9. Good Books - Metamorphosis

We dug through the darkest recesses of our minds and studio to create original music and sound design for this Buck masterpiece. Working with squirming, analog-tape leeches, moaning coeds, screaming guitar goats, and brain-exploding psychedelia, we were certainly in our element. Plus, it's always fun to rock out and get a little weird for a good cause!

Good Books, an online bookseller, passes all of its profits through to Oxfam. Our hats go off to Buck and String Theory.

Enjoy the trip!

Client: Good Books
Agency: String Theory
Director: Buck
Music & Sound Design: Antfood

DISCLAIMER: What you will see is an entirely fictional and completely unendorsed representation. [Though we humbly suggest Hunter S. Thompson might have liked it.] We are devoted fans paying homage. No disrespect is intended.

8. F5 Titles

For the opening titles of the F5 Festival, themed this year around happiness, we created a children's variety show of sorts, designed to surprise and delight our creative colleagues in attendance -- and how better than with hand-sewn puppets, painted geometry, and full body spandex. Be sure to check out the Puppet Outtakes (rated R for explicit language and sexual situations). Conceived, written, directed, designed, shot and produced in house at Buck.

Directed and Produced by Buck
Creative Director: Orion Tait
Executive Producer: Anne Skopas
Producer: Kitty Dillard
Production Coordinator: Billy Mack
Colorist: Seth Ricart
Audio: Antfood

Puppets
Art Direction: Gareth O'Brien
Script: Gareth O'Brien, Victoria Grant
DP: Seth Ricart
Set Design: Gareth O'Brien
Puppet Design: Gareth O'Brien
Set Construction: Gareth O'Brien, Victoria Grant, Kitty Dillard, Andreas Berglund
Puppet Construction: Tim Lagasse, Victoria Grant, Gareth O'Brien
Storyboards: Gareth O'Brien
Edit/Composite: Gareth O'Brien, Justin Lawes
Sir Basil Myrtle Willoughby: Tim Lagasse
Noodles: James Godwin
Glove: Tim Lagasse, Adam Wentworth

Faces
Art Direction: Yker Moreno
DP: Seth Ricart
Design: Yker Moreno, Chad Colby
Animation/Composite: Chad Colby, Yker Moreno
Faces: Victoria Grant, Enrrico Contreras, Andreina Restrepo, Waleed Zaiter , Saadia Shiina, Justin Lawes, Chad Colby
Props: Confetti Systems

Geometry
Art Direction: Thomas Schmid
Design: Thomas Schmid
Animation: Daniel Oeffinger
Painting: Thomas Schmid, Justin Lawes, Maceo Frost, Andreas Berglund, Kitty Dillard, Anne Skopas
Composite: Daniel Oeffinger, Maceo Frost
Voice Talent: Jude Tait, Griffin Van Rhyn

Instruments
Art Direction: Daniel Oeffinger
DP: Seth Ricart
Design: Thomas Schmid, Daniel Oeffinger, Chris Phillips
Animation/Composite: Daniel Oeffinger, Chris Phillips
Bassist: Brian Kesley
Drummer: Stu Bidwell
Hand Models: Wilson Brown, Kitty Dillard, Daniel Oeffinger, Chris Phillips, Orion Tait
Blow Dart Construction: Daniel Oeffinger, Soomin Baik 

4. Smart Car - Against Dumb

Director: Buck
Creative Director: Orion Tait
Executive Producer: Anne Skopas
Producer: Kitty Dillard
Design: Gareth O'Brien / Yker Moreno
Lead Animation: Gareth O'Brien
Additional Animation: Chad Colby / Harry Teitelman / Yker Moreno / Claudio Salas /Jacques Khouri

Sound Design & Music: Antfood
VO Talent: Tirtzah Wilson

Agency: StrawberryFrog

3. Buck

Specializing in design-driven creative, Buck’s directors and artists use animation, visual effects and live action to collaborate with clients, from concept to delivery, producing work that is visceral, innovative, and diverse.
From offices in New York and Los Angeles, Buck works with a broad range of clients in the advertising, broadcast, retail, film and entertainment industries.

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