Company Research

1.

All of Us
http://www.allofus.com/
Who are they and what do they do?
AllofUs is an award winning interactive design and
user-experience agency specialising in multi-platform product and service creation for the inter-connected age.

Clients Include:
Desirable
Experience implementing the element
together with srcset and sizes attributes
Understanding of modern performance
techniques and tooling to avoid critical
path and increase perceived load times
Working knowledge of PHP (enough to
set up local development environment
and navigate an existing project)

Requirements:
For a free lancer:
Front-end developer fluent in HTML, CSS and JavaScript
Confident building Sass projects following SMACSS/BEM/OOCSS methodologies
Experience building component-based architectures
Experience configuring task runners and module bundlers such as Grunt, Gulp, and WebPack
Familiar with linting tools such as JSHint, JSCS, and SCSS Lint

2.

Poke
http://www.pokelondon.com/
Who are they and what do they do?
Branding, creative design, Everything from 3D to mobile

Clients Include:
Something interesting:
Graduate scheme
http://publicisgradscheme.co.uk/
The graduate programme runs from
August 2016 to December 2017. If you
apply, youll need to be available to work
throughout this period

Requirements:
For beginners:
Were looking for someone with 8 years+ experience who can present, lead a team and inspire others. As well as hands on design work well want you to set the direction for digital
brand experiences, work on pitches, attend user testing groups and develop brand guidelines. Poke has a culture of collaboration, so youll enjoy sharing your work and ideas with
other designers and disciplines.
For Seniors.... http://www.pokelondon.com/join/freelance-senior-producer/

3.

BlueMarlin
http://www.bluemarlinbd.com/
Who are they and what do they do?
Branding, creative design, Everything from 3D to mobile

Clients Include:
Something interesting:
Internship: Spark Programme
http://www.bluemarlinbd.com/careers/
spark-programme/#sthash.QkmrSXcH.
dpbs
Currently accepting submissions for the
Spark Award. This is a chance to win a
paid internship at one of bluemarlins
UK studios. Only those with the bravest
creative ideas that answer the brief will be
offered an internship. Deadline for submissions is 11 May 2015.

Requirements:
The ideal candidate has high standards for themselves, their team, and their work. Theyll
bring insight, curiosity and creative bravery to every project and support their team
through thick and thin.
-8-10 years experience in design and packaging

4.

Animade
http://animade.tv/
Who are they and what do they do?
Animation, interactive media, Websites, games

Clients Include:

Indie company
SKills depends on what they
are after since they are a small
company
Generalist Mainly

Something interesting:
Internship
http://animade.tv/contact
We run 3-month paid internship programmes throughout the year, for both
animation and interaction. Well advertise
these via Facebook and Twitter so keep an
eye out there. For enquiries, please email
[email protected]

5.

Taxi Studio
http://www.taxistudio.co.uk/work/
Who are they and what do they do?
Branding, idenity, Packaging

Clients Include:
Nestea Carlsberg

Milka

Tumult

Somersby

The black Grouse

Clarks
Golden wonder ringo
Requirements:
The ideal candidate will have bags of creativity; a good sense of humour; be open-minded
to an evolving role and a growing business; be outgoing and confident and say it as they
see it. We are a very strong team and support one another so the Junior Creative needs to
support and uphold this team ethic. In return we are a very flexible, fair (its in our values!) and a generous employer that loves celebrating as a team
-Team player
-Common sense
-Good social and commuication skills

Others

Start JG

Tomato

http://www.startjg.com/

http://www.tomato.co.uk/

Branding

Art studio, Posters, Advertising

Dragon Rouge
http://www.dragonrouge.com/
node
Graphic design and advertising

My Opinion
All of Us
I think that this is a solid company, its interesting because this company uses 3D animation for education
- Recreating hisory
Even though this company is interesting, I feel that I am not prepared
for the job
Ill see how it goes in 7 years, maybe then Ill have enough experience
for this job

Poke
I really like this company and I think they have a wonderful
Graduate scheme
I want to apply for their graduate scheme.
They want a 2-3 mins video, but I plan to do an animation
instead, probably a motion graphic piece
Their website shows character and I feel it.. I think that this is
the company I am most interested in from all the compaines I
have researched

BlueMarlin
They have a really good graduate scheme, but I prefer Poke
London much better
Poke has a better website and the profiles of the people there
seem friendly.
This graduate scheme seems more intimidating and to be
honest, not as fun as London Poke.

