Ideas, Animation and Society

Ideas, Animation and Society

This year the RSA have won in the Webby Awards’ animation category for their RSA Shorts series. To celebrate this achievement, we asked the RSA’s Mairi Ryan and Abi Stephenson about the series and sharing ideas more broadly.

Ideas, Animation and the Creative Process

Ideas, Animation and the Creative Process

The RSA has won a Webby Award for their RSA Shorts series, which has been running since 2012. We asked Animator and co-founder of Superdoodle Katy Ross about the experience of creating RSA Shorts.

The RSA Shorts Series wins at the Webbys!

The RSA Shorts Series wins at the Webbys!

Recently we heard the excellent news that RSA have won a Webby Award, described by the New York Times as as ‘the Internet’s highest honor’.

Homeschooling Help: explainer animations to educate and entertain

Homeschooling Help: explainer animations to educate and entertain

At Cognitive we’ve gone through the back-catalogue and found some animations that we hope help you to educate and entertain your new students.

Whiteboard Animations by Cognitive, Staff Favourites Part 1

Whiteboard Animations by Cognitive, Staff Favourites Part 1

It’s hard to work on so many whiteboard animations and not develop a few personal favourites. We put some of our team on the spot to get theirs.

What is Whiteboard Animation? The 9 techniques that make it work

What is Whiteboard Animation? The 9 techniques that make it work

Whiteboard animation is able to create powerful, engaging, memorable and bespoke films. This blog post looks at the nine techniques that allow whiteboard animation to work so well.

4 Ways to communicate your brand in your Whiteboard Explainer Film

4 Ways to communicate your brand in your Whiteboard Explainer Film

Your brand identity is important and representing it properly in your whiteboard animations and explainer films is essential. This blog has four tips on how you can include and reinforce your brand in your films.

Why does whiteboard animation work so well?

Why does whiteboard animation work so well?

Senior Creative Kayle McLeish talks about what makes Whiteboard Animation such an effective tool for creatives that make explainer films, comparing it to a Swiss Army Knife.

Supercharge Your Social Media With Cognitive

Supercharge Your Social Media With Cognitive

Whiteboard Animations and illustrations can take your social media engagement to the next level. Read our post to find out why, and how our illustrations helped Project Everyone super-charge their story!

Five Ways To Make Your Whiteboard Animation Stand Out

Five Ways To Make Your Whiteboard Animation Stand Out

What is the difference between just another Whiteboard Animation and one that goes above and beyond, and really speaks to you? At Cognitive we think there are five things that make the difference, and we put them into each of our Whiteboard Animations to make them the best they can be.

Why Whiteboard animations make great explainer videos

Why Whiteboard animations make great explainer videos

At Cognitive, we are passionate about visual storytelling and helping our clients tell more engaging stories. We pioneered whiteboard animation and still lead the way in setting the highest standards in visual storytelling. Read the blog to find why we think whiteboard animation is so effective.

Professor Ray Laurence: Animation, History and University Research

Professor Ray Laurence: Animation, History and University Research

Professor Ray Laurence talks about the ways translating his research into explainer videos with Cognitive has dramatically increased the reach of his work and triggered debate among people across the world.

The Power of Visual Language

The Power of Visual Language

Often the very first books we encounter are picture books, our first introduction to the power of rich visual language. While our books change, the power of this language doesn’t. Senior Creative Dan Stirrup reflects on this visual language from picture books to explainer films and Whiteboard Animation.

Do you know what type of Explainer Video you need?

Do you know what type of Explainer Video you need?

Explainer videos are an amazing tool. They allow you to communicate your story powerfully and memorably. This blog post explores when you should use them and which type of explainer video is right for you.

10 ways to improve the social impact of your Explainer Video

10 ways to improve the social impact of your Explainer Video

You’ve put a lot of work into your explainer video, how do you get the most from it? Here are ten steps to launch your explainer film and get it out to your audience!

Visualising and explaining Prof. Stephen Hawking's Supertranslations theory

Visualising and explaining Prof. Stephen Hawking's Supertranslations theory

Black Holes might not seem to be visually engaging at the outset. Ultimately there’s not a lot to work with when you think of a hole that swallows light so nothing can be seen. But for Cognitive this is exactly the sort of challenge we love. Hear from Andrew Park about how he and the team visually translated Prof Hawking’s final Black Hole theory of Supertranslations.

15 reasons why you NEED an explainer video

15 reasons why you NEED an explainer video

15 really good reasons why you need a video in your marketing mix and all the latest research you need to support making a video!

Multiple Language Explainer videos

Multiple Language Explainer videos

Working with Global Clients we are often asked to translate their films into multiple languages - there are four methods of making multiple language explainer videos. Read our blog to find out more!

Explainer Videos: What are they? Why do you need one?

Explainer Videos: What are they? Why do you need one?

Explainer Videos have become an important part of the digital world, but what are they and why do you need one? Read on to find out.