This was a Christmas commercial with a couple of crazy elves from LA.  We shot this in Smith’s off of 215 and Decatur in Las Vegas.  I was hired to stunt coordinate and stunt rig.  There are some training videos out there someplace and when I find them I will post them.  The director wanted some really zany flipping and hopping, but for that they would have to go to CGI.  Not because I couldn’t build what they need, but for the money that was all they could afford. 
The reindeer were finally used at about 2 or 3 in the morning and they weren’t happy.  A couple of times they got a little restless when they were tied to the shopping cart.

If I can find the videos I will post them and as most production companies promise, “Oh you’ll get a copy” I will end up trying to buy it from a commercial house somewhere.