This is an ongoing series. As a weekly in-house challenge, we have embraced the vintage artform of the GIF in order to flex our creative muscles in ways we sometimes don’t normally bend. There is one self-imposed simple rule: these things shouldn’t take longer than an hour to create. And most of the time we do follow that rule. Using any medium, drawing from any source, and inspired by …
April, 2017
We’ve partnered with professional theatre company FIXT POINT to produce a 10-episode series based on their hugely successful national tour The Tale of a Town. Created for TVO, Main Street Ontario takes voices and stories collected across the province to tell tales about the life, demise, and rebirth of your town’s Main Street. Using a playful mixture of archival photos and collage animation, Electric Square is immersing ourselves in …
We are so excited about this project. Years in development, Apocalypse Nachos is an animated period comedy/drama set in Vancouver. It’s a world of angst-drenched in music, synthetic cheese and doom! But we can’t say too much just yet. Electric Square has partnered with Curiosity Shop to develop this series as our first in-house production, utilising facial motion capture to bring to life our signature offbeat style.
April 2017 - Electric Square