Happy Trails Animation's work

We were once told by a local ad agency after showing our work, "Nice. So what do you do?" To which we replied "We animate." I think that it is the love of movement and creating a certain emotion from any media that made both of us fall in love with animation. To us it is all about texture and feelings. I think we also want to create work that interacts with the audience -- to inspire conversation, to inspire clients and the public. We once received a phone call from a company in Fullerton, California where they had tried using live action for an emotional topic but it made their test audience uneasy. They felt that animation could cut across the line that live action had problems with because of the subject matter. So they asked us if we had any boards that we could shape to this client. "Yes," we said. Needless to say, we did the job and their client got such an overwhelming response to the ad that their phone system crashed. They had to hire two new staff members to answer phones.