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News & Archives 2000-2021

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2021 Work is coming back after many months of shutdown in 2020 during the Covid pandemic. This year began with a big Jeep commercial for their new electric Wrangler- "Earth Odyssey", featuring two of our animatronic Gorilla costumes and our mechanical Alligator puppet.

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2020 started off with a great project- we were invited to beautiful Buenos Ares for a State Farm Insurance commercial. Our Raccoon puppet completely destroys the leather interior of a guy's car, so the guy chases our Raccoon out of his car then he breaks into song. Buenos Ares has been on our go to list for a long time, and we were so glad we got to work with the...

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2019 Just like the miracle we pulled off for the CHANCE THE RAPPER tour puppets, we pulled off yet another miracle for another gigantic project. This time around it was for the new GOOGLE Exhibit, "THE RIDE"- an ‘It’s A Small World’ style ride with modern cartoon style family figures, that showed for four days at the 2019 CES show. We partnered with VISION SCENERY

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2018 We were brought back to work on the latest Heinz campaign again, this time to create a new Heinz Mayonaise costume, a generic Mayonnaise costume, and seven Sandwich costumes, as well as repairing old Heinz Ketchup costumes we created for the first campaign. Everyone was very happy with how well all the costumes turned out...

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2017 Congratulations to Chance the Rapper for his big Grammy wins this year. We created all the puppets for his last year’s Magnificent 

Coloring World Tour. That is the Lady Dame puppet we created that

can be seen in his new music video “Same Drugs” that can be seen

all over the internet now...

2016 has started off with yet another great SuperBowl project. For last year’s Superbowl, we created the enormously popular Avocados from Mexico ‘First Draft Ever’ spot, featuring over a dozen of our realistic animal puppets and costumes. This year, we worked on the new Avocados from Mexico, but now their ingenious concept... 

2015 has been a very good year for us, bringing many challenging and satisfying projects. For a Go Daddy commercial, our miniature Great White Shark jumps out of the ocean to land on top of a bragging Jon Lovitz, & we also created a full size shark fin to slap some sense into his character...

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2014, began with some big and challenging jobs- we created a full size Clear Cow for Chiobani that is exactly what it sounds like- a completely transparent Hollstein with black spots seemingly floating in thin air. The spots suddenly popped out when we filled with Clear Cow fine styrofoam beads to give the effect of milk being poured into a cow...

2013 has started off splendidly, bringing us a great project for Chevrolet’s new Traverse SUV, with us designing and creating four original Toy Doll Characters in both large costume versions and small doll versions. As with many commercial productions these days, there was not much time in the schedule and four completely new and original characters needed to be...

2012 began with an interesting variety of projects. For Cici’s Pizza, we created two different Pig character puppets to promote their “Hog Wild” pizza campaign. For The Amazing Race, we created twelve Travelocity Gnomes...

2011 started off busy with three good sized projects all happening at once. We created three animatronic Chameleon puppets and two animatronic Frog character puppets for Big Lots. For Lowe's we created a big animatronic suit character, the Imaginary Friend, who advises a young boy on the colors to paint his room..

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2010 started off with us creating and puppeteering a set of mechanical Elephant Legs for an amazing Accenture commercial involving a surfing elephant. Our legs were shot in the tank at Fantasy 2, filmed from underwater to show real, practical elephant legs churning down into the water as the elephant paddles out to catch a wave...

2009 began with a great character puppet project for Perdue Chicken- 'El Pollo Gula,' a gigantic, animatronic Gluttonous Chicken puppet, with a huge, lead weighted swaying belly to graphically show how the competitors' chickens are fed some very questionable things...

2008 has started off well with a Superbowl spot featuring some of our animatronic critters for Toyota Corolla. Our animatronic Badger family -a mother badger, with three nursing babies and a second, snarling mother badger puppet- help dramatize the comfort and quiet of the new Toyota Corolla. Not long after creating them, we rented one of our...

2007 has begun with animal projects adding new, highly realistic animals to our continually growing collection of high quality animatronic puppets. This year, to celebrate Hertz's partnership with Prius and their new Green program we created two beautiful animatronic Deer and Harepuppets that surprise pedestrians by driving around in a Prius... 

2006

2006 has started off well for us, beginning with our new animatronic fish alien character costumes, Zorak and Alron, who turn the tables on us, fishing for people with bottles of Bud Light as bait. "It's all about the lure..."

2005 has been one of our best years yet, starting off with plenty of creative challenges. Adding to our special effects section, with more of the ‘anatomical morphing effects’ Anato-morph-ex specializes in. We created the Smushed Body & Flat Body effects for the new National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign for ONDCP (www.abovetheinfluence.com)...

2004 has seen some of our best work yet, starting with our new animatronic Temptation Monster character for Kafri Go Lean Crunch Cereal. He is basically your run-of-the-mill, over-the-top physical manifestation of those inner voices that do their best to tempt us with sweets...

2003 has gotten off to a busy start - beginning with a Bud Light Super Bowl spot, featuring a feisty Hermit Crabthat puts a hustler with bad technique quickly in his place. Our animatronic Grizzly Bear suit was popular again- in two episodes of HBO’s new Carnivale series, and in a behind the scenes look for the 'Most Extreme' show - on Discovery...

Throughout 2002, our animal puppets continue to be very popular. We created an amorous, animatronic Big Lizard puppet for Fruit By The Foot; a life-size Dolphin for Hite Beer (Korea); and a hang-gliding Shaggy Dog costume for Cafri Beer (Korea); a protesting Gary Larsonesque Cow puppet for Chick-Fil-A; and an aggressive Tropical Fish clamped over an...

We rolled into the new millenium in style, traveling to Korea with our animatronic Dung Beetle for Mirae Asset Insurance complete with his very own mechanical rolling dungball. Following that, we've kept fairly busy- creating an animatronic Grizzly Bear and Porcupine for Budweiser, a giant Statue of Liberty head for emc2.com and a Shattering Tire effect...

Year 2000 was a good year for us- we are proud to have collaborated with ILM and director Steve Beck, creating some of our best yet Alien characters, Mort, Ernie and Shorty, for a new Alamo commercial, part of a big Universal Men in Black Attraction tie-in campaign... 

Service from behind the scenes since 1980.

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