Tag Archives: commercials

Even More Kobe & LeBron Puppet Ads

Nike’s MVPuppets campaign has been a huge hit with basketball fans. Nike’s MVPuppets campaign (see previous posts here and here) keeps rolling right along. I think the bigger a fan of the NBA you are, the more you can appreciate these. The storyline in the ads has been following along with the NBA playoffs; in [...]

More LeBron and Kobe Puppet Ads

Nike’s “Most Valuable Puppets” ad campaign features puppets of basketball stars LeBron James and Kobe Bryant. The rest of the ads for the previously-blogged “Most Valuable Puppets” Nike campaign featuring puppets of NBA stars LeBron James and Kobe Bryant are now online. Click “Read More” to watch `em all below… Finally, here’s a video of [...]

Plato: Sony’s Little Blue Alien

Plato is a little blue alien created to promote Sony’s Walkman brand. “Plato” is a blue alien character created for a series of Sony Walkman ads (watch them here and here). It’s always a little hard to tell watching heavily compressed video on YouTube, but I’m pretty sure he was realized as a Bunraku-style puppet. [...]

Kobe and LeBron Nike Puppet Ad

Puppets of NBA stars LeBron James and Kobe Bryant appear in a new Nike commercial. The web has been buzzing for the past day or so with talk about the new Nike ad that features puppets of basketball stars LeBron James and Kobe Bryant. It’s always neat to see a commercial like this resonate with [...]

Japanese Jelly Commercial

This commercial is another interesting (odd?) use of puppetry from Japan. Badly performed puppets starring in a commercial for zero calorie gelatin in Japan (I have no idea). Via Japan Probe.

Burger King "99ers" Marionette Commercial

Burger King Germany’s “99ers” campaign features marionettes. This is a new commercial for Burger King in Germany that features marionettes. The puppets in the ad were built by Hornet Inc. and performed by James Godwin, Tim Lagasse and Steve Widerman.

Black / White

Black/White is a stark, monochromatic video that blends shadow puppets and animation. To promote their spring and summer collections this year, Gap commissioned five original songs based on a specific color and a corresponding video for each. My favourite of these is Black / White, which features a song by Danish post-punk duo The Raveonettes [...]

Outside Lands

Puppets are being used to promote this year’s Outside Lands Festival in San Francisco. I love this fun commercial for San Francisco’s Outside Lands Festival. It was produced by Ghost Robot, the company that produced Morningwood’s Sugarbaby video. The puppets in the video were built by James Wojtal and the puppeteer cast included James, Frankie [...]

Japanese Commercial with Bunraku Puppets

Bunraku puppets are used to sell bug killer in Japan. When trying to invent ways to sell bug killer I’m not sure that Bunraku puppets would be the first thing to jump in to my head. Then again, I don’t live in Japan.

Tide Talking Stain Commercial

This stain from Tide To Go’s popular “Talking Stain” commercial was performed by Flexitoon Puppets. When I first saw this talking stain commercial for the “Tide To Go” stain remover last year I mistakenly assumed it had been done with CG. It wasn’t. Turns out it was good `ol fashioned puppetry by Flexitoon Puppets (you [...]