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    Drawing Damon Wayans

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    By Christine Champagne

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    Damon Wayans is quite animated in a new ad for Aquafina called "I Know." In fact, he is literally animated. Rather than go with live action for this commercial, the creative team at Element 79 Partners, Chicago, opted for rotoscope-style animation directed by Christoph Simon of London-based Bermuda Shorts. Of course, one has to ask, given the fact that Element 79 had access to a celebrity, why animate him? "We wanted to create a breakthrough look for Aquafina by using animation," explained Element 79 group creative director/art director Debby Fries. "It really stands out." Shoot Online subscribers may read this week’s Top Spot of the Week in full by accessing the Current Issue in the Members Area.

    CLIENT

    PepsiCo./Aquafina.

    PRODUCTION CO.

    Bermuda Shorts, London.

    Christoph Simon, director/animator; Pete Ellmore, live action DP; Sam Hope, producer; Pauline Hall, Jan Fairey, Ron Macrae and Fiona Woodcock, animators/art workers; Andrew Smith and Ron McMinn, After Effects artists.

    HSI Productions, bicoastal.

    Irv Blitz, director/DP; Elizabeth Spinzia, executive producer/producer. Shot at CECO Studios, New York.

    AGENCY

    Element 79 Partners, Chicago.

    Dennis Ryan, executive creative director; Debby Fries, group creative director/art director; Carolyn Bergen Baba, creative director/copywriter; Tom Cronin, senior producer.

    EDITORIAL

    Avenue, Chicago.

    Gail Gilbert, editor; George Friedman, assistant editor.

    POST

    Golden Square, London.

    Yourick Van Impe, Inferno artist; Ben Hampshire, postproduction producer.

    Company 3, Santa Monica.

    Rob Sciarratta, colorist.

    AUDIO POST

    Hoffman Sound, Chicago.

    Jim Hoffman, mixer.

    MUSIC

    Spank! Music and Sound Design, Chicago and Santa Monica.

    Damian Heartwell, composer; Greg Allan, executive producer.

    SOUND DESIGN

    Avenue.

    Paul Rodgers, sound designer.

    Spank! Music and Sound Design.

    Damian Heartwell, sound designer.

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    Stage and Film Actor Tony Roberts Dies At 85

    Friday, February 7, 2025

    Tony Roberts, a versatile, Tony Award-nominated theater performer at home in both plays and musicals and who appeared in several Woody Allen movies โ€” often as Allen's best friend โ€” has died. He was 85.

    Roberts' death was announced to The New York Times by his daughter, Nicole Burley.

    Roberts had a genial stage personality perfect for musical comedy and he originated roles in such diverse Broadway musicals as "How Now, Dow Jones" (1967); "Sugar" (1972), an adaptation of the movie "Some Like It Hot," and "Victor/Victoria" (1995), in which he co-starred with Julie Andrews when she returned to Broadway in the stage version of her popular film. He also was in the campy, roller-disco "Xanadu" in 2007 and "The Royal Family" in 2009.

    "I've never been particularly lucky at card games. I've never hit a jackpot. But I have been extremely lucky in life," he write in his memoir, "Do You Know Me?" "Unlike many of my pals, who didn't know what they wanted to become when they grew up, I knew I wanted to be an actor before I got to high school."

    Roberts also appeared on Broadway in the 1966 Woody Allen comedy "Don't Drink the Water," repeating his role in the film version, and in Allen's "Play It Again, Sam" (1969), for which he also made the movie.

    Other Allen films in which Roberts appeared were "Annie Hall" (1977), "Stardust Memories" (1980), "A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy" (1982), "Hannah and Her Sisters" (1986) and "Radio Days" (1987).

    "Roberts' confident onscreen presence โ€” not to mention his tall frame, broad shoulders and brown curly mane โ€” was the perfect foil for Allen's various neurotic characters, making them more funny and enjoyable to watch," The Jewish Daily Forward wrote in 2016.

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