Animation for Museums & Galleries
Films for the places that keep the good stuff
The National Gallery. The British Library. The Science Museum. The Natural History Museum. The National Maritime Museum. The Royal Observatory. English Heritage.
We’ve worked with eight national institutions, and counting. Every frame human-made.
We've been in that meeting
The one where the curator, the learning lead and the interpretation manager all want something different from ninety seconds. And they're all right.
We like that meeting. Getting the century right and the allowing humour to flow through a story is the fun part.
Four minutes, four centuries
Your problem was never a shortage of material. It's that the visitor gives you four minutes and you're holding a few thousand years.
Animation is unfairly good at this. It opens things that don't open. It will happily put a man who died in 1810 on screen and make you fond of him.
Magna Carta became an argument instead of a document. Newton went to space. Longitude turned into something you could follow without a diagram. Venom came out beautiful as well as fatal.
Wall, phone, or both
A film for a gallery wall is not a film for a feed. Three metres back, standing up, no sound, looping all day - that's a different animal to something that has to earn a thumb-stop.
We'll ask which one you need before we create anything.
The practical bit
Institutional procurement. Fixed budgets. Scripts that go past a curator before they go anywhere. None of it frightens us.
Sixteen years in, cultural work is still the work we like most. Partly the subjects. Mostly the people.
What are you making?
Exhibition film, learning resource, campaign - we'd love to hear about it.