Mobile entertainment company Seriously has released King Slug Industries, a short produced by Golden Globe-nominated Reel FX Animation Studios. Directed by Reel FX’s Augusto Schillaci, King Slug Industries expands the animated world of Best Fiends, following Hank and Roger as they pursue the job of their dreams. This is the ninth short Schillaci has directed for the Best Fiends series of shorts, available for viewing on the game’s YouTube channel.
The short features an all-star voice cast of: Pamela Adlon (Californication, Better Things), David Herman (Office Space, Bob’s Burger), Alan Oppenheimer (The Neverending Story), Stephen Root (Office Space, Dodgeball), and Tara Strong (Inspector Gadget, Fairly Odd Parents).
Credits
Client Seriously/Best Fiends Petri Jarvilehto, creator, EP; Josh Wallace, writer; Bill Morrison, art director; Andrew Stalbow, Matt McMahon, EPs; Claudia De La Roca, producer; Philip Hickey, associate producer; Sydney Bright, associate producer & development; Miguel Francisco, original character designs; Ville Lepisto, Tuomo Kalviainen, creative consultants; Claudia De La Roca, casting; Sydney Bright, Heitor Pereira, music. Visual Effects/Animation Reel FX Animation Studios, Dallas & Montreal Augusto Schillaci, director/VFX supervisor; Rod Douglas, storyboard artist; Amy Grieshaber, Marc Salouze, producers; Esteban Cassagnet, associate prodn mgr; Adam Carr, Marie-Eve Bonneau, prodn. coordinators; Sam Wiemers, modeling; Douglas Bell, rigging supervisor; Joe Porritt, Ken Kanipe, Ludovic Faucillon, rigging; Yuri Martell, matte painter; Federico Moreno Breser, Vincent Bisschop, Nicolas P. Villarrel, art dept; Megan Shaffer, surfacing supervisor; Jeff Huard, Yoan Gorin, Justine Landau, Martin Luna Castillo, Quentin Peyssonneaux, surfacing; Chris Browne, PJ Torrevillas, character FX supervisors; Christina De Luca, Keanu Vallier, Jennifer Cruz, Cinthia Ramirez Rodríguez, artists; Dan West, layout lead; Thomas de Maleingreau, Sean Monteagudo, layout; Elyse Roy, environment; Eddy Lowinski, FX supervisor; Tony Fan, Jyota Malcolm, Yuri Vieitas, FX; Martin Ferland, animation supervisor; Kosta Dracopoulos, Jason Park, Justin Ustel, Syuan-Ru Wu, Anna Masquelier, Tiago Ferreira, Chris Burnham, animation; Kelsey Craig, ltg supervisor; Swapnil Halarnkar, Randy Tecson, Melissa Gilbreath, Srabani Halarnkar, Pierre Lauret, Alice Lepoutre, Luiz Fernando Araujo, ltg; Seth Schwartz, CG supervisor; John Anderholm, tech supervision; John Levanas, TD; Ted Lebeau III, render supervision; Aldo Victoria, render wrangler; Joanna D. Ferguson, Emmanuel Laurent, heads of production. (Toolbox: Nuke, Maya, Flame, Photoshop) Agora Studio (virtual studio), additional texture & animation McFly Studio, Buenos Aires, Argentina, additional modeling and surfacing
Plant-based food brand THIS™ is bringing its trademark humor to TV screens during Veganuary with the debut advertising campaign from its new creative agency, London-based St Luke’s.
Centerpiece of the campaign is this film directed by Glenn Kitson through St. Luke’s in-house production studio, Apostle Studios.
Shot in a mockumentary style complete with hand-held camera work on 35mm film, it stars a glamorous and very upbeat real estate agent who loves being at the top of her profession. She then reveals how after just one taste of the juicy, award-winning THIS™ Isn’t Pork Sausages, things changed. If meat-free sausages can taste this good, she reasons, then absolutely anything is possible. And with a flash, our estate agent has decided to become a wingsuit flyer--with somewhat unfortunate consequences.
Nonetheless, she remains cheerful, and the film finishes with the line “THIS Changes Everything*” along with a disclaimer that “everything” does not include wingsuit flying abilities.
