Creation Museum spot
Whatever your feelings are towards the controversial Creation Museum in Petersberg Kentucky, I think we can agree this is a pretty nice …
Advertising
Amautalab
It’s rare to find a studio whose work truly excites like that of Amautalab, a young outfit based out of LA, Buenos Aires and Lima, and …
Popeye Beer ad
Please forgive all these Popeye and Woody Woodpecker posts, but here’s a YouTube find I had to share: a 1980s British Carling Black Label …
Woody and Popeye
Next week the Popeye collection goes on sale. While we wait, here are two recent vintage commercials that didn’t quite make it as …
Jack Zander Interview
Animation World Magazine has an interview with 99-year-old animation veteran Jack Zander whose career includes stints at studios like …
Animated Cartooning by Mail, 1939
Brew reader Billie Towser found this old magazine ad on Flickr. (Click on thumbnail at left for an enlarged version). Long before Cal …
Scary Green Giant
Stop motion animator/historian, Ken Priebe, thinks he has found the creepiest puppet animation ever:
BNN Interstitials by Greg Lawson
Greg Lawson, owner of Amsterdam-based animation studio Lawson & Whatshisname, is directing a series of 40 interstitials for the Dutch TV …
Goodbye Toucan Sam
An era has ended. Kellogg’s has announced it will no longer market its sugared cereals to children. Kellogg’s also said it would stop …
UPA-NY TV Spots Donated To MoMA
It was just a couple weeks ago that I was lamenting on the Cartoon Modern blog the unavailability of the UPA commercials. Today I have …
Commentary: (The lack of) Cartoon Promotion
Leonard Maltin, aware of my interest in old-time animation publicity materials, sent along this image (above) from Benjamin Hampton’s …
How Many Licks Does It Take To Make It CG?
Let’s remake a classic hand-drawn animated commercial… in CGI… Are ad agencies so deprived of original thinking that …
Spiderman 3 Trailer (not)
According to the folks at Black 20, “Spiderman 3 went way over budget, and to finish the film, producers had to use product placement to …
21st Century Cartoon Chase
This is a fairly amusing promo for Cartoon Network Latin America. It was accepted into this year’s Cannes Lions advertising festival. …
Classic Seventies Advertising
Chris Padilla recently hipped me to some visually striking animated spots from the 1970s. Chris actually showed some of these commercials …
Guitar Hero II spot by Pete Candeland
Gorillaz animation director Pete Candeland of Passion Pictures has turned out a visually stunning spot for the videogame Guitar Hero II. …
Fox’s Oleg
Last week the Wall Street Journal ran an article about a new animated series on Fox called Oleg the Taxi Man. The cartoons, however, are …
Introducing A Studio With Style
Style5 is a new Toronto-based company that has admirable ambitions: to offer advertisers animation with more adult sensibilities and an …
Homage or Rip-off? (II)
First, London based Matt Clark and Matt Everitt created this short, using dialogue from a Ricky Gervais Xfm radio show. This is one of a …
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