Below are some of our recent animation projects; click on the image to see the video.
Creating Life - The new field of synthetic biology
| We were commissioned to produce a series of animations to help explore the abstract world of synthetic biology, allowing the concepts of designing and programming bacteria to perform a particular task, in this case creating a colour change when exposed to a parasite - brilliant for testing water sources in remote locations, with a clear visual result. For information on the documentary itself, please contact Kelly Neaves. |
IMechE - Inside a Nuclear Reactor
| We've just completed a rush project for the IMechE to illustrate how a second generation nuclear reactor works. It's a pressurised water reactor (PWR). Not bad, considering the brief was "Show how a second generation nuclear reactor works, aimed at a Guardian reader". Read the IMechE's guide to Nuclear Power here. |
Bloodhound SSC - The Race!
| The Bloodhound SSC team came back to us for a bigger, more ambitious project to mark the one-year mark in the public consciousness - a race between Bloodhound SSC and the donor of its jet engine, a Eurofighter Typhoon. At sea level, the Eurofighter's top speed is around Mach 1.2 - no match for Bloodhound! Turnaround on this project was approximately 2 months from the drawing board to final delivery, with extensive consultation with the driver going into the cockpit design, and trying to convey the overall experience of driving through the sound barrier (Wing Commander Andy Green is the only person in the world qualified to testify on this). |
Bloodhound SSC
| Like the car itself, we needed the Bloodhound SSC visualisation fast. In three weeks from brief through production to rendering, we delivered a concise and visually dramatic demonstration intended to have wide appeal to a broad public and to make science more engaging for children. Since its release, the video has spread virally through television news programs, such as the BBC and CNN, as well as propagating throughout video sharing websites such as YouTube, where it has amassed 1,600,000 views to date. |
Solar Orbiter
| Astrium were looking to present their new Solar Orbiter project to an audience with a general interest in space exploration, and needed a way of bridging the knowledge gap between their cutting-edge scientific project and the layman's general understanding. They provided us with a rough storyboard and approximately ten minutes of narrative text. Following this, it was important for us to work closely with Astrium over the course of the next two months to produce a polished, slick product, while ensuring that the facts of the science were accurate and the visuals precise. The final product was six minutes of high definition animation, complete with voiceover. |
CERN Documentary
When the Institute of Physics wanted to explain the new theories behind the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiment at CERN, they decided to commission a documentary to cover it. For this, we worked with the filmmakers to produce 20 short animations to lend visual aid in interpreting the sometimes complex physics principles. As nobody wanted to diminish the accuracy of the physics concepts involved in the process of translating for the public, feedback from the physicists involved was crucial here. In order to adapt and correct our work, we were happy to take the time to discuss the nuances of high-energy physics.
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