Los Angeles-based ad agency Stun Creative and its motion graphics division, Buster Design, have created eleven ‘Dirty Presidents’ animated segments to air during a special election night marathon of Discovery Channel’s Dirty Jobs with Mike Rowe. The segments will air between 8 p.m. and 11 p.m. (ET/PT) on Super Tuesday. A special 9 p.m. episode will have Mike paying tribute to the ‘dirtiest’ of past U.S. presidents. Stun Creative co-presidents Brad Roth and Mark Feldstein made the announcement.
Working with Discovery Channel, Stun Creative and Buster wrote and animated the interstitial pieces that give surprising insight into the actual dirty jobs held by past presidents. For instance, James Garfield once worked as a janitor, Ulysses S. Grant as a tannery worker, and Abraham Lincoln as a butcher. Lyndon Johnson helped build some of the nation’s highways and Teddy Roosevelt herded cattle. Examples of the animated pieces can be seen online at www.busterdesign.tv/client/post/dirtypoliticsexamples.html.
Buster’s exec creative director, Jonas Morganstein, comments, ‘The animation team dove into these interstitials with as much zeal and enthusiasm as a young Ulysses S. Grant tenderly rubbing dung and brains into fresh cow hide. These 11 interstitials rank among our most fun-to-make projects. It’s not every day that we get to animate Gerald Ford giving Richard Nixon a sweet, soapy sponge bath.’
Stun Creative is helmed by co-presidents Mark Feldstein and Brad Roth. Buster is a conceptual design studio specializing in original animated content for the advertising and broadcast industries. For more information, go to www.busterdesign.tv.
