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They’re baaaaaack!

That’s right! Our production partner, Dandy Dwarves, is about to Crash the SuperBowl. Again! But we need your help!

Frito-Lay and Doritos are back at it with another installment of their Crash the SuperBowl contest. This year, it’s bigger than ever. How does it work? Simple. Sign up and create a 30 second commercial featuring Doritos snacks. Then, ask America to vote your spot to the top!

The top SIX finalists will get a cool $25,000, but that’s just the beginning. If you place in the top 3, your spot airs on national television during the SuperBowl. It doesn’t stop there. Place first on the USA Today Ad Meter and walk away with $1 million. Place second, $600,000. Third, $400,000. If Doritos places 1st, 2nd, and 3rd on the ad meter, everyone gets another $1 million!

Last year, you may remember Dandy Dwarves placed in the top five with their spot Too Delicious.

This year, they’re back for more! Enter Señor Queso, he’ll do anything for a Dorito. Doritos please!

Watch now, vote later! Voting begins in January, but be sure to stay up to date! Join the Facebook group for bonus pictures and videos!

Also, check out the high quality version of Señor Queso: Doritos Please via Dandy Dwarves.

Snack strong!

We’re kicking off the grand opening of our new office! Join Charpie, Shafer PR and Arctic Audio as we host a rockin’ super bowl bash! Watch the game in high definition on a 120” screen or any of the 58” LCD TV’s. You can also register to win a private movie night for six in Arctic Audio’s spankin’ new retail showroom.

That’s not all! Think you’ve got a killer crockpot creation? Well, from the creators of Grill-A-Thon, we’re officially announcing Crock-A-Thon! Everyone who’s anyone is welcome to bring a pot and set up shop. We’ll be voting on the best dishes and prizes will be awarded. Yippeeeeeeeee!

As if that weren’t enough excitement, we’ll be on the edge of our seat the entire game for the announcement of Doritos’ grand prize winner in the Crash the Superbowl contest. So come on over and cheer on “Too Delicious” from those talented fellas, the Dandy Dwarves. Don’t forget to vote for “Too Delicious” every day until January 25th!

Gates open 3PM on February 1st at 14 South 8th Street in Fargo, ND!

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Well, I’ve been kind of a stranger to the blog lately. With a whole bunch of stuff going on around the holidays it’s been tough to keep up. That said, I’m back with some big news!

Our production team, Dandy Dwarves, along with director, Mike Goubeaux, have landed a seat in the top 5 for Doritos Crashing the Superbowl contest! Wheeeeeee!

I guess the winner won’t be announced until the spot actually airs live during the Superbowl, so Doritos has been kind enough to ship everyone there for the game.

We need your help! Vote for our entry, “Too Delicious,” as many times as you want until January 25th. Ok, not as many times as you want, but they do allow voting once a day so get on over there as much as you can.

Check out our entry, “Too Delicious.”

Check out the Top 5 entries.

Time to grab our skis and head to Park City, Utah! The Dandy Dwarves just recently found out that their short film, Pencil Face, has been accepted to the Sundance Film Festival. Great work guys!

Dandy Dwarves is a production team that I helped start way back as a freshman at Savannah College of Art and Design. The team started out as a hobby and has now grown into a nice business in San Rafael, CA. I still try to work on as many projects as I can with them cuz they got mad skillz.

Zip zing!

First and foremost, HAPPY THANKSGIVING! Hope all had a great time with friends and family. I know I’m fat and happy; stuffed full of bacon wrapped pheasant, turkey, squash, potatoes and a nice dessert of grilled, cedar-planked meat loaf.

And speaking of turkey day and birds, check out the latest spot from Dandy Dwarves for Doritos featuring the boldest man in the world and a giant Peruvian condor! That’s bold!

Although it’s not new, I still constantly get a kick out of this creation from the mind of San Rafael based production group, the Dandy Dwarves. Originally created for SCADshorts, this short features the lovable Jennifer Kenny and her fitness expertise with an added surprise.

The project was directed by the ‘Dwarves own Christian Simmons. Christian was also recently featured on BoardsMag for this year’s up and coming Directors to Watch list. Congrats!

Be sure to check out the behind the scenes video, too. I think it may call for a follow-up: “How to build your own paint cannon.” I’ll see if I can get on that.

It’s official, Doritos trees exist! But is their fruit too delicious?

Check out the latest spot from the Dandy Dwarves. Excellent work!

We are continuing to put a new face on San Rafael, CA based production company Dandy Dwarves! We’ve just launched the new website featuring a plethora of new and old work. There are some projects in there from way back in our college years even!

For the site we wanted something that looked artsy, but still played well with web standards. From our research, it turns out to be one of only a few production company sites that aren’t Flash based — which is a good thing. Building the site complient with web standards will allow for better search engine optimization and an easier way to link to specific projects.

I’m surprised at how many large production companies have terrible websites in which you can’t link to a specific project. Can you imagine getting inspired by something and wanting to share it with your creative team or client? The conversation would go something like, “Ok go to blah.com. Wait for it to load. Now do you see a projects link? Ok click that and wait for it to load. Now is there a Directors link? Click that and then click on Joe Schmo. When his thumbnails animate in go to the third one across and second one down. Yeah that’s it!”

We can just send ‘em a simple link directly to any page. That’s how it should work.

We’ve revamped the logo for San Rafael based production group Dandy Dwarves! They really wanted something simple with room to add a little fun later, so I’ve initially based the logo off the Century Gothic typeface. I evened out all the stroke widths, and rounded everything off. A little nip there, a little tuck there, and that’s what you see.

Just completed! To help launch the new Redline ‘Redefine’ campaign we’ve completed this quick, action packed animation. It will be used to tag on to existing Redline videos while we continue our work to bring everything up to speed with the new look. Charpie teamed up with fellow production crew Dandy Dwarves and Mike Goubeaux to make it happen.

Dandy Dwarves | Mike Goubeaux

The Dandy Dwarves have produced this pretty good spot for Full Throttle energy drink. Enjoy!

I’ve been working hard with the Dandy Dwarves on our recent project SCADshorts. In celebration of Valentines’ Day we’ve come up with this fun little number, Love Hurts.

It’s also inspired this Match.com spot.

New Dandy Dwarves project!

In this short video introduction to the 2007 SCAD Fashion Show with Marc Jacobs, the perfectly awful little town of Plasticville finds itself facing a storm of prodigious proportions.

Way back when I was a freshman in college at the Savannah College of Art and Design I hooked up with three like minded achievement addicts: Josh Lind, Britt Spencer, and Kevin Phillips. We all got a long great and each saw a skillset in the others that offered a unique blend when we combined our effort toward a project. We knew we wanted to some day work with each other professionally, so as an excersize we formed a group called Dandy Dwarves.

Within this group we made up fictitious clients and produced work for them as if they had come to hire us in the real world. The work ranged from a simple logo to websites to television production. From this we gathered great experiences in understanding how each of us worked and what roles we naturally fell into. The Dandy Dwarves did eventually become a business and now operates out of San Rafael, CA and is lead by Josh Lind. Although Lind is the last remaining ‘original’ member, we all still work closely on projects together.

History aside, I recently created this minor facelift of our old emblem, the lollipop, to tide the Dandy Dwarves image over until the complete overhaul already in the plans. I did it mostly for fun, but also wanted to see how far I could push the idea.