Commercial Archive

Having spent my youth drooling over every inch of "Tank girl", I'm dead exited that Jamie Hewlett did this. It's awesome. It's rawkin' ossom, because it's Jamie's. Screw people who think the opposite, I'm a loyal fan. Nyah! For Audio fans, Damon Albarn did the score. Yes, that adds up to one slice of Gorillaz. How cool are the Beijing Olympics on BBC? Way cooler than anywhere else.

Agency: RKCR/Y&R, London

A classic look at it from the other side brings home the point here loud and clear.
Agency: Saatchi & Saatchi, Wellington

Agency: TBWA\ Düsseldorf
Note: Sissys can't have male names apparently. Meh.

See also the interactive site that goes with this advert.
Agency: Goodby Silverstein & Partners San Francisco

Another version of the old idea of chewing gum as psychedelic drug that creates watery images. This one is trippier than others though
Agency: JWT London

This will make childish city-folk laugh, I presume.
Agency: Saatchi London
Director: Traktor

Want to see lots of girls in their underwear give each other a good slapping? Look no further, this ad is for you. Sorry about the pixelated quality.

Agency: The Campaign Palace

TBWA Paris are back for Amnesty International with a vengeance - after the maybe/probably never approved bronze Lion winning campaign - this poignant animated short sells your signature really well. I particularly like that the victims have no mouths, and symbolically can not speak for themselves.

Agency: LAPIZ

Agency: Red Bee Media, London

"I've never seen lions do that before" - No shit, I've never seen antelope cadavers breakdance either.

Some of us are slaves to Grace Jones and her knack for reinventing herself each time to something larger than life, the video for her song "Corporate Cannibal," directed by Nick Hooker of Rabbit, and cut by Union's Sloane Klevin, manipulates that image like never before and wowed fans and critics alike in London recently when it opened Jones' show as part of Massive Attack's Meltdown Festival. Jones had approached Hooker about a collaboration after seeing his art work and the animated projections he created for U2's Vertigo tour, also cut by Klevin.

Version2 and @Radical Media created this serene mood video for Grey Goose

Agency: Dentsu

Agency: Dentsu

When VH1 needed to create a vibrant, compelling show opening for their new reality series, “I Love New York,” they came straight to Version2. Whirlwind graphics of colorful butterflies and floating hearts swirl around VH1’s newest bachelorette, New York. The still images and animations lead us through New York’s garden of suitors, then into her bachelor-lined mansion lining up to win her heart.

(I'm not sure what "Nordic berries" means. Why don't they just say blueberries? Or artic blueberries if they prefer. We have a lot of berries up north. Berries...and elk!)

Version2’s Micah Scarpelli cuts this serenely beautiful spot for Smirnoff North, a new blend of the classic vodka flavored with Nordic berries. CD/Inferno Artist Kieran Walsh and Director Mikon Van Gastel collaborated to create the seamless melding of live action with intricate CG and VFX.

Version2’s Kieran Walsh explains: "I think this is one of those projects that looks relatively simple, but was deceptively complicated to achieve the exact look we wanted. To create the iceberg, we utilized a hybrid approach of both 3D and live action. The iceberg was match-modeled to a high resolution image and then rendered as many different layers. We had some passes of highly refractive transparent ice and others in a more opaque frosty material. This gave me the flexibility to selectively combine these different looks as required. "

Version2 and @Radical Media created this serene mood video for Grey Goose

The brief: Version2 VFX/motion design three-peats its animated magic for VH1 and their new reality dating show, Rock of Love. Following the successes of Flavor of Love and I Love New York, this series stars famed rocker Bret Michaels of Poison in his search for true love. The opening credits are a visual cacophony of animated hearts, bikini-clad suitor-rettes, and images of the rocker himself showing off his hair, hats, and Harley.

THE BRIEF: Editor Tina Mintus of Version2 dissects this jagged opening for VH1’s new reality show The Rock Life. Surf’s up as we meet the cast/band of this make it or break it, rise to the top series. In the open, we see the sights and hear the sounds of Malibu as we are introduced to the rock band Whitestarr, led by singer/songwriter Cisco Adler. The opening song is the band’s own, updating their classic rock sound as they strive to reach super stardom.