One of two videos we made to help relaunch GoogleTV, with lots of fun, little stop-motion animations and Buck cameos hidden throughout. CREDITS Directed and Produced by Buck Creative Director: Orion Tait Executive Producer: Anne Skopas Head of Production: Melissa Johnson Producer: Kitty Dillard Associate Producer: Billy Mack Art Director: Yker Moreno, Gareth O’Brien Animation Director: Gareth O’Brien Storyboarding: Chad Colby, Gareth O’Brien Design: Ben Langsfeld, Yker Moreno, Gareth O’Brien 2D Animation: Chad Colby, Justin Lawes, Gareth O’Brien, Waleed Zaiter CG Supervisor: Ryan O’Phelan 3D Animation: Sewang Kim, Brice Linane, Ryan O’Phelan Modeling 3D: Sewang Kim, Michael Lampe, Ryan O’Phelan Rigging: Ryan O’Phelan Lighting/Shading: Michael Lampe Lead Compositing: Ryan O’Phelan Compositing: Daniel Oeffinger, Seth Ricart Stop Motion Animation: Chad Colby, Yker Moreno (Lord of the Rigs) Prop & Construction: Paragini Amin, Chad Colby, Victoria Grant, Michael Magliazzo, Yker Moreno, Ann Seymour, Thomas Schmid DP: Seth Ricart Original Music: Antfood Sound Design: Antfood Client: Google Agency: The Barbarian Group

What is Google TV?

A stop-motion inspired CG animation using a multitude of models, from cell phones, to 60" plasmas. In some shots, 2D animation was projected onto the 3D animation. In other shots, 3D was matched to 2D animatics. 

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Directed and Produced by Buck
Creative Director: Orion Tait
Executive Producer: Anne Skopas
Head of Production: Melissa Johnson
Producer: Kitty Dillard
Associate Producer: Billy Mack
Art Director: Yker Moreno, Gareth O’Brien
Animation Director: Gareth O’Brien
Storyboarding: Chad Colby, Gareth O’Brien
Design: Ben Langsfeld, Yker Moreno, Gareth O’Brien
2D Animation: Chad Colby, Justin Lawes, Gareth O’Brien, Waleed Zaiter
CG Supervisor: Ryan O’Phelan
3D Animation: Sewang Kim, Brice Linane, Ryan O’Phelan
Modeling 3D: Sewang Kim, Michael Lampe, Ryan O’Phelan
Rigging: Ryan O’Phelan
Lighting/Shading: Michael Lampe
Lead Compositing: Ryan O’Phelan
Compositing: Daniel Oeffinger, Seth Ricart
Stop Motion Animation: Chad Colby, Yker Moreno (Lord of the Rigs)
Prop & Construction: Paragini Amin, Chad Colby, Victoria Grant, Michael Magliazzo, Yker Moreno, Ann Seymour, Thomas Schmid
DP: Seth Ricart
Original Music: Antfood
Sound Design: Antfood
Client: Google
Agency: The Barbarian Group