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Retirement planning is serious business, and we're serious about making awesome videos. Greenspring needed us to create an animated video that explains their (k)larity Quotient product. The (k)Q system pinpoints specific areas of your retirement plan that needs improvement and tells you how to fix them.

Beautifully shot by @timelapsegroup

In the United States we have our fair share of PSA's about drunk driving and speeding. These commercials from New Zealand and the UK are extremely powerful and emotional.

Speeding Commercial from New Zealand

Seatbelt Commercial from the UK

2013 was a special year for LessFilms. We went international, traveled all across the USA, and worked with some fantastic companies. Check out our reel below to see some of what we did in 2013.

Some of our BFF's in 2013 were:

Signal Noise

BrowserStack

Pinball HOF

Engine Yard

Dashlane

Arkadium

Seth Godin

La Conf

Sponsr

Thuzio

ThunderBolt Labs

Weblinc

Andy D

Customer IO

Madison Ruby

Make Shit (Design Madison)

Smartling

ProdThink

We wanted to share and give shout-outs to are favorite apps and tools that help us get our job done.

Yesware - Email for salespeople.

Yesware is a free plugin for gmail that tells us if someone opens our emails. It also lets us set email reminders and use email templates.

Basecamp - Project Management Software.

There are lots of project management apps out there but we think Jason Fried is cute, so we're sticking with Basecamp. It makes keeping our clients and creative teams synced up is easy.

Uberconference - Conference Calls.

There are a ton of free conference call tools. Uberconference is far and away the best we have found. It allows us to quickly start a call, or schedule one for the future. Participants can dial-in through the phone or through the browser using your computer's built-in microphone.

Wistia - Video Hosting for Businesses.

To make viewing a proof simple for our clients we used to use Youtube. Now we exclusively use Wistia. Our clients are able to easily view the proof on any device, leave feedback, and Wistia gives us a gazillion sharing and privacy options.

Dropbox - Large File Sharing.

Dropbox makes the final delivery of a completed video project seamless. We put all of the final videos in a folder, share it with the client, and high five each other.