Stories Designed to Wow
Stories Designed to Wow
Welcome to the Awe-Full portfolio. You will find a mix of our latest work and greatest hits here. This collection is a small sample from our entire body of work. Please request a custom reel if you are hunting for specific examples. Enjoy.
JD6
Quarterback Jalon Daniels is an exceptional athlete, and as a Kansas fan, I was honored to work on his brand. Awe-Full joined the team at Mammoth to crank out this high-energy promotional video quickly. I combined footage shot by Mammoth with stock imagery, photography, and custom motion graphics to build the visuals. For the audio landscape, we recorded Jalon's voice with the help of Primary Color Music and used music and sound design elements to give the picture life. Even with the limitations of time, budget, and rights to specific footage, we achieved a kick-ass piece of content worthy of presenting JD6 to the world.
Only One Choice
Signal Theory trusted us to develop a unique style: a fusion of traditional 2D frame animation with a fully rendered 3D environment. The result was a perfect vehicle for telling the AgriGold story. We created 30-, 15-, and 6-second versions, each showcasing our innovative approach.
Best Friends
This project has many stories. First, it is an update to a previous animation we created in an extremely tight time window. We had to develop the story, look, animation, and audio in under two weeks. So, we relished the opportunity to revisit and update an already successful project. Steven Johnson was our lead animator and visual storyteller. Thomas Giebler helped with visual development and boards. Amy McVey crafted our script, and Evolution Audio pitched in on sound design.
Lively
We partnered with Signal Theory to make a child's drawings and imagination come to life for a series of animations for Lively cleaning products. We told the story of good bacteria - or probiotics - that help eliminate dirt, odors, and harmful bacteria.
Branding Fun
The Next Fun Thing is a great story of connection and friendship in Los Angeles. And when this startup needed a brand to match their big idea, Awe-Full was happy to help out.
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Upfront Summit 2020
The annual Upfront Summit hosts more than 1,000 top investors, entrepreneurs, and leaders for an invitation-only event in LA. And Awe-Full ensures everything they see looks spectacular. Our work on the 2020 show earned top honors at the local and regional advertising award shows.
Introduction
The 2018 edition of the Upfront Summit included two days’ worth of content, including speaker titles, performance backgrounds, and promotional materials. One of our highlights was the creative freedom to develop a show opener. The powerful, gritty piece set the tone for the rest of the content and the event.
Amplify
Awe-Full was brought in to help VML market a new product created by their client, Gatorade, and their partnership with Spotify. The product is called Amplify, and it generates personalized playlists with songs from Spotify's library, based on your Spotify listening history, which are energetic enough to fuel a workout. The playlists take into consideration the danceability, acoustics, energy and loudness of a track.
With that level of science behind the product, VML wanted to bring a technology based feel across on top of the usual gritty sports branding associated with Gatorade. It started with some fantastic imagery captured by Austin Walsh Studio. Awe-Full was on set to provide VFX direction and discuss edit decisions. The post process always runs cleaner when editors and technicians can be on set during production.
From here Awe-Full worked with producers and creatives at VML to dial in the edit and motion graphics to deliver both a 30 and 15-second version of the video that would spur the Amplify marketing campaign.
McDonald’s - Sack Attack
We love football, especially defense, especially sacks. Big Macs are solid, too. This spot has all of these things and more. This promotion for McDonald's and Husker's Football tells a story of the pre-game pump-up and the excitement of the upcoming football season.
This project was a total blast to edit, color-correct, and animate. Working with excellent source footage from Austin Walsh Studio and sound design from 740 Sound, this piece had to be a hit.
OceanX - Packed with Purpose
We are constantly working with our clients to help them find ways to give back and be responsible businesses. With our new tagline for OceanX involving the human touch, we knew an intelligent idea could also be on brand. With the help of OceanX's clients, we delivered welcome home hygiene kits to every resident at Linc Housing's newest housing complex, HiFi Collective, in Los Angeles. We leveraged OceanX's ability to launch a new line and package beauty products quickly. The result was a feel-good partnership that worked for everyone.
Wingstop - Thump
If it hasn't been done before, sign us up. That's the beauty of design: You can go crazy and try something new, and nobody gets hurt. Unless you're designing wayfinding of some type, that could be dangerous.
So naturally, we were happy to help Barkley break new ground with the world's first Periscope auction. Awe-Full created the animation for the launch video and edited all the prize videos with footage shot by Austin Walsh Studio.
Nebraska Lottery
There could not have been a more perfect project to help launch Awe-Full out of the gates. Hint called on us to develop the creative treatment for SKAR agency client, Nebraska Lottery. The treatment presented was ambitious for the timeline and budget, but we aimed to cut through all the holiday clutter to reach.
Winning the project was great, but it was straight to work. This project was one of those jobs with minimal margin for error. Luckily, it was also one of those rare jobs in which things just clicked. Every project has bumps, and this one was not immune, but things really fell into place. The agency and client were fantastic to work with. Heck, even the renders finished on schedule—that never happens.
The result was a work that generated tons of client praise and pride among the artists involved in its creation. Projects like this are why we come to work every day and what we talk about when we say stories designed to wow.