Our House, Gerrit Van Dijk, 1974

Commissioned for the opening of Shell Rotterdam.

Black Gold, PES, 2014

Peg Leg Pedro, Jam Handy Organization, 1938

Down The Gasoline Trail, The Jam Handy Organization (Max Fleischer?) 1935

The Everchanging Motor Car, Alan Ball and George Dunning, 1965

I Like Ike, Roy Disney, 1952

This would all be so much less unpleasant if campaign ads still looked like this, eh?

Das Blaue Wunder, Hans Fischerkosen, 1935

1935 advertisement for Muratti cigarettes.

Das Wunder, Walther Ruttman and Julian Pinschewer, 1922

And advertisement for Kantorowicz-Liköre, wherein our protagonists suffer no ill effects whatsoever from consuming alcohol.

Today television ad, Richard Williams, 1986

Richard Williams brings the characters of political cartoonist Kevin Kallaugher to life in this 1986 TV ad.

Connie Shoes, Sally Cruikshank, 1972

Schwechater, Peter Kubelka, 1958

Some might argue that this barely qualifies as animation. But they can argue with somebody else, because a)the abstraction, the stylization of the images, and the short length of the clips give it the appearance of animation, b) THIS IS MY BLOG AND I SAY IT GOES HERE, and c) It's amazing.

In 1957, Peter Kubelka was hired to make a short commercial for Scwechater beer. The beer company undoubtedly thought they were commissioning a film that would help them sell their beers; Kubelka had other ideas. He shot his film with a camera that did not even have a viewer, simply pointing it in the general direction of the action. He then took many months to edit his footage, while the company fumed and demanded a finished product. Finally he submitted a film, 90 seconds long, that featured extremely rapid cutting (cutting at the limits of most viewers' perception) between images washed out almost to the point of abstraction — in black-and-white positive and negative and with red tint — of dimly visible people drinking beer and of the froth of beer seen in a fully abstract pattern. Via

Kizakura Sake Ads, 1959-1980

A wonderful series of advertisements featuring an family of kappa.

Superflat Monogram and First Love, Mamoru Hosoda, 2003

Based on characters created for Louis Vuitton by Takashi Murakami.


We have one of Murakami's pandas where I work. Oh you think it's cute and innocent, but I assure you as soon as the lights go out, that thing is terrifying.

Superflat Monogram


Superflat First Love

Adicolor Black, Saimon Chow, 2006

One of a series of films commissioned by Adidas to promote the 2005 reissue of its Adicolor shoes.

In My Merry Oldsmobile, Max Fleischer, 1932

Ribald promotional short by Fleischer studios.

With bouncing ball sing-along!

Nisshin Seifun commercial, Katsuya Kondo, 2010

An irresistibly charming commercial from Studio Ghibli.

Via Twitch and many thanks to Ian.

Anti-drug PSA, Hanna-Barbera,1970

Finding out who directed the animation for most ads and PSAs is sometimes nearly impossible, but I want to post them anyway.

This one we know is by Hanna-Barbera.

How the Light Came Anyway when the Sun Overslept, Hans Fischerkoesen, 1937

In a similar vein to Escbaugh's "The Sunshine Makers," this is an advertisement for Phillips made for the Norwegian market by German animator Hans Fischerkoesen.

The Sunshine Makers,Ted Eshbaugh,1935

Strange and wonderful short from Van Bueren Studios featuring the little beardy mens that make sunshine and the pointy nosed grumps who oppose this sunshine business.

Originally commissioned by Borden's as a theatrical advertisement for milk.

Cup o Noodle commercials, Kim Blanchette, 1992

In 1992, animator Kim Blanchette created a profoundly awesome series of stop motion commercials for Nissin's Cup'o'Noodle brand instant soup. Here are several of them.