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 [...]

 If your boss comes to you and says, “I need you take on this additional project on top of your current work load.” What is your first question? It probably has nothing to do with the mechanics of setting your alarm or re-arranging your schedule. When someone asks you to alter a current behavior, your [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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?

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 [...]

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.

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. 

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?

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.

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.

Advertising is becoming increasingly more competitive and difficult in the digital age. Want to know how to spark up your corporate animation videos?

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.

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.

Our MD, Jamie Denham, spoke about “VR Technology for Medicine” at the Knowledge Transfer Network’s 9th Intelligent Imaging event in Glasgow. Imaging as the most information rich sensing technology is one of the most important technology widely utilised across human society and industries, from entertainment, healthcare, security, agriculture to transport, energy and space, etc.

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?

So, you want to get a message to your employees, colleagues or customers that grabs their attention and is informative? Here at Sliced Bread we have proven knowledge of how video and animation campaigns can drive viewer engagement.

On the 20th – 22nd April 2017, we exhibited at the VR Show at the Business Design Centre in London. It was a chance for us to show the production methods we use when building for VR.

Gantt charts are particularly helpful if you are working with a team because they allow everyone to see what stage the animation is at, and who is working on what and are a widely used project management tool that are an invaluable part of the planning process when producing an animation project.

Following on from the success of the Kuoni Universe we recently completed another 5 hand drawn whiteboard explainer videos as part of Kuoni’s Annual Report collateral. Click here to view all 5 animations.