Buck Bakes Up McDonald’s “Muffins”

Buck continues their string of character-driven charmers for McDonald’s with a 3D romp including the world’s yummiest-looking CG blueberry muffin, all fresh from ECD Ryan Honey and crew thru Cossette Chicago. [Watch]

STASH 110 Arrives Bearing Gifts

The Stash Permanent Collection keeps growing with issue 110 adding another 31 brilliant animation, VFX and motion design projects PLUS an outstanding 49 minutes of revealing behind-the-scenes features and exclusive interviews with the designers, directors and producers behind the work. Over 4,000 of the planet’s most innovative and interesting commercials, music videos, brand films, broadcast […] [Watch]

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Buck Snaps Open the Facebook Factory

Ryan Honey and the Buck team leave no production technique or typographic trick unturned in this ADD-inducing launch film for Facebook’s new creative think tank called The Factory. [Watch]

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FITC Tokyo 2015 Opens with a Glitch or Two

FITC Tokyo 2015 opened with this complex, dense and hypnotic piece of chaos created by a collaboration of designers, typographers, animators, programmers and musicians spanning three timezones to “contrast the harmonies of traditional Japanese culture against the backdrop and sensory overload of present-day Tokyo.” [Watch]

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Buck’s Manic Happy Meal Montage

Back in May of 2014, McDonald’s new Happy Meal Characters were branded as “scary” by the press and the Twittersphere. Looking at this compilation of slap-schtick, minion-like, decidedly non-scary clips of Buck’s work on the character, I can only assume it must have been a very slow news week. [Watch]

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Buck Spreads the Love: McDonald’s “Arch Enemies”

Clever concept from Leo Burnett plus snappy design, direction and animation by Buck propelled by an impossibly happy track by Mozella (who also wrote Wrecking Ball) “asks even the worst of arch enemies to put down the gloves and bring in the hugs in this all out love fest for McDonald’s.” [Watch]

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