Animated Shoe Commercials – The Most Powerful Five

Animated Shoe Commericals

Animated shoe commercials are rare to find; however, we have managed to complete a list of the most powerful five in the industry. The brilliant thing about animation is that it can be used to explain complex innovation. By using animation, businesses can strip apart their creations to communicate their unique selling points, which is a clever ploy to get … Read More

TikTok Video for Business

Using Tiktok videos for business?

TikTok video for business is getting increasingly important. TikTok is the fastest growing social media platform and has skyrocketed since the start of lockdown. In June 2020 TikTok became the top-grossing non-gaming platform on the market, with more than $90.7million (Sensor Tower) in user spending in just one month. Nevertheless, TikTok’s popularity comes mainly from China, followed by the US … Read More

Business Animation vs Filming – The advantages of each

Business animation vs filming

In our Business Animation 2020 Survey, we wanted to find out the benefits of business animation vs filming. Filming live-action scenes can be used for more hard-hitting, emotional content. This is due to real people being involved in the video, usually, consumers will react better to real human faces. Albeit, filming can be costly and time-consuming. Due to collating actors, … Read More

Business Animation Usage and Trends.

business animation usage and trends

Here at Stormy Studio, we are interested in finding out business animation usage and trends. Therefore, we decided to conduct a survey, which we named Business Animation 2020 Survey Report. The information gathered from the survey is based on 50 results. These are taken from individuals who work in a variety of small and medium enterprises to FTSE 100 organisations. … Read More

LinkedIn Video, Everything You Need to Know in 2020

LinkedIn Video - Everything you need to know

In this blog post, we will tell you everything you need to know about LinkedIn video in 2020. LinkedIn video is getting increasingly important to prioritise for your business. The social media platform was founded in 2004 with the idea that it would connect professionals. However, LinkedIn has evolved and is now a place for promoting, selling and advertising. Above all, LinkedIn … Read More

Animation For Business: 7 Reasons Why You Should Use It.

Animation for business - 7 reasons why you should use it

Animation for your business is something you should be considering. With video’s being the main way people gain their information online, it is thoroughly important to stand out. If you are posting regular video content on your website, emails and social media platforms, well done. You are already ahead of some of your competitors, as according to Buffer only 25% … Read More

Live action vs Animation: A Comparison

liveaction vs animation

business animation productionWhat are the pros and cons of live-action vs animation?Jon Draper – CREATIVE DIRECTORThis article explores the differences between filmed live action and animation. Highlighting the pros and cons for eachShare the article:What are the pros and cons of live action vs animation?For your business video productionIt’s a common question for businesses and as an animation and film … Read More

Aerial shot of our Plymouth animation studio

Plymouth Animation Studio - Aerial Shot

Have you ever wondered where our Plymouth animation studio is… No..?… Well, we’re in the confidently ugly, little red building opposite that big ol’ yacht. In Turnchapel, Plymouth, Devon. It’s of course what’s on the inside that counts… well that plus… exciting projects, happy clients with engaging videos, a good cuppa tea and having a bloomin awesome view. The hugh … Read More

Creative R&D – iFootage Motorised Slider S1A1

Motorised Slider R&D

A late afternoon and al the more pressing work had been tackled, so I decided to try out our new motorised slider. This week we received the second part of our awesome camera slider kit. We’d purchased the iFootage Shark Slider S1 for a client video shoot at the end of 2017. We were then fortunate enough to grab a … Read More

Draft Table iPad Pro Review

Drafttable ipad pro stand review

As Stormy Studio had just purchased a new high quality stand (The Draft Table by Elevation Lab) for the iPad Pro to improve our animators work flow, I thought it was worthy of a quick video review. We’ve been working with the iPad Pro more and more over the past year. It’s a superb tool when accompanied by the right … Read More

A short & sweet motion graphic animation

motion graphic

Here’s a short and sweet motion graphic animation. I created this quite simply because I was in the mood to create something with a rolling square and wanted to try out a few ideas. This short animation was created using Adobe After Effects.

Tidy desk to reignite your creative juices

Tidy desk Animators desk

Sometimes in our animation studio I’ll find that I’ve lost my creative mojo, I just can not find the right mindset or enthusiasm to carry on with a project. I’ll often decide that a tidy desk could be the answer to reignite my creative spark. Whilst sometimes I’ll just keep pushing on and await the inevitable route that my day … Read More

Effective Health and safety animated videos

Effective Health and Safety Videos

VIEW RECENT HEALTH & SAFETY ANIMATED VIDEOSEFFECTIVE HEALTH AND SAFETY VIDEOS Stormy Studio, a UK animation studio have produced a large number of professional health and safety animated videos for the utilities sector and other industries. Through effective scriptwriting and design plus collaboration with HSE experts we’ve delivered effective health and safety training videos that engage with different audiences. The … Read More

