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Happy Trails Animation The award-winning studio of Happy Trails is recognized for creating unique commercial animation for creatives, marketing companies and producers.

Happy Trails Animation is an award-winning 2d animation studio. A powerhouse of talent that teams up with ad agencies, art directors and film studios to produce animated commercials, visual effects, motion comics, storyboards, animated infographics and animated infomercials (and short animated films, just for kicks). The friendly, collaborative working environment of the studio is known for inspir

ing everyone on the team, including the clients. Happy Trails has a full wheelhouse of techniques that push the limits of traditional animation — blending 2D animation, 3D methods and proprietary visual effects together to target to your specific audience. Talk with producer Andy Collen about your project to get a sense of what is possible within your budget and production timeline. Andy will gather a selection of animation style examples for your team to review.

• Motion Comics & Motion Graphics
• 2D Animation, 3D & Visual Effects
• Original Character Design & Custom Illustration
• Storyboarding
• Digital Painting & Backgrounds
• Animated Infomercials
• Sound Design & Voiceover

Some of you know that Happy Trails Animation has recently received 1 Telly and 2 Davey Awards for a series of music vid...
07/11/2025

Some of you know that Happy Trails Animation has recently received 1 Telly and 2 Davey Awards for a series of music videos for MTV.

These music videos were for a band called Freezemachine. After a lot of fun, using old school knowledge with new school tools, the team of Andy Collen and Josh McMahon decided to create a line of music videos for kids in their early school years.

Somewhere between 4-10.

This new series is called Wordy Wobbles. Our first video is learning the alphabet... The ABC's!

ABC's - Wordy Wobbles
https://youtu.be/zviPyKwAVsM?si=dh_juwpTUHikofxN

We have also created a line of shirts for each video. Right now we only have this one song and shirt available for the public. The shirts have a QR code that will link you to the video. The idea is that any kids wearing this shirt has a key to a song right on their shirt.

It's wearable streaming entertainment.

Threadless - The T-shirt
https://happytrailsanimation.threadless.com/collections/worddy-wobble/

20% OFF EVERYTHING
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06/11/2025

Another fun retrospective!

Old school knowledge meets new school tools!It's official we struck GOLD! Playing with some new tools on MTV and creatin...
05/11/2025

Old school knowledge meets new school tools!

It's official we struck GOLD! Playing with some new tools on MTV and creating some cool animation.

The Davey Awards is a premier international creative awards focused exclusively on honoring outstanding work from small agencies, independent creators and in-house teams. Inspired by the story of David vs. Goliath, the awards recognizes big ideas that come to life without big budgets.

Produced by Happy Trails Animation
Client: Freezemachine
Directors: Andy Collen/Jordan Schmidt/ Joshua Mcmahon

Here is a link to the music video on YouTube, feel free to share with friends. We had such a blast working with the band Freezemachine!
https://youtu.be/XViW1qJdiyU?si=MdH_BEwdBeXdX80J

Short Films that launched careers!
04/11/2025

Short Films that launched careers!

These are a collection of animated films that started some pretty great careers. These may not be their first film but the film that set the wheels in motion...

Old school knowledge meets new school tools!It's official we struck SILVER! Playing with some new tools on MTV and creat...
30/10/2025

Old school knowledge meets new school tools!

It's official we struck SILVER! Playing with some new tools on MTV and creating some cool animation.

The Davey Awards is a premier international creative awards focused exclusively on honoring outstanding work from small agencies, independent creators and in-house teams. Inspired by the story of David vs. Goliath, the awards recognizes big ideas that come to life without big budgets.

Produced by Happy Trails Animation
Client: Freezemachine
Directors: Andy Collen/Jordan Schmidt/ Joshua Mcmahon

Here is a link to the music video on YouTube, feel free to share with friends. We had such a blast working with the band Freezemachine!
https://youtu.be/F_oKKEIE8fE?si=hP5-JmAICt1_nsaT

Animated shorts for Halloween!
28/10/2025

Animated shorts for Halloween!

A good-quality version of UPA's classic horror film The Tell-Tale Heart, adapted from Edgar Allan Poe's story. It first premiered on December 27, 1953.

It's official we struck GOLD! Playing with some new tools on MTV and creating some cool animation. The Davey Awards is a...
28/10/2025

It's official we struck GOLD! Playing with some new tools on MTV and creating some cool animation.

The Davey Awards is a premier international creative awards focused exclusively on honoring outstanding work from small agencies, independent creators and in-house teams. Inspired by the story of David vs. Goliath, the awards recognizes big ideas that come to life without big budgets.

Produced by Happy Trails Animation
Client: Freezemachine

Directors: Andy Collen/Jordan Schmidt/ Joshua Mcmahon
Here is a link to the music video on YouTube, feel free to share with friends. We had such a blast working with the band Freezemachine!
https://youtu.be/XViW1qJdiyU?si=SQEj7N933Ce0qgIM

It's official we struck SILVER! Playing with some new tools on MTV and creating some cool animation. The Davey Awards i...
25/10/2025

It's official we struck SILVER! Playing with some new tools on MTV and creating some cool animation.

The Davey Awards is a premier international creative awards focused exclusively on honoring outstanding work from small agencies, independent creators and in-house teams. Inspired by the story of David vs. Goliath, the awards recognizes big ideas that come to life without big budgets.

Produced by Happy Trails Animation
Client: Freezemachine

Directors: Andy Collen/Jordan Schmidt/ Joshua Mcmahon

Here is a link to the music video on YouTube, feel free to share with friends. We had such a blast working with the band Freezemachine!
https://youtu.be/F_oKKEIE8fE?si=hP5-JmAICt1_nsaT

Animated shorts for Halloween!https://youtu.be/SyIePDLWKoQ?si=N43VylhG6d3R6yof
25/10/2025

Animated shorts for Halloween!
https://youtu.be/SyIePDLWKoQ?si=N43VylhG6d3R6yof

This is a short animated by Webster Colcord, known for his work on Minority Report and X-Men.It was originally shown at the Spike and Mike Animation Festival...

Animated shorts for Halloween!https://youtu.be/mYTusLuzDpM?si=5ZgbI2dcBkd7_MXt
25/10/2025

Animated shorts for Halloween!

https://youtu.be/mYTusLuzDpM?si=5ZgbI2dcBkd7_MXt

Vincent - Tim Burton & Rick Heinrichs Synopsis: Vincent dreams of being like actor Vincent Price, and loses himself in macabre daydreams. I DO NOT OWN THE RI...

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