Head Gear offers all kinds of visual delights for clients around the world.
About Head Gear Animation
Head Gear Animation is a production hothouse that has been solving creative riddles since 1997. Conceived by partners Steve Angel and Julian Grey, Head Gear offers all kinds of visual delights for clients around the world.
Head Gear’s strength has always been its designer/directors who bring warmth, humour and character to their stories. Located in Toronto Canada, Head Gear also benefits from a huge pool of talented artists and production people who contribute to their wonderful brand of storytelling.
Head Gear produces work in all short formats and has garnered a boat load of top awards at The One Show, AICPs, The London International Advertising Awards, ADCCs, The BDAs, Annecy, The Bessies, Mobius, Applied Arts, the Ottawa Animation Festival and the Holland Animation Festival.
Head Gear has created work for a range of commercial and broadcast clients that include Nestlé, Frito-Lay, CBS, Johnson & Johnson, RBC, Honda, Ikea, Kellogg's, American Express, Visa, MTV, Toyota, Tim Horton’s, PBS and Sesame Workshop. It has produced national broadcast campaigns, total network packages as well as numerous award winning short films and PSAs.
Collaboration is the cornerstone of success in our industry and Head Gear prides itself on being an excellent production partner that brings an open mind and a steady hand to every job.
Head Gear Animation in the News
‘The Good Fight’ Animated Shorts
>> The New Yorker - “The Couple Behind TV’s Boldest Shows” - But the show also had one of its high-concept “Schoolhouse Rock” cartoon segments—a Jonathan Coulton ditty called “Banned in China.” Mind-bendingly self-referential, the sequence, created by Head Gear Animation, told the story of how “The Good Wife” had been banned a decade earlier, then showed scenes of editors preëmptively snipping footage to insure Chinese distribution. It also included a stream of images that were barred in China, including Winnie-the-Pooh, a symbolic stand-in for President Xi Jinping.
>> The New Yorker - “CBS Censors “The Good Fight” for a Musical Short About China”
>>The Globe and Mail - “Toronto Animation Studio Fights the Good Fight on CBS”
>> Vulture - "Meanwhile, The Good Fight Put a Twerking Roy Cohn in Its Schoolhouse Rock Cartoons”
>> Backstage - Why ‘The Good Fight’ Began Channeling ‘Schoolhouse Rock!’
>> Ad Week - "The Good Fight" Schoolhouse Rock
>> Entertainment Weekly - "The Good Fight"
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>> Animation World Network - "I Have a Question Steve Angel"
>> Advertising Age - "Starbucks 1st & Main" series
