What we do
Magipics is an Australian producer of high quality audiovisual content including 3D and 2D animation, illustration and music production. We are primarily focusing on nature, medicine, nanotechnology, biotechnology and engineering. The animation production also covers physics simulation, character animation, technical instruction, and full dome presentations.
Magipics: bridging science and art
The owner and director of Magipics, Mats Björklund, has a solid scientific knowledge with a PhD in Medicine/Biotechnology from Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. He is also an accomplished artist and musician. Armed with this unique skill set, the motto and primary aim of Magipics has from the beginning been to function as a “bridge between science and art”. This original Magipics business concept has proven to be a fortuitous one, as it has in recent years been adopted by other players in the field as well.
Long track record
Magipics has nearly two decades experience with science animation. Since the launch in 1999, Magipics has been exceedingly prolific, producing high quality animations and illustrations for numerous clients (see client list below). These include primarily scientific, biomedical, technological and educational organisations.
Visit the Our Process page for an overview of the Magipics animation production process, and the Projects page to see previous work.
All aspects of each project, from the concept art and story-boarding to the finished product are handled in-house, skillfully combining scientific accuracy with artistic style.
The products are designed for delivery on a range of media, including DVD, video, over the Internet, and integrated into PowerPoint and other presentations. Audio, ranging from sound effects to music composition, recording and editing is also readily handled.
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Some of our clients
Centre for Nanoscale Biophotonics (CNBP), Adelaide University
Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute (ARMI)
Australian Synchrotron
AutoCRC
C8R Medic
ARC Centre of