Stop Mo JCPenny Ads

Check out these three stop motion JCPenny commercials I recently animated. It was a fun project -- I've never animated full scale props or live humans before. They were produced by Buck and animated at fabulous Starburns Industries.

iMattress Commercial

Animated aliens selling bedding. Here's a commercial for iMattress we worked on recently at world famous Pencil Test Studios.

Director/Editor/Music/FX: Bill O'Neil, Chicago Spots
Animation: Ed Schofield and Mike Dietz, Pencil Test Studios
Agency: Capitalist Agency in Chicago.
Producer: Garry Gassel

Pencil Test Studios On Cold Hard Flash!

Check it out. Pencil Test Studios' animated spots for Public Storage are featured today on Aaron Simpson's Cold Hard Flash. Click on the image above and it'll take you directly there.

Disney "Parachutes" TV Ad

Pencil Test Studios, the new animation house I opened with Ed Schofield (mentioned below), recently finished work on a commercial for Disneyland Paris. It was a fun project, combining live action, CG and hand drawn animation all to great effect. The main production company was Motion Theory, who directed the spot and handled the very challenging compositing work. The hand drawn animation was provided by Duck Studios and we handled all the animation of Woody and Buzz. All the other CG Pixar characters were created by pulling existing animation from Pixar films and compositing them into the spot.

We don't have the spot up on the Pencil Test Studios site yet, but Motion Theory just posted it on theirs. You can check it out here.