Here’s another animated promo for the 2010 Winter Olympics by BBC Sport

Here’s a cool animated spot from RBC inviting you to participate in the 2010 Olympic Flame Relay.

Credits:

Agency: BBDO, Toronto
Agency Producer: Dena Thompson
Creative Director: Carlos Moreno
Creative Director: Peter Ignazi
Art Director: Jaimes Zentil
Copywriter: Craig McIntosh
Director/ Director of Photography: Chris Sargent
Production Company: Soft Citizen, Toronto
Exec Producer(s): Eva Preger, Link York
Head of Production: Rob Burns
Producer: Ed Callaghan
Editor: Ross Birchall, Bijou Editorial
Audio House: Apollo Studios
Flame Artist: Steve Mottershead, ArtJail
Colourist: The Mill

Coca-Cola – Bird’s Nest Stadium

Credits:

Agency: Wieden+Kennedy, Amsterdam
Executive Creative Directors: John Norman, Al Moseley
Copywriter: Dave Smith
Art Director: Pierre Janneau
Producer: Neil Henry, Elissa Singstock, Cimien Ekici
Project Manager: Emma Williamson
Agency Executive Producer: Corey Bartha
Production Company: Partizan Films
Animation:
Director: Eric Lerner
Executive Producer: Isabella Parish
Producer: Julie Crosbie
Live Action:
Director: Thomas Hilland
Executive Producer: Russell Curtis
Producer: Miranda Johnstone
Director of Photography: Stephen Keith-Roach
Editor: Russell Icke
Post-Production company: Munky London
Audio Post-Prod. company: Wave Studios
Music: A-Bomb, Human
Executive Producers: Augusta Quiney (A Bomb), Marc Altshuler (Human)
Sound Design: Wave Studios, A-Bomb

Here’s a cool new commercial to promote the 2008 Beijing Olympics coverage on the BBC. It features music and animation from Damon Albarn‘s adaption of the ancient Chinese legend, “Journey to the West.” Working with Jamie Hewlett in their first major production together since Gorillaz, the pair teamed up with famous Chinese opera director Chen Shi-zheng for a version of the story they entitled, “Monkey: Journey to the West.” Their original adaption premiered at the 2007 Manchester International Festival.

Famous for being the creative frontman for musical groups such as Blur, The Gorillaz and The Good, The Bad and The Queen, Damon Albarn makes for an interesting Beijing Olympics tie-in.

The agency responsible for this spot was RKCR/Y&R (with creative credits going to Paul Angus and Ted Heath). Jamie Hewlett directed the piece and it featured Cara Speller and Deborah Stewart as producers. The production companies used were Passion Pictures, Red Bee Media and Zombie Flesh Eaters. As mentioned earlier, this was an original composition from Damon Albarn.

An interesting piece of trivia about Monkey: Journey To The West – they spent two years holding casting sessions and workshops before they found the right crew who could fill the various roles.

Coca-Cola has teamed up with LeBron James and Yao Ming in their most recent animated television commercial entitled “Unity.”

In the commercial we’re shown these two colossal basketball stars as they prepare for a final showdown on the court by calling up various animated images that represent each of their countries.
Before they actually clash in battle though, they smile and end up sharing a nice cold bottle of Coca-Cola instead (With the message of “Unity” appearing as they drink).

Dylan Lee (Copywriter) and Mira Kaddoura (Art Director) from Wieden + Kennedy created this commercial with Hal Curtis and Sheena Brady as the W+K creative directors. This spot was produced by Kevin Diller and used Nexus as the production company. Smith & Foulkes directed with Melody Sylvester as the producer (Julia Parfitt was the EP). Eclectic was given credit for the music in this piece with Cliff Wilson from Digital One in charge of all the post production audio work.