Close-Up Research is an ethnographic research and storytelling agency specialising in lived experience. We spend time with people in their everyday environments to make sense of how they think, feel and behave. Our insights and films help clients design, evaluate and communicate better policies, products and services.

Alongside ethnography, we also offer diary studies, vox pops, podcasts, photography, animation, co-design workshops and training.

Below is a mix of animation examples we’ve also produced, involving: traditional cartoon-style animation; stop-motion involving physical objects, drawings animated over live action footage, live hand-drawn illustration with paper cut-outs, and kinetic typography.