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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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Meet our Creative Director, and Co-Founder, Christina
Christina came to the UK from Austria to study animation at Bristol University where her talent was spotted by Aardman Animations. She worked on a number of Aardman projects including ‘Morph’ and ‘Rex the Runt’ and was an animator on the internationally successful “Chicken Run”. A few years later, in 2002, Christina set-up Sliced Bread [...]
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User onboarding in VR
Imagine opening your eyes to find yourself behind the controls of an aircraft, with no clue as to what any of the lights, buttons, and switches mean or do. Yet there they are, blinking, waiting to respond to your inputs even though you do not know what is expected of you. Now imagine another scenario [...]
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Creating Animation For Multiple Use Cuts The Cost
Animated videos are increasingly surfacing across the internet. They appear on client websites and the multitude of social media platforms. It’s also fair to say animation is a favourite medium for corporations to make their internal communications more engaging. This is the beauty of animated videos. They are highly flexible and can be used in multiple [...]
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How Haptic Technologies Are Improving Learning and Training
Virtual and mixed reality technology has made a significant impact in giving businesses the ability to replicate real-world situations in a safe environment. The latest technologies have significantly enhanced training and learning. The next stage of development is to replicate the feel of objects in the virtual world using haptic tactile feedback technology. Haptics aims [...]
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Does AI Have Creative Potential?
Scientists developing artificial intelligence (AI) are quick to point out that teaching computers to be creative is a different methodology to how the human mind can be inventive. On the flip side, German artist, Mario Klingemann says “Humans are not original.” We typically find inspiration from what has been created in the past. The question on [...]
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How To Create Connection And Empathy Through Animation
When I was a little boy I preferred to watch cartoons than children's TV programs with adults in. I much rather preferred to tune into the cartoon town of Trumpton and watch Pugh, Pugh, Barney McGrew and the boys than Floella Benjamin or John Craven. Animation has the power to hold children spellbound - and [...]
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Fascinating Uses Of Virtual Reality Beyond Gaming
The media typically cover the topic of virtual reality (VR) from an entertainment perspective. In recent years, a variety of other stories have emerged as businesses began exploring the potential of using VR technology to capitalise on cost-saving opportunities. VR, however, has a number of other uses that extend far beyond shifting stock or entertaining [...]
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Is Virtual Reality Helping People With Disabilities Transform Their Lives?
Virtual Reality has the potential to enhance the lives of individuals in recovery, take house-bound patients on adventures they cannot physically experience, enable people with disabilities to perform activities that would otherwise be unsafe and help people with certain impairments learn new skills. Numerous scientific investigations around the world are waking people up to the [...]
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E-Learning Content And Management Systems
We have an extensive history and understanding of e-learning and animation production. We know how important it is to breakdown the requirements and deliver them economically without compromising quality. We work fast and smart to deliver measurable results on time and on budget, ensuring each client receives exceptional and cost effective creative digital learning content. [...]
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Why Do Personas Help With Application Builds
Creating Personas Saves You Time, Money and Headaches A lot of money goes down the drain during the product development process. Yet more cash is splashed and wasted on marketing a product that was never right for your audience in the first place. Brands are then faced with entering the design process and product development [...]
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Delight Employees On Their First Day With Gamification And Animation
Everybody knows the first day of a new job sucks. This has been a fact of life for as long as anyone can remember. The only real surprise is that more companies haven’t done anything to improve the onboarding process before now. In their book, ‘The Power of Moments’ Dan and Chip Heath describe an [...]
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HAPPIE Haptics with Innovate UK
We are very pleased to announce that we have won funding for the Audience of the Future programme by UK Research and Innovation through the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund.
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Examples of User Interface Animation
"Focus on the user and all else will follow.” ~ Google How many times have you been left frustrated trying to find a product you want on a website, or even more commonly, trying to purchase something online? Every interaction a brand has with a consumer has to be meaningful and offer value. To engage [...]
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How Elearning Can Improve Productivity In The Workplace
E-learning has been tipped to be a breakthrough for productivity. For employees to have a source they can turn to at the touch of a button enables them to learn quicker without interrupting other team members.
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Why Visual Content Is Key To Onboarding
Employees are a company’s most important asset. Securing the top talent in your industry is only achievable if you have an awesome onboarding program. Implementing an onboarding program that is educational, thoughtful, fun and engaging fosters motivation and instils a willingness to stay and succeed with your company.
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3D Animation Production Process
Ever wondered the process on how a 3D animation is created and the pipeline behind it? Or hear the words Pre-Production, Production and Post Production, and are unsure on the terminology? Here’s is a quick guide for you to understand all the elements behind the production pipeline for a 3D animation.
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Playblast and Render, do you know the difference?
There are lots of processes within an animation production pipeline, but 2 processes that seems to make heads turn with confusion is knowing the difference between a Playblast and a Render. Do you know the difference?
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Bionic, Haptics, and Virtual Reality Technology For Rehabilitation
Over the years, technology has revolutionised our world. Technology has created amazing tools and resources from incredible communication inventions to medical procedures through the use of touch.
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Production Process – Whiteboard Animation
Whiteboard animations are brilliant for explaining processes and complex thoughts. They can bring a story to life and are engaging viewers through their hand drawn and warm approach. Are you considering producing one, but unsure on the animation production process? Here’s what you can expect when creating one at Sliced Bread.
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Are you ready for Web AR?
WebAR began with allowing users to place static objects in their real world and interact with them. This in itself was a big leap forward in browser technology, and gave a real taste of the possibilities for creating web based AR content.
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Are Your Corporate Videos A Bore? They Don’t Have To Be!
Advertising is becoming increasingly more competitive and difficult in the digital age. Want to know how to spark up your corporate animation videos?
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5 Facts About VR/ AR Animation In Modern Businesses
Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality applications are among the most dynamic technologies impacting the business world. Can your business afford to ignore VR and AR animation? Read more to find out our 5 top facts on how VR and/ or AR can enhance modern businesses.
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How to create Image Targets on Vuforia Developer
Looking to make your own Augmented Reality (AR) application, and would like to integrate 2D and 3D into your application but unsure on how to create Target Images? Vuforia Developer is the software for you.
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Production Process – Medical MoA Animation
Ever wondered the process on how a Medical Mechanism-of-Action (MoA) Animation is created? Are you interested in developing a Medical MoA? Sliced Bread ‘Step by Step Process’ will guide you in the right direction on how to understand and achieve your desired idea.
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Can VR/ AR Help Therapists And Their Patients?
Today, therapists are exploring the possibility of using virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) as an alternative treatment. Read more to see how VR can support and help patients with mental disorders.
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Struggling To Engage Employees With Internal Comms?
If you’re honest with yourself – really honest – the content published on your internal communications channel is boring. Communication defines a workplace culture. Effective internal comms ensures the organisation is working together as a single cell trying to evolve and multiply.
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