Animated felt Paw Patrol characters from a summer campaign with Nick Jr.!
Client: Nick Jr.
Creative Director: Emily Collins
Creative Producer: Jess Peterson
Producer: Maya Tanaka
Art Director: Minkyung Chung
Stop Motion Animator: Victoria Arslani
Fabricators: Minkyung Chung, Anthony Galante, Malik Sealy, Sami Kerwin
Post FX: Jay Jang
Sound Designer: Anthony Galante
With Support from: Michaela Olsen
GIF created to encourage people vote from home in 2020 via absentee ballots.
Just for fun.
In honor of DnDi's 15th anniversary, our team designed an explainer video to be shared at their fall gala in Berlin. Mixing hand drawn animation with b-roll footage, this video walks through the nonprofit's history and gently shares information about their open-source research for neglected diseases.
Client: Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative
Creative Director: Emily Collins
Producer: Megan Barbour
Animators & Designers: Maya Edelman, Tynesha Foreman
Editor: Nathan Fitch
Score: Found Objects
Sound Mix: Christopher Mastellone
This animation was created in support of the release of Kate Raworth's book: How to think like a 21st Century Economist.
Client: Kate Raworth
Creative Director, Animator, Fabricator: Emily Collins
Creative Producer: Jess Peterson
With Support from: Michaela Olsen
I directed a series of spots for Sherwin Williams at Mighty Oak with a super talented team of animators and fabricators. Each set was built to show off a color from SW new paint line.
Client: Sherwin Williams
Agency: Meredith
Creative Director: Emily Collins
Creative Producer: Jess Peterson
Producer: Meghan Doherty
Animation Director and Animator: Anthony Galante
Fabricators: Minkyung Chung, Sami Kerwin, Andreas Dutz, Hillary Barton, and Anthony Galante
Post FX and Sound Design: Marisha Falkovich, Sabrina Chaney, Brenn Goodell, Hillary Barton, and Anthony Galante
This GIF was made at Mighty Oak as a reflection of the constant imbalance happening within our Justice system.
Animated bedding-dream-world for West Elm.
Client: West Elm
Creative Director: Emily Collins
Creative Producer: Jess Peterson
Animation Director: Emily Collins
Fabricators: Emily Collins, Minkyung Chung, Anthony Galante, Michaela Olsen
Stop Motion Animators: Emily Collins, Anthony Galante, Michaela Olsen
Post FX: Emily Collins, Anthony Galante
Sound Design: Anthony Galante
A short GIF I created at Mighty Oak to celebrate the announcement of free tampons in NYC schools and homeless shelters.
The United States spends $80 billion on incarceration a year, and yet more than half of people who leave prison return there within 5 years. Which brings us to ask the question, why do we incarcerate people in the first place? This question is what drives Vera Institute of Justice. Their mission is to urgently build and improve justice systems that ensure fairness, promote safety, and strengthen communities. And as advocates for social justice reform, we were honored to partner with Vera on a video that would raise awareness about our current system and ask us to reimagine the prison experience in the United States.
Since the narrative focused on transforming our incarceration system, we chose an artistic approach that would also provide a transformative opportunity. Using a hand-drawn approach, animator Catherine Mehringer was able to humanize the story through abstract shapes and delicate silhouettes to create a broader picture. The response was well received. In its first 24 hours, #Reimagineprison was shared thousands of times by organizations, celebrities, and activists including the ACLU, Judd Apatow, and Ava Duverney. Even Justin Bieber gave his approval. There may never be a better time to rethink our incarceration programs than now, and we are humbled to be part of the conversation. To learn more, visit reimagine.vera.org, and let’s #Reimagineprison.
Client: Vera Institute of Justice
Creative Director: Emily Collins
Creative Producer: Jess Peterson
Animation Director: Catherine Mehringer
Animators: Catherine Mehringer, Emily Collins, Marisha Falkovich
With Support from: Michaela Olsen
Created as a Digital Exclusive for the release date of the Daughters of Destiny Documentary Series on Netflix.
Client: Netflix
Creative Director: Emily Collins
Creative Producer: Jess Peterson
Animation Director: Hayley Morris
Art Director: Hayley Morris
Fabricators: Hayley Morris, Harriet Lenneman, Emily Hoffman
Post FX: Anthony Galante
With Support From: Michaela Olsen
A GIF I created at Mighty Oak in anticipation of the 2016 Summer Olympics.
