“G Suite”
Lots of moving parts on this cool project from Anomaly. In addition to the :60 spot, we also animated a pile of illustrations commissioned from amazing illustrators around the world. Bringing it all to life required assembling a small army of freelancers to help out. Many people in many time zones working together to help get the word out about Google G Suite. Heard of it yet? Mission accomplished.
(Fun Fact: VO by Gwendoline Christie, aka Brienne of Tarth)
CREDITS
Client: Google
Agency: Anomaly
Directed by Giant Ant
ANTHEM SPOT:
Creative Direction: Jay Grandin
Producer: Liam Hogan, Teresa Toews
Art Direction & Illustration: Rafael Mayani
Additional Illustration: Eric Pautz
Character Animation Lead: Henrique Barone
Character Animation: Conor Whelan, Henrique Barone, Sitji Chou, Thierno Bah, Faouzi Hammadi, Junyi Xiao, Ane-Lou Erambert
2D Animation & Compositing: Jay Grandin, Conor Whelan, Nicholas Ferreira
3D Animation & Illustration Reference: Nicholas Ferreira, Jay Grandin
Endtag Animation: Provided by Google
Music: Spirit In The Sky by Norman Greenbaum
Voice Over: Gwendoline Christie
ILLUSTRATIONS:
Producer: Liam Hogan, Teresa Toews
Illustration: Josh Cochran, Matt Blease, Jan Buchczik, Jean Julien, Chris Deloranzo, Andrew Rae
Animation: Henrique Barone, Conor Whelan, Faouzi Hammadi, Junyi Xiao, Anne-lou Erambert, Thierno Bah, Matt James, Jay Grandin
Endtag Animation: Provided by Google
“Kindness”
Couldn’t have been more honoured to work with the wonderful people at RAK to make this beautiful video. Good people doing good things for people. All good. Oh, and I got to write the script for this one.
CREDITS
Client: Random Acts of Kindness Foundation
Directed by Giant Ant
Producer: Liam Hogan
Creative Direction: Jay Grandin
Script: Liam Hogan
Art Direction & Illustration: Chris Anderson
Animation: Chris Anderson, Conor Whelan, Diego MacLean, Shawn Hight
Music & Sound Design: Playdate
“Now with These”
Weirdos were prominently featured in this campaign to introduce a new Lucky Charms marshmallow that was supposed to look like a unicorn!? But didn’t. Wait... that dude on the train looks like me!? Doh!
CREDITS
Client: Lucky Charms
Agency: Diamond
Directed by Giant Ant
Producer: Liam Hogan, Cory Philpott
Creative Direction: Jay Grandin
Art Direction: Eric Pautz
SUBWAY
Illustration: Rafael Mayani, Eric Pautz
Animation: Matt James, Henrique Barone, Shawn Hight, Taylor Peters, Sebastian Curi, Sitji Chou
Sound Design: Cylinder Sound
ARCADE
Illustration: Eric Pautz, Conor Whelan
Animation: Conor Whelan, Taylor Peters, Doug Alberts
Sound Design: Cylinder Sound
SEA MONSTER
Illustration: Eric Pautz, Genice Chan
Animation: Taylor Peters, Doug Alberts
Sound Design: Cylinder Sound
SUBURBIA
Illustration: Eric Pautz, Genice Chan
Animation: Diego MacLean, Taylor Peters
TITANIC
Illustration: Rafael Mayani, Eric Pautz
Animation: Diego Maclean, Conor Whelan
“Colorscope”
Colorscope is a multi award-winning series from CNN exploring our perception of colour across cultures one shade at a time. We were asked to contribute our take on the colour pink to the series. The result is this beautiful spot. Check it out. Learn somethin’ bout pink!
CREDITS
Client: CNN
Creative Producer: Sarah-Grace Mankarious
Directed by Giant Ant
Creative Direction: Jay Grandin
Producer: Liam Hogan
Storyboard: Conor Whelan, Jay Grandin, Marion Bordeyne, Eric Pautz
Art Direction: Eric Pautz
Illustration & Visual Development: Eric Pautz, Marion Bordeyne, Conor Whelan, Shawn Hight, Sitji Chou, Whitney Lam
Animation Direction: Conor Whelan
Animation: Conor Whelan, Shawn Hight, Chris Anderson, Henrique Barone, Matt James, Taylor Peters, Whitney Lam
Compositing: Conor Whelan, Eric Pautz, Shawn Hight
Sound Design: Bryan Stone
“Facebook Ads”
MailChimp needed help launching their newest feature: Facebook Ads. So we created a cute little spot using their new branding along with audio by the incredible Antfood! This is one of my favourites from my time at Giant Ant.
