Agency: Uncommon
Client: WWF
Date: Nov 2019
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World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) has slightly verged away from its traditional adoption plea, this Christmas urging its supported to 'adopt a better future' rather than an animal.

Operating in over 100 nations, WWF mission is to awaken people to the degradation of natural environments, and call upon support to halt it.

And while over the years WWF has been more focused on animal adoption as a present you give your family member at Christmas, it has changed course - instead spotlighting the real-world impact of these adoptions with a stop-motion animation.

While charity campaigns often apply a hard-hitting approach, the animation contains the hopeful message that collectively people can (and must) end the destruction of nature in the fight against climate change.

Directed by Noah Harris, the stop-motion film tells the story of a young girl, who sets it upon herself to protect a threatened wild jaguar as it flees his home that is being destroyed by deforestation.

She rallies a crowd, who stand hand in hand against the face of an impending bulldozer.

The film concludes in the girl’s bedroom, where we see a charcoal drawing of the endangered jaguar. The charcoal upon which the drawing is made from imbues a deeper message upon the ad: it was created from trees destroyed in a recent rainforest fire.

The campaign was developed by Uncommon, who won the WWF account last year and tasked with helping the charity to communicate its work

Credits

Project name: Adopt a Better Future

Agency: Uncommon Creative Studio

Client: WWF

Production company: Agile Films

Director: Noah Harris

Editor: Max Windows @ Stitch

Exec Producer: Myles Payne

Producer: Emma Bewley

DOP: Toby Howell

Animators: Andy Biddle, Tobias Fouracre & Dan Gill

Character Design: Felicie Haymoz

Model Makers: AMS Models

Art Director: Gordon Allen

Charcoal Artist: Finn Notman

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Post-production: Agile Films & nineteentwenty

VFX artists: David Horsburgh & Chrys Aldred

Colourist: Jason Wallis @ Electric Theatre Collective

Music & sound: Soundtree Music

Soundtrack composer: Luke Fabia & Luis Almau

Sound design & mix: Henning Knoepfel

Music & sound producers: Jay James and Neil Athale

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Media agency: Vizeum

Media planner: Charlotte Jackson, Lauren Chandler, Hannah Kane

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Exposure (e.g. TV, online, cinema + markets): TV, cinema & online