Animated Video Production, Explainer Animations & Illustration.

Award-winning studio creating bespoke, impactful animations since 2012.

Mair Perkins Animation and Illustration is an award-winning independent studio creating animations and illustrations for researchers, universities, charities, local authorities, and health and social care organisations. Founded in Derby in 2012, it's one of the first dedicated explainer animation studios in the UK.

Every project is hand-crafted to your brief. You work directly with Mair throughout, and clients consistently find the process straightforward and enjoyable.

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Animation

Whether you’re looking for an animation to clarify a complicated concept or a marketing video to increase conversions, Mair Perkins can help.

Animation Production Services

Mair Perkins offers everything you need to create an animation from beginning to end.

  • Script writing & storyboarding
  • Character design & art direction
  • Illustration asset creation
  • 2D/3D animation (After Effects, C4D)
  • Voiceover, music & editing
  • Accessible file formats & technical support
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With a tried and tested production process, Mair Perkins delivers...

  • On time
  • Within budget
  • With opportunities for feedback at every stage
  • Hand crafted, uniquely designed videos specific to each brief and audience
  • Animations that engage viewers and achieve results

Illustration

Mair produces illustrations and infographics for science communication, education, reports and publications, campaigns and children's books, in both digital and hand-drawn styles.

Each project begins with research into your audience, so the final artwork communicates clearly and looks exactly right for its purpose. All illustrations are original, hand-crafted and human made, not AI-generated.

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What clients say

RaNT Cancer research

I'm so pleased to have found Mair when shortlisting animators to work with on our cancer research explainer animation. She has been an absolute pleasure to work with over the last couple of months. Responsive and accommodating to all of our technical requests. Her creative process is very open and inclusive; a really enjoyable collaborative team effort from the first meeting, and exceptional value for money. The RaNT team (researchers from Universities of Exeter & Cambridge, UCL & STFC) are exceptionally happy with the quality of the work. It conveys the science perfectly and is fun to watch. There are some subtle character animation traits that I am particularly happy with. We're very excited to be able to use Mair's work as a core tool for interacting with patients, and at the centre of our public involvement drive. Mair will be our first port of call for any future animation work. Highly recommended!

Dr. Ryan Stuart Edginton

Communities Engagement Manager of the EPSRC RaNT Programme

Illustrated 10 year timeline for East Midlands Trains

Mair did a fantastic job of illustrating a 10 year timeline of East Midlands Trains history for our annual Management Conference. Even from the initial scoping meeting, she asked all of the right questions and covered everything in great detail to make the illustration as accurate and 'true to life' as possible. Mair regularly kept me updated on progress and produced the final artwork within plenty of time of the event. We've received so many compliments on this piece of work; I would most definitely recommend Mair for illustrative services and I'm looking forward to working with her again in future.

Lynsey Buxton

Head of Employee Communications & Engagement at East Midlands Trains

Envision Science Animation: The Role of Cultural Value Shifts in Deforestation Frontiers

Another highlight for me this year was working with professional animator, Mair Perkins, to create an animated video to communicate my research to diverse audiences. Not only has this increased professional engagement with my research among collaborating partners around the world (Brazil, USA), but it allowed my family and friends to understand and engage with my research in a meaningful way too.

Jordan Blanchard-Lafayette

PhD Researcher

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Awards

Green Mark Certification

Green Mark Certification

Creativity for Good Mainframe Derby

Creativity for Good Mainframe Derby

Green Investors in the Environment award

Green Investors in the Environment award

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