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Drawing and Painting for Mental Health, A Video For Anna Freud’s Self Care Resource page
Recently, I’ve been involved in The Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families #selfcaresummer challenge, by sharing a video and talking about the benefits of drawing and painting for mental health and wellbeing. It’s fantastic that awareness around self care and mental health is increasing, and I’m glad to contribute to such a brilliant […]
Women in Tech Talk: The 12 Principles of Animation
In February 2017 I was invited to talk at Nottingham’s Women In Tech event which is a monthly meetup for women from all area’s of technology and those with an emerging interest in technology. The organiser, Helen Clark, asked me if I could repeat the talk I gave at Design Swansea in March 2016. That […]
What explainer video animation style is right for your business?
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 […]
Character based animated videos
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 […]
Using animated videos for online marketing – article for Smart Insights
Recently I had the pleasure of writing an article for the digital marketing advice website Smart Insights about the benefits of animation in online marketing. It was edited, formatted and made presentable by the smart people at Smart Insights. The article contains statistics on the benefits of animated video for SEO and conversions, uses of […]