Avatar XPRIZE by ANA Airlines

After 25 years in marketing and branding with our boutique animation studio, it’s always a blast when we get to be part of launching truly revolutionary concepts — be they films, commercial work or an independent promotion. Our studio recently spent a few weeks, deep in the trenches with a team, pushing four different streams […]

Transmedia Marketing by Happy Trails Animation

APPS • TABLETS • SMART PHONES What is Transmedia? The technique of telling a single story or story experience across multiple platforms and formats using current digital technologies. Transmedia by Happy Trails: As providers of custom animation services, the following examples of storytelling link together literally and narratively across multiple forms of media. REPOMEN Here is an example […]

Motion Posters At Last!

MOTION POSTERS — IGNITE! How do you get a movie poster to stop acting like innocent bystanders, skimmed over by thumbs and eyeballs? Isn’t it time your posters went into the ring with some gusto?! Get Happy Trails to put some life in ’em to create motion posters! If someone clicks on a Motion Poster, look out!  They tease and intrigue, […]

New Cleco “Hot Spot” Safety Production

Cleco Hot Informational by Happy Trails Animation

LOOK OUT KIDS ~ THAT’S A POWER LINES “HOT SPOT!” Title: “Hot Spot” Client: Cleco Corporation Hot Spot is a 30-minute production about power lines safety. Character designs, background elements, voiceover, music, and 2D animation were produced by Happy Trails in 2 weeks time. The safety video is used by specially trained Cleco employees to […]

“Gideon The Great” Wins Platinum!

Gideon The Great Wins Platinum! Happy Trails Animation is thrilled to announce that its independently produced short film “Gideon The Great: The Flying Ace” is a 2010 Pixie Platinum Award Winner in the Animation category. The Pixie Awards are sponsored by The American Pixel Academy. Judging is done by professionals who have excelled in the […]