We created two animated sections for this film. Along with titles, credits, and ambient event-space animations for the film’s premiere. Thanks to Jonathan Chapman | JCP for taking us along on this adventure.
Watch the full 10 minute short film. Or check out our animations around 3:45 and 8:10.
The film profiles Blake and Jennifer Freking, a musher family from Finland, Minnesota who care for 60+ purebred Siberian Huskies. With over 20 years of working with the breed, they have each competed in numerous long distance dog sled races such as the Iditarod, Yukon Quest, and John Beargrease Marathon. The film explores the challenges of living and raising a family off-grid in the snowiest region of Minnesota and captures the Frekings’ devotion to the sport, spirit of adventure, and commitment to the well being of their huskies.
More on the Freking's at: racingsiberians.com
We designed and created the animated sections for this documentary, as well as titles, credits, and lower thirds. Inspired by Celia’s (the film’s protagonist) illustrations, we lent a childlike look and feel to balance out the film’s serious subject matter.
Sequencing Hope examines the high stakes of altering genes, the promise it holds for treating other diseases, and explores just how far a family will go to save their child’s life. In it, we follow the intimate and often gut-wrenching journey of an Alabama family grappling with the unimaginable risks and potential rewards of new frontiers in medicine as their toddler becomes the first patient in the US to receive an experimental gene therapy treatment for a rare disease.
Directors Lindsey Seavert and Maribeth Romslo premiered Sequencing Hope at the 2024 MSPIFF.
“Our ancestors never looked back. Isn’t time we did?”
We were approached by Director Rita Davern to create several flashback-style animations for this documentary. The Irish have some amazing storytelling capabilities, so it wasn’t hard to run with the enthusiasm and conviction captured by the film.
A Minnesota woman searches for the place and people her immigrant grandmother left behind. The quest takes her to the Burren: a beautiful, windswept region of County Clare, Ireland. There she finds a clan - and it's medieval legacy - that were scattered and lost during some of the most difficult centuries in Irish history.
Keep up and see when Burren Girl is playing or streaming near you!
We created a series of animations to play at the 2024 Annual event for the Ann Bancroft Foundation. We loved playing with the bright bold shapes to celebrate the Dreamers and Trailblazers recognized at this year’s event, truly some inspiring young women.
The Ann Bancroft Foundation envisions a world in which all who identify as a girl have a chance to live their dream and reach their full potential. They provide grants, mentorship, and ongoing development to K-12 girls in Minnesota. We were honored to partner with such an awe-inspiring organization.
We collaborated with the Universe Creative team to infuse motion graphics into their moving short docs sharing the stories and outstanding work the Vela Education Fund is doing for young people. We were set free to play with Vela’s vibrant brand to make intros, transitions and embellishments and had a lot of fund doing it.
The Power of One Degree.
We teamed up with Sequence Films and created animations for the closing event at the 10,000 degrees fundraising gala where they successfully raised 1.1 million dollars!
“10,000 Degrees is a nationally recognized leader in supporting students from low-income backgrounds to and through college and beyond. Our graduates testify to the transformative impact on their lives, families, and communities.”
Ever hear of additive manufacturing? Neither did we until embarking on this project! Now we are familiar and quite impressed with what DI Labs is capable of.
“Transitioning from traditional manufacturing to additive opens the door to limitless possibilities but requires a paradigm shift in thinking. With additive, mass customization is possible and scalable. What was once a single product produced in extremely high volume can now become a dynamic product platform comprised of hundreds of different products with thousands of variations to meet the unique needs and tastes of individual users.“
Happy to be a part of the launch of Threedom by creating this video along with our friends at Redstar Creative.
We've created multiple hand-made paper cutout animation videos to help the Knight Foundation announce their various challenges including the Knight News Challenge, Knight Cities Challenge and Knight Community Information Lab.
Music by Mark Mallman
We worked with the amazing creative directors and producers at Smartpress to come up with a high-energy edit showcasing Print Marketing Trends: 6 Strategies for Summer 2022.
We’ve created a series of editorials for the digital media network, iPondr, that aims to authentically portray American life through genuine narratives while trying to build a kinder America. We’ve covered hospitals, college sports and Hela cells!
iPondr produces media that shapes a better culture, with thoughtful journalistic storytelling and authentic, immersive experiences to bring you Life Outside Your Bubble™.
Can Can Wonderland is our favorite and first arts-based public benefit corporation in MN. Plus its a great place for a boozy milkshake and some pinball. Putt putt your butt butt off and see how all their artist-designed mini-golf holes came to be through this documentary series.
We were delighted to take on a slew of design projects with Can Can Wonderland. We created their Kickstarter and promotional videos as well as a doc series about all the artists involved in the golf course. We also had to opportunity to create posters, in house signage, full page ads, playful social posts, even sweet merch like bumper stickers and our favorite custom winter hats.
