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This video will be premiering on MuchMusic on Friday February 19th. The song is Noisemaker, a single off the new album from the Polaris Prize nominated band, Two Hours Traffic.

I am directing with Richie Mitchell for Lithium Studios, and it is being produced here at Shark Teeth Films. Mike MacMillan is exec producing and Greg Horton is producing. Paul Watling is doing boards and character design and Sam Bradley is doing backgrounds and colour styling. Bob Yoshioka is compositing. Below are some concept designs from Paul and Sam.

I will update this post as we continue through the animation pipeline.

Adrian

UPDATE! Guess what? More new art.

UPDATE! More cool shit, check it out.

UPDATE! New artwork is listed below – Sam Bradley continues to outdo himself.

In this episode, Smallfoot discovers an mp3 player at the bottom of a footprint. He initially enjoys the music, but when it changes, so does his opinion.

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In this episode, Smallfoot expertly dispatches his quarry. He seems very intelligent for such a small creature.

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In this episode, Smallfoot slakes his thirst with some delicious milkweed sap.

Don’t forget to watch Smallfoot in “The Fly” and “Music”.

Adrian Carter directed this spot for Sharpe Blackmore Euro RSCG for the Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival. Produced by Greg Horton for William Cranor at Cartilage Digital, it was a quick turn around and a great success. Go to the festival next year if you missed it this year. Keep reading below to see the creative process for this spot, from storyboards to animatic to mock up and offline.
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Special thanks to Jim at New College Cleaners – Jim, don’t change a thing! This commercial was shot at our local dry cleaner on the north edge of Kensington Market. Jim was kind enough to move his business to the street while we shot. He collected garments on the sidewalk all day.

Here are my original storyboards.

This is a mock up after the location scout.

This is a rough cut straight out of my mind.

Here is the Director’s cut.

There were two spots created for this campaign. In the first spot called “Tongue”, match moving and animation combined with some clever compositing allowed us to push the creative really far for this creature effect. This was shot on a Canon 5D in a single pass – the animation and unsuspecting businessman were added later. In the second spot the driver is distracted by clowns fighting in the alley. The airbag was custom silk-screened with the client’s logo and shot on a RED One at 120fps.

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We created this spot for Ogilvy & Mather Toronto/Soho Square as the centre of a Facebook promotion for Nestea’s Chill On The Hill event. Following the success of the Facebook phase, 2 different broadcast versions were also created.
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Suck “Brain on Drugs”

We were contracted to do the “Brain on Drugs” musical hallucination scene for this feature. The lead singer inadvertently takes ecstasy, only to discover his mistake on stage. It already has a great rating on imdb.com, when it comes out go see it.

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A rock’n’roll vampire spoof about a down and out band, The Winners, who will do anything for a record deal. When their disgruntled manager (Dave Foley) tells them that they are getting “long in the tooth”, he doesn’t know that his words are truly prophetic. During a road trip, their humdrum image radically changes when Jennifer (Jessica Paré), the bass player, disappears one night with a hip vampire (Dimitri Coats). She emerges with a sexually charged charisma that drives the audiences wild. As the band members succumb, one by one, to blood lust, their “gimmick” launches them into the limelight. Following an “incident” on a national radio show with “Rock’n Roger” (Henry Rollins), they hit mega-stardom beyond their wildest dreams. Joey (Rob Stefaniuk), the lead singer, is haunted by an eerie bartender (Alice Cooper), who turns out to be much more. Meanwhile, legendary vampire hunter, Eddie Van Helsig (Malcolm McDowell), is tracking them down, despite his fear of the dark. When a veteran music producer (Iggy Pop) calls them on becoming a vampire freak show, they begin to realize that fame is not what it’s cracked up to be. Suck is a wild ride down a highway to hell, with a killer soundtrack that includes Iggy Pop’s, “TVeye” and “Success”; Alice Cooper’s, “I am a Spider”; Lou Reed’s Velvet Underground’s “Sweet Nuthin”; David Bowie’s, “Here Comes the Night” and The Rolling Stones, “Sympathy for the Devil”.

This reel is a sampling of Adrian’s past 10 years of work.

This commercial was created for David Innis at Fat Free Communications. The character design was based on a companion print campaign.
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