Series of 3 stop-motion videos about Don Julio: the man behind the tequila. Created for The New York Times’ creative agency T Brand Studio.
Agency: T Brand Studio
Client: Don Julio Tequila
Creative Director: Emily Collins
Creative Producer: Jess Peterson
Concept Strategy & Messaging: Mighty Oak
Animation Director: Emily Collins
Fabricators: Marisha Falkovich, Emily Collins, Harriet Lenneman, and Minkyung Chung
Stop Motion Animators: Zack Williams, Emily Collins, and Marisha Falkovich
Post FX: Marisha Falkovich, Catherine Mehringer, and Emily Collins
Sound Design: Marisha Falkovich
With Support From: Michaela Olsen
This custom GIF was made to honor Lotte Reiniger, a female stop-moition pioneer. It was shared via Mashable during Women's History Month. Check out the article here!
This explainer video breaks down the mystery behind why and how coffee beans go bad. The technology behind Get It Right's coffee grinder allows coffee drinkers to detect the freshness of their beans!
Client: Get It Right
Creative Director, Animator, Fabricator: Emily Collins
Creative Producer: Jess Peterson
Assitant Handdrawn Animator: Maya Edelman
With Support from: Michaela Olsen
Grown from the HATCH networking community in NYC, HATCH Stories shares the wild journeys of self-made female founders who defied the odds.
Creative Director: Emily Collins
Creative Producer: Jessica Peterson
Cinematography: Emily Collins, Kaija Siirala
Fabrication: Emily Collins, Zuzu Snyder, Andres Gonzalez, Hannah Kim, Katie Falk, Efeme Onaodowan, Emily Kaplan
Animation: Emily Collins, Nalani Williams
Editing and Sound: Emily Collins, Kaija Siirala
With Support from: Michaela Olsen
The story of pesticides for TED-Ed .
Client: Ted Education
Script: Fernan Pérez-Gálvez
Creative Director: Emily Collins
Creative Producer: Jess Peterson
Fabricators: Emily Collins, Minkyung Chung, and Julie Neuberg
Stop Motion Animator: Emily Collins
Post FX: Marisha Falkovich
Sound Design: Marisha Falkovich
Just a fun flower GIF.
When it comes to plant design, no one does it better than our friends at The Sill. Founder Eliza Blank started The Sill just a few years ago with the hopes of inspiring people to bring more of the outdoors inside. Since then, her company has 'grown' leaps and bounds, opening a storefront in Chinatown, shipping nationwide, collaborating with shops like Madewell and West Elm, and even supplying the succulents for Creative Producer Jess's wedding (clearly their shining moment.)
We had the great opportunity to animate a selection of Instagram videos for this amazing little shop, using stop motion animation to give each plant -- especially the littlest ones -- personalities of their own. This resulted in three really fun videos, and some of The Sill's most popular Facebook commercials to date.
Client: The Sill
Creative Director: Emily Collins
Creative Producer: Jess Peterson
Stop Motion Animator: Emily Collins
Animated moments from the HATCH Stories Trailer
A Faroese Sea Captain tells an unlikely tale of ingenuity to retrieve lost items from the ocean floor.
This is a short film that was co-Directed with Kaija Siirala.
Please contact me for more information.
In 2006, Hansu Siirala suffered two major strokes that left one half of her body immobile. She now lives in an assisted living home in Vancouver, Canada. Combining a phone conversation with abstract and animated visuals, Hansu Solo is an intimate portrait about how she spends her days and thinks about the passing of time.
This is a short film co-directed with Kaija Siirala. In 2015, it received a National Board of Review Award.
At a time when polarizing politics make us question the world's love for humanity, there is Chula the Clown. Hailing from Mexico City, Gaby Munoz, otherwise known as Chula, has spent over a decade working alongside other clowns in refugee camps and areas affected by conflict. This short film takes a look into the beautiful universe that Chula creates, and asks us to explore how we connect with each other.
Director: Emily Collins
Producer: Jessica Peterson
Cinematographer & Editor: Emily Collins, Kaija Siirala
Animation: Anthony Galante, Emily Collins, Marisha Falkovich
Fabrication: Ruby Lambie, Alee Bloom, Zuzu Snyder
Sound Mix: Hansdale Hsu
With Support From: Michaela Olsen
