
About the Project
When Henderson Bas, the acclaimed Toronto-based Interactive Design agency, was tasked with creating a series of online commercials for Capital One, which featured bankers attempting to trick customers into paying higher fees through elaborate puppet shows (to be thwarted every time by a handyman who would tell the audience of the much better [...]

About the Project
To promote acclaimed satirist and MacArthur Grant recipient George Saunders’ latest book, “The Braindead Megaphone,” and to help him break into the mainstream, publisher X wanted to do something unique. To that end, they enlisted the help of acclaimed radio host and podcaster Jesse Thorne, host of “The Sound of Young America,” to [...]
About the Show
Puppet talks about the issues, gets people watching, gets people talking. 50,000+ for each of the puppet rants.
The Rant Puppets is another show being created by Hoggworks Studios. Chiefly featuring the Brian character from dotBoom, the Rant Puppets features, as the name implies, a rant about an issue of importance to Brian, and [...]

About the Project
The Colbert Puppet Challenge is a unique, atypical, campaign, designed to increase the exposure of Hoggworks Studios immensely, by enlisting the fans of one of the most popular television shows currently in production to help us leapfrog our way past the usual rules and constraints of the network TV system, and land us [...]

About the Project
The FITC new media festival has become something of an institution, and is widely regarded as the foremost conference of its type; people from all over the world travel to attend its sessions, which now occur in such diverse locations as Toronto, Los Angeles, Amsterdam, and Korea, and it has consistently attracted the [...]

dotBoom is our calling card. It was our first production, and Hoggworks owes our existence to the show.
dotBoom is a puppet show about web designers who hate themselves. It’s a darkly comic semi-sitcom following the trials, tribulations, and calamities of the staff of dotBoom, a fictional web design studio in Toronto. It was created in [...]

About the Show
Ask Palpatine, the second show to come out of Hoggworks Studios, is simple in both concept and execution, but it is yielding tremendous results.
The show features a puppet version of Emperor Palpatine, the Dark Lord of the Sith and over-villain of the Star Wars films. This version of the character isn’t as aggressive [...]