Character Animation Studio in Manchester
Character-driven animation is what Mighty Giant does best. Expressive 2D & 3D characters for brands, agencies and broadcasters. Meet our characters.
Below is a short selection of some of our favourites. How we go about this is further down the page.
Building Characters
The example above is a really good case study of how we work with a client to take their character from some doodles, or (these days) generated thoughts, into fully rigged and moving 3D characters. In many instances the biggest part of our work is giving them some character, and making them likeable. As you can see from the sketches, some of the ideas we had were actually a bit creepy. But that's the beauty of being able to sketch and iterate quickly. It means you aren't too far down the line when you spot things.
A project like this can move quickly. We were through the sketches in a couple of weeks, and once approved into the modelling and rigging (putting the bones and the movement in).
You can see the full project on our Parcel2Go case study.
Above is one of our most loved characters, Reg the Rhino. Regency Glass brought the idea to us as the host of a series of internal training videos. Based just outside the city, a Manchester studio was a good fit for them. As you can see in our case study, it grew wings (or rather, in this instance, horns!). The images above show the development through the idea phase. And the video below is a short clip from the tests we produced.
The testing is a really important phase. It's where we start to get a feel for the character and see how it looks moving and breathing. It's one thing seeing it on a page, it's very different once you see it moving around.
This project took several months, as it was a brand asset that will live with the company for many years. We also wanted to make sure all the key stakeholders were on board.