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  • Meeting Fatigue – Could That Meeting Be An Email?

    I recently attended a seminar which raised several interesting points around business meetings. The attendees mainly consisted of corporate learning managers who were asked to complete a poll. The audience was asked: “what kind of requests are you mostly getting from employees and leaders?” Taking the top spot, with a whopping 61% of the votes, [...]

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  • Transferring Office Culture To Online Culture

    When Marissa Mayer was CEO at Yahoo!, the biggest headline she made was to recall remote workers back to the office. Her reasons were valid; “Some of the best decisions and insights come from hallway and cafeteria discussions, meeting new people, and impromptu team meetings.” News about the remote working experiment spread like wildfire. Businesses [...]

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  • Understanding VR and Hand Tracking

    What is Hand Tracking? Hand tracking has become an integral feature within recent generations of immersive technology and Virtual Reality (VR) devices. With the widespread adoption of this feature, engineers and developers are faced with a list of opportunities and challenges to tackle, most of which are related to human usage.  So what is hand [...]

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  • Healthcare & Pharma Communication Projects

    We make it our mission to transform our clients’ requirements into compelling stories that captivate and engage target audiences. We partner with clients such as Merck, Novartis, Takeda, GSK, and the NHS to help them visualise their messages. We have an extensive history and understanding of immersive communication processes. We know how important it is [...]

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  • FMCG Marketing & Communication Projects

    We make it our mission to transform our clients’ requirements into compelling stories that captivate and engage target audiences. We partner with clients such as Reckitt, Unilever, Danone, Nestlé, and Coca-Cola to help them visualise their messages. We have an extensive history and understanding of immersive animation processes. We know how important it is to [...]

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  • How VR And AR Is Transforming The Construction Industry

    Virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR) and mixed reality (MR) are opening doorways to the construction industry and enabling architects to take building designs to the next level. Economists estimate the latest VR technologies will lower construction costs by around 90% and could save the industry up to $15.8 billion that is typically lost due [...]

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  • How To Create Compelling And Addictive Digital Learning Content

    Let’s not disguise the fact: e-learning content can be about exciting as a rice cracker. You may be wondering, therefore, how we have the audacity to make the bold claim advertised in the title of this article. Truth be told, we have a few tricks up our sleeves that might interest you. It appears the biggest barrier [...]

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  • Use Gamification To Train Your Staff How To Recognise Cybersecurity Threats

    Animation and gamification are becoming more prevalent in business settings. Thanks to its animated visuals and engaging features, companies particularly find gamification is an effective training tool. An increase in data breaches has underscored that companies are obligated to raise awareness of cybercrime activity. Whilst it is widely believed that hackers use complex and advanced [...]

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  • Simple Character Animation And Eye Rig Tutorial

    If you’ve read our previous blog about revealing a character’s emotions by bringing their eyes to life, you might be interested in how this quick animation was done. We’ve therefore prepared a little tutorial that you can hopefully follow easily. It introduces you to two helpful tools of mine that really speed up my animation [...]

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  • How can eye movement bring your character animation to life?

    It’s a great advancement of our times that nearly anyone with a designer's eye and some feel for motion graphics can now get their hands on animation software without the need to be able to draw properly … but, what is the secret of really breathing life into your character? Knowing how a character needs [...]

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  • Struggling To Create High Volume E-learning Content? Animation Can Help!

    Animation is becoming increasingly widespread in online learning. The benefits of animation in eLearning environments is well documented; animated content is fun, engaging, motivational and enhances memory recall. With Covid-19 forcing school children and university students to study from home, teachers are finding it difficult to keep on top of the amount of content they need [...]

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  • Creating Synthetic Data Using Unity

    What is Synthetic Data? Synthetic data is a result of artificially manufacturing any sort of data - whether it be images, texts, or audio - algorithmically, rather than generating the data type by real world events. These data sets are used as a stand-in for testing production or operational data, to further corroborate mathematical models [...]

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  • Realtime Rendering In Unity Tutorial

    When trying to achieve realism and high definition in Unity, it is important to study lighting techniques within game engines (such as Unity & Unreal) to see how much you can push a scene and how much others have been able to achieve. Once you’ve done some research, find an image with nice lighting similar [...]

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  • Game-Based Storytelling Puts Your Employees At The Heart of Internal Communications

    If you’re honest with yourself, the content on your internal communications platform is boring. Nobody is reading them. There could actually be a rack of reasons why your employees don’t read your intercoms but the main reason is a lack of engaging content. The problem most companies will encounter when internal communications are ignored are mistakes - and [...]

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  • Using Animation To Communicate “The Why”

    Employees and customers are hungry for information. However, for businesses to communicate effectively, it is the core questions of what, how and why that brings clarity. Explaining the “why” with animation enforces understanding and builds trust. Moreover, people are more willing to respond in a positive way when they can comprehend the purpose behind their actions. The other challenge [...]

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  • A Brief History Of Animation – Part 3

    Continuing on from Part 1 and Part 2. Disney v Warner Bros  The Golden Age of animation began in the early 1920’s and continues today. Disney was the first to transform cartoon characters into stars with the likes of Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Goofy.  The shades of Mickey Mouse first appeared in 1922 when Hugh Harman [...]

