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Close up of a monitor showing the hunger status of a LEGO minifig wearing a racing helmet. Their stomach is almost empty. Text reads: 'Lando: Hunger Level - Kinda Hungry'

2D Motion and VFX for LEGO x McLaren comedy series

Animation Branded Comedy Fiction
A CGI glass pyramid with optical flares and the title "MERZ Advocates" spinning in place against a bright starry background.

MERZ Advocacy Summit

Animation Branded
Animated sitcom still. Two clones of Nikolaus. One confronts the other while holding a smartphone.

Clones – Comedy Short

Animation Comedy Fiction
Screenshot from Brush DJ children's centre resource. Drawings of mum and kids at brush time with caption 'Lots of parents have found Brush DJ helpful to make brush time fun'.

Brush DJ Children’s Centre Resource

Animation Branded Explainer
Van and Divert logo with the text "Our diver team handles all the lifting"

Divert

Animation Branded Social Media
The cast list of a Peter Pan audiobook in aid of Great Ormond Street. The text reads: ‘with the voices of Kenneth Branagh, Sharon D Clarke, Jason Flemyng, Clive Rowe, Bertie Carvel, Olivia Colman, Jane Horrocks, Joanna Riding’.

Great Ormond Street Peter Pan audiobook socials

Animation Branded Social Media
A miniature 3D caricature of NIKOLAUS stands beside a milk carton showing the NIKOLAUS logo. The tagline 'Let's bring brand worlds to life' beside him on a kitchen counter

Let’s Bring Brand Worlds to Life!

Animation Branded Comedy
A stylised, digitally illustrated image of a bearded man with short hair sitting inside a bus, looking out of the window. The scene outside reflects colourful morning sunlight while rain drizzles on the window. Behind him, another passenger, an older woman, is also seated. The illustration combines a hand-drawn, textured feel with pixelated CGI. A mix of warm and cool tones, evoking a contemplative and atmospheric mood.

Days getting longer

Animation Comedy Social Media
A 3D-rendered image of a fidget cube designed and modeled by the artist using Plasticity and rendered in Cinema 4D. The cube is matte purple with rounded edges and various tactile features like pressable black buttons, a rotating disc, and a joystick-like handle on top. The background is a soft pink gradient, giving the scene a polished, modern look.

Fidget Cube – Product Visualisation for DTC and B2B

Animation
A computer-generated image of a fetus in the womb, used in a documentary about Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder awareness.

FASD Awareness

Animation Documentary
A person wearing a digital cartoon alien face filter.

Who Pressed Mute on Uncle Marcus?

Animation Comedy Fiction Live action
EQUIPOL logo and title 'The Equipol project develops methods to measure equity'

EQUIPOL

Animation Branded Explainer
Still from We See What You're Building — Produced by Matobo — a worker with ear protectors at a machine

We See What You’re Building

Branded Documentary Live action
Still from 3D animated promo for CARMEN Neuroscience platform — A glowing wireframe image of the human brain

CARMEN Neuroscience

Animation Branded Explainer
Still from animated short film Nom Nom Nom — a mouse chews an electric cable by a fusebox

Nom Nom Nom

Animation Comedy
Still from animated promo for the Brush DJ app — woman holds her smartphone in front of a bathroom mirror

Brush DJ

Animation Branded Explainer
The image shows the Wiley logo, along with an icon of a journal, and the text 'Be part of Carbon Energy's future.

Wiley Journal Impact Metrics

Animation Branded Corporate Reports
Title shot from animated documentary Why Build a Sun on Earth — 3D rendered scene of earth-rise seen from the moon

Why Build a Sun on Earth?

Animation Documentary Immersive
Still from BBC Information Security e-learning animations — produced by Matobo; an abstract character wears a BBC name-badge

BBC Information Security

Animation Explainer
Still from animated promo for the Higher Education Achievement Report — pixel-art woman uses a desktop computer in her office

The HEAR

Animation Branded Explainer
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