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

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

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

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

Devon Film Company, Coastal Safari

Filming in Devon

Devon Film Company – Creating a last minute film narrative Whilst not a production officially by our Devon Film company, I think this still goes someway to showcase our talent. Here’s a little video production I made simply to capture the magic moments of my kids growing up on the beautiful Devonshire Coastline near our animation studio. It’s something I’ve been doing … Read More

Ursa Mini 4k Test Footage

Ursa mini 4k

With the introduction of incredible high end cameras like Blakcmagics Ursa mini 4k, the price of cinema grade 4k continues to drop and the ease of access to professional level slow motion cinematography continues. We’ll no doubt see more and more of Vimeo and Youtube flooded with beach test shots. You’ll find our own test shots video filmed with the … Read More

Mount the Theta S as a drive – 360 video Top tip

Mount Theta S 360 camera as a drive

360 Video Production Top Tip: Mount the Theta S as a drive If you’re working with the excellent Theta S camera 360 camera to shoot stunning 360 stills or 360 video you may have found that working out how to mount the Theta S as a drive to your Mac to transfer files is a little frustrating. By default the Theta … Read More

Dartmoor Video with Dexter

Dexter does Dartmoor

A video edit made purely for fun whilst out exploring a patch of Dartmoor in Devon, South West England with my son Dexter. If anything it’ll sit nicely amongst a growing collection of near professional quality family videos. All the footage was filmed using a Black Magic Pocket Cinema Camera, with a Sigma 12 – 35mm F1.8 lens with a … 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

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

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

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 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

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

Black Magic Pocket Test Shots.. again

The arrival of a new (and final lens fora while) the Panasonic 12 - 35mm F2.8 gave us reason to head out again to try out our new Black Magic Pocket Cinema camera which we've now had for a week.

The first shots in this video at the beach were taken using a Panasonic 20mm Prime and a cheap £20 CCTV lens fitted to the camera with a C mount adaptor.

The fields of corn (+ cheese and beans on toast sequence) were shot using the Panasonic 12 - 35mm lens.

It was all shot with the ProRes HQ codec and the Film setting in the camera.

The grading was all done using Lumetri in Premiere Pro CC 2015.

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Our new animated business promo is live!!

Corporate Video Sting Kapow

It’s all very exciting here as we’ve finally published our own promotion animated business marketing video. After 10 years of producing video for other businesses, forever fine tuning our skills and design eye it’s been a lot of fun and an honour to be able to find the time to produce a marketing video for our own young Animation and … 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

How to find and commission a corporate video production company

How to find and commsion a corporate video production comany?

While it is a big part of the process, having a beautiful looking corporate video is only a small fraction of what makes a corporate video work. While you may have found a company that is able to film everything in HD with the best digital cameras, they could still end up making a corporate video that is boring and … Read More

Top 5 tips to making a corporate marketing video

Top 5 tips when making a corporate marketing video 1 • PIN DOWN YOUR AIM AND KNOW YOUR AUDIENCE: It can be tempting to squeeze in a tonne information when making a video especially if its the first or potentially only one you’ll be producing. In our experience it really pays to pin down exactly who your making the corporate … Read More