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Interview: Sunny Levine and Mike Burakoff

Date: January 2, 2016 Category: Creative, Fun, Music, Our Content Comments: 0

You might think "animated hip-hop comedy music videos for kids" isn’t a thing. It is. In the age of YouTube, anything you can think of is already a thing. But this week saw the premiere of the first video to mix slick animation, psychedelic imagery and an original cast of characters with thumping beats and funny lyrics, sharply tuned to adult sensibilities but made for kids. And now THAT is a thing. King Douglas, playing now on SpindoTV (a joint-venture between Spinmaster Toys and Mondo Media), tells the story of a charming but over-indulged boy whose birthday party spirals out of control when his father forgets how to say…

All Bears Need Love

Date: July 28, 2015 Category: Commercial, Creative, Our Content Comments: 0

I'm proud to announce that we've just released the Book Trailer for All Bears Need Love, a picture book by award-winning children's author Tanya Valentine. It's a 60-second animated short adapted from the book's art by Adam Taylor, and featuring music from talented singer-songwriter Wendy DuMond. All Bears Need Love is a heartwarming story of an orphaned Baby Brown Bear who arrives at City Zoo, alone and scared. When a Mama Polar Bear promises to be his mother, she faces protest and opposition from the other, unenlightened animals. But Baby Brown Bear learns family is family, no matter the differences. Tanya Valentine writes picture books for pre-K…

Creepy Casey comes to life

Date: August 5, 2014 Category: Creative, Fun, Our Content, Uncategorized Comments: 0

Creepy Casey, the creation of Kid-Lit Author Tanya Valentine, will finally have her say! Casey has long been the star of her eponymous book series, but until recently we could only read about her exploits in the Creepy Casey books penned by Valentine (who, by pure coincidence, has also served as a producer for MightyPants Media). For her animated debut, the earnest and upbeat Casey Crabtree appears alongside the author in a recent promo announcing Valentine's stage appearance with the Village Theatre improv company. Valentine will be appearing on Friday, August 8 as a guest speaker at the Atlanta-based theater, where her stories will become inspiration for…

Kneebouncers takes off!

Date: July 24, 2014 Category: Creative, Fun, Our Content, TV Series, Uncategorized Comments: 0

Preschool series Kneebouncers is coming to a TV near you! The series, based on the internet destination of the same name, will be airing August 11 on Baby First TV (available in most cable & satellite markets). Created by Punch Robinson and Kurt Dommermuth and developed & produced by MightyPants, Kneebouncers consists of 20 x 3 minute episodes that are broken into several "skits" each. Airing interstitially between morning and afternoon programming blocks, the zany educational segments feature cute, energetic characters in colorful settings. The Kneebouncers cast includes Freddie the photo-happy Bear, Foo-Foo the busy Bunny, Horatio the hungry Hippo, SlyCat the curious Kitty, Sammy the mischievous Monkey…

MightyPants 2014 Commercial Reel

Date: February 27, 2014 Category: Commercial, Creative, Design, Our Content Comments: 0

How often do you take the time to sit back and mack on a few commercials? MightyPants director Tony Grillo wants to share a few 30-second slices with you, baked right here in our kitchen. You'll notice a departure from our previous reels, as we delve into more live video & graphic content. We've been fortunate enough to work with some pretty great clients over the last couple of years, and they've been trusting enough to let us wear the chef's toque. Suffice to say nobody got burned, and we managed to feed a few million eyeballs in the process.

Room for Cream?

Date: February 12, 2014 Category: Commercial, Our Content Comments: 0

With all of the sick, subversive content we've produced over the years, we'll jump at the chance to redeem the studio and do a little good. This Fair Trade USA spot highlights the organization's homegrown, organic approach to supporting benevolent causes through shopping choices by drawing on a hand-made visual style and warm, folksy sound design. We created this swirling spec piece using a combination of photography, video, and hand-drawn elements manipulated in After Effects and voiced by the incomparable Ian Covell. http://vimeo.com/85389577 Fair Trade USA is known primarily for their work in the coffee industry, educating consumers and encouraging stores & shops to carry…

Flinch puts on its MightyPants

Date: April 28, 2013 Category: Creative, Our Content, Studios Comments: 0

After 15 years as an independent animation outfit, Flinch Studio is putting on its big boy pants and marching into history. Don't be upset - Flinch isn't really going away, merely evolving. As a company, our role has changed quite a bit over the years... from a hungry startup, digging into a brand new medium and leaving a trail of breadcrumbs for an emerging industry, to developing new content with industry greats who gave us the chance to prove ourselves. From hunkering down and scraping an existence through the web's dark days, to re-emerging as a creative boutique studio…

Making ourselves heard on BBC World Service

Date: April 5, 2013 Category: Creative, Music, Our Content Comments: 0

If you're a regular listener of the BBC World Service... you're probably too smart to be wasting intellect reading this. If for some reason you find yourself compelled to continue reading, you'll be pleased to learn that MightyPants Creative Kahuna Tony Grillo received a shout out on the BBC World Business Report last night. Take 90 seconds to click the image below and sample our (now world-famous) parody on the US Economic Crisis, which opens a segment on Japan's Central Bank. If you're in a hurry, skip ahead to the 1:10 mark: After hearing this piece, you may be under the impression that Tony…

In appreciation of the mustache

Date: February 1, 2013 Category: Creative, Our Content Comments: 0

Who doesn't appreciate a good mustache? Whether ironic or sincere, I think we can all agree there's nothing quite like a good sesame-seed-sweeper to make your day. Also, enjoy this video about the history of paint. See what I mean?

Flinch at 35,000 feet

Date: January 22, 2013 Category: Creative, Music, Our Content Comments: 0

If you find yourself on a Virgin America flight in the near future, you may be treated to a little high-altitude hardcore courtesy of the Flinch Studio Ministry of Music. As part of their Syndication Feed deal with online music video giant VEVO, the sexy airline will be piping original music produced by Tony and resident Composer Will Jenkins for this spot we delivered back in October: Virgin America, or "Vamerica" as I like to call them, will be weaving the thumping tune into VEVO's program stream as part of the branding for their in-flight video music content. As we here at Flinch continue to…

Goodwin vs Badwin marathon scores a Quarter Million Views

Date: January 21, 2013 Category: Creative, Our Content Comments: 0

The Goodwin vs Badwin Marathon launched last weekend by Momdo Media performed exceptionally well in its first 3 days, racking up nearly a quarter-million views in its first 3 days online. We've had a great time producing these first 8 episodes, and look forward to getting the dirty word out to more new fans!

Nirvana – rebooted

Date: January 21, 2013 Category: Music, Our Content Comments: 0

Here's the Nirvana toon we created back in 2005: Despite being done out of love, to this day, we receive a great deal of flak for this one.

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