Josh Thorne aao – Sweden HQ
Johan Edstrom aao – Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe and the Nordic region
Michael Adamo Passion Pictures – U.S. and European Work
Katie Mackin XYZ Studios – Australian Work
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January
aao finish Fruit Juice film
It’s been a long time coming but aao have finally put the golden touches on their film for fruit juice giants Froosh. Thanks to first time out director Johan Idesjö, our illustrious designer and of course Niklas Rissler for their efforts in realizing this film.
September
aao win special prize at ANIMANIMA 2011
The Serbian International animation festival, Animanima, saw it fit to give our ‘Smutley’ film for AIDES a special prize for best animation. Congratulations to to all at aao and Passion for a hard job well done.
July
Long awaited Mello Yello spot delivered
aao and Portland agency Mutt create Coke’s newly revived brand Mello Yello to the screens. A mix of different medias makes this film a unique venture down the Mississippi collecting cool folk on the way on a happy raft.
June
Autotrader delivered for UK TVC
CD Niklas Rissler finishes TVC for Autotrader in style. The little ‘Auto’ character is revived to show the viewers the ‘largest online showroom in the world’.
May
Bernie Roux’ film for Cushell toilet paper delivered
A new 30′ TVC for the brand Cushell was released with the koala bear still strong in the role as the hero.
April
aao deliver ice cream giant Hertog
CD Kevin Grady’s new 30sec. film for Hertog is delivered. The spot, to be shown in Ireland and Sweden is a play with the ninja theme, only using cows as the heroes as ‘Mum’ gets tricked. Live action was directed by our other CD Derek Picken and Milford for CG and post. Thanks to DDB/Amsterdam for their great support and creative!
March
Smutley finally released after 5 months
Creative directors Niklas Rissler and Kevin Grady finally, after 5 months of painstaking animation, were able to enjoy the release of Goodby’s creation for the award winning campaign for their French charity client AIDES. The initial brief was to create a film where a cat character would go through the film exercising his right to hump anything with a hole. Even though the project was pro bono, we jumped at the chance…great fun!
February
aao win SILVER and BRONZE at AWARD.
aao win at the prestigious Australasian and Asian ‘AWARD’ awards. A silver was handed to the work on GIO’s ‘meticulous’ for Leo Burnett Sydney and a bronze went to aao’s spot for Victoria Government ‘Homework’. We thank XYZ for their support and Milford for the post! Congratulations to all.
December
aao release first Brazilian job for Oi Futuro
Creative directed by Niklas, this film give the telecom giant a lovely platform on which to base their future campaign. Brazilian agency No Bullshit were responsible for the script and Milford animation and post.
November
aao deliver TVC for Vodafone UK
aao were asked by BBH to produce a 30 TVC for the UK telecom giant Vodafone. The result is part of a campaign and we hope that we can have as much with the following production as we’ve had with this one!