About us
Who, where and what?
Lost Marble is an animation studio. We hire scriptwriters, voice-over talents and whoever else as needed. We’ve been creating animated video content since 2004 for businesses of all sizes. We put our superpowers to good use by utilising the Adobe Creative Cloud apps and Cinema 4D and by fuelling ourselves with an abundance of caffeine.
We’re based in County Durham in the north-east of England. The best way to describe the north is to liken it to the area in Game of Thrones where the Wildlings live. Up here, you will often hear people mutter absurd nonsensical phrases such as ‘Bubblin’ bairn’s booler’s brokken’ or ‘That gadgie’s gannin’ propa radgie, lyke’.
Values
It sounds overly simple but that's how we like to work. We won't try to get as much money out of you as possible or promise anything we can't deliver. We'll be honest and friendly throughout the project. We see a working relationship with our clients as an equal sided agreement (we offer you our services for a fee) so we're not working for you, we're working with you.
All that’s great, but really…
who are you?
My name is Lee
I’m the one who does most of the production work, designing, animating and rendering. And if you’re emailing us, I’m probably the one you’re talking to.
I’m a husband to an awesome wife and father to two amazingly mad boys. We live in a house full of books, musical instruments and lego with a noisy black cat named Jake in County Durham…if you’re not sure exactly where that is, it’s somewhere far above London. I work from my house in a home office.
I have a beard and am often found writing lists in a small notebook with a pencil. I like to draw and paint strange things. I’m a baker and I make nice sourdough loaves and fairly decent baguettes. I love cooking Italian food and reading old books. I’m a fan of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories, Edgar Allen Poe and Hunter S. Thompson. I love music and I’ve been a faithful follower of Pearl Jam since the early ’90s. Sometimes I try to play the guitar.
An average day for me is waking up, moving a few feet to the coffee machine, then another few feet to my office. Sometimes I write scripts, sketch ideas, draw storyboards, write things on lists, cross things off lists, animate things, eat lunch and send lots of emails.
I’m very lucky that I usually love what I do for a living and get to do it at home.
My name is Jemimah
‘Behind every great man…’
I’m the other half of the Lost Marble team, you won’t find me communicating directly with you very often, but I’m usually involved in what’s being said.
I’m the wife of a very awesome husband, and no, I haven’t been paid to say that! I also had something to do with the two amazing boys we share. A few years ago I left my job as a teacher to spend more time with the family and help out more with the business. We also home educate our boys, so our weeks are filled with museum trips, French lessons and scientific experiments, with lots of baking, drawing and reading thrown into the mix.
Lee and I share a love of reading and of anything artistic, so downtime is a good book with a side of chocolate, or sketching with my Kuretake drawing pens. We moved into our old Victorian terraced house last year, and much of my spare time is spent renovating and decorating at the moment.
My background is in English literature, and my pedantic nature along with my experience as a teacher makes me an annoying but necessary addition to the business. I am usually the one who will write the base script, and/or will edit and proofread existing scripts or text being used in the video. I am also Lee’s first editor, as we will go through scenes and storyboards together, coming up with ideas for styles and stories as well as the research behind what the client wants and what their product or service is or does.
We love working together and make a good team.
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Services
Here's what's included
In a nutshell, we cover everything from start to finish – full production. Below is a more detailed breakdown of what we deliver per project.
Pre-production
- Research
- Concept work
- Script writing
- Style frames
- Storyboards
Production
- Voice-over recording
- Animation/editing
- Sound editing
- Rendering
Deliverables
- Video file in MP4 format – full HD (other file formats and dimensions can be arranged)
- Custom thumbnail image
Optional extras
- Social media edit (30 or 60-second cut)
- Teaser (15-second cut)
- Animated GIFs
- Instagram story
- Explainer comics
- For more on extras – click here.
We make it simple
A big difference between Lost Marble and many other animation studios is that we make the process simple. We take on as much of the responsibility as possible and allow you to be as involved as you’re comfortable with.
Fair pricing
We’re structured in a way that lets us charge for what we offer and nothing more. We don’t have huge bills to cover from excessive luxury studio spaces and surplus employees so we can afford to be affordable.
