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Why Branded NFTs Are Here To Stay
Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) became mainstream this year. The furore around the top-performing NFTs has captured the public imagination. Many of these unique tokens are already collector’s items. The NFT marketplace took off with the introduction of 10,000 software-generated “CryptoPunks” which netted the creators of the punk-style characters over $1 billion. Since then NFT collectables have exploded. [...]
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The Different Methods For Utilising Augmented Reality
Augmented reality (AR) is an increasingly growing trend that is permeating numerous aspects of our life. It has multiple uses that inform, inspire and entertain. In a nutshell, AR can provide data in real-time that influences decision making. The technology allows users to visualise the real world with a digital augmentation overlay making for an [...]
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The Importance of Emotions In The Learning Process
Virtual reality, animation and gamification are the stand-out performers in digital learning environments. Whilst these relatively new technologies are not ubiquitously established tools across the board - yet - researchers agree that the emotional provocation they offer can significantly enhance learning. The fact of the matter is that immersive technologies make experiences feel real. This [...]
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How AR Training Tools Support Fun Informative Learning?
The adoption of augmented reality (AR) as a corporate training tool is proving to be an effective approach. AR fosters faster learning, helps to improve soft skills, optimises workflow, reduces training material, saves time and enhances engagement. AR training tools in a corporate environment can be executed via a mobile device such as a smartphone [...]
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HAPPIE Haptics For Innovate UK – VR Tactile Feedback
Introduction Haptic Authoring Pipeline for the Production of Immersive Experiences, or HAPPIE for short, was an Innovate UK funded Research and Development project that Sliced Bread Animation was more than excited to tackle in the later months of 2019 through to 2021. The aim of the research was to build projects that would give a [...]
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Engaging And Immersive E-learning Ideas For 2022
The digital transformation enables people to work - and learn - from anywhere. E-Learning was gaining momentum even before the pandemic but exploded through 2020 and 2021 as lockdown restrictions limited movement and time spent in the office. Reports and data reveal the companies that adopted e-Learning and development tools saw positive results. IBM said their [...]
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What Skills Does An Animator Need?
With animation software becoming easily accessible for nearly everyone with a computer or smartphone at hand, everyone can have a go at creating animation. Many online courses are available to get you either started in animation or equip you with the professional knowledge to truly let your talent sparkle. With all those technical advances it [...]
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Essential Game Engine Mechanics In Interactive E-learning
Gamification is a visually engaging and creative tool that enables you to introduce new employees to your company training program. It can also be used for ongoing training and making your internal comms more engaging. With hybrid models likely to become the standard for the vast majority of businesses in the post-pandemic world, gamification has [...]
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Haptic VR – Car Engine Assembly Production
With several years of commercial e-learning projects designed and developed for virtual reality devices, Sliced Bread Animation has taken a look to further build on this knowledge-base by adding haptic and force feedback aspects to e-learning experiences. In relation to the technology world, haptic feedback encapsulates every device that provides a sensation of digital touch. [...]
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Traverse The Metaverse – Are You Ready?
Facebook’s recent announcement of rebranding its corporate parent company to Meta Platforms Inc has sent, not just the tech industry leaders, but every investment institution and news outlet into a spiral trying to understand what exactly the Metaverse is. The question on everyone’s minds is will Meta revolutionise the way we live our online lives. [...]
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Scenario Based E-Learning Is An Efficient And Engaging Way To Learn
The global drive for workplace efficiency has placed new demands on businesses and employees. Whilst firms expect individuals to deliver a high-quality performance, employees expect on-the-job e-learning programs that enable them to develop quickly. New-generation technologies have played a part in this paradigm shift. Researchers at Warwick University found that Virtual Reality (VR) simulations are [...]
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How To Be Creative!
Many people believe that creativity is a special gift, only granted to a few geniuses out there. A widely held belief still is that the ordinary person can’t possibly come up with something original or new, as they simply don’t have a special talent like drawing skills, artistic understanding or poetic expression to name a [...]
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Why Corporate Animation Should Be No Longer Than 90 Seconds
Animated explain videos are an effective medium for corporate videos. The majority of people prefer to watch a video than read manuals and FAQs. Videos also make sense from a time management perspective. We’ve previously discussed how animated videos can help to make your internal comms more interesting. However, we’ve noticed the scripts for explainer videos [...]
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How To Grab Attention Through Emotional Storytelling
Good story-telling has a narrative power that grabs the attention of your audience - and holds it! Research by the Statistic Brain Research Institute indicates you have approximately 8.25 seconds to pull your audience in. If you’re a marketer, you know that engaging your target audience is easier said than done! Think about your own [...]
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How To Create a PDF Certificate in Articulate Storyline
This is a tutorial to help support the output of a PDF certificate using Articulate Storyline. Articulate 360 is a holistic suite of interconnected applications for one’s e-learning needs. From authoring, to sourcing assets, to training and collaborating. These apps include Storyline, Studio and Content Library 360. This tutorial will be focusing on Storyline, but [...]
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Meeting Fatigue – Could That Meeting Be An Email?
I recently attended a seminar which raised several interesting points around business meetings. The attendees mainly consisted of corporate learning managers who were asked to complete a poll. The audience was asked: “what kind of requests are you mostly getting from employees and leaders?” Taking the top spot, with a whopping 61% of the votes, [...]
