Dubai Expo 2020
An explainer I made for the Dubai Young Innovators Expo.
About
Key illustrated frames were provided by the team and I brought it to life. The aim was to (for the most part) keep the stroke width consistent, turnaround was about 4-5 days. Designed in Illustrator and animated in After Effects.
Illustrated by Daniel Marks.
Form3
An animation I made for the lovely team at Form3.
About
A corporate explainer I made for the team at Form3 and FiftyFifth Films. Key frames of art were provided to me by Hannah Nicholls, I then had to break it up and create the motion. Thumbnail boards were vague but I had some good direction and nice artwork to work with. Designed in Illustrator and animated in After Effects.
Illustrated by Hannah Nicholls.
Grafter
A short explainer I made for the lovely guys at Grafter and People Can Run.
About
I made this character-based explainer for Mark Harrison at PCR. Budget was tight, so I had to think of a way to reuse my character rigs and make them as simple/economic as possible. Designed in Photoshop and animated in After Effects.
Illustrated by Scott Castles.
MacMillan workflow
A film I made for MacMillan explaining a motion graphics workflow.
About
I wrote and animated this film for the team at MacMillan after a short spell as an animation consultant. I needed the film to clearly explain to new employees a general animation process. Designed in Illustrator, animated in After Effects.
Illustrated by Daniel Marks.
ZPG AdReach
An explainer I made for the lovely gentlemen at Happen Digital and Zoopla.
About
Over the years I've made somewhere close to 20 films for Zoopla, this was the first one in their new style and campaign. They liked the idea of each key frame morphing cleanly into the next which I think works quite well. Designed in Illustrator animated in After Effects.
Illustrated by Daniel Marks.
Local council BIDs
An explainer I made for Romford/Havering/Wembley councils.
About
Here's a film I made with my good friend Daniel Marks for the local council where we grew up, Romford. This was produced by the lovely people at Made Public and Jonny Birkett. Made over a week or so. Designed in Illustrator, animated in After Effects.
Illutrated by Daniel Marks.
GingerBeard info
A film I made with Daniel Marks for GingerBeard productions.
About
This is a short low-budget info-animation I animated and edited for a lovely studio also based in Essex. Written, directed and Produced by Sam Martin of GB. Phone: 01376 780005 for more info on GB Productions. They are now called Sequence, I believe. Illustrated in Photoshop, animated in After Effects.
Illustrated by Daniel marks.
Zoopla ZPG history
One of a series of ten explainers for a Zoopla Property Group campaign.
About
Teaming up with Daniel Marks and Happen Digital, I animated and composited this film (as well as around 9 others in this campaign) for Zoopla. Brief was to keep it slow-paced and simple but strictly to the ZPG branding. Designed in Illustrator, animated in Flash and After Effects.
Illustrated by Daniel Marks.
betfair This Is Play
Three explainers I made for betfair's This Is Play campaign.
About
Here are three videos I animated at The Operators for betfair. Lots of chopping and changing, fiddly late client amends, moving parts and script edits but we got there in the end. It needed to feel fast paced and 'in your face'. Designed in Illustrator and animated in After Effects.
Illustrated by Daniel Marks.
Tobacco legislation
Some sections of an explainer aimed at flight attendants explaining the latest tobacco laws.
About
A few short sections of an animation I made for Beagle. It's an info video that evolved into a simple character-based explainer. It was fun to make, although I have not uploaded the whole film for legal reasons. Please note that this is a film about tobacco laws - I won't produce films advertising Tobacco. Illustrated in Photoshop, animated in After Effects.
Illustrated by Scott Castles.
Genes/Spine explainer
Here's a trilogy of quite fast-turnaround explainers I made for a client who runs a pharma company in Florida.
About
I made three explainers for Damon Ebanks at Physician Partners. Budget and time was pretty tight. Key art was delivered to me to break up and animate. Illustrated in Illustrator and animated in After Effects.
Illustrated by Daniel Marks.
Standard Bank
Here's a little explainer I made for the lovely guys at Standard Bank in 2018.
About
I enjoyed making this explainer. We were given a very specific colour palette and style reference to adhere to. I was provided layered illustrator files that I broke up and animated. Illustrated in Illustrator and animated in After Effects.
Illustrated by Daniel Marks and Tanya Scott.
PCS Explainer #1 | IT
Some simple explainers I made for Andrew Simpson and his team at PCS.
About
Written, directed and animated by myself, I was tasked with visualising some screen recordings and making them into clear chapter-based explainers for users of PCS's meeting rooms. Designed in Illustrator and animated in After Effects.
Illustrated by Daniel Marks and Owain Emmanuel.
PCS Explainer #2 | Rooms
A second explainer I made for Andrew Simpson at PCS.
About
Written, directed and animated by myself - I needed to make a film for users of the Clapham meeting rooms to watch before they book or use them. I was given an outline of the general points and had to write them into an explainer. Designed in Illustrator and animated in After Effects.
