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Lending Stream Explainer Video

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

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The Lost Marble Yeti

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

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No sleep…

I made this GIF while going through a long stint of no sleep. Plenty of work is awesome but add two ill children to that and, to get by you…

Lee4 December 2015

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Grown-ups are boring…

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

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Lost Marbles 1 (Wonder Boys)

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

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You can only see as far as the headlights…

"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

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Jam & Jelly

"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

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The curse of knowledge

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

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E4 eSting 2015

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

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How long should an explainer video be?

How long should an explainer video be? There's no one singular answer but here's a guide to getting it about right. 30 seconds If you're looking for a 30 second…

Lee26 December 2014

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Odd renders montage

Clips from a decade’s worth of rather odd non-client work These are mostly from practice renders, personal projects or experiments. I left out a lot of the very early stuff…

Lee6 October 2014

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Lost Marble? What kind of name is that?

That question comes up probably once every other project. Here's the story...I dropped a marble while walking in Durham. It rolled down a street as I chased it around corners, through…

Lee20 August 2014