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Animated Commercials

Spots I animated/directed in the 1980’s at Richard Purdum Productions in London, UK. My years there were so inspiring. The studio was family, the place super cozy and London so much fun to explore. These spots are just a few of the many I worked on. Richard Purdum (brilliant animator/director) and Jill Thomas (brilliant producer) were great to work with, and had so many talented people working for them (Michael Dudok DeWit, Steve Small, Sylvain Chomet, An Gordon, Dirk van de Vondel and so many more who would come and go)
Spots made at Klasky-Csupo, Hollywood and Wild Canary, Burbank.
US commercials tended to be more on the nose than in the UK advertising, still I enjoyed both studios very much. Klasky was known for The Simpsons, before I started working there. They made a whole string of shows for Nickleodeon (Rugrats, Rocket Power, Aah Real Monsters. Wild Thornberrys, As told by Ginger etc.) and four movies based on their franchises. I was lucky to be given the opportunity to take on different hats at the studio. Now and then doing commercials which was a nice break from the never relenting stream of TV production. Then my old producer Richard Marlis asked me to join his new company Wild Canary (most of the crew came from Klasky) where we only did commercials for the first 4 or 5 years. I was pretty much the only director for a while with Max Micelli as art director. Then around 2012 I directed a test and then a pilot for Disney Jr. and started to work with Sascha Palandino on the show Miles from Tomorrowland. This lasted till 2018. meanwhile other series came to the studio, and Wild Canary became a larger studio. All very exciting times. All involved gave their very best, pretty much the standard in this industry as people love what they do.
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