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Ottawa Animation ad campaign
by jerry
October 22, 2009 12:00 pm


The funniest thing I saw in Ottawa last week wasn’t on screen, in a theatre or even cartoons. They were the festival posters plastered on buses, mounted on walls and bannered all over intersections in downtown Ottawa.

HBS Marketing created this clever print ad campaign for the Ottawa International Animation Festival — which perfectly sums up my own philosophy of life. Click on images below and above to view at full size.

(Thanks, Kelly Neall)

10/22/09  12:28pm
Gagaman says:

Haha wow, it’s like the complete opposite of ______ Network’s ‘It’s not just cartoons anymore’ campaign you posted a while back.

10/22/09  12:59pm
Jonah Sidhom says:

haha the first one is perfect.

10/22/09  2:12pm
Seann says:

bravo. this sums up life.

10/22/09  3:02pm
Jay Sabicer says:

Many social commentators have stated in the past that animation (cartoon) lovers should just “get a life”– if those posters signify what they were describing I should be in possession of, I’ll gladly donate my share for more cartoons, thankyouverymuch.

10/22/09  3:04pm
Kelseigh says:

Huh. I live in Ottawa, and did a lot with the festival this year, but I never saw the one with the bus. Weird.

10/22/09  3:18pm

I loved these too! Thanks for putting them in the spotlight here, they totally deserved it.

10/22/09  3:39pm
Brent says:

Last years were very cool as well. “Five days of Saturday morning, minus the sugar crash/if mom had a better cable package”

10/22/09  4:11pm
david says:

these are depressing to me. they have to try this hard to “sell” cartoons to people.

i think bill hicks summed up marketing and advertising pretty well, thats how i feel about these posters.

if the cartoons were good, the short films, they would stand on their own, no gimmicks necessary.

10/22/09  5:29pm
Twitch Jenkins says:

Yeah, it’s clever.. but where the twitch are the flaggin’ cartoons?!?!

10/22/09  7:30pm
Ben says:

I loved these too! Thanks for posting - I hadn’t seen all of them.

10/22/09  7:35pm
Jorge Garrido says:

I wish they had a bit more color and some drawings to contrast the boringness of the real world. Maybe two pictures instead of one.

10/22/09  7:51pm
Nightmare Is Near says:

This is the kind of world that Stuart Snyder and Robert Sorcher want to create.

10/22/09  7:57pm

So true!
Life is not worth living without cartoons!

10/23/09  5:09am
THE GUYS says:

Pretty stark, but they get the message across.

10/23/09  8:11am
eschallenberg says:

thanks. i was the art director on these … loads of fun. and there were versions which featured specific screenings, complete with images of the films.

10/23/09  9:05am
Rémi says:

Thanks for post. I had fun making the photography for these ads both this year and last. Always great to have good ideas to work with and create something playful.

10/23/09  2:48pm

I’m surprised no one has mentioned CN yet. It could be an ad for them.

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