Travelbird

Client: Travelbird
Studio: Passion Pictures & Strange Beast
Role: Director & Designer

We crafted this spot for the Dutch travel website TravelBird with the creative teams at Strange Beast and Passion Pictures NYC. Given a script and tasked with building a fantastical travel story through extraordinary landscapes, we developed original storyboards and created an animated fairy-tale world from scratch. A woman and a bird embark on a magical journey together through impossible terrain. The brief was to translate TravelBird's mission to reignite the joy of anticipated travel into a visual language that felt genuinely transportive. This was also the brand's very first television campaign.

The spot received press coverage in Little Black Book, Campaign, and Creative Review, and screened at the Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film in 2014.

Director | Jordan Bruner
Designer | Lindsey Mayer-Beug
Additional Character Design | Stephanie Davidson & Jordan Bruner
Animation | Greg Lytle, Blake Patrick, & Jordan Bruner
Compositor | Lee Gingold
Executive Producers | Belinda Blacklock & Eve Strickman
Producer | Katrina Lofaro
Sound | Massive Music