New renewable energy animation project

Renewable Energy Animation

Check out this solar energy animation project completed by Stormy Studio in 2020. Renewable Energy Animation Project: We’re currently producing 3 rather cool renewable energy animations for a UK Energy Company. Each video will highlight the future options for managing power on the grid, with particular information relating to renewable energy sources. We’re still currently knocking around some creative approaches but the … Read More

Video Marketing Magic

UK animation company showreel

At Stormy Studio we honestly believe every business product, service, website and presentation would benefit greatly from a drop of video marketing magic. For this little article I’m of course referring to the marketing magic achievable when the perfectly conceived creative, narrative and aesthetic are combined into a beautifully produced video. *Below is our showreel for 2016, with exclusive clips from … Read More

Animated Video Production Devon, Our New Studio

Animated Video Production Devon

We’re all very excited to be able to announce that our animated video production Devon company, Stormy Studio will soon be moving to new office space in the fantastic, coastal Mount Batten area of Plymouth in Devon, South West England. After a great first 8 months our young animation and video production Devon business, we’ve produced a wide variety of … Read More

Video Production Plymouth

Plymouth video production company

Video Production Company in PlymouthIn house animatorsOur team of animators compliment filming services.Professional FilmingWe use the professional lighting and camera kit to ensure rich images and audio.Return on investmentLocal studio location, with a focus on quality productionsTRUSTED BY Find out more about our new Plymouth film studio space here.Studio ShowreelThis short showreel highlights of some of our Plymouth video production … Read More

How to record an illustration time lapse

How to do an illustration time-lapse

In this video I walk you through Stormy Studios own setup for recording an illustration time lapse. The rig would also work perfectly for any top down filming or other sorts of time-lapse (i.e. stop motion, painting, writing etc.) In this video we look at: – What kit you need – How to setup the rig – What software we … Read More

Animation Should Be A Key Part Of Any Crowd Funding Video

Crowd funding has become a very popular revenue raising option for many people over the last few years. Sites like Kickstarter and Indiegogo have become household names for crowd funding and have in some cases made some rather big name projects get the green light. Running an effective crowd funding campaign has become a bit of an art form. It … Read More

40 Business Animation Ideas For Effective Presentations

animation ideas and inspiration for business animation

ANIMATION PRODUCTION40 business animation ideas for effective presentationsJon Draper – CREATIVE DIRECTORLots of ideas to help plan your own corporate animated video projects. Plus a wide variety of animated business video examples to inspire you.Last Update: 12th March 2023Business Animation Tips • Written by Jon Draper – Lead Animator / Creative DirectorShare the article:Business Animation BenefitsWhen you want to create … Read More

How To Create An Effective Marketing Campaign For A Corporate Video

When you are planning on having a corporate video made, you need to know that you have an effective marketing strategy in place before everything gets started. While you may have found a corporate video production company that you think can really deliver what you want, that will all mean nothing unless you are able to market it effectively. Here … Read More

Why A Badly Made Corporate Video Can Be Detrimental To Your Business

There are few things quite as damaging to the reputation of a company that a poor corporate video production. While this may seem like an exaggeration, it is actually very truthful. A corporate video is probably the most effective business video you can produce. It is a means of creating a reputation among people in the business and with the … Read More

How To Promote Your Business Video On Social Media

So you have created a great business video. Now what are you supposed to do? Well, the important thing is to get people watching your video and then talking about it and sharing it through social media channels. This has quickly become the most effective way to reach a wider audience with your business video, so it’s important you start … Read More

Why Corporate Video And Animation Production Is Cheaper Outside Of London, UK

It is often said that everything is more expensive in London. Purchasing services in the capital of England can be quite pricey, even when you have done the legwork to find a cheaper option. This is why so many businesses are now looking outside of London for their corporate video and animation production needs. Companies like Stormy Studio just outside … Read More

What to do when all your clients go on holiday?

clients on holiday

With the arrival of August came our first real experience of some quiet business days. It seems some bright shining force in the sky had plucked clients from every part of the world and whisked them away on holiday, leaving emails unanswered, creative projects stalled mid flow and invoices taking a little longer to get paid as it turns out … Read More

Marketing video strategy

Why a corporate video should be a key part of your marketing strategy

When you are creating your marketing strategy, including a marketing video as one of the key aspects is becoming more and more important. The majority of businesses are now using videos in order to improve their marketing campaigns and it has quickly become considered the most important factor of a marketing campaign by many professionals. Here are the reasons why it is … Read More

Adding Animation to a filmed marketing video

The benefits animation can bring to a marketing video

So many companies are now making marketing videos that it can be quite difficult to make something that is truly original and eye-catching. Due to the rise in popularity of YouTube and video on business websites more and more business are increasing their online video presence, so there is constantly a lot of competition to deal with in order to make … Read More