Brian Herring

Ads & Idents

Brian’s commercial work has included the Spitting Image Cows I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter campaign.  American Airlines and DEFRA’s Don’t Bring Me Back!  He was also principal performer on all of the EGG Money Guinea Pig commercials.

Brian has also provided station idents for BBC2’s Pedigree Comedy season which featured a fluffy dog-like 2 getting into all kinds of mischief with such stars as Steven Fry, Catherine Tate, Rob Brydon and John Culshaw.  A mixture of rod and hand puppetry, the idents were conceived by Red Bee Media.  Two was built by Neil Scanland Studios.

In 2009 Virgin Media Television announced a re-brand on their channel Virgin 1.  Brian won the role of Red, a cheeky little character with a love of TV.  Once again conceived by Red Bee Media, Red was designed by Scott Brooker and built by Paul Jomain.  

In 2010 Brian gave bulk to Simon the Walrus for the AROGS campagne.  He also puppeteered the two talking penguins.  All of the animatronic animals were created by Cliff Wallace and his team at Creature FX.

Many of the clips mentioned here can be seen on Brian’s YouTube channel HERE.