Client: National Endowment for the Arts (arts.gov)
Producer: GeniusRocket (geniusrocket.com)
Studio: Pixeltown Arts (pixeltownarts.com)
The National Endowment for the Arts came to GeniusRocket in August 2011 seeking an animation to introduce the Community Arts Journalism Challenge, and its grantees, to the public. In just over a month we had hand-selected one of our veteran animation studios, Pixeltown Arts and worked with them to produce our longest animation yet (over six minutes!). We're extraordinarily proud of the final product and NEA was too; They debuted the animation at the Grantmakers in the Arts conference in San Francisco in October 2011, complete with a live webstream of the announcement and the video. The video showcases winning projects from Charlotte, NC; Detroit, MI; Miami, FL; Philadelphia, PA; and San Jose, CA.