Hello, I hope you have a Happy Easter and a great bank holiday weekend! I made this little festive looping GIF for the occasion. It’s been a while since my last newsletter so I have a few new projects to share. I produced a series of animations for the World Economic Forum. The BBC illustrations […]
So far 2017 has been a busy year for animations! In fact I’ve completed 11 animations between January and March 2017. Here’s a few clips from some of the projects I’ve animated in the past few months. I also designed and illustrated these except for the 6th and 9th clips which the clients provided the […]
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 […]
I made some character animation style examples to help when giving project cost estimates.
Littergram is an app that empowers everybody to name, shame and force a massive clean up of Britain using the power of social media. The app creators approached us to create an animated explainer video to encourage people to download and use their app. Since the animation was completed in June 2015, Littergram has been growing […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
“We’d love to invite your film ‘Bill Bailey the animation’ to screen at this years British showcase at the London International Animation Festival (LIAF), the UK’s largest international animation festival.” What an exciting email to wake up to! The collaborative animation project we worked on in January with Leicester based FD2D magazine has been accepted […]
Since first seeing the Inkling advert, I wanted it, as I’m an easily influenced consumer that loves digital art toys. The Wacom Inutos 4 is brilliant but I can’t seem to capture the weight and texture that strokes on paper make. In my work process I sketch and ink images on paper then scan them […]
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 […]
Last night I was watching my other half play Diablo 3 and admiring the cut scene animation. Specifically the amazingly detailed, static illustrations with some depth, camera movement and effects. It’s such an awesome story telling technique. I’ve seen this style before but didn’t now what it was called. Fortunately my other half, Callum, knows […]