A full year ago we did the production and animation on an anti-smoking PSA for http://www.walkingtimebomb.com/ that recently went up on their website. (Click Animal Kingdom)

The idea is that addiction is a predator in a "Wild America" nature show parody with voice over by the REAL Marty Stouffer. It was written by Hunt Adkins and designed/illustrated by Jordan Crane. There was a fast couple of weeks turn-around for the animated piece and then the whole thing was shelved for a year. When it resurfaced, several of the violent/gory predator scenes were cut, even though the fake ratings screen still says "head explosion and limb loss."

It's too bad because these were the scenes with the most time consuming and well animated. They contained multiple characters and Max did an amazing job with the documentary style camera movement on the final scene where the camera plucks the guy's leg off. When we got the script we were shocked and excited that they'd let some of the stuff in there fly..but they did..until they didn't. I'm not sure that it would be ok to show the full clips of these cut scenes (our first lost footage!) but here are a couple screen grabs:

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