Walmart Works

A 1m 37s, narrative driven, U S of A lovin, cel animation laden spot that I helped lead neck deep at Buck. Proud to say it was done over an ambitiously furious 2.5 weeks of design and 3 weeks of production with a tight but talented and committed team. There were about 5 artists over most of the project with the rest being on for a few days to a week.

During the making of this we had 4 birthdays, a christmas break, the new year, 2 blizzards, 2 artists go missing and a bowling party where I made the high score of the night. Not too shabby.

More info & concept art here: http://www.alexmapar.com/Walmart-Works

Directed by Buck

Executive Creative Director: Orion Tait

Executive Producer: Anne Skopas

Creative Direction: Thomas Schmid

Art Director: Alex Mapar

Producer: Katie Boote

Design: Thomas Schmid, Alex Mapar, Laura Alejo

Justin Fines, Gareth O'Brien, Stephen Kelleher,

Animation Lead: Alex Mapar

2D Animation: Daniel Oeffinger, Chad Colby, Kyle Strope, Aaron Kemnitzer, Waleed Zaiter

Cell Animation: Thomas Schmid, Tristan Balos, Ryan Frost, Ben Conkin, Kyle Mowat, Sean Lattrell

3D Animation: Arvid Volz, Tingting Li