Psyop produced this “Four for the Holidays” animated/live-action short for Cricket Wireless and San Francisco-based ad agency ARGONAUT. The piece features four friends with holiday plans that take them separately across the U.S., Mexico, and Canada. They text, post, and share joyous holiday moments but as time goes on, they realize they’re missing each other most of all.

At the end of the film, the four animated characters reunite and discover that in a season of sharing, the best holiday plans are the ones that bring us together. 

Credits

Client Cricket Wireless Agency ARGONAUT, San Francisco Hunter Hindman, chief creative officer; Shravan Hegde, Kamil Kowalczyk, associate creative directors; Brittany Rivera, sr. art director; Jacque Vavroch, sr. copywriter; Austin White, copywriter; Mica Dieterich, jr. art director; Shireen Beygui, jr. copywriter; Erin Fox, executive producer; Dan Watson, executive broadcast producer; Justin Visser, executive digital producer; Ben Waller, Vertel Jackson, jr. producers. Production Psyop Marco Spier, Jack Anderson, directors; Justin Booth-Clibborn, chief executive producer; Neysa Horsburgh, managing director; Noah Goldsmith, exec producer; Tom Martin, line producer; David Franco, DP; Robert Campbell, 1st assistant camera; Jeff Mann, production designer; Gaston Langer, art director; Mike Curtis, 1st assistant director. Visual Effects/Animation Psyop, bicoastal Chris Sage, 3D lead; Lane Jolly, 2D lead; Adriane Scott-Kemp, producer; Calvin Chin, associate producer; Brandon Sanders, Flame artist; Paul Yacono, colorist; Jaemin Lee, You Tengari, Ryan Kirkwood, Nitesh Nagda, lighting & rendering artists; Danny Song, Tingting Li, Carl Mok, comp artists; James Atkinson, Nico Sugleris, Mat Rotman, Houdini; Stephen Mann, Zed Bennett, John Bloch, tech animators. Little Zoo Studio, Falmouth, Maine Jason Taylor, animation director; George Schermer, animation supervisor; Todd Wilbur, Manu Menendez, Andrzej Ellert, Andrew Conroy, John Turello, Matt Walker, Mariano Lopez Dau, Kevin Hoa Nguyen, Adam Strick, animators (Toolbox: Maya, Arnold, Houdini, Nuke, Photoshop, Flame) Editorial Exile Paul Kumpata, editor. Sound Barking Owl Morgan Johnson, sound designer; AJ Murillo, mixer. Music Barking Owl Jacob Plasse, composer; Kelly Bayett, creative director; Ashley Benton, producer.  

 

 

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