Gogo’s back! This time fully animated for the Holiday travel season. “The Flight Before Christmas” comes on the heels of our previous work for Gogo’s successful broadcast campaign. Referencing a cartoon style, we designed, illustrated, and animated Santa’s journey. By making subtile use of 3D, we added depth to the richly illustrated world of Gogo’s holiday tale.
Mode Project’s Brooks Ruyle took home the award for Best Editing at the Midwest Independent Film Festival’s 2011 Best of the Midwest Awards (BMAs), with editor Randy Palmer of Optimus, for their work on the documentary film Ballhawks. Mike Diedrich also took home the Best Director BMA for the film during the Dec 6th award presentation.
Mode Project is honored to have been a key creative and production partner from the start and we congratulate Dietrich for Ballhawks’ 2 wins at the Best of the Midwest Awards.
Stay tuned for the online/digital release of the film this spring.
We love telling genuine stories and we love The Doughnut Vault, so we made a short film documenting the sights and sounds of our neighbor’s new shop – just up the street from us on Franklin.
Our team was enlisted to help tell the story, using animation and live-action, of an eight-year-old boy who had been abandoned by his parents and with the help of a CASA volunteer, adopted into a loving family. The spot makes use of an imaginary world of paper cut-outs which place the boy and the volunteer firmly in the center of a whirlwind of court proceedings, lawyers and multiple foster homes.
Mode Project was presented with this opportunity via design studio Thirst/Chicago on behalf of EPIC (Engaging Philanthropy Inspiring Creatives), an organization which helps top-tier creative talent join forces with nonprofit clients. “Mode Project totally made Kelly Butler’s script come to life in this incredible video hybrid that is obviously digital but remarkably analog in spirit. I love this Mode brand of innocence!” said Thirst’s founder and design director, Rick Valicenti.
Credits:
Agency: EPIC
Agency Liaison: Thirst/Chicago, Rick Valicenti
Writer: Kelly Butler
Production Company: Mode Project
CG Modeling and Animation: Mode Project
Director of Photography: Derick Smith
Stylist: Pamela Dawn
Music: The Mayfair Workshop
Sound Design: Vagabond Audio
Some 750,000 people pass through New York City’s Grand Central Terminal daily. So when Ogilvy asked us to create animations which would be seen on a giant screen there as a component of UPS’s “We Love Logistics” global ad campaign, we were happy to help out. We took Oglivy’s creative elements, icons and typography and built a short animated story designed to show how logistics can bring competitive power to UPS customers.