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Easy Off "Beautiful Spill"

by HUMBLE TV

Director Sam Stephens turns accidents into art with the new broadcast campaign for Easy Off oven cleaners. Based on a great concept by Euro's Creative Team, George Simpson, Helen Shin, and Catherine Eccardt, humble set out to make what gets left behind in an oven as appealing as what comes out. Sam devised an approach based on high-speed Phantom photography, modified table-top rigs, and carefully considered art direction. "The success of the spot…

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Muse "Uprising" Best Special Effects VMA 2010

by HUMBLE TV

Muse Video. Bears! Destruction! Fire! Humble directing collective Hydra, wins its first Moonman for Best Special Effects at the 2010 MTV VMAs with an epic narrative of tiny proportions. For "Uprising," the lead off single from Muse's eagerly anticipated new album, our boys tweaked both time and space to create an dystopic, ultra slo-mo world in 1/25th scale. We shot for 4 days on 2 continents, with two 1938 GMC pickup trucks (of drastically different…

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ESPY Montage 2011

by HUMBLE TV

Humble 2011 ESPN ESPY Awards year four for humble. humble director/CD Sam Stephens was called on for the creation of the packaging of the ESPN ESPY awards for the 4th year in a row. This year it was another ground-up redesign, the second redesign humble has been awarded in 4 years. Sam and his team worked for 4 months to create over 120 deliverables, everything from 3D animated package headers to countless visual enhancements, idents, billboards,…

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Lenovo "Boot Or Bust"

by HUMBLE TV

Directed by Sam Stephens and John Budion Humble directing collaborative Hydra helms the newest spot for Lenovo laptops created by McKinney, Durham, N.C., illustrating how fast they boot up - from 30,000 feet. So fast in fact, that the computer is able to save itself after being thrown out of a plane by booting up in less than 10 seconds to launch the parachute that carries the laptop to safety.