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Transferring Office Culture To Online Culture
When Marissa Mayer was CEO at Yahoo!, the biggest headline she made was to recall remote workers back to the office. Her reasons were valid; “Some of the best decisions and insights come from hallway and cafeteria discussions, meeting new people, and impromptu team meetings.” News about the remote working experiment spread like wildfire. Businesses [...]
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Understanding VR and Hand Tracking
What is Hand Tracking? Hand tracking has become an integral feature within recent generations of immersive technology and Virtual Reality (VR) devices. With the widespread adoption of this feature, engineers and developers are faced with a list of opportunities and challenges to tackle, most of which are related to human usage. So what is hand [...]
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Healthcare & Pharma Communication Projects
We make it our mission to transform our clients’ requirements into compelling stories that captivate and engage target audiences. We partner with clients such as Merck, Novartis, Takeda, GSK, and the NHS to help them visualise their messages. We have an extensive history and understanding of immersive communication processes. We know how important it is [...]
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FMCG Marketing & Communication Projects
We make it our mission to transform our clients’ requirements into compelling stories that captivate and engage target audiences. We partner with clients such as Reckitt, Unilever, Danone, Nestlé, and Coca-Cola to help them visualise their messages. We have an extensive history and understanding of immersive animation processes. We know how important it is to [...]
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How VR And AR Is Transforming The Construction Industry
Virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR) and mixed reality (MR) are opening doorways to the construction industry and enabling architects to take building designs to the next level. Economists estimate the latest VR technologies will lower construction costs by around 90% and could save the industry up to $15.8 billion that is typically lost due [...]
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How To Create Compelling And Addictive Digital Learning Content
Let’s not disguise the fact: e-learning content can be about exciting as a rice cracker. You may be wondering, therefore, how we have the audacity to make the bold claim advertised in the title of this article. Truth be told, we have a few tricks up our sleeves that might interest you. It appears the biggest barrier [...]
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Use Gamification To Train Your Staff How To Recognise Cybersecurity Threats
Animation and gamification are becoming more prevalent in business settings. Thanks to its animated visuals and engaging features, companies particularly find gamification is an effective training tool. An increase in data breaches has underscored that companies are obligated to raise awareness of cybercrime activity. Whilst it is widely believed that hackers use complex and advanced [...]
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Simple Character Animation And Eye Rig Tutorial
If you’ve read our previous blog about revealing a character’s emotions by bringing their eyes to life, you might be interested in how this quick animation was done. We’ve therefore prepared a little tutorial that you can hopefully follow easily. It introduces you to two helpful tools of mine that really speed up my animation [...]
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How can eye movement bring your character animation to life?
It’s a great advancement of our times that nearly anyone with a designer's eye and some feel for motion graphics can now get their hands on animation software without the need to be able to draw properly … but, what is the secret of really breathing life into your character? Knowing how a character needs [...]
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Struggling To Create High Volume E-learning Content? Animation Can Help!
Animation is becoming increasingly widespread in online learning. The benefits of animation in eLearning environments is well documented; animated content is fun, engaging, motivational and enhances memory recall. With Covid-19 forcing school children and university students to study from home, teachers are finding it difficult to keep on top of the amount of content they need [...]
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Creating Synthetic Data Using Unity
What is Synthetic Data? Synthetic data is a result of artificially manufacturing any sort of data - whether it be images, texts, or audio - algorithmically, rather than generating the data type by real world events. These data sets are used as a stand-in for testing production or operational data, to further corroborate mathematical models [...]
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Realtime Rendering In Unity Tutorial
When trying to achieve realism and high definition in Unity, it is important to study lighting techniques within game engines (such as Unity & Unreal) to see how much you can push a scene and how much others have been able to achieve. Once you’ve done some research, find an image with nice lighting similar [...]
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Game-Based Storytelling Puts Your Employees At The Heart of Internal Communications
If you’re honest with yourself, the content on your internal communications platform is boring. Nobody is reading them. There could actually be a rack of reasons why your employees don’t read your intercoms but the main reason is a lack of engaging content. The problem most companies will encounter when internal communications are ignored are mistakes - and [...]
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Using Animation To Communicate “The Why”
Employees and customers are hungry for information. However, for businesses to communicate effectively, it is the core questions of what, how and why that brings clarity. Explaining the “why” with animation enforces understanding and builds trust. Moreover, people are more willing to respond in a positive way when they can comprehend the purpose behind their actions. The other challenge [...]
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A Brief History Of Animation – Part 3
Continuing on from Part 1 and Part 2. Disney v Warner Bros The Golden Age of animation began in the early 1920’s and continues today. Disney was the first to transform cartoon characters into stars with the likes of Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Goofy. The shades of Mickey Mouse first appeared in 1922 when Hugh Harman [...]
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A Brief History Of Animation – Part 2
So continuing on from Part 1, Animated pictures made significant strides in the early 20th-Century. The first animated film was a series of funny faces created with stop-motion photography. However, the foundations of animation as we know it today were laid two years later with the 1908 film, Fantasmagorie. The French artist Emile Cohl created the [...]
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