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  • A Brief History Of Animation – Part 2

    So continuing on from Part 1, Animated pictures made significant strides in the early 20th-Century. The first animated film was a series of funny faces created with stop-motion photography.  However, the foundations of animation as we know it today were laid two years later with the 1908 film, Fantasmagorie. The French artist Emile Cohl created the [...]

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  • A Brief History Of Animation – Part 1

    Those of you old enough to remember pre-millennium animation will have noticed the rapid improvement of animated films over the last 30 years. Today, 3D animation can be rendered with such accuracy it’s difficult to distinguish animated characters from real-life actors. It’s taken animators a little over 400 years to get to accomplish such an [...]

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  • Creating Animation Videos To Enhance Remote Onboarding

    Inadequate onboarding costs UK businesses millions in recruitment, lost productivity and employer brand value. And that was before the onset of remote working en masse. A study performed by Cezanne revealed that almost two-thirds of HR professionals experience problems with new recruits handing in their notice within six months. Moreover, with the increasing popularity of [...]

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  • Using Game Engines To Create Synthetic Data

    The evolution of deep learning models has seen significant advancements in recent years. With the adoption of game engines such as Unity and Unreal Engine, animation teams can support data scientists by generating insightful visualisation from synthetic data. Animation is becoming increasingly popular in a business environment. Even in a standard format, animated visuals such [...]

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  • Real-Life Examples Of How Businesses Are Adopting VR Technology

    Real-Life Examples Of How Businesses Are Adopting VR Technology It doesn’t seem all that long ago since businesses made the transition to digital technology. Yet the next phase of the technological revolution in the workplace is already picking up pace rapidly; virtual reality (VR) simulators. VR technology has been slow to break into the commercial [...]

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  • Unity3D vs Unreal Engine – Which is the right engine for you?

    Overview There are two major players when it comes to the subject of game engines - Unity3D and Unreal Engine. Both of these engines have been steadily and rapidly evolving along with the gaming industry. Some of the world’s most popular games are powered by these engines, such as Fortnite with the Unreal Engine, and [...]

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  • Virtual Conferencing Now A Reality

    Working remotely is the new normal. Even before the coronavirus ushered in a new paradigm of working from home, a growing trend for gig economies and telecommunicating was becoming increasingly popular. A presentation compiled by Upwork predicted that 75% of teams would be composed of remote workers this decade. During the lockdown, Zoom subscribers exploded from 10 million [...]

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  • Learn Maths Online – A Berry Good Game To Play!

    Lockdown changed the world in which we live. Social distancing and isolating at home also meant for many of us, combining home-working with home-schooling. This was a real challenge for us here at Sliced Bread, as the first few weeks of lockdown was filled with frantic activity completing projects, with our team spread out over [...]

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  • Employees Crave Technology To Keep Them Engaged In The Workplace

    It is estimated that 75% of the UK workforce will be millennials and Gen Z by 2025. These tech-centric age groups are already changing the way we work, and place unprecedented demands on employers. Whilst the media portray millennials as the most problematic generation for employers, that is not necessarily the case. A report published by PwC suggests [...]

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  • Communicating Transformation and Change Using Animation

    If there’s ever been a time for animation to communicate company messages, it's now. Animation can help companies communicate changes easier, increase engagement, soften negative responses to wholesale changes, and alleviate fears your employees have about Covid-19. Disruptive technologies have been turning the screw on the need for digital transformation in the corporate world for [...]

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  • What To Expect When Working On A Project With Sliced Bread

    If you’ve never worked with an animation studio before you would be forgiven for being a little unsure about what the animation process is, and how it all works. Do you want to know exactly what to expect if you work on an animation project with Sliced Bread Animation?

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  • Creating Gamification For Digital Learning

    Gamification changes the way employees interact and engage with their work and their co-workers. Because gamification makes learning interactive, the mechanics improves employee engagement and inspires collaboration by encouraging co-workers to interact and share. The essence of gamification is a rewards system. It works by eroding users with in-game feedback and proactive messages. featuring the [...]

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  • The Importance Of Video Game Narrative

    Stories are integral to, if not the very definition of the human experience, learning, and culture. It is said that human beings have evolved to understand their existence in terms of the structure within spoken or written accounts of connected events, with narrative being the mechanism through which we have come to construct reality and [...]

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  • Per-Haptics Time To Remove The Gloves?

    The next phase in the evolution of technology is haptics; applications that enable users to operate devices and machines without touching them. In the current paradigm, haptic technologies such as 3D virtual reality (VR) uses joysticks, steering wheels and gloves. However, the Covid-19 pandemic has pinned a giant question mark over the health and safety issues [...]

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  • 5 Tips To Quickly Creating Animation

    The 3D animation industry is becoming increasingly popular and firms are crying out for skilled animators. There are numerous opportunities for outsourcing, employment, revenue generation, and business growth. However, in order to make a career or an animation project profitable, animators have to be skilled in creating high-quality animation fast. Respectable animators should aim for [...]

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  • How to host a Unity project for browser support

    It is said that creating and developing a game takes a whole village, but getting your game in front of players does not have to be an equally arduous task. There are a number of options for self publishing games with Unity3D. Getting player feedback as quickly as possible is vital for the game iteration [...]

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