CREDITS
Client: MailChimp
Directed by Giant Ant
Creative Direction: Jay Grandin
Producer: Liam Hogan
Script: Cory Philpott
Art Direction: Rafael Mayani
Illustration: Chris Anderson, Rafael Mayani, Shawn Hight
Animation: Diego MacLean, Henrique Barone, Chris Anderson, Justin Lawes, Conor Whelan, Shawn Hight, Nicholas Ferreira, Taylor Peters
Music & Sound Design: Antfood
“Sprite Corner Toolkit”
Had an amazing time working with the folks at Wieden+Kennedy NY to produce a suite of material including a series of cool animated GIFS, overlays, transitions, intros and outros, all for the Sprite Corner, a bodega-takeover-hiphop-venue in New York. Fun!
CREDITS
Client: Sprite
Agency: Wieden+Kennedy NY
Creative Direction: Jay Grandin
Producer: Liam Hogan
Animation: Henrique Barone, Matt James, Mathijs Luijten, Nicholas Ferreira, Shawn Hight, Jorge Canedo Estrada, Rafael Mayani, Jay Grandin
Sound Design: Ryland Haggis
“Play Beautifully”
It was super fun working with the Dots team to produce a trailer for their newest title: Dots & Co. Good excuse to play games on my phone.
CREDITS
Client: Dots
Dots Creative Direction: Erica Gorochow
Dots CCO: Patrick Moberg
Dots CMO: Ondriona Monty
Based on art by: Tom Haugomat (environments) and Ray Bruwelheide (characters)
Dots Music By: Ross Wariner and Cody Uhler
Directed by Giant Ant
Producer: Liam Hogan
Creative Direction: Jay Grandin
Storyboards: Rafael Mayani
Animation Lead: Nicholas Ferreira
3D Design & Animation: Nicholas Ferreira, Shawn Hight, Gabriel Smetzer
Additional Design: Eric Pautz
Character Animation: Henrique Barone
Cel Animation: Henrique Barone
2D Animation & Compositing: Nicholas Ferreira
“Shop Differently”
My first project with Giant Ant. We worked with the good people at Target to produce 4 spots (2x :30, 2x :15) for their Shop Differently campaign.
CREDITS
Client: Target
Directed by Giant Ant
Producer: Liam Hogan, Brant Cheetham
Creative Direction: Jay Grandin
Art Direction: Lucas Brooking
Design: Lucas Brooking, Jorge Canedo Estrada, Matt James
CG & Animation Team: Jorge Canedo Estrada, Matt James, Nicholas Ferreira, Shawn Hight, Henrique Barone, Gabriel Smetzer, Thomas McKeen
Music: Ryland Haggis
“Traffic”
A fun 3D spot for Slack’s Amazing Teams series. Having worked with them previously on a couple of projects they rewarded us with an open brief to make something "amazing".
CREDITS
Client: Slack
CEO: Stewart Butterfield
CMO: Bill Macaitis
Creative Director: Mark Lawson
Project Manager: Adrienne Tritschler
Directed by Giant Ant
Producer: Liam Hogan
Creative Direction: Jay Grandin
Story Development: Jay Grandin, Rafael Mayani, Conor Whelan, Henrique Barone, Liam Hogan
Art Direction: Rafael Mayani
Storyboard: Rafael Mayani
Design: Rafael Mayani, Nicholas Ferreira, Matt James, Jay Grandin
Character Design: Emmanuelle Leleu
Character Modelling: Julien Hazebroucq
3D Texture & Lighting Pre-Viz: Julien Hazebroucq
3D Modelling & Pre-Viz Animation: Nicholas Ferreira, Matt James
2D Character Pre-Viz Animation: Conor Whelan, Henrique Barone
2D Animation: Jay Grandin
3D Animation & Production with The Sequence Group
Creative Director: Ian Kirby
Executive Producer: Dan Sioui
Animation Lead: Anne Jans
Animation: Enrico Westley, Roman Bajevs
3D Lead: Daniel Smith
Character Modelling & Shading: Dmitry Vinnik
Rigging: Steve Twist
Compositing Lead: Jacob Owens
Compositing: Mark Stuckert, Eric Wada, Christian Whiticar
Additional Design: Andrew West
Music & Sound Design: Antfood
“Hot Pouch”
Never a bad day when you’re asked to produce pizza related work. The folks at Tracey Locke were looking for a fun traditionally animated spot to help promote the new Pizza Hut Hot Pouch.
CREDITS
Client: Pizza Hut
Agency: Tracey Locke
Directed by Giant Ant
Creative Direction: Jay Grandin
Producer: Liam Hogan
Stop-motion provided by: Tracey Locke
Art Direction & Illustration: Shawn Hight
Additional Illustration: Rafael Mayani
Animation Direction: Henrique Barone
Animation: Henrique Barone, Shawn Hight
“el Matador”
For the last World Cup we made this spot with the team at Scoppechio, telling the story of Luis Hernandez and his brother, Carlos. With a super tight timeline, we pulled off this epic tale in epic time. Phew!
