Cordell Barker, the two-time Academy Award-nominated Canadian animator, marries his singular talents with a Seussian script to energize what could have been a very dry explainer video for Nokia’s enterprise networking solutions.

Barker and Montreal studio TONIC DNA worked directly with Nokia and its creative team to create “a wondrous world where industry’s biggest dreams are realized.”
 

Client: Nokia
Nokia: Carol Hung, Nancy Moloney
Creative director/copywriter: Jim Diorio
Art director/copywriter/illustrator: Inna Gertsberg

Production: TONIC DNA
Director/character animator: Cordell Barker
Animators: Sunmin Park, Etienne Dufresne, Mylene Sansoucy, Dominique Coté, Luc Sperl
Compositors: Marc-André Bourgoin, Sunmin Park, Myriam Arsenault
Executive producer: Stefanie Bitton
Coordinator: Isabel Hervieux

Sound studio: Pirate
Music composer: Ari Posner