Animade
This company.....
I put this company on the list because its something that I
dont want.
This is an indie company that makes interactive 2d games/
animation or whatever you are paying them for.

Taxi Studios
This company is just your average design company.
Basic and normal
They have a good client network, but other than that, Nothing
really stands out
Its good stepping stone to get into the industry.

Sectors
Military:
Source: http://www.organicmotion.com/live/

Organic Motion LIVE has changed live training for warfighters. It uses
animation and motion capture technology to provide realistic training
for soliders. This allows people to interact with digitally animated characters in live training scenarios in a natural and intuitive way.
LIVE introduces a greater level of realism into urban warfare and special
ops training by inserting live role-players into training exercises. LIVE
provides the ability to project digitally animated characters securely into
the next room or anywhere in the world.

Education:
Source: http://www.fractuslearning.com/2013/12/06/animation-in-the-classroom/

Communication Skills
Presentation Skills
Technical Skills
Self-expression
Building Bridges
Encourage Creativity
More engaging

Leap frog and Vtech created console

for education. Using animation as a
medium to educate children

PowToon
Teacher Elizabeth Frank: I decided to create a PowToon to introduce this Project Based Learning
assignment because I was bored with just giving the students a letter or email from the company as an entry event.
I thought a PowToon would really get the point across and get the students excited about the project they were starting. Most of my classes responded with clapping and a That was awesome!. To
say the least they were really impressed!
Source: http://www.powtoon.com/blog/how-teachers-and-students-are-using-powtoon-to-flip-the-cla ssroom/

Medical:
Source: http://ghostproductions.com/
http://www.hybridmedicalanimation.com/

Computor rendered medical

illustrations revolutionized the
quality, affordability, and speed
of medical imagery.

No invention has improved the quality of human life more

than medicine and nothing explains medicine better than the
dynamic media produced by Ghost Productions. Ghost Productions is a 3D medical animation studio that delivers medically accurate and inspiring graphics, animations, and interactive eLearning content.

http://www.polygonmedical.com/how-3d-medical-animation-benefits-the-healthcare-industry.html

Cutting-edge 3D modeling and animation offers several advantages. These presentations can graphically simplify complicated concepts and convey complex inter-relationships, which are difficult to visualize. Concepts and ideas, which cannot easily be represented in words or even through illustrations, can be easily created and
viewed from different angles - See more at: http://medicalmmc.com/lady-with-thelook/#sthash.WXMZD0dm.dpuf http://medicalmmc.com/lady-with-the-look/

I think there is big money in theis industry. I

also think this indutry is paving the way for
the future of medicine and tratements
I wouldnt mind getting into this side of the
industry as it will be something interesing
and it acutally saves peoples lives.

Futher Research: Dreamworks

Smaller compaines didnt really have ALL the information that I needed,
so I decided to look into a bigger company instead.
Here, I looked into Dreamworks. I found out their process and their
revenue.
Source:
http://www.dreamworksanimation.com/2009AR/docs/DWA2009AR.pdf

Process:

Money stuff:
There are a lot of numbers in this, you dont have to read it all, I dont understand this at all.... and its scary because there is a lot to take into account and
it will give you a head ache.
(but at least I went to hunt this down! all the smaller companies that I researched into didnt provide me with this intomation.)

Starting your business from the ground up

okay... So after looking at how companies start up, I have decided that I wont be
adding chuncks of information in here. I am just going to bullet point the main things
source:
https://www-304.ibm.com/businesscenter/cpe/download6/37646/Animation_WP_060105.pdf

Wow factor! - USP What service can you offer your consumers that no one else
can?

Work flow

Building an animation Infrastructure

Content creation
Render Farm
Crentralised Storage
Network

Freelance Day Rates