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Hotshot - LG'S ELEPHANT ANTICS
10 March 2010Framestore shift their CG skills into overdrive, teaming up with Dante Ariola and Y&R NY
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HOTSHOT LG'S ELEPHANT ANTICS
In this week's Hotshot Framestore shift their CG skills into overdrive, teaming up with Dante Ariola and Y&R NY to bring us a taste of the wild side for LG.
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NEWS IN BRIEF
Logorama, Back and Bigelow strike gold at Oscars; JWT's new global task force; The Cup moves to Sarajevo; Facebook founder sweeps into Cannes; Save the date for ADC Awards; KODAK winners announced; Dubai Lynx networking; Rushes Soho Shorts design challenge; AICE changes membership rules; Guided launch in UK
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SHOTS 20TH: MORE OF YOUR FAVOURITES
It's like choosing your favourite child. Possibly harder. And you know an ad won't grow up to disappoint you and eventually put you in a hospice that they sell to you as a retirement community.
more05 March 2010
HANGING WITH: ZEITGUISED
Berlin-based collective Zeitguised fuse art, fashion and architecture with their love for technology to create breathtaking visuals, and having first featured in shots as New Directors back in 2003, they've gone on to collaborate with the likes of MTV, Toyota and Vodafone. We hunted down the duo behind the group - Jamie Raap and Henrik Mauler - to find out what makes Blinkart's newest signing tick.
more04 March 2010
NABS MEETS VEGAS
To showcase this year's Las Vegas-themed Big Bash for charity NABS, Thomas Thomas director Kim Albright lured a group of industry big shots to a dark Soho basement to show off their poker skills - we find out what went down behind the scenes from the lady herself.
more03 March 2010
NEWS IN BRIEF
Universal Everything's charity auction; Cannes Film & Press jury; Spikes 2010 dates; Gemma Lee exhibits; ArteryProject returns to Barcelona; BitFilm's crowd production; WORKSHOP launch in New York; Beakus Animation opens; CLIOS deadline
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VISA SAFARI
Sprinting from London to Morocco to Johannesburg and through almost the entire African continent in between was all part of the epic shoot for Saatchi & Saatchi's new spot for Visa's recent World Cup spot. Saatchi and Saatchi's London executive creative director Kate Stanners takes us behind the scenes of an exhausting, breathless but happy shoot.
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Music Video HOTSHOT GORILLAZ GET SOME STYLO
For this week's Hotshot we get our musical feet tapping to the beats of Gorillaz's new promo Stylo, which catapults the band's characters into the world of 3D and seamlessly stitches them in live-action sequences with Hollywood actor Bruce Willis.
more02 March 2010
SHOTS 20TH: BEST OF THE BUNCH
Everyone's got an opinion on the best advertising out there. Which is exactly what we're after. Guinness? Cadbury? Stella?
more26 February 2010
SHOTS 20TH: NEW DIRECTORS' RETROSPECTIVE
Continuing the countdown to the special 20th anniversary issue of shots, we've been asking some of the most notable directors to appear in our New Directors section over the years about their past, present and future. To kick us off, Sonny director Guy Manwaring talks to us about his MCTV spot that featured in issue 81 of shots at the beginning of 2004.
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ADFEST POSTPONED
The on-going political crisis in Thailand has forced the organisers of ADFEST to postpone the festival.
more24 February 2010
HANGING WITH: TAL ROSNER
Award-winning artist and filmmaker Tal Rosner has made a name for himself with his radical interpretations of musical compositions, and by bagging a BAFTA for his title sequence of hit TV show Skins. shots.net caught up with the Israeli-born artist to find out about his new installation Family Tree.
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NEWS IN BRIEF
Nexus launches digital arm; The Tomorrow Awards launch; Cannes review Indie award; BAFTA for AMA; Jimmy Turner and Fort Films team up for World Cup; Dubai Lynx name Saudi Telecom advertiser of year; AdFest introduce the Lotus Salute; MoFilm Pepsi winner announced; Moulton to speak at Citrus; Cut+Run NY relocates to Broadway
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HOTSHOT CRASH & BURN'S AUTOTOPSY
For this week's Hotshot Toronto-based collaborative studio Jam3 craft an immersive online experience to showcase gritty TV drama Crash & Burn.
more23 February 2010
CHARLES STONE III'S FAVOURITES
With shots turning 20 this year, our special next issue will be looking back at the past two decades of creativity in advertising. As part of this we've been ransacking some of the industry's most creative minds and asking what their favourite commercials from those 20 years are. In this first instalment, Believe Media's Charles Stone III, director and star of 2000's seminal Budweiser Wassup?! Spot, makes his selection.
more19 February 2010
PHILIPS - LIFE AFTER CAROUSEL
Unveiling Philips' brand spanking new interactive campaign, DDB's Neil Dawson and RSA director Jake Scott talk to shots.net about building a bigger and better follow-up to Carousel.
more18 February 2010
ALL ABOARD THE MOTHERSHIP
Academy-award winning digital production studio Digital Domain has launched a new hybrid creative studio, named Mothership, to function as a platform to develop and showcase original work from concept through to completion.
more17 February 2010
IF THE SHOE FITS
Amsterdam Worldwide and PostPanic put in the leg work for this fantastic online spot for footwear brand Asics. Here executive creative director at Amsterdam Worldwide, Richard Gorodecky, talks to shots.net about the creation of the project, which is also featured in the Dutch special of the new issue of shots, available to view on DVD and online now.
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HOTSHOT VISA'S FOOTBALL FLOW
Saatchi & Saatchi London kick off proceedings for Visa's World Cup campaign in this week's Hotshot, with a high octane sprint through Africa courtesy of Gorgeous' Chris Palmer.
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NEWS IN BRIEF
Hughes' feature debut in Berlin; Hamburg for Eurobest; UK Young Lions open; Spike Jonze screening; Minivegas sound-clash at Royal Albert Hall; Bryant awarded at Flickerfest; John St Young Guns; AdFest and D&AD's Thai academy; Cannes Lions get an injection of athleticism
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