Summary:
A UK based award-winning animation studio that creates specialist 3D animation for Fulldome installations, 2D broadcast animation, promotional video and other video installations. Their customers come from a wide range of industries that include healthcare, educational and tourism sectors. They are seeking to develop an international market presence and looking for partnerships under a commercial agency agreement (licensing, subcontracting or outsourcing agreement).
Description:
Since their incorporation in 2010 this company based in the North East of England has won contracts both regionally and nationally with internationally recognised organisations including the BBC, NHS, SEGA and MacMillan Education.
The company creates original, character driven animation for broadcast. Using their skills in live animation, creative writing and storytelling, to develop immersive experiences that can fully engage audiences. They have developed impactful storytelling skills in the gaming and TV industry.
There are three strands to the SMEs business:
1. Commercial work that includes work for major UK television, internet broadcasters, games and apps both for entertainment and educational content. Educational work also includes working with major educational publishers and the client has also been commissioned by the healthcare sector, partnering with local and national agencies.
2. Heritage work that has involved working with local authorities to develop original Audio-Visual work for festivals
3. Art instillations for visitor attractions and museums
The company has also successfully introduced fulldome technology and installations to it’s service offerings. Fulldome is an immersive dome-based video projection environment where the viewer is surrounded by the video projection in a hemispherical angle of view. The dome, being horizontal or tilted, is filled with real-time (interactive) or pre-rendered (linear) computer animations, live capture images, or composited environments. Historically astronomy is the most common topic in fulldome theatres however there are no content limitations and it’s now used also for entertaining shows and other hyper-realistic presentations. The fulldome sector is one of the most immersive and entertaining ways to engage a wide range of people with a limitless scope of applications, including education, arts, games and wellness and the sector is experiencing enormous growth with new planetariums and digital theatres being built around the world.
Along with developing the commercial work directly working for their client base the company is also developing new inhouse original content and associated intellectual property. This intellectual property includes a platform that translates content development any media software into a virtual 3D fulldome content for other media.
The company is now seeking to develop an international presence that will enable them to export their services to new markets, via a licensing, subcontracting or outsourcing agreement
Type (e.g. company, R&D institution…), field of industry and Role of Partner Sought:
The SME is interested in collaborating with companies or institutions of any sector that are interested in developing 2D &3D Animations but especially in the fields of medicine/ healthcare and education. They already have experience of producing content for institutions in these sectors in their national market.
The company has recently won international client contracts and wants to further expand its business outside of UK. The company proposes to offer partners its commercial services in the form of a license, subcontracting or outsourcing agreement.
Stage of Development:
Already on the market
IPR Status:
Secret Know-how,Design Rights,Trade Marks,Copyright
External code:
BOUK20201210002
