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There are few brands as highly coveted as Disney. This year marks 100 years since Walt Disney first stepped onto the global stage with the iconic Steamboat Willy cartoon and heralded the birth of modern animated cinema and in those ten decades, to...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
How did you get into the industry? I developed a passion for the 3D world after completing my degree in interior design, and it has been nearly a decade since then. Despite the passing of time, I still find it exciting and engaging. Throughout this...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
It’s been the most competitive Christmas ad season ever. People want a reason to smile, and brands have pulled out all the stops to provide it with a series of feelgood festive ads. Advertising effectiveness company System1 have unveiled their...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Occasionally, a piece of content will come along that completely floors me and compels me to sit down, compose myself and dissect what I’ve just seen. That happened for the first time this year about 3 hours ago when I first laid eyes on a...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Christopher Bicourt is a man with a lot to say and a lot of very progressive ideas about everything from how he approaches his work to the rise of the metaverse. On the latter point, in face, he considered himself something of an expert. Working...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
When casting an eye back over the goings-on this week, I felt a subtle pang of despair. Between the capitalist nightmare that was the ill-fated European Super League, David Cameron lobbying dramas and… more Prince Philip, it all just felt so...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
To Del Mak, choreography is much more than 'just' aesthetic moves. To Del Mak, choreography is a vision; an art that he wishes could be involved in the production process much earlier on, and much more than it currently is. Choreography is also...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Great Guns director Federico Mazzarisi recently unleashed a cinematic new spot for vehicle manufacturer IVECO, telling the story of two brothers who reunite on the road after following two different paths in life. Creatively devised by Ogilvy Italia...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Frankie Caradonna. A born-Italian filmmaker, too much of a free spirit to spend most of his life stuck in an office. Frankie is an ambitious creative, and one can just glimpse at his works to realise that his ambition is channeled through his...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Chasing your dreams can become quite challenging if you don't have the technological means to do so in today's world. This is what happened to Muhammad Waseem, self-taught creative and CGI artist who was born and raised in Karachi, Pakistan. A...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Consumer decision making is changing, and that’s impacting brand loyalty. This became clear to me while I was researching a presentation I made at an event held to examine the role and the market opportunity presented by online video. One of...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Volkswagen has created a series of funny idents to promote its continued sponsorship of ITV Movies in the UK that see people in films gain unrealistic levels of confidence. The entertaining scenes include an American spy eager to show off his fluent...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
The Oscars are, whilst almost as large a televisual draw as that 'other' big event in February, largely free from the burden of expectation when it comes to advertising. The fact is that nobody really talks about the ad breaks of the Academy Awards,...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
With the Christmas season fast approaching (the John Lewis ad runs on the 10th and Sainsbury’s on the 14th, so be sure to mark those dates in your calendar), ad land is starting to rev its engines. We're only one week into November, but we've...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Halloween is a holiday that, until recently, barely registered in the UK. Whilst many of us have fond memories of trick or treating in our youth, and there's always the tendency to stick a few scary movies on whenever the end of October rolls around,...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
J. Walter Thompson London - OXO OXO is returning to British TV screens this week with two heartwarming ads following the lives of a modern-day family, created by J. Walter Thompson London. In this new take on the classic work, which was made famous...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Maria Sharapova settles into an internship at VCCP London In what might just about be the most surprising piece of agency news of the year, Maria Sharapova has reportedly spent the last week as an intern at VCCP London. The former world number one...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
A mixtape was a classic device used by well-meaning but ultimately lazy music fans who wanted to express their own individuality through songs written by other people. The idea was simple, but it was popular for a reason, as it allowed even those...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Strategic use of trailers and subtitles, sometimes individually, sometimes combined, sometimes not at all, can significantly increase views, completion of and or engagement in long-form video content on social media, according to research presented...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
The Coke Ad looks cool, uh? The new Coke campaign, featuring a lively dog and its not-so-lively owner is a celebration of the most Disneyesque style of animation (with an hint of the golden-age of Dreamworks too) by the amazing guys at Psyop. In...
Posted by: Nucco
Despite its identity as a gaming brand, PlayStation is a brand that's always been actively involved in the world of sports, and the brand wanted to reaffirm its commitment this year by signing a three year partnership with the prestigious French...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Comic book movies are big business. Indeed, the genre has evolved from its fringe beginnings (anyone else remember Howard the Duck?) to effectively monopolise mainstream cinema. Even though Marvel has done its best to corner the market over the past...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Bringing home a bounty of awards The Blink Productions family have had a truly amazing week when it comes to mantelpiece clobber, with a veritable bounty of awards success. First up, Televisual ranked Blink as the Best Production Company and Dougal...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
AMV BBDO help Nicorette achieve the incredible AMV BBDO has brought a unique and powerful story to life for Nicorette in a campaign that launched this week on the company's YouTube channel, website, digital and mobile channels in the UK. After years...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Introducing the “Anti” Smartphone Whilst many of us have become a little too attached to our smart devices in recent years (myself included), there are still those amongst us who long for a simpler time, when our phones were just that;...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
I like Pizza hut. A lot. I'm not afraid to admit it. I understand we live in an age where gluttony is frowned upon perhaps even more so than alcohol or drug abuse, and I know it's technically not 'real' pizza, but a bastardised American approximation...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Arnold “The Governator” Schwarzenegger has been making headlines in recent years with his decision to retire from politics to re-embark on the movie career with which he made his name. There's a new Terminator film on the horizon, which...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Mars - Winning Yes, we all know they're much smaller than they used to be (Mars have admitted as much). But they're still one of the leading chocolate brands, and need the power of advertising to maintain that position. Fortunately, the Mars people...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
This month A+C studios released 'Brick Bowl', a self-initiated challenge to recreate the best of the Super Bowl 2015 commercials as a stop motion animated film, using thousands of Lego bricks in less than 36 hours. A+C Studios is an animation...
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Google has teamed up with the Swedish design and communication agency, North Kingdom, to create a new interactive browser experience for the final film in Peter Jackson's The Hobbit trilogy; “The Battle Of The Five Armies.” The...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
‘Have you ever noticed how, in Hollywood movies, all the villains are played by Brits?’ asks a dinner-jacketed Sir Ben Kingsley in the commercial for the new Jaguar F-Type Coupe. Entitled ‘Rendezvous’ and aired at the Super...
Posted by: Ashley Morrison
The World Wide Web, it's a wonderful thing to be sure. You've got your social media for endless moaning and pictures of your holidays. You've got your YouTube for Little Mix videos and footage of other people's pets. And you've got your online...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
I don't know how you feel about old science-fiction b-movies, but I positively love them. Perhaps it's those predictable, repeated tropes that make them so reliably comfortable and comforting. The unconvincing, plastic creature always carries the...
Posted by: Creativepool
by John Fountain "Movie making is my business, my profession, it's the way that I support my family. I love the business, I like the people, but I am not what is called a career director. Some men will make a good picture then they will keep trying...
Posted by: Creativepool
by Magnus Shaw When Matt Pledger posted this https://www.facebook.com/ODEON/posts/523396924342167 he couldn't have imagined he'd attract 120,000 "likes"and 10,000 comments, but perhaps he shouldn't be surprised. Almost anyone attending a multiplex...
Posted by: Creativepool
You may think this is an unusual question to ask. But every day, millions of people visit internet chatrooms...to chat albeit by typing rather than by speaking aloud. Ben Rubin (a New York artist) and Mark Hansen (Associate Professor of Statistics at...
Posted by: Creativepool