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Nick Cobby is a versatile London based Animation Director & Graphic Designer. Nick loves hands-on craft and fusing it with computer aided design in a fun and imaginative way. More work from Nick will be added here shortly, including visuals created for Kylie's current world tour. Enjoy a selection of stylistically varied work from Nick below, including newly added projects for Max Cooper.

A tounge-in-cheek exploration into paper craft with a new take on The 12 Days Of Christmas. A short self-initiated project that was sent out to clients to say Merry Christmas 2010. All models are hand-made from coloured paper and wood.

A short promotional animation for Screenlit, a festival celebrating Film, TV & Writing in Nottingham. A screenwriter let's his imagination and frustration pour out via his typewriter which transports him to various environments. The film is a mixture of stop frame animation computer illustration.

A viral stop-frame animation commissioned by Kickers shoes. A weird and wonderful machine powered by dancing starts to produce shoe designs that are so crazy that they are coming alive! The viral achieved a quarter of a million views in the first month of viral marketing.

An information led animation to inform possible NSPCC Helpline users about the service the charity provides and when they should contact. The animation provides a clear breakdown of a possible helpline scenario combined with simple & engaging imagery. The animation appears on the NSPCC website.

A sequenced animation designed to represent sound in its purest form visually, whilst displaying stop-frame imagery of insects. Each individual instrument and sound in the track was broken down into a simple visual. When all the visual elements combine, they create a hypnotic result, perfectly complementing the repetitive nature of this style of techno music.

An entirely stop-frame animated piece to promote Nottingham City Council's 'Vision 2030' campaign. The brief was to produce a creative film to symbolise the artist's effect on the city, and how this will play a pivotal role in the future development of Nottingham by 2030. The artist here is represented by hands, that craft a moving city out of foam bricks (and a bit of broccoli).

In an entirely computer generated piece, the song's various sounds are broken down into pure imagery using only white shapes. Each element of the track is represented on the sides of an enormous cube floating through space. The large scale of the cube was carefully designed as a hypnotic and engaging visual to heighten the sound of the track as much as possible.

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