2020-12-01 22:47
2020 has been a funny old year, but we didn’t let lockdown stop up from moving ahead with our first steps into virtual reality. Collaborating with Kay Media Africa, we have spent the b… Read More
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Award winning animation production studio in London. We work with agencies, production companies, and directly with brands; creating animated content for commercials, online, TV, apps, education and internal communications.
2020-02-14 05:00
The finalists have been announced for the prestigious British Animation Awards 2020, and we are extremely proud to have been selected as one of the finalists for this year’s awards.
Vo… Read More
2019-09-16 10:52
Once we’d decided on the outline for what we were then calling ‘The Stalker Film for DAVSS’ (which we now just call “The Monster”), the next stage was the story… Read More
2019-09-02 10:40
Following on from the success of our recent film The Mouse for Voicing CSA, we were keen to find another opportunity to create a film that gave us a similar warm feeling of having done &lsqu&hell…Read More
2019-04-30 06:27
We are extremely proud to announce that The Mouse has picked up a Charity Film Award! Voicing CSA Chair, Phil Lafferty, and Patron, Chris Harper, were on hand to pick the award up from comed… Read More
2018-12-13 05:02
On Monday, Slurpy picked up it’s second US festival award for charity film ‘Voicing CSA: The Mouse’; this time winning Best Commercial award at the Los Angeles Animation Fe… Read More
2018-07-26 08:54
Girlguiding has had an overhaul and redesigned its badges and added a host of new activities to “reflect the diversity of girls and modern life in the 21st Century”.
The organisa… Read More
2018-07-23 06:30
Following on from our successful animated film for the 2015 Day of the Seafarers campaign, the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) asked us to create an animation to celebrate the 70th… Read More
2018-06-26 19:44
The US premiere of Voicing CSA: The Mouse took place last week at the Florida Animation Festival. We were pleased to spread the message of The Truth Project and raise awareness of child sex… Read More
2018-06-07 10:00
Our recent training animation, for the Video Standards Council, was created to demonstrate when a DVD/games shop salesperson would find it necessary to ask to see ID, what types of ID were a… Read More
2018-06-07 10:00
Our recent training animation, for the Video Standards Council, was created to demonstrate when a DVD/games shop salesperson would find it necessary to ask to see ID, what types of ID were a… Read More
2018-05-31 07:07
Every year Creative England announces the 50 most exciting, innovative and disruptive individuals and companies across England, working in the fields of games, TV, film and digital media &nd&hell…Read More
2018-05-21 05:07
Orbiting around our Sun we find asteroids, comets and planets with their moons. But how did our Solar System form? If we had to summarize how the Solar System was formed, we could say:
A clo… Read More
2018-05-21 05:07
Orbiting around our Sun we find asteroids, comets and planets with their moons. But how did our Solar System form? If we had to summarize how the Solar System was formed, we could say:
A clo… Read More
2018-05-17 05:15
After a recent screening of our film ‘The Mouse: Voicing CSA’ at a US festival, we were approached by iCube (of Peace.University, USA), who have just hosted Pakistan’s firs… Read More
2018-05-17 05:15
After a recent screening of our film ‘The Mouse: Voicing CSA’ at a US festival, we were approached by iCube (of Peace.University, USA), who have just hosted Pakistan’s firs… Read More
2018-05-14 06:01
As more and more educational institutions turn to animation as a way of sharing their knowledge and inspiring the next generation, we thought we’d put together 5 of our all time favour… Read More
2018-05-07 05:21
We hope you’ve enjoyed our previous 4 articles on the animated titles of past children’s classic shows from the 70s, 80s and 90s (scroll to the bottom for the links). Now, onto o… Read More
2018-04-23 05:44
We could summarise the answer to the question ‘where does space begin?’ simply as:
The Kármán line is where many, including NASA, consider space to begin. Named aft… Read More
2018-04-16 06:20
Having compiled a list of twenty children’s animated series from the 1980’s (Part 1 and Part 2), and following on with our retrospect of the nineties (so many Disney spin-offs!)… Read More
2018-04-12 05:04
Having recently completely our second series of animated films for the Royal Observatory Greenwich, we realised that we have now produced films on the subject of Science, aimed at each… Read More
2018-04-02 06:19
Rendering, in the most basic terms, is the process of turning an editable animation file in to a watchable, shareable film.
