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Kinetic Type Testies

We don’t often post much of our process… mostly because it’s often fairly chaotic. We’ve decided that it might be time to change. In that spirit, here’s a little kinetic type experiment that Shawn threw together for an upcoming project.

Tell Us What You Think :: Thank You, Wood.

We’re currently working with FPInnovations (a membership-driven R&D organization that supports the BC forest products industry) to help them develop messaging on behalf of the industry that is effective, relevant, and engaging. The video below represents a “pilot”, of sorts, testing out the theme of Thank You, Wood . As part of the research phase [...]

The Newest Ant

Since sometime in February we’ve searched high and low, far and wide, for someone that would make the right addition to the studio. We were looking for someone that was unafraid to take on any design problem, someone that saw the tools as and end point rather than a starting point… basically, we wanted to [...]

Thanks for the Love!

Over the past few weeks, we’ve had an unexpected outpouring of love from our peers. We want to say a big THANK YOU to Rethink Canada, Applied Arts Magazine and Techvibes; it means the world to us!

“Behind the Scenes” With Trevor Linden for Clearly Contacts.

We recently had the pleasure of writing/directing/producing a television spot for Clearly Contacts’ (a Coastal Contacts brand). What made it more special was that the star of the commercial was [Vancouver icon] Trevor Linden. The approach to the spot was grown up and informational with limited reference to Trevor’s hockey career. But, we also wanted to [...]

Site Update

Hi everyone. We’ve just thrown down a little portfolio update with four new projects, including this video for the Canadian Cancer Society’s Gala of Hope.

Icograda Design Week 2010

By now, this is sooooo last week, but we wanted to show-and-tell a project we worked on with Rethink Communications to promote the upcoming Vancouver Design Week. It started with a great concept and a lovely set of graphics designed by the Rethink creative team, which we (with Todd Smith) animated into a 2200 frame [...]

Trevor Linden + Clearly Contacts

If you’re like me, and if you’re from Vancouver, you watched Trevor Linden captain the Canucks through some pretty awesome times, including the infamous ‘94 playoff run. Needless to say, we were excited, honoured and charmed to work with Clearly Contacts to write, produce and direct this television spot featuring Trevor and his pair of [...]

PBS + Memelabs + GAM = Fun!

Not too long ago we got a call from Memelabs, Vancouver-based video contest platform. They were putting together a contest for PBS to promote all of the exciting, new digital media experiences they’re offering. We were engaged to work with the Memelabs and the PBS creative teams to produce the seeder video. After a number [...]

Calling All Ants

We’re looking to add some more brains to our team. Although it might only be one person, we use the plural of “brain” intentionally, because we want you to have lots of ‘em. ·We’re a group of storytellers that use video, motion, interactive, or anything else that we feel best achieves our, and our clients’, [...]