Designed Around You Commercial

Orange Regional Medical Center's new hospital is set to open in the summer of 2011. With the design of the hospital based around the needs of their patients, this animated commercial highlights some of the exciting new services coming to the region.

for more information, check out:
www.ormcnewhospital.com

Stoutridge Vineyard 2D Logo Animation

StoutRidge Animation

Animation:

Creating a welcoming website.

Hello everyone and welcome back to another exciting blog post :). We recently wrapped up on a Timelapse style animation for the Federation of Jewish Men's Club. And now without further a-DO - the finished project.

Enjoy!!



For more information regarding the video above, please visit www.fjmc.org

Lawyerbid.com Commercials

8 Hats High animated 4x :15 second spots for lawyerbid.com.










Credits: Love Advertising (Creative), Ell Creative (Production / Sound Design), John Grimaldi Jr. (Animation Producer / Animator), Dan Madia (Character Design / Storyboards), Phillip Krauss (Animator), John Stoltz (Clean-up Artist), Lianna Alberg (Digital Artist), Kyle Bennington (Compositor).

United Way's Imagine: Production Photos / Before and After

8 Hats High was contacted by the United Way of Orange County to enhance their new marketing campaign for 2011. They were looking for us to produce a commercial that represented how donations were used in the community as well as incorporate an aspect from the donator's perspective. We were given a quick debriefing on what it means to "Live United" and immediately - we began the brainstorming process and came up with some great ideas. Once we solidified an idea we were happy with, we presented it to the United Way and followed it up by creating a rough storyboard animatic.

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[ Rough Animatic ]

This gave everyone a good sense of how it felt and look before filming were to began.

Once approved....we assembled our team, scouted locations, cast the talent and we were off.

We decided the best format to shoot this project on was the Canon 5D Mark ii. (what a great camera). We broke out the cranes, steady cam's and the slate. :)

In the wee hours of the morning (6:30am) we set up our first scene on Saturday August 14th.

Our actors remained calm, cool and collected in the hot blazing sun. From Beacon to Chester, Middletown then Pinebush...

We worked our pants off!

[ our crew hard at work... ]

We setup a Green Screen in various locations for compositing reasons.. but as the day grew later, the wind started to pick up. So, we did the best thing we could... we made Phil and Kyle anchors. They were great at it.

[Arrr... Anchor away Maytey]

This scene was broken into 2 different sets. First we filmed the big reveal with nothing but a green screen, the actor and a fence. Second was shot in another location so we can recreate a graduation. [See the Breakdown is below for before and after]

We finished the Day off in Pine Bush around 6pm.... The follow day we filmed the remaining scenes of the spot.

Sunday, At New Paltz, NY - we had quite a challenge in front of us. We had to create a graduation scene, but all we had was approximately 7 extras that showed up.

[our graduates!]

So, we began and made magic happen.... (This was going to be some hardcore coordination)

and from that... after setting up the green screens, prepping the extras, playing musical chairs, eating pizza, drinking redbull and watching the rain turn on turn off... We made it all come together. Check out the 2 clips below for the Before and After.

[Before and After]

[Before and After]

We finished out the rest of the remaining video in our studio in middletown, NY.

THEN....

yAAAAAAy! that's a wrap!

We moved right into a few weeks of Compositing, Animation and Finalizing the Music.

8 Hats High is so excited to be a part of the Live United Campaign. It was truly an amazing experience! We really appreciate the patience and traveling that our actors had to do, standing out in the baking heat and our second day shoot - standing out in the rain and being ordered around! Thank you so much everyone for being the "magic" of our project! We also would like to give our "magicians" a big hand for putting this all together. Our crew did an incredible job with equipment, travel, weather and intense last minute situations, you guys all rocked!

3D Models

Orange Regional Medical Center: New Hospital

Orange Regional Medical Center from Johnny G Junior on Vimeo.

Finkelstein and Partners

These Finkelstein and Partners commercials we animated won a NORI Award

Motion Capture Complete: Common Health.

8 Hats High completed motion capture work for Common Health. Working with Common health was such a pleasure. It is always great working with such creative people.











We are excited how everything came together. Please visit Common Health's website to see the final product. Great work Common Health.





http://www.commonhealth.com/

DeclareYourself Cartoons Complete!

It is complete... :) to view the cartoons, please go to www.declareyourself.com and click to the multimedia section.

October 16, 2008
Skool House Rock "I Voted Sticker"

October 6, 2008
Skool House Rock "The Vote"



Great Job to Everyone who worked on this...

Want to know more about who worked on this project and who it was for?
check out the press release...

Smart Communications - Animation 1 - 5

More Animation created by 8 Hats High. Thanks for all the hard work everyone.

Act 1





Act 2


Act 3





Act 4





Act 5


////////CREDITS ////////
8 Hats High Animation & Production, Inc.


Writer
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Eric Serviss


Director/ Producer
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John Grimaldi Jr

Casting/ Production Coordinator
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Sonha Bowen



Background Design
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Elliot Byrne

Background Painter
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Rob Crump

Music Composer/ SFX
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Quanah Hicks

Animation / Compositor
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Kyle Bennington
Sonha Bowen
Leija Kraai
John Grimaldi Jr.

We've done it again - Psych!

J.J. Sedelmaier Production Inc. (JJSP) and 8 Hats High team up to do it again. All new episodes |8) of lil shawn and gus are airing now. check it out.

USA NETWORK







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Psych Cartoon... :)

J.J. Sedelmaier Production Inc (JJSP) and 8 Hats High team up to complete Animated shorts for USA Network's "Psych" called The big adventures of lil shawn and gus.




View Cartoons on usanetwork.com.

Bobby B Well - New Adventures

8 Hats High creates 2 x(4 min) brand new animated adventure of "Bobby B. Well" for Moses Anshell and the Arizona Department of Health Services. Both cartoons titled "Grocery Store Adventure" and "Bobbycize!" focus on educating children how to shop healthy with mom and how to excercise while having fun. Both cartoons were also animated in both English and Spanish to reach out to a broader enviroment. You can view some other exciting activites and videos on their website www.eatwellbewell.org

Bobbycize


Grocery Store Adventure


Client: Arizona Department of Health
Agency: Moses Anshell
Animation Production: 8 Hats High Animation & Production
Director: Glen Steinmacher
Producer: John Grimaldi Jr.

Take Pride Adventure Learning

8 Hats High completes animation for a new educational program called "Iread". Created by Generation Next Education, 8 Hats High was responsible for creating animation of Animals and enviroments that would help kids learn Letter recognition using shapes and sound, rhyming, segmentation, phonemic awareness, and animals from Rain forest, Africa and the San Diego Zoo.

To learn more check out their website www.takeprideadventurelearning.com

Zwinky Commercial

8 Hats High directs and animates a new national commercial for Zwinky.com. This :30 second spot features lil' Mama and Jason Fox.

2007 Reel