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    Well done y’all! We made it to Friday. A full work week complete, after last week’s five-day-long culinary hedonism. You’ve earned a Weekly Roundup.     Contests Closed Nothing closed this week. Contests Closing Betfair is closing at 4 p.m. PST on Monday, Dec. 5. You’ve got one weekend left to enter your [...]

The team here at Zooppa is thankful for family, friends, our community and our clients. Thanks for continuing to make our work a whole lot of fun and have a restful Thanksgiving holiday.

It’s the return of the weekend. Naturally, dancing bears followed. Soon they will retake their rightful throne as Internet overlords from kittens. Until then we must wait for their “Dance Battle for Internet Domination” to play out. As always, our Weekly Digest will be there to relay important developments. Speaking of Important Zooppa Developments… Zappos.com [...]

It might seem impossible because it isn’t by Pixar. But check it out: the six-person team from Gobelins created a gorgeous, compelling, action-packed told love story in a mere two minutes and twenty-six seconds. Charming. Comical. Flawless. These are the only words I can use to describe the featured animated film, “Oktapodi.” This 2009 Oscar-nominated [...]

    Costumes communicate a lot in a scene. When paired with a particular setting, it tells you almost everything you need about what’s going on. Where is the character? How are they feeling? What is their personality? Wearing pajamas on a couch: sick day? early morning? or maybe they’re having a really, really bad day. [...]

I’m torn. Really, I am. On the one hand there’s Forbes, declaring “Google+ is Doomed”. On the other, Wired is telling me “Why Google+ Pages (Will) Beat Facebook. And Twitter.” It hasn’t taken off as a social network… yet. Will Google find social success through business pages? And if so, should filmmakers join in on [...]

    We advertise ourselves as “crowdsourced video advertising.” But what exactly does “crowdsourcing” mean? It’s not even recognized by Microsoft Word, which means while typing this blog post I have to actually re-read the words to make sure they’re spelled correctly.   According to the most reliable of Internet sources, Wikipedia, “Crowdsourcing is the [...]

  Get your Entry Disqualified in Three Easy Steps: 1. Don’t Follow the Brief Briefs are very important to us. We spend a lot of time going back and forth with the client to make sure that each punctuation mark is sending the right message of what they want. Unfortunately, even though you have an [...]

    1. Coastal Flooding From the Melted Polar Ice Caps According to scientific predictions, about sometime next week the last polar ice cap will melt, causing the ocean to rise by a mile and creating massive tidal waves that will destroy our coastal cities. New York? Gone. Miami? Goodbye. While everyone else is scrambling [...]

    Normally, I don’t submit my work to competitions. It just doesn’t occur to me. If I don’t have a paying client I generally want to work on my personal projects. Grow those little seeds of ideas that get planted in my mind that just can’t be ignored. Or I want to go play [...]