Animation, video & audio visual

Whether it be a 5 second ident in Flash or a full HD corporate video, we can supply you with compelling audio visual assets for any event or marketing project, at fully competitive rates.

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Immersive multimedia for business and education

We are experienced in producing educational, training and interpretive resources for schools and professionals. Examples include safety training DVDs, medical procedure manuals on disk, learning resource CDs for schoolkids, visitor centre touchscreens and activities. We can help you to visualise your information in the best format for your audience, whether it be charts, animations of wildlife, or 3D product cutaways. Click the images below for examples on our portfolio page…

 Corporate presentations & motion graphics

There are many ways in which Osis can assist you to present your company or message. We can take your images, or source new media assets, and create a DVD slide show presentation to present to clients. We are experienced at designing multimedia presentations for all types of organisation, using both 2D and 3D visuals as appropriate.

Incorporating 3D animated graphics of products, demonstrating their functionality and features, we can create stunning motion graphics to make trade fair presentations more compelling.

Existing or newly created content can be encoded for delivery over the internet, allowing for economical re-use of assets.

Flash animation and websites

At the moment there are several ways of putting animations on your webpage, each with advantages and disadvantages. The main thing to keep in mind is whether your audience will be able to view your animation on the device and browser they are most likely to be using. Then there is the question of how suitable is the type of animation to your message.

iOS devices (iPad & iPhone) are currently unable to show Flash content. If this audience is important to you Flash is out of the equation. However there may be times when the subject requires the kind of interactivity and rich-media experience for which Flash is idea (such as training or education scenarios), and as alternative page content can still be offered, it may be reasonable to go ahead.

Currently about 96% of online devices support Flash. The vast majority of desktops and portable PCs are able to show Flash content in some form or other. Many mobile devices also support Flash (in some cases as ‘light’ versions), however iPhones and iPads do not.

Depending on the message that is being conveyed, it may be appropriate to use Flash on a webpage to deliver content that benefits from a strong visual or interactive style. Many educational websites employ Flash knowing that their user base will probably have  access to Flash-enabled devices in order to get the maximum benefit from the website. Using web page code to determine the users platform and browser, it is possible to create animations in both Flash (including interactivity) and video (without user interaction), and have the appropriate version automatically and seamlessly served to the viewer.

Osis have used Flash to produce animated charts and graphics, process visualisations, cartoon type content, interactive movies including 3D enabled content and games and banner adverts. We are happy to advise on the pros and cons of using Flash on your website – call us for a no obligation chat about your project.

HTML animations and interactivity

Tools are becoming available to the designer which allow animations and interactivity to be produced with similar ease and versatility to the Flash authoring environment. In some cases simple animations produced with these tools can be fairly indistinguishable from Flash animations. Using a mixture of modern browser capabilities (HTML5) and established technologies (JavaScript), it is possible to include fairly sophisticated interactivity. If the target audience will be predominantly using modern recent versions of most of the major browsers, it is possible to closely emulate Flash abilities.

In general, animations produced this way are not as optimised as comparable Flash animations, having larger file sizes and longer download times, and transitions and movement of graphic elements tend to be a little jerkier. As browser technology and applications are in constant development, new solutions are appearing all the time for addressing these various design challenges.

We can advise and offer samples to illustrate the possibilities and limitations of HTML animation, if you are interested in finding out more please get in touch.

Web Video

For animations not dependent on user input, the new HTML5 standards allow for video to be included on web pages without requiring any plugin. It is also possible to create 2 versions of a presentation, one interactive version in Flash and another video version which then are selected for playback depending on the browser’s capabilities.