McGarryBowen tapped the seemingly workaholic folks at Psyop (and Smuggler, lest we forget) to develop the animation in this pop-up book spot for JP Morgan Chase, the financial firm that received a nice $25 billion bailout back in ’08 and insisted it was putting the cash to good use.

In this piece, which makes us want to revisit Inception for some reason, JPMorgan Chase gloats about how many homes and small businesses it’s saved since 2009 while increasing the company’s lending commitment by $10,000,000,000 (yes, we believe we have all those 0′s right) and giving businesses an opportunity for a second review.

It’s a nifty visual piece, but will anything Psyop produces measure up to “Happiness Factory?” We’ll let you be the judge. Credits after the jump.

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Taking a cue from Jaws, Y&R New York sets the scene in this spot for the LG Kompressor Elite vacuum cleaner. Everything is all fine and dandy, as all the toys are enjoying a day at the carpet until a couple gets separated from the group. They start, well, having fun until (cue the score) things go to hell real quick when some uninvited guests show up for dinner.

The team at Psyop (with the help of Smuggler) built a set on a stage, keeping the CG to a minimum and shot all the plastic toy soldiers, Barbie look-a-likes, designer toys, stuffed animals, etc on that set and implemented CG to give the dolls different facial expressions. The sharks and other subtleties were obviously generated as well.

Psyop CEO and CD Marco Spier says in a statement, “We of course got personally connected with the toys, their characters and the story. Carefully placing them personally on set to get the best performance out of them, kind of like actors. We also liked the idea of having unusual combinations of different characters because that’s how kids play – free form, mixing and matching, and grouping things together based on what they have no hand, or what their siblings or friends have.”

We think it’s safe to say this turned out to be a nice spot with some good imagination – much better than an infomercial of a vacuum sucking up coins and marbles. Credits after the jump.

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