CUT + RUN ENJOYS THE XBOX 360 EXPERIENCE WITH NEW CAMPAIGN BY DIRECTOR STEVE COPE Cut + Run recently collaborated with production company Rattling Stick and agency McCann Erickson London on the new campaign for the Xbox 360 platform. ...Read More »

CUT + RUN FOLLOWS THE LIGHT WITH THE FORD FOCUS This latest spot for Ogilvy, showcases the attraction of the Ford Focus. "White & Orange" was directed by Vaughan Arnell of production company Serious Pictures and edited by Leo King of Cut + Run, and began airing earlier this month. ...Read More »

Blur Studio Reels In Animation for Goldfish Crackers Campaign Blur Studio recently completed a ten-spot series of commercials for Pepperidge Farm Goldfish crackers via Young & Rubicam, NY. The campaign is entirely computer generated and was directed by Blur's Leo Santos. ...Read More »

Rhino 'Crashes' Fall Lineup With Spot Promoting Starz Series Rhino Creative Director Vico Sharabani recently completed yet another close collaboration with the Snorri Bros., this time creating all the VFX for a carefully choreographed :30 promoting the new season of Starz' acclaimed series, Crash. ...Read More »

Tonal Sets Uplifting Mood For A&E's Recovery Project Campaign Following the success of the Emmy-winning series "Intervention," A&E has created The Recovery Project, a multimedia and community based outreach program designed to raise awareness about addiction and how it is treatable and recovery is possible. A key component to the project are two moving TV spots featuring a powerful, anthemic score composed by Alex Lasarenko, Creative Director of music/sound design house Tonal. ...Read More »

Buster Design Creates Show Open for DJ AM's MTV Series, "Gone Too Far" MTV's "Gone Too Far" documentary series features the late Adam Goldstein, aka DJ AM, counseling other addicts in recovery, as he, himself, had dealt with his own addiction problems. "I got so lost in my disease, I was gone," he once said. ...Read More »

Asylum Helps Draw The Porsche Family Tree Asylum, in collaboration with ad agency Cramer-Krasselt/Chicago and @RadicalMedia Director Jeff Zwart, completed a major VFX feat for a new TV spot introducing the Porsche Panamera - the first four-seat sports car from the iconic carmaker. The elaborate, technically challenging commercial was the perfect showcase for Asylum's vast VFX capability. ...Read More »

Buster Design's PSA for Matt Damon Endorsed Charity ONEXONE Becomes Focus of Web Parody Buster, the conceptual design division of award winning agency and production company Stun Creative, has conceived and produced a PSA for the Matt Damon endorsed charity, The "ONEXONE" Foundation. The PSA spot brings attention to the fight against hunger for children around the world and features an appearance by Academy Award winner Damon. ...Read More »

Sarofsky Corp. makes motion design imprint with quartet of diverse projects Just six months after its launch, Sarofsky Corp. (http://www.sarofsky.com) is attaining its goal of bringing high-end design and concepting to many disciplines including advertising, entertainment and broadcast television. ...Read More »

Bonfire and Phoenix Editorial Create Short Film for IDEO's 'Living Climate Change' Initiative Sister companies Bonfire and Phoenix Editorial announced that they have collaborated with global innovation and design firm IDEO on the welcome video for the Living Climate Change website: www.livingclimatechange.com, an initiative developed by IDEO. In the short, directed by IDEO design director and associate partner Roshi Givechi, company CEO Tim Brown asks what role design can play in the challenges we face with climate change. ...Read More »

FlickerLab Animates George W. Bush Address For Michael Moore's "Capitalism: A Love Story " For a fifth time, FlickerLab has teamed with Academy Award-winning Director Michael Moore, and created a minute-long animated segment, Chicken Little, for his latest feature Capitalism: A Love Story. Opening in New York and Los Angeles Sept. 23 and in theaters nationwide October 2nd, the film explores the root causes of the global economic meltdown and takes a sardonic look at the corporate and political shenanigans that plunged the world into the current financial crisis. ...Read More »

Royale Unites with MTV Asia to Helm Exotic Music Video for Apl.de.Ap's "Take Me to the Philippines" MTV Asia tapped Los Angeles-based motion design & production studio Royale to create the music video for "Take Me to the Philippines," the latest effort by hip-hop artist Apl.de.Ap of The Black Eyed Peas. ...Read More »

Company X Editor Barney Miller Collaborates with Renowned Fashion Photographer/Director Stephane Sednaoui Advertising Agency Soho Square tapped Company X Editor Barney Miller and renowned Parisian Fashion Photographer/Commercial & Music Video Director Stephane Sednaoui to complete a luminous 30-second skin care spot entitled "Power." ...Read More »

motion504 Invents Kinetic Type for AICP Minnesota Show Reception Sponsor Reel Minneapolis broadcast design & animation studio motion504 recently completed the reception sponsor reel for the Minneapolis screening of the AICP Show: The Art & Technique of the American Commercial, which takes place tonight at the Guthrie Theater. ...Read More »

When Eyeball and Momix Combine, "Art Expands" for Target's "Art for All" Project Dressed in brilliant red and vibrant white body suits, five Momix dancers fold, unfold and refold themselves into a swirl of origami-like patterns in "Art Expands (:60)," motion designer Eyeball's third inspired project for Target's "Art for All" video installation series, which is displayed on giant LED screens outside the Staples Center, in downtown Los Angeles. ...Read More »

Cut + Run's Dayn Williams Puts On His "Playface"; Travels To Japan to Edit New PS3 Campaign "Playface" is the new, truly expressive branding campaign via agency Wieden+Kennedy Tokyo for PlayStation in Japan. Directed by Partizan Dark Room's Timothy Saccenti and edited by Dayn Williams of Cut + Run, both of whom traveled to Japan for the project, the "Playface" campaign shows a cross section of 50 Japanese gamers, displaying a range of emotions while playing PlayStation. ...Read More »

Leroy And Clarkson's Crafts Duel in the Desert For New ABC's Dancing With The Stars Promo Campaign In creating ABC-TV's new promo campaign for Season 9 of Dancing with the Stars Leroy and Clarkson and Creative Director Daniel Fries drew inspiration from classic western duel sequences to create a sultry dance battle against a burning horizon. ...Read More »

Eve Ashwell Unites Beauty and Passion in Racing Post's "Yearling Bonus" Cut + Run Editor Eve Ashwell recently collaborated with Partizan director Alastair Siddons (Turn It Loose) on a piece commissioned by David Redvers and the Bloodstock Marketing Office to promote horse-racing and the Yearling Bonus Scheme. Racing Post "Yearling Bonus" aims to stimulate the entire cycle of the industry through bolstering prize-money available to horses purchased at auction. ...Read More »

Team Creates Excitement For The "Boys Of Summer" Furthering its relationship with ESPN, Washington, D.C.-based TEAM (www.teamgroup.tv) developed a series of 31, 45 second program teases for the cable channel's airing of the 63rd Little League World Series in Williamsport, PA. ...Read More »

Expansion Team Heads Back To School For JC Penney It seems like a typical high school cafeteria setting -- that is until a female student gives a knowing nod to her cohorts and suddenly the lights go down, the music comes up and the kids burst into a high energy fashion show strutting a lunch tables-turned-catwalk modeling the new back to school fashions at JC Penney. ...Read More »