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Talk to the Hand - Andrew Park on RSA Animates

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Talk to the Hand - Andrew Park on RSA Animates

Originally published by the RSA in 2015, Andrew Park muses on his creation of the RSAnimates style and the invention of whiteboard animation. ‘When one returns to something there is a tendency to look back over what went before - to assess where you have come from in order to move forward.’

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Visualising Attachment - Our latest film for Cynthia Hall AND the Karyn Purvis Institute

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Visualising Attachment - Our latest film for Cynthia Hall AND the Karyn Purvis Institute

Read about the new whiteboard animation film we made for Cynthia Hall Productions for the Karyn Purvis Institute of Child Development and how we applied our visual thinking to explain attachment theory and the technique of TBRI (Trust Based Relational Intervention)

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Behind the scenes of our latest film for #ForestProud

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Behind the scenes of our latest film for #ForestProud

Continuing our series of animated explainer videos for the North American Forest Partnership, we explore ‘Wildfire’; the effects it has on the forest and what can be done by local communities to manage it.

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Capturing the essence of someone

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Capturing the essence of someone

In a lot of our Cognitive films, we are required to draw a public figure within the animation, whether it be a celebrity or a company employee. In this blog one of our brilliant illustrators takes us through the steps to creating an uncanny portrait.

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A little trick that helps humanise our animations

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A little trick that helps humanise our animations

Easing is a technique that allows us to humanise the animation and enable viewers to follow narration more smoothly - here we show you the effect works and why our animations are so successful.

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Mapping out, drawing and animating history *Ahem* Herstory!

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Mapping out, drawing and animating history *Ahem* Herstory!

At Cognitive we love unpacking complex information and mapping it out in space and stories like ‘What the suffragettes did for us’ are a great opportunity to supercharge the narrative with emotive drawings and kinetic animation.

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Animation - it's character building

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Animation - it's character building

Characters are what drive the emotional reactions of the viewer to a story. The viewer invests their emotions into the characters. Find out how and why we use characters in our work...

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I Always Thought, If This Works Whiteboard Animation Is Going To Spread Around The World

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I Always Thought, If This Works Whiteboard Animation Is Going To Spread Around The World

I read an interesting interview with Jon Kabat-Zinn the other day. His name might not be on the tip of everybody's tongue, but most people have come across his work in some shape or form.

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When One Returns To Something There Is A Tendency To Look Back Over What Went Before, In Order To Move Forward

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When One Returns To Something There Is A Tendency To Look Back Over What Went Before, In Order To Move Forward

I have over the past few weeks been doing just that - looking back at the catalogue of work we have made for the RSA Animate series to get a sense of the here and now.

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