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Characterful, quirky, and meticulously crafted animation helped Aardman, the British company behind Wallace & Gromit, build an international fan base and Oscars success. The studio’s new feature, The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! (it’ll be called Pirates! Band of Misfits, in the U.S.), stars the voices of Hugh Grant, Jeremy Piven, and Salma Hayek. The stop-motion film, which tells the story of a band of pirates who get into an adventure with Charles Darwin, is the company’s most elaborate and ambitious yet. As impressive as Aardman’s animations, though, has been its ability to grow without destroying what made it special in the first place–the feeling that its productions are a labor of love made by two men in a shed. … [Read more...] about How To Grow While Staying Insanely Creative, The Aardman Way

The pinnacle of their misadventures took place on a cruise to Bermuda. “Bill loved the Marx brothers, so we decided to reenact the stateroom scene from [the Marx Brothers’] A Night at the Opera,” says Ficarra. “We told all of the Mad people to line up outside Bill’s stateroom. Every 30 seconds, there’d be another knock on the door, and two more people would come in, and two more, and two more. We also had housekeeping come in, like the movie, and they were vacuuming the whole time. Room service showed with hardboiled eggs, because that’s something Groucho kept asking for. … [Read more...] about The Ascent Of “Mad”: See 60 Years Of Comic Subversion

An example of where the dynamic duo leveraged the power of its partners was, “The LeBrons,” where together with LeBron’s production entity Spring Hill Productions, they developed the hit original digital series from LeBron James that ran on YouTube, generating over 50 million views across the web and is now entering its second season. For advertising partners including HP and Intel, they developed custom 15- and 30-second spots that ran online in front of the content to draw audiences into the marketing message. They quickly saw response rates that were multiples of traditional marketing efforts. They also utilized LeBron’s massive social media platform on Facebook, with over 11 million “likes,” to engage audiences to respond to his posts to drive HP and Intel brand engagement and showcase product benefits. … [Read more...] about Believe Entertainment Group Pioneers New Ways To Connect Users To Brands And Talent

That’s more or less the flip side of Snapchat, where figuring the interface out can feel like a challenge that admits you into a private club, albeit a rather large one. For instance, rather than being playfully enigmatic like Snapchat—which dumps you into a live view of your smartphone’s camera the moment you launch the app—Instagram starts out by showing you friends who have posted new Stories. On Snapchat, when you peruse Stories, it can be tough to tell when one has ended and another has begun; to avoid that confusion within Instagram, Spalter’s design team created a nifty rotating-cube effect that provides an unmistakable line of demarcation. Instagram Stories also lets you rewind a story in progress to catch a moment you missed, an improvement that Snapchat found interesting enough that it also adopted the feature. … [Read more...] about How Instagram Changed—Before It Had To

Excellent social distancing, it turns out, tends to come hand-in-hand with two factors: teleworking and homes with access to outdoor space, both of which are much more prevalent among the upper classes. Overall, social distancing was found to be more “practical, comfortable and feasible” for higher earners, who could easily do things like order groceries or change their work schedule. … [Read more...] about It’s not your imagination: Wealthy people really do practice more social distancing