Ortho Tri-Cyclen Lo "Anna Bell"

2003-2004, Acme Filmworks
Art Direction & Character Paint - Joel Parod

Direction, Character Design & Animation - Claire Armstrong Parod

 

The only CG animated commercial we did was for Ortho Tri-Cyclen Lo birth control, and featured a feminine CG animated flower character dancing and interacting with the logo in an otherwise live action commercial. Since it was still the early days of CG animation, it took us 3 months to create the character and animate 6 seconds. According to Claire and our character rigger, flowing translucent material hadn't been done before.
I was responsible for the color and texture of the character and supervising the 3D development and coloring.
DisneyToon Studios responded to the flower character by hiring me to be the character painter on Tinker Bell in 2005, resulting in 7 years of employment on al 6 of the Tinker Bell movies.

I was so delighted one night when I saw Amy Poehler parody the live action portion of the commercial on Saturday Night Live!