What Spielberg said…
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I'm not saying we should promote your medical insurance firm with rainbow-fart powered flying unicorns...
Lee25 April 2016
Rare versus safe
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...If you want to increase the value of the video we create for you, it's probably better to be rare (or unique) than to blend in.
Lee18 April 2016
Deal Momentum
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We don't often stray from producing fully animated explainer videos but now and then a client comes along and asks for a video and 'fully animated' isn't really the right…
Lee25 February 2016
Lending Stream Explainer Video
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We recently created an explainer video for Lending Stream. Lending Stream offer short-term solutions for your financial needs. I worked closely with a couple of guys from their marketing team…
Lee1 February 2016
The Lost Marble Yeti
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I've been doodling this Yeti for a good while. I've not had any good ideas as to what to do with him (or what to name him). So, he'll just…
Lee25 January 2016
Grown-ups are boring…
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Do you remember, back when you were about 7 or 8 and you'd dream about someday looking at graphs and charts? No? Me either.
Lee6 November 2015
Lost Marbles 1 (Wonder Boys)
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This is the first 'episode' of Lost Marbles - a series of short animations featuring stick-man characters in weird situations or doing absurd and sometimes violent things to each other.…
Lee12 October 2015
You can only see as far as the headlights…
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"Writing a novel is like driving a car at night...you can only see as far as the headlights...but you can make the whole trip that way."
Lee5 October 2015
Jam & Jelly
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"The end product was beyond our expectations" Jam & Jelly love organic! They're working with some of the best UK organic children's clothing and accessories brands and bringing them to Durham. I…
Lee28 September 2015
The curse of knowledge
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The curse of knowledge is a cognitive bias that leads better-informed parties to find it extremely difficult to think about problems from the perspective of lesser-informed parties. Also, pizza.
Lee2 September 2015
E4 eSting 2015
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Every couple of years, E4 run a competition where creatives can submit a 10 second esting (channel ident). Our entry for the 2015 contest, seen at the top of this post,…
Lee24 August 2015
Lost Marble Media explainer video
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Above is our brand new animated explainer video... You have no idea how relieved I am to finally post it. There's nothing worse than working on your own explainer video. First…
Lee30 July 2015
We’d like to venture into this…but…
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...we're super nervous about video and our marketing guy thinks it's safer to do what we've always done (even if it doesn't work) I get it. Diving into anything new…
Lee1 April 2015
How to look adventurous!
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Script, animatic and voice-over by Epipheo Studios. Animation and sound production by Lost Marble Media.
Lee20 March 2015
You’ve got yourself an explainer video… Now what?
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Erm, now what? Some clients think exactly that after we deliver their video...'now, what do we do with it?'. Actually, they're ahead of a lot who imagine that by simply…
Lee18 March 2015
Do explainer videos work?
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Facts and figures Portfolios, quotes and great scripts mean nothing unless the explainer video works, right? They're a hard thing to gauge, especially if you're not sure how to quantify…
Lee26 February 2015
