The trophy shelf is making a noise.
Not a dramatic noise. Not a braggy noise. More of a tiny, metallic “ahem” from the corner of the room. Seven new Telly Awards have arrived, adjusting their little formal jackets and politely requesting that we acknowledge them before the pixels start unionizing.
So here we are.
Honeycutt Inc. recently won seven Telly Awards for video work across case studies, sizzles, demos, digital events, and a few joyful internal oddities that somehow escaped the lab wearing party hats. We’re proud. We’re grateful. We’re also checking whether trophies require snacks.
The winning work
Microsoft CELA, SharePoint agents case study turned scattered knowledge into a clear customer story—showing how SharePoint agents help Microsoft’s government affairs team find information, cite sources, generate talking points, and understand stakeholder needs without wandering the document wilderness with a tiny lantern. We produced the case study end-to-end, from story shaping and interviews to production, editing, color, sound, captions, audio description, and thumbnails. Blissfully polished. Deeply useful. No treasure map required.
Microsoft Security Copilot sizzle took a very large cybersecurity idea and made it feel sharp, confident, and human-sized. The animation introduces Security Copilot as a generative AI experience for security and IT, then shows how it helps teams assess threats, investigate incidents, protect data, resolve IT issues, secure identities, and let AI agents handle some of the workflow herding. We handled script, visual plan, animatics, voiceover, music, illustration, keyframing, sound design, captions, audio description, and thumbnails—because if a sizzle is going to sizzle, the stove should be supervised.
Virtual Ninja Training 2025 celebration did what a good celebration video should do: move fast, look good, and make the room feel slightly more epic than it did three minutes ago. Built for Microsoft Security, the piece blends cinematic visuals, custom animation, bold transitions, and a fast-paced narrative to celebrate the people, products, culture, and collaborative spirit behind the Virtual Ninja Training Show. The edit wore a tiny headband. We do not have proof. We have vibes.
Creative Misadventure Day was ours. Entirely ours. A social spot for our internal holiday where the creative brief is basically “make something for fun, then see if the pixels behave.” It includes breakfast in bed, portraits, rollerblading, poetry, and the sort of low-stakes chaos that keeps creative muscles limber and the studio gremlins pleasantly confused. We treated it like client work—concept, script, timing, voice, music, motion, polish—but with the pressure valve open and the weirdness properly hydrated.
Microsoft Places: Booking experiences made hybrid workplace planning feel clean, readable, and far less like negotiating with a calendar goblin. The demo walks through setting office days, booking desks from Outlook or Teams, using Places Finder to filter by floor and features, reserving rooms with the right capacity and equipment, and selecting spaces from an interactive map. Our job was to keep the workflow crisp, the screens legible, and the pacing fast enough to move—but not so fast the interface gets stage fright.
Introduction to Copilot for Microsoft 365 brought a technical conversation into a polished digital event format. The session explored how Copilot shows up across Teams, Outlook, Word, and PowerPoint—from meeting summaries and email thread help to drafting, rephrasing, document summaries, and turning a Word doc into a PowerPoint. We handled show development, graphics, guest prep, production, and streaming so the complexity stayed behind the curtain, quietly wearing a headset.
Happy Earth Day, also known around the shop as "Our ball of dirt & surf’s day," is a rhyming little love letter to Earth—our favorite dirt-and-ocean situation. It nudges people toward practical fixes like planting trees, protecting bees, reducing plastic, and taking better care of the sea, soil, airspace, and everything else we are borrowing while pretending we own the place. Music-forward, bright, repeatable, and just odd enough to stick. The planet gave it a polite nod. Probably.
Why this matters
Awards are lovely. They sparkle. ✨ They look excellent in a sentence. They give the trophy shelf something to gossip about.
But the real win is the range.
These seven projects stretch across customer evidence, cybersecurity animation, product demos, streamed technical conversations, brand-adjacent celebration work, and tiny internal creative experiments that keep our brains from becoming beige pudding. They prove what we keep saying with confidence: clear storytelling works everywhere.
- In a case study, clarity builds trust.
- In a sizzle, clarity creates momentum.
- In a demo, clarity helps people actually understand the thing.
- In a digital event, clarity keeps humans calm while the technology quietly juggles flaming bowling pins backstage.
- And in a weird Earth Day poem, clarity can rhyme with bees. Which is frankly useful.
Thank you, sincerely
To our clients—especially the teams at Microsoft who trust us with complex stories, high-stakes messages, and the occasional sentence that arrives wearing seventeen acronyms in a trench coat—thank you.
To our producers, directors, writers, animators, editors, designers, voice artists, accessibility pros, and everyone else who helps move a video from “what if” to “watch this,” you are dazzling nerds and we adore you.
To the Telly Awards—thank you for the shiny objects. We promise to display them responsibly, admire them often, and keep the pixels from using them as tiny mirrors.
Seven awards. Seven stories. One very happy studio.
Now back to work. The timeline is blinking at us.
