president who during his election campaign ran on the idea that he was going to pursue a narrow strategy in Afghanistan centered around fighting al-Qaeda. Then he gets elected and puts in charge a guy who immediately wants more troops and seems committed to a loony nation-building exercise run under the banner of a counterinsurgency program called COIN, in which armed soldiers are supposed to double as cultural representatives -- "Think the Green Berets as an armed Peace Corps" is how Hastings wrote it. This COIN program was supposed to use large masses of American troops to go out into Afghanistan, perhaps the most change-resistant place on the planet, and help the whole country come around to our point view from behind kevlar vests.

So there was clear tensionAnimation for the Medical Field

What do talking animals and anthropomorphic pills have in common? They are both showing up in commercials and training videos produced by Timbuktoons.

Timbuktoons visual developed the main character, and we are producing the animated segments for a national pain management awareness video in partnership with our friends at Orion Vega Media.

We have also produced a series of commercials for our friends at Memorial Medical Center, the latest of which was a spot for their new pediatric unit. Timbuktoons used their existing character designs and brought the animals to life and handled animatics, production, and post-production.