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Giant Ant: Caught in Slack “Traffic”

The team at Giant Ant in Vancouver take their latest open brief from Slack deep into bright-and-happy land via this bouncy 3D mini-opus, with post-production from The Sequence Group, and music/sound design from Antfood. [Watch]

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Giant Ant Levels Up at FITC Toronto 2016

The 15th edition of the venerable FITC Toronto creative technology event opened April 17 with this title sequence by Vancouver’s Giant Ant. Leveraging the conference theme “Level Up,” the 2D, 3D, and cel-animated romp traces a fun revisionist history of video games packed with sly nods and clever transitions. [Watch]

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Buck Helps Casper “Sleep Better”

ECD Ryan Honey and the Buck crew re-team with illustrator Tomi Um for their second Casper animation, upping the flag-waving squirrel from the first spot to a mystical and diminutive Sannyasa spokes-creature. [Watch]

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Marc Craste Reconnects “Neighbors” for Morton Salt

Studio AKA director Marc Craste and Blacklist take on the challenge of injecting warmth and emotion into an ad for one of the planet’s humblest of consumer products: sidewalk ice melt. [Watch]

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Anagram Anarchy Opens Blend Fest in Vancouver

The spankin’ new Blend festival launched late last week in Vancouver with this hyper-active happy meal of clever wordplay and characters created by Gareth O’Brien and crew at Buck‘s new Sydney studio with nicely-caffeinated music and sound design from Antfood. [Watch]

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UNICEF: “Nepal Call to Action”

Buck LA art director Joe Donaldson teams with audio mavens Antfood to answer UNICEF’s call for a short, shareable animation to bring awareness to the conditions faced by victims of the recent earthquakes in Nepal. [Watch]