Mark’s Music
Using a still photo, we created a cartoon caricature of the owner of Mark’s Music in Brewer, Maine. “Mini-Mark” has since become the spokesman/mascot for the store, appearing in not only their TV commercials, but also their print ads and promotional materials. The owner provides the voice:
Using a still photo, we created a cartoon caricature of the owner of Mark’s Music in Brewer, Maine. “Mini-Mark” has since become the spokesman/mascot for the store, appearing in not only their TV commercials, but also their print ads and promotional materials. The owner provides the voice:
Green Acres Kennel Shop
For several years, Rex and Sparky were the “spokes-dogs” for Green Acres Kennel Shop’s radio advertising campaign, created and voiced by Thom Osborne, a long-time friend and collaborator of ours. We designed these two cartoon characters and added a third, Fiona the Cat, to appear in their video, print, and other promotional materials. This commercial was part of a charity campaign to vote for your favorite “candidate” for Governor:
PHD Consulting
PHD Consulting — a web design and hosting company — asked us to develop a web video to showcase their web design package for grocery stores that are part of the Associated Grocers of New England. Rather than just an ordinary web video screencast/site tour, we created Larry, an animated “grocer” character to show viewers the websites:
San Diego Zoo
One of our most recent animation projects was this submission to Poptent.net ‘s Assignment for the San Diego Zoo Global Wildlife Conservancy. The goal was to raise awareness and encourage support for the foundation, and its slogan, “Bringing Species Back from the Brink of Extinction.” Our approach was to portray the foundation as a kind of dating service for endangered animals: