Eggbox Studios offers a selection of complimentary services covering, illustration, animation, design, marketing and promotion.

Illustration

Our illustration services have been used to sell and promote a wide range of products and services including architectural developments, interior design, product promotion and navigational aids. The process of creating a flat illustration for print or the web is very similar to creating visuals for animation but needs to be approached in a slightly different way.

Print graphics usually require a much higher level of detail as the final image resolution needs to be several times higher than those used for TV or DVD. The advantages are that details can sometimes be added to the image with photo-editing software and the 3d elements only require building from the angles required for the final image, much like a film set.

A variation on a standard illustration is a photo-montage in which a 3d model is seemlessly integrated into a photograph. This is often used by property developers to aid with planning applications.

Animation

Animations offer a unique set of challenges. There are many formats currently in use for broadcasting and viewing on TV or film with varying resolutions, frame rates and interpolated or progressive scanning. Our knowledge and experience with international broadcast standards, film sizes and compression formats allows us to offer advice on how your animated project should be distributed.

Producing assets for animation is very similar to producing content for print, however, care must be taken to ensure that they are created at sufficient detail without adding unnecessary elements that will increase production and render time. As an example, a turn-table animation of an object will require the entire object to be created but a simple pan from left to right might require only one side of the object to be created. For this reason, it is important to plan the animation thoroughly with storyboards and simple animations (animatics) prior to begining work on the 3d animation.

Animated presentations needn't be completely 3d, simple slideshows and complex motion graphics can also be created from still images, ideal for logos, intros, idents and stings.

As with photo-montage, elements can often be 'composited' with moving footage. The process is quite complex but recent advances in match-moving technology allows complicated compositing to be achieved with fairly modest budgets. Unless the client has a thorough understanding of match-moving techniques it is important that we discuss the requirements before taking any footage for compositing.

Outsourcing

Eggbox Studios produces assets for a number of other studios and agencies allowing professional 3d illustration, animation and compositing without the commitment associated with hiring a full-time member of staff. We can work anonymously in the background or interact with the client directly as a member of your organisation being as discrete as possible throughout the project.

Design, marketing and promotion

Over the years we have forged business relationships with a wide variety of companies that offer complimentary services to our own. Sometimes we are a small cog in a large machine of architects, web designers, marketing experts, copy writers, script writers and much more whilst other times we are able to take a project from start to finish completely in-house.

Whatever the size of the project, we can find the team to ensure that it exceeds all expectations. Some of the professional, complimentary services that we can offer include:

Graphic Design, Web Design, Event Management, PR, Exhibition Services, Promotional Items, Marketing Consultancy, Large Format Printing, CD/DVD Duplication, Voice Overs, Music Production, Interactive and New Media, Branding, CAD and much more.