Animation, made in Manchester:

Animated explainer for Brewtopia

This was the launch video for a side project of mine: Brewtopia - a checklist against climate change.

The explainer is the first in what I hope to be a number of animations for the Brewtopia YouTube channel, running through different actions on how people can help fight climate breakdown.

I covered all aspects of this project, from script writing, to illustration, voiceover, and animation! I'm particularly fond of the little characters used throughout that help highlight the personal actions people can take.

Animated product explainer video for Matik.io

The team at Matik needed an animated explainer video for their product, something clear and concise that sums up what Matik is, and how it works for potential customers.

I covered the whole motion design process with this project: from the initial script to the final animation, and even providing the voiceover too.

It was great to work with the Matik team, the entire project was smooth and efficient, a really great collaboration that I would love to repeat.

Animated 3D explainer video for MSL

The client was keen to highlight the link between people and technology at the heart of their business. With this in mind, I wrote the script to focus on the idea that buildings are so much more than the structures we see, that they thrive because of what goes on behind the scenes: the world of MSL.

The style and colours used are all straight from the MSL colour palette, using a combination of After Effects and Cinema 4D I managed to create a 3D world in quite a unique style.

Animated sci-fi trailer for the Galactic project

The Galactic sci-fi UI template is my latest project for Made by Loop, and one I've genuinely loved working on from start to finish.

Perhaps my favourite part of the process was creating the trailer in After Effects to help showcase and advertise the key features of the template. The screen mockup and visuals I created for the trailer ended up being fed back into the template itself to help others design their own visuals.

Editing the template visuals to a pretty epic audio track was also a lot of fun, as was trying to create a photorealistic style within After Effects - it really makes you think about the composition of things, light, and how things would look "in the real world".

Animated explainer on Design Fiction

Thanks to an award from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), Joe Lindley commissioned me to create an animation to explain the key findings of his PhD thesis on Design Fiction.

Working closely with Joe and his PhD supervisor Paul Coulton, we managed to condense the key areas of Joe's thesis into a script for the animation.

I settled on the hand-drawn plan style after reading more about Design Fiction. Instantly the drawings of Da Vinci came in to my mind: his plans and drawings of futuristic machines just worked really well with the core message of the script.

3D isometric animation for The Guardian

This was the second animation I created for the Guardian Jobs "how to" series, and after reading the script; I decided to try something a bit different for this one.

The script mentions doing research on a company which instantly got my mind thinking about a heist, blueprints, and then how best to illustrate a company building. All this lead me to create a 3D building, the isometric style seemed to fit nicely with the whole style and feel of the first video too.

The team really liked the initial renders so I decided to incorporate more 3D elements throughout the entire video, all in all making it a really really fun project to work on!