One of my new year resolutions was to be more ethically active. To simply do more good. To at least try to make the world a better place. So this year I’ve started composting, switched to environmentally friendly household products, joined political and campaign groups, attended protests, volunteered, switched my energy supplier to Good Energy plus continue to […]
Every few months we create a new showreel with clips from our latest animations. Showreels are a great way to quickly give a flavour of a moving image artist’s style. This time we included some live action clips to explain the production process, craft and fun behind our animations. We hope you enjoy watching it […]
After reading Atena’s story I felt compelled to draw attention to her plight whilst exercising the freedom to draw political cartoons. Atena Farghadani peacefully protested against her Government through her art and was arrested, beaten and sentenced to over 12 years in prison. She has committed no crime. Visit Amnesty International to see how you […]
There has been a boom in the use of animated video in digital marketing. Its high quality content, has multiple SEO benefits and is an excellent way to communicate a large amount of information to your audience in a small amount of time. You can hire freelancers, a small creative agency or an animation production […]
An odd little collection of videos. Either sketchbook flick throughs, timelapses recordings of artwork or animations made just for fun. Sketchbook flick through. #sketchbook #sketch #drawing #art #pencil #ink #doodles A video posted by Mair Perkins (@mairperkins) on Jan 2, 2015 at 2:37pm PST Claymation test. After a while I squash up my plasticine models […]
2014 has been a busy and fantastic year. Here’s a little collage timeline I put together to summarise it. The year started with a trip to Vietnam (Ha Long Bay sketch) and a comedy sketch animation about Google for Hat Trick productions. In February and March I animated for Healthwatch Nottinghamshire, the disability charity Choice Support […]
One of our latest animations is for the social care and disability charity, Choice Support, who are celebrating their 30th anniversary. We were delighted that our animation studio were able to help such a brilliant organisation. The animation has been well received and the communications of Choice Support left a glowing review of our production services: […]
We’ve been busy working on a big project for a client who has commissioned our animation studio to create an educational and environmental animation for young people. Names can’t be mentioned yet but the animation is due to be released in September 2014. So far the project has been a blast and we’re loving working […]
A little update on what we’re up to in the studio by Mair Perkins. “At the moment I’m managing animation projects for a disability charity, a Nottingham based health and social care organisation, an international press freedom trade union, a pet product and a national conservation organisation. We can’t drop any names until the work […]
Some of our recent animations have been very character focused. Adding characters to your animated videos helps to engage the viewers with the story and makes your message more memorable and relatable. We animate all of our characters in Adobe After Effects by using a mixture of frame by frame, key frame motion tweening, masks […]
Earlier this year I was told off by Sean Lock….(‘s tour manager) for posting an illustration that spoiled a key joke in his 2013 comedy tour. I wrote a review of Sean Lock’s Derby show for the Derby cultural blog, A Clockwork Orrery and drew this image of Sean as a backwards centaur to accompany it. To […]
In September 2013 we attended a studio party thrown by fellow Derby based animation studio, Box Frame. Managing director Mair Perkins knows Box Frame as they kindly let her do work experience with them during her University days. Boxframe work with big name entertainment clients such as Sky, Disney, Formula One and Fifa and produce […]
Documentary air date: 10.45pm on Wednesday 6th November 2013 Earlier this year, QuimbyCo and Mair Perkins Ltd. Animation and Illustration created a medical diagram animation in a documentary about female genital mutilation (FGM) . The documentary, The Cruel Cut, is part of a campaign to stop the practice of female genital mutilation. The documentary needed to […]
Derby’s art gallery, cinema and general creative building of awesomeness, QUAD, ran a one day course on projection mapping. Projection mapping is used in events, art installations and video DJ sets. Here are a few example videos on the kind of art work you can create using projection mapping techniques. Pretty amazing, huh? It works […]
Here is something I drew in half an hour in response to the news about organ donation. Organ donation has rose by 50% but there are still 3 people dying every day waiting for an organ transplant. Personally I can’t see why you would want to keep your organs all to yourself when you’re dead […]
A children’s book written by the Staffordshire based author, Brian Hainsworth and illustrated by myself , is now published and on sale on Amazon.com! It’s a lovely story about a Badger’s journey home and creatures you may find in an English woodland. I drew upon some of my favourite children’s books (Peter Rabbit, The Wind […]
2012 has been a very busy year for us! In April Mair Perkins set up the animation company Mair Perkins Ltd. (keeping the freelance business name) after establishing a successful business as a freelancer. It was a natural progression as the business grew and we began sharing studio space in Katapult’s offices but we pride […]