Project:

UnitedHealth Group 'Built For Better Health'

Type:

Recent, Animation

The tactility of the world we created for UnitedHealth Group makes our hearts sing and epitomizes everything we love to do here at Scholar. Balancing textured, practically shot footage with simple, narrative animation made for a clever and charming campaign. It feels both fresh and ownable, and honestly, we cannot wait to do another project just like this. Zebra NYC’s scripts immediately resonated and got us feverishly developing out the storyline. We obsessed over our characters and their personalities. Who were they and what was their history? How does United apply to them? And what are the tools available to us to tell the tale, we wondered? Collaborating with stop motion studio Open The Portal, we immediately set about sourcing all our practical props and building the contraptions and gadgets that allowed for perfect framing, lensing and camera placement. Through detailed storyboarding and preliminary animation tests, we were able to figure out how our 2D characters would seamlessly interact with our live action footage.

Credits
  • Production Company: Scholar
  • Directors: William Campbell & Will Johnson
  • Executive Producer: Christina Roldan
  • Head of Production: Rachel Kaminek
  • Art Director: Sarah Beth Hulver
  • Producer: Nikki Maniolas
  • Designers: JP Rooney, Stephanie Davidson, Joshua Harvey, Sarah-Beth Hulver, Gunnar Peterson
  • Cel Animators: Matthew Everton, Harry Teitelman, Taik Lee
  • 2D Animators: Matt Andrews, Henry Pak, Andrew Tan, Ryan Kaplan, Jonathan Moore
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  • Stop-Motion Production Company: Open the Portal
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  • Client: UnitedHealth Group
  • Agency: The Glover Park Group/Zebra
  • Agency Creative Producer: Annie Bishop
  • Agency Executive Producer: Linda Rafoss

“Balancing textured, practically shot footage with simple, narrative animation made for a clever and charming campaign.”

The entire campaign was pasted across the D.C. area, appearing in billboards inside the Washington Metro and tv screens inside Reagan National Airport.  We're really just scratching the surface of the amount of visuals here & there's so much more...

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As we evolved the look and feel of this campaign we wanted to dive deeper into the characters. Adding emotional tugs as the story developed. Incorporating interesting practical elements to help add the realism of the situation and keep the information light and easy to absorb. We love that each spot continues as a building block for the next propeling the look forward with each stylized vignette.

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Zebra NYC’s scripts immediately resonated and got us feverishly developing out the storyline. We obsessed over our characters and their personalities. Who were they and what was their history? How does United apply to them? And what are the tools available to us to tell the tale, we wondered? Collaborating with stop motion studio Open The Portal, we immediately set about sourcing all our practical props and building the contraptions and gadgets that allowed for perfect framing, lensing and camera placement. Through detailed storyboarding and preliminary animation tests, we were able to figure out how our 2D characters would seamlessly interact with our live action footage.