Illustration by Daniel Marks.
Thrive health
Here's some sections of a few films I made for JPMC and Atomized and their 'Thrive' project.
About
I made these films back in 2018 about mental and physical health. The concept art was given to us as a style guideline which we had to closely replicate for consistency and subsequently make into short animated sections to compliment the talking heads. Lots of it remained unused as the edit changed. Designed in Illustrator/Photoshop and animated in After Effects.
Illustration by David Gregory.
A-Gas explainers
Here's a short film (one of two) I made for the lovely people at A-Gas.
About
This was a tight-budget job I made with Luke Robinson for Bryony Tinn-Disbury. Most artwork was flattened, so it had to be broken up and layered before animating and comping. It had to feel 'illustrated' and a little rough-and-ready. Illustrated in Photoshop and animated in After Effects.
Illustration by Tom Tinn-Disbury.
Virgin Media Tivo
I made the instructional videos for Virgin Media's TiVo remote control in 2013.
About
I worked with the lovely team at The Operators and Luke Robinson to make the instructional videos found on Virgin Media's TiVo boxes in 2013-2015. Designed in Photoshop/Cinema4D animated in After Effects/Cinema4D.
Illustration by The Operators.
About The Operators
A short explainer from around 2010 about The Operators who, at the time, were a fairly new and expanding studio.
About
A low budget and quick turnaround project showcasing the work The Operators focused on in 2010. It was made over 5 days from start to scratch. I had to make it feel digital, tongue-in-cheek but also contemporary so I went for a kinda textured/pixel style. Designed in Photoshop and animated in After Effects.
Illustration by Me.
ABInBev smart drinking
A short explainer from around 2015 for Beagle Media and ABInBev for their smart drinking campaign.
About
Pretty simple one, was given some clear direction and brand guidelines. Illustrator drew up the master frames and I layered, broke it up and animated accordingly. Designed in PIllustrator and animated in After Effects.
Illustration by Daniel Marks.
ABInBev low alcohol
A short explainer from around 2017 for Mark Harrison @ People Can Run and ABInBev for their low alcohol messaging.
About
Pretty simple one again for these guys, was given some clear direction and brand guidelines like the previous ABInBev film. Illustrator drew up the master frames and I layered, broke it up and animated accordingly. Designed in Illustrator and animated in After Effects.
Illustration by Daniel Marks.
Kidney Research
A short explainer from 2018 for Kidney Research UK.
About
A really nice little job for Kidney Research. Was given a loose mood board, brand guidelines, script and maximum length of 1 minute 40 seconds to make this film. Designed in Illustrator and animated in After Effects.
Illustration by Hannah Nicholls.
McDonald's family
A very quick turnaround animation from 2014 made over Easter weekend.
About
Made for the love people at The Operators and McD's, we had about 4 days from concept art to render to get this made from Good Friday to Easter Bank Holiday Monday. This was an internal video for a conference. Designed in Photoshop and animated in After Effects.
Illustration by Scott Castles.
Exalta
An explainer I made for a skin cream company based in LA.
About
A pretty standard explainer for Max Katz @ Exalta. Pretty clear brief/VO/Branding provided so I just got on with it! Designed in Illustrator and animated in After Effects.
Illustration by Daniel Marks.
Purple
One of two really quick turnaround internal explainers for Purple Consultancy.
About
I had about 2-3 days per film to design and animate the whole thing. It was fun, but was rushed. I'm not that fond of these films in honesty, but they seem to be quite popular. Designed in Illustrator and animated in After Effects.
Illustration by Me.
Multytude
An animation I made for the lovely team at Multytude.
About
A conceptual explainer which is largely based around shapes symbolising opinions. Designed in Illustrator and animated in After Effects.
Illustration by Hannah Nicholls.
Zoopla Ideal Home
A tiny explainer made for Zoopla's stall at The Ideal Home Show.
About
My wife spotted one of the many animations I've made for Happen Digital and Zoopla at the Ideal Home Show which was cool. She recorded it on her phone like a trooper, so I attached it here, along with the original vid. Fun times. Designed in Illustrator and animated in After Effects.
Illustration by Daniel Marks.
Truth Labs Cambridge
"Emotional Language" - One of five explainers I made for the University of Cambridge and Studio You.
About
I made five animations for Luke Newbold at StudioYou for a part of the University of Cambridge's Truth Labs/Inoculation Science campaign. Really liked how they turned out. Each film took 4 days approx to animate. Designed in Illustrator/Photoshop and animated in After Effects.
Illustration by David Gregory.
STEM Wellcome
An explainer I made with Luke Robinson for the lovely people at Edcoms.
About
An explainer film I made while the whole lockdown situation was kicking off back in March 2020 - some goalposts moved because of this during production, as well as the VO changing a lot. The style was meant to feel a little robotic and sciencey - which I think works quite well, particularly with the characters. Designed in Illustrator and animated in After Effects.
Illustration by Jenny Campbell.