Bing: Jerry's Story
An almost-awesome project that never fully happened and yet did: a 20-panel storyboard for Microsoft Bing's "Jerry's Story", the one episode made from a planned series called The Bings, following characters using Bing (the "decision engine") to make everyday decisions.
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The Brief
An almost awesome project that never fully happened and yet did. Planned as a series of 4 to 22 episodes, The Bings charted the journey of a large number of characters as they used Microsoft's new search engine — or should we say, the "decision engine" — to find out everything from where to find the best holidays and cheapest flights, to where is the best mountain to sky dive off into a frozen lake full of sushi. Cumi so fell in love with the characters and ideas that Jack Morton commissioned the making of the first episode, Jerry's Story, told here as a 20-panel storyboard. It was a lot of fun, but Cumi would still have loved to animate tornados, a dance crew full of 55-year-old men, and a hero-girl-wins-gal scene amid an exploding truck, starring the made-up star "Brad Bravado".