The Ford Motor folks recently commissioned three cartoonists — Al Jaffee, M.K. Brown and Bill Plympton — to write and design little animated spots on the topic of paying attention while you're driving. Supervising the project was animation producer and director J.J. Sedelmaier, whose company has been responsible for some of the best animation of the past twenty years. If you see a cartoon segment on a very funny TV show that is not otherwise animated, it's probably their work.
Here, J.J. chats with Al and at the end, you'll see the finished video that they created. Al is still at age 94 creating his MAD Fold-Ins (and occasionally other things) for MAD but he took time out from them to do his first-ever work in the field of animation…