Mackinnon & Saunders

Designing and building high quality animation puppets, models and maquettes, Mackinnon and  Saunders also produce 2D digital animation (Frankenstein's Cat),
Their clients past and present include HOT Animation, Warner Bros., Cosgrove Hall, Aardman Animations, Nickelodeon UK, and Disney to name but a few.

Mackinnon & Saunders ( M&S ), approached us in November 2003 to develop their first website. They wanted the site to act as an on-line portfolio of their work. Because M&S design and make puppets their site was obviously going to be very visually orientated. We therefore designed a navigation method which relied on thumbnail images of each pieces of work.

Because the images used on the site tended to be protected, copyright proved to be a real issue. We helped M&S by incorporating a system into their site which allowed them to superimpose the copyright details of every picture over the image in a subtle and unobtrusive manner.

The bespoke administration system also allows M&S to add new work as and when its has been completed. A very simple publish / unpublish system also allowed us to add much of the content before permission was granted. This meant once permission was approved M&S could make the content visible with the click of a button.

The images on the site are included with a flash based slide show. This allows the site administrator to add multiple images to each page, the images will then be slowly dissolved between on the site.

Mackinnon & Saunders website has now been successfully running since January 2004 and gets a good number of visits despite the fact it only has around 20 pages.

You can visit the site by clicking on the link below