Director, Dane Winn, said: “With such a lovely, contained concept of a piggy bank in a tree breaking the fourth wall, we could focus in on all the little details to bring Earnest’s personality to the forefront so he could get the audience’s attention and keep it. We tried an interesting approach to the character rig, by having the legs and ears be separate pieces of geometry, which deformed to the shape of the body, the animators were able to be far more expressive and get the silhouettes they wanted.

The team created a beautiful, dynamic environment of the tree branch with moving leafs and natural sunlight to breath as much life into the adverts as possible and along with a mud-filled jacuzzi, create something really charming and fun.”