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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A short film directed by Paul Watling.

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

This short film was written and directed by Adrian Carter, and Bob Yoshioka was the VFX Supervisor. We are proud of the Special Jury Award it won at The Nickel Independent Film Festival in St. John’s, Newfoundland.

It’s 1596. Spain declares war against England. Sir Francis Drake and his navigator and best friend, Giovanni Battista Boazio, are called upon to protect the Queen’s shores and lead her Navy to victory.

Before the battle begins, Sir Drake encounters his old nemesis, Vice Admiral Lord Howard of Effingham. The men are quickly embroiled in a surprising yet fiery showdown, the force of which not even an attacking Spanish Armada can extinguish.

‘First we finish the game, then we finish the invincible Armanda.’ –Sir Francis Drake

This short also spent a day on the front page of funnyordie.com. It currently enjoys a very high funny rating on that site.