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This online campaign for Silk soy milk is a first to use deep linked annotations at YouTube to create interactive animation on a branded page. We created 10 different question and answer animation sequences addressing urban myths, each in a different style. Developing the style and stories for each was a very fun rapid process. The Silk Canada page can be found here or you can click on the image above to view two of the animated myths: Turkey and Shaving.

• view more: Silk – Bust it or Believe it

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Ok. Are you ready for this? All Terrain Brain is a series of one-minute musical episodes focused on the topic of money and the entrepreneurial spirit for young kids. Featuring a cast of flash-animated minimalist characters and a collage aesthetic ATB encourages kids to follow their passion when it comes to thinking about work, money and income.

• view more: All Terrain Brain – series

This commercial for an online 3d scrabble game at worldwinner.com integrates flying cubes and a fifties design sensibility. We finished this spot just before going off to the Ottawa Animation festival this year, but it took a while to get the final logo approval from Hasbro, so I’m just posting the final now.

This was one of those rare jobs where the client doesn’t have a specific idea in mind and they leave it up to us to write, design and produce the ad. We came up with the 50′s fashion theme as a way to tie into the nostalgia of this classic boardgame and I love the way the 2d animation and design works with the 3d cubes.

• view more: Scrabble cubes

Here’s the signal film we put together for the 2006 Ottawa Animation Festival – whatta show! Towards the end there I go into animation saturation mode walking out of short film screenings in a daze trying to remember what I just watched. This was a great year being the 30th(!) year of the festival, and this odd-duck signal film was well-recieved. It’s jam-packed with a bunch of different scenes in various styles by a number of talented animators who are excellent people to work with.

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• view more: Ottawa Animation Festival – Signal Film 2006

This ad for converse is pop-tastic and slightly psychedelic. Little colored dots swirl and bop in a cloudy sky and then bloom into a flower pattern forming a classic chuck taylor sneak. The design and animation on this spot was done by Celest Brown and is inspired by the fabric pattern on a pair of converse. This spot was produced at global mechanic along with the converse mandala commercial.

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• view more: Converse Sky