CREDITS
Client: El Jimador
Agency: Scoppechio
Directed by Giant Ant
Producer: Liam Hogan
Creative Direction: Jay Grandin
Art Direction: Rafael Mayani
Treatment & Storyboard: Rafael Mayani, Jay Grandin
MAIN SPOT
Illustration: Rafael Mayani, Tom Goyon, Eric Pautz
Animation & Compositing Lead: Conor Whelan
Animation & Compositing: Conor Whelan, Shawn Hight, Sebastian Curi, Diego Maclean, Taylor Peters
Cel Animation & Cleanup: Henrique Barone, Sitji Chou, Diego Maclean, Mehdi Aouichaoui, Jardeson Rocha, Thierno Bam, Junyi Xiao
Music & Sound: Playdate
:15 CONTEST SPOT
Illustration: Rafael Mayani, Tom Goyon
Animation & Compositing: Chris Anderson, Conor Whelan, Shawn Hight, Diego Maclean, Sitji Chou, Matt James, Henrique Barone, Bruno Brasil Vieira, Jardeson Rocha, Junyi Xiao, Jay Grandin
“Toronto 2016 Titles & Teaser”
It was especially fun to work on this spot given the theme: LEVEL UP. We referenced 30 video games to create this mini-history of the evolution of gaming and introduce 75 speakers to the conference. Brought me back to the old NES days. Also there may or may not be some avatars of me in this one. There are.
CREDITS
Client: FITC
Directed by Giant Ant
Producer: Liam Hogan
Creative Direction: Jorge R Canedo
Art Direction: Rafael Mayani
Additional Design: Jorge R Canedo, Nicholas Ferreira
2D Animation & Compositing: Jorge R Canedo, Nicholas Ferreira, Shawn Hight, Matt James, Max Halley
Cel Animation: Henrique Barone, Jorge R. Canedo, Jay Grandin
3D Modelling & Animation: Nicholas Ferreira, Matt James, Conor Whelan, Shawn Hight
Music & SFX: Antfood
“Just Ask”
In addition to the regular old producery stuff I got to help write the script on this one. Words. Boom!
CREDITS
Client: Ask.fm
Directed by Giant Ant
Producer: Liam Hogan
Creative Direction: Jay Grandin
Script: Liam Hogan, Cory Philpott
Art Direction: Jay Quercia
Colour & Additional Illustration: Rafael Mayani
Animation Direction: Jorge R Canedo
2D Animation & Compositing: Jorge R Canedo, Matt James, Nicholas Ferreira, Jay Grandin
Cel Animation: Henrique Barone, Matthew Everton
3D Animation: Nicholas Ferreira, Jorge R Canedo
Music: Mark Lazeski
SFX: Cory Hawthorne
“Freedom 55”
Gotta love the old 2D to live action transition. The folks at London Life do too so they asked us to create intros for two Freedom 55 TV spots. They turned out really pretty.
CREDITS
Client: London Life Financial (Freedom 55)
Live Action Director: Dale Heslip
Creative Direction: Jay Grandin
Producer: Liam Hogan
Art Direction: Rafael Mayani
Character Animation: Henrique Barone
Animation Cleanup: Rafael Mayani
Animation & Compositing: Matt James
“Kick Plastic”
Worked with Costa Sunglasses again on another environmental spot, this time to spearhead their #Kickplastic campaign. Reading through the statistics and research on the subject was a real eye opener. Especially glad to have been part of this one. Truly an important message here.
CREDITS
Client: Costa Sunglasses
Agency: Giant Ant
Directed by Giant Ant
Producer: Liam Hogan, Jay Grandin
Creative Direction: Jay Grandin
Story, Script & Storyboard: Jay Grandin, Lucas Brooking
Art Direction: Lucas Brooking
Illustration: Lucas Brooking
Additional Illustration: Jay Grandin, Nicholas Ferreira, Diego MacLean
Character Animation Lead: Henrique Barone
Animation & Compositing: Matt James, Nicholas Ferreira, Jorge Canedo Estrada, Shawn Hight, Marisabel Fernandez, Diego MacLean
Music & Sound Design: Ryland Haggis
“Cruel Summer”
Love the ‘80s vibe of this one right down to the Bananarama track! It was a quick turn around on a cute little :30 TV spot for Direct Energy from the people at Tracey Locke.
CREDITS
Client: Direct Energy
Agency: Tracey Locke
Directed by Giant Ant
Producer: Liam Hogan
Design: Lucas Brooking
Additional Deisgn: Shawn Hight
Animation: Jorge Canedo Estrada, Matt James, Nicholas Ferreira, Henrique Barone, Shawn Hight
