RICHMOND, VA — North Bridge Entertainment, a dynamic new production company headquartered in Richmond, Virginia, recently launched with partners John D. Bert and Kevin R. Hershberger. Both men are historians and historical film veterans with a long and varied list of projects behind them –big and small. more

Experimental Branded Short Blends 2D, 3D, Stop Motion and Still Photos Into Immersive Visual Experience

LOS ANGELES, CA - Rarely does a single project offer a design studio a chance to flex all of its creative muscles at one time, especially for their first assignment as a company, but that was the exhilarating challenge presented to newly-launched design/animation/production studio Royale — the new creative hub led by creative directors Jayson Whitmore, Brien Holman and executive producer Jen Lucero — when they tackled the new Diesel sponsored three-minute experimental branded short included on a DVD in the ninth anniversary issue of Flaunt Magazine currently on newsstands. more

HOLLYWOOD and NEW YORK — Bicoastal creative production company Stardust Studios recently produced a dynamic :15 video installation piece for a Zune account creative team from newly established shop, T.A.G., San Francisco, which included group creative directors Scott Duchon and Geoff Edwards, art director Rey Andrade, copywriter Joe Rose, director of broadcast production Jan O’Malley and agency producer Lee Anne Weldon. The finished piece entitled “Zune Tron” ran on the famous 20-foot LED “GeoffreyTron” video billboard located above Toys”R”Us in New York City’s Times Square throughout the recent holiday season, and Stardust’s artwork created for the project has also been used in the agency’s campaign print and online banner ads. more

SEATTLE—It’s not unusual for directors, editors and others artists involved in the production of television commercials to create spec work to show off their talent, but it’s rare for such projects to actually appear on the air. An exception to that rule is a new US Airways spot that was created as a spec project by Seattle design and editorial studio World Famous. more

KromA recently provided visual effects and final post services for a new 7-spot, national campaign for Sports Authority and New York agency Devito/Verdi. The spots, which were directed by Academy Award winner Janusz Kaminski employ the tagline “dedicated to the dedicated” and highlight the retailer’s commitment to hard core sports enthusiasts. more

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For Checkers Drive-In Restaurants, Inc., the largest chain of double drive-thru restaurants in the United States and parent company of both the Checkers® and Rally’s® concepts, Guerilla FX has completed the 3D animation on a series of four :30 spots, “Toaster,” “Big on Chicken,” and “Lasso” and “Dollar Sign” (for which they also executed the editorial assignment). Developed through ML Rogers Agency (New York, NY), the commercials air on spot TV in up to 30 markets. “Toaster,” “Big on Chicken” and “Lasso” began airing November 19th and “Dollar Sign” will begin its run December 31st. more

Automatic Duck Pro Import AE Effortlessly Blends Complex Workflows on HGTV’s ‘Change the World’ Ad Campaign; Danny Princz Couldn’t Conceive of the Job without the Duck

SEATTLE, WA (December 11, 2007) – Renowned motion graphics and VFX artist Danny Princz has one simple request when approached with complex projects: make sure we have the Duck! In this case, the challenge was to create an evocative promotional piece for HGTV’s Change the World campaign, a new community revitalization and environmental cause effort launched by HGTV and focused on revitalizing communities across the country and helping consumers make smart choices for the environment within their homes and daily lives. more

The Brief:
The effects team at Smoke and Mirrors New York creates a large scale dominoes game for the new Sirius Stiletto 2 MP3 player. Instead of the normal game pieces, we see music players throughout history toppling over one another in an elaborate set-up. The sequence of cascading cadence players moves from tapes to 8 tracks to CDs to a juke box and finally to a whole mess of iPod’s. The culmination comes when every inferior player seems to bow down as they fall at the base of Sirius’ Stiletto 2, which remains steadfast in its superiority. more

http://www.flickerlab.com/pr/comedy_central/people_vs_leaf/

FlickerLab, the New York-based development, design and animation studio, has created a :45 animated film parody, “The People VS Leaf,” for the American Legacy Foundation®, whose mission it is to build a world where young people reject tobacco and anyone can quit. The spot began airing nationally on Comedy Central, December 1st. more

Two-Spot Holiday Campaign Directed by Douglas Avery for Furlined via ad agency Venables, Bell & Partners Touts Audi as the Perfect Gift

San Francisco, CA (December 6, 2007)—Phoenix Editorial & Designs has wrapped a series of holiday-themed TV spots for Audi via Venables, Bell & Partners. Edited by Bob Frisk, the :30 commercials position Audi as the ideal gift for a loved one this season. Directed by Douglas Avery of production company Furlined, the campaign will air nationally throughout the holidays. more