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Prodigal Teaser: Enslaved to this Soil

Teaser trailer for one of the songs from Prodigal the Musical, which is still in production. This song features Jeff Kready (Les Miserables, A Gentlemen's Guide to Love and Murder, Billy Elliot) and music composed by Romano Musumarra. https://youtu.be/WdtKAPX9uXQ

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Announcing Story Driven Arts

I recently launched a new instructional website called Story Driven Arts, which currently features a new podcast and video reviews of animation for...

The Shaffer Creative Podcast has retired

After 29 episodes, The Shaffer Creative Podcast has been retired, and in it's place will be a new podcast called Story Driven Arts. Shaffer Creative...

Educ’ alcool Porcupine

Here's another one of the Educ 'alcool ads called Porcupine, animated by Sam Cabanac and Guillaume Blackburn. https://vimeo.com/246454867

Central Park Season 1

Loren Bouchard's new animated series Central Park has recently released on Apple. For the last year I had the privilege of supervising the animation...

New Looney Tunes Coming to HBO Max

My team had a hand animating some of the new Looney Tunes shorts, coming to HBO Max in May. https://youtu.be/nalw1XRAiMI Here's an image from one of...

The Chickeraffe ad for Netflix’s Green Eggs and Ham

https://youtu.be/pD8EbJ_p6GI Fun little bumper we did at Tonic DNA for Netflix. Animated by the amazing Justine Desmarais. Directed by yours...

Green Eggs and Ham Official Trailer

Green Eggs and Ham premieres November 8 on Netflix. Produced by Warner Bros. https://youtu.be/YaqKPRxxaSk

Sam’s Table: Ad for Green Eggs and Ham

This is a spot I directed for Netflix, both the live and animation at Tonic DNA, produced by Howard Huxham. https://youtu.be/b0t5y2kLCnU

Looney Tunes Reboot Has Begun

Warner Bros has released the first shorts for their reboot of Looney Tunes. I've had the joy of working on some of these shorts for the past year,...

Green Eggs and Ham Coming to Netflix in November

For the past year I've been working as an animation supervisor on two episodes for the upcoming Netflix series Green Eggs and Ham. It's animated by...

Fox, The Latest Educ’Alcool commercial

One of my favorite Educ'alcool commericals I directed is on air. Renard, or "Fox." https://vimeo.com/310387224

Les Dindons, or Turkeys for Educ’Alcool

The Educ'Alcool campaign in Quebec has been a lot of fun as we were mandated to produce old school animation. Both are getting loads of air time in...

Jamieson Essentials

Directed another spot for Jamieson with Tonic DNA. https://vimeo.com/266890387

Educ’alcool returns with Gorilla

Directed a second campaign for Educ' alcool at Studio Pascal Blais with producer Bernard Lajoie and animators Sam Cabanac and...

2 Recent Spots for Jamieson

A few more short commercials for Jamieson. Spotlight https://vimeo.com/200204960 Treadmill https://vimeo.com/204086685

2 Spots for Éduc’alcool Campaign

Two PSA's recently completed for Éduc'alcool which promotes responsible drinking. The Éduc'alcool folks came to Pascal Blais Studio with an idea to...

Live Shoot for Jamieson Essentials

On a shoot for a commercial for Jamieson Essentials with Pascal Blais Studio and DP Michel Bisson. A photo posted by Todd Shaffer (@toddashaffer) on...