It is a process (sometimes a very time consuming and RAM heavy pro… Read More
2018-03-26 06:20
If you were an eighties kid and remember most of the animated shows in our previous part 1 and part 2 articles, you will most likely have grown up with a good number of the animated shows th… Read More
2018-03-19 05:38
If you hadn’t already heard, 2018 is the year where the BFI will be “celebrating animation in all its guises, from puppetry and stop-motion to anime and CGI”. Animation 201… Read More
2018-03-15 07:00
To mark British Science Week, the Royal Observatory Greenwich (ROG) has teamed up with us for the second year running to produce three short films to inspire students to think about astronom… Read More
2018-03-09 05:11
To coincide with both British Science Week, which starts today and runs until 18th March, and International Women’s Day, which took place yesterday (8th March), the 36th Little Miss ch… Read More
2018-03-05 06:32
Adobe After Effects is a phenomenally powerful piece of animation software that has eased the workload of animators from a wide variety of disciplines. That said, there are limitations to ev… Read More
2018-03-02 14:52
We are pleased to announce that The Mouse has been awarded the Best Charity Film UK at the Watchdog Film Festival in Brisbane, Australia – a festival that seeks to award filmmakers who… Read More
2018-02-26 06:27
After putting together our first compilation of classic 80’s animated TV titles/theme tunes, we realised there were way too many to cram into one article. So here we are again, with a… Read More
2018-02-20 05:51
As you may have seen, 2018 will mark 100 years since women were given the vote; in February 1918 the Representation of the People Act 1918 was passed, which gave some women over the age of 3… Read More
2018-02-14 03:48
Whether you’re single, loved up, or couldn’t care less – don’t let that stop you procrastinating your day away with these animated short films! We have hand picked 5… Read More
2018-02-12 07:32
In this article in our series about After Effects Plugins, we will be looking at Video Copilot’s Element 3D; a 3D object based particle plugin, and how it contributed to our recent fil… Read More
2018-02-05 04:22
From catchy theme tunes to action packed animation sequence, there is no denying that the 1980’s had some of the most memorable animated title sequences on kids TV. From time to time w… Read More
2018-01-29 06:32
This article is part of a series about After Effects plugins; each looking at how a particular project was made and how the plugin contributed to the end result.
Duik is a comprehensive rigg… Read More
2018-01-22 05:03
Studying animation in the UK has become a lot more accessible over the past 20 years. Back in 2000, there were only a handful of universities or colleges offering the chance to study animati… Read More
2018-01-16 07:32
For this episode in our series of ‘AE plugins that everyone should own‘, we’re going to talk about the plugin that pretty much everyone already does own; Trapcode’s&n&hell…Read More
2018-01-10 06:40
A few months ago we took part in a survey for voicebooking.com about how creatives (in our case, an animation studio) use voice over artists. This led them to produce the very insightful inf… Read More
2018-01-03 06:32
In the second of this series of articles discussing After Effects plugins, we’re going to be looking at the physics engine Newton from Motion Boutique.
Newton converts After Effects la… Read More
2017-12-19 06:20
As the nights draw in and the temperature drops, excitement starts to mount at Slurpy HQ, because winter means Christmas, and Christmas means cards, and cards means one of us gets to design… Read More
2017-12-14 07:25
Lip sync – the movement of the mouth in time to the dialogue – is one of the most time consuming, but important, parts of character animation. When done well, it contributes emot… Read More
2017-12-11 07:25
Earlier this year we produced 3 films for the Royal Observatory of Greenwich: The Story of Stars, What is Light, and What Makes the Universe Colourful? These bright, colourful films have str… Read More
2017-11-29 13:03
We recently discovered about a fantastic exhibition taking place at the London Transport Museum (Covent Garden); one that celebrates and shines a light on female poster designers from the 2o… Read More
2017-11-11 00:22
The Manchester Animation Festival is back for it’s third edition this month (14-16 November 2018), and we are pleased to be up for two awards!
Two films from the educational animations… Read More
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