Seattle-based animation studio The Academy has signed German animation duo We Think Things for commercial representation. We Think Things’ artists/directors Pascal Monaco and Felix Meyer have turned out work for such brands as Coca-Cola, Toyota and Clariant. Monaco and Meyer fine-tuned their fascination with motion graphics while studying communication design with an emphasis in 2D animation, graduating in 2011 with the short film “Hitch,” a playful animated imagining of an Alfred Hitchcock-inspired cookbook. We Think Things’ storytelling has been screened at festivals in Berlin, Paris, and New York and was awarded at the ADC Germany Junior Awards in 2011….
Whitehouse Post has promoted L.A.-based Brandon Porter to editor. He recently cut “Ghost Wave” for HP following extreme surfer Ian Walsh and his crew as they travel to a remote village in South Africa to hunt for a wave that has never been surfed before, and Small Plates, a web film for The New York Times that has quickly become one of the paper’s all-time most viewed pieces of digital content….
