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Professor Robert Arrives in Style

Hot on the heels of hosting a section of the British Animation Awards, Professor Robert is the star of his own animated comedy short. Watch it here. He is open minded to brand new AI techniques and classic human intelligence to help him get his genius out there. It has been created using a mixture of very traditional techniques, and some blisteringly new ones. You can read more on that in this article in Stash Media.

IAB – Joy the Digital Cheerleader

We have made a series of short animations for the Internet Advertising Bureau. We created Joy the Bear with the help of AI and animated her using more traditional techniques. Watch Joy urge the public to be more inventive and daring with their online ads in our animated interview. Agency: This Is Now.

Immunology Wars

Our two latest animations for Nature Video about the immune system are now online. Watch Immunology: A Billion Antibodies here and Immunology: Monoclonal Antibodies here.

Scientists’ Guide to the US Election

The United States has narrowed it down to Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton as the two best people to run the country. This animation we’ve made for Nature Video looks at how the presidential candidates feel about science and what impact the other positions up for grabs in the government could have.

A mix of motion graphics and and animated illustration.

Nobel Laureates 2016

Following our successful set of animations from 2015 – four more Nobel Prize winners tell us about their work. Recorded at Lindau 2016, and brought to life by our luminous confederacy of animators and illustrators for Nature Video.

Let Serge Haroche, Daniel Shechtman, Art McDonald and Bill Phillips tell you how the science gets done.

Travel Channel Little Journeys

The four painstakingly miniature stop-motion films we made for the Travel Channel are now on air.
Each film covers a different area of the channel’s programming.
A man quits his job for adventure.  A DIY hungry van. A vintage racing Capri. And an eager holiday maker.

Dog and Rabbit Animate Sir Peter Blake

Sir Peter Blake created a bespoke illustration which we’ve animated for an exhibition by 40 artists from the Central Illustration Agency at the Guardian Exhibition Space throughout February.
In support of the amazing Graeae Theatre Company.
Animated by Fu using a displacement map technique we’ve been developing in After Effects. Watch it here.

Superfans’ Total Colin

Here is the first of five films introducing the My Prime Superfans for Virgin Media Ireland. Find out Colin’s special power and how noisy his stretchy suit is by watching him in action.

With Perfect Tribe for Liberty Global. Characters by Squirrel. Animation by Mole, Dog & Otter. Script by Dog. Graphics by Monkey.

Kathy Burke in Dog Judo

The very excellent Kathy Burke joins the cast of our long running dog/judo based series, Dog Judo. She plays Rexley’s stunning sister, Rexanne.

“I am not a saucy nurse. I’m a nurse who is saucy”.

Watch it on The Dog Judo website or YouTube.

Tic Tacs. Cherry Mixers

Made using hundreds of pictures of cherries, touched up in Photoshop and made move in After Effects.
We scoured the country to find cherries that look edible in October. Watch it here.
For Aesop. Animation by Andrew (Dog). Lighting and camera by Nich (Mongoose). Sound design by Nigel (Jaguar).

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