Grantland - Method Man

Bill Simmons took his legacy as ESPN’s ‘Sports Guy’ to the next level by launching Grantland.com. As fans of Simmons' work, Powerhouse Animation was excited to partner with the Grantland team on their newest venture-the B.S. Report’s Animated Archives. We can’t say enough about how much we’ve loved working with David Jacoby and the rest of the Grantland’ers on this project and we really hope you enjoy the fruits of our collaboration.
We are big fans of Bill Simmons and we were excited about Grantland, so when ESPN called and asked us to help concept design and create a new series of web animated shorts for the site, we were thrilled. David Jacoby, producer at Grantland, wanted each of the Animated Archives & Jalen Rose Story Time pieces to have a unique and different art style. This has been a lot of fun for our character designers and animators to explore different animation techniques and concept design styles. It has also been great to animate stories told by some amazing guests including Arnold Schwartznegger, Jeff Ross, and Jalen Rose.
Powerhouse Animation created several styles and concepts for each of the spots, here are some of the examples.

[@brycewilson1909]

love how he breaks it down in this....very cool

[@Real_pic]

Sounds so high my man

[@kenzopo8125]

I've been a Wu fan since'93 & I never knew Meth Listened to The Same Chuck Berry album I did when I was little!!!

[@woabeatz9717]

Disco duck...😂🐦

[@patstreater]

I BETTER SEE THIS IN A FLASHBACK ON THE HULU SERIES!!

[@ms.suzylucy6868]

Ah wow man. I remember giggling to that song when I was a little girl. I was going to say that Meth told his age when he referred to the tv/stereo combo and the song but I guess we’re both telling our age. LoL

[@curiouslymavismade]

Classic. Love the Wu.

[@LuizGustavo-sl3hd]

Great

[@HazeFrederick]

awesome!!!!!!!!!

[@ep5256]

I never broke down his name like that. Method and then man

[@Leagacyman]

nice

[@3serio]

Mad kid mef had a beard lol

[@c.cosman3674]

This is why i say method is lowkey the greatest rapper of all time. slept on

[@Ihbaworldsax]

rick Deez WOW Memory’s!

[@Troublemakaz202]

i know you had a ball

[@panamecitypanamecity5855]

Wow i was just asking myself " i wonder if method man can sing " and i just heard at 1:35 method man singing. 😉😉

[@iiiiiiiiii_o_O]

Born to a thug life...

[@jefflitwiller6107]

Darn. I knew I was white, but I didn't realize I was Canadian white. Not gonna apologize, don't matter