads. With help from DDB London and art director Rob Messeter, Daniel Greaves & Tobias Fouracre at Tandem Films brought Paddington back to life in stop-motion. A second spot in the series recently started airing, which you can see below.
UK-based TV network Channel 4 has launched the beta version of their new animation website. 4mations.tv features a variety of animation genres and will allow users to upload their own work as well. 4mations joins Aniboom, MyToons, Weebls-stuff and Newgrounds in the online animation network class. A full version will go live on September 15th.
Ogilvy London teamed up with Picasso Pictures and tokyoplastic for this Fanta spot titled Security Alert.
Director Kristofer Ström, who has one of the more popular animated shorts on YouTube, created this TV spot for Carphone Warehouse. It was animated on a whiteboard and then composited together in After Effects. The spot, which was overseen by CHI & Partners, London, is titled A Brief History.
Carphone Warehouse has a history of ordering cool animated TV spots.
For their programming block The Stew, MTV turned to another Stew…. or Stu. Stuart Langfield, a UK native living in Toronto, produced this series of bumpers to help promote series like Viva La Bam and Pimp My Ride.
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Is it weird that I want to eat these two teenagers in this ad? Don’t hate me because I’m hungry! The agency on this spot, titled Swing and Drive, was Arnold New York and the animation was done by none other than Aardman Animations, the gang behind Wallace and Gromit.
The director was Bobby Proctor and the animation team included Scott Pleydell-Pearce, Adam Cootes, Olly Davis, John Ogden, Seamus Malone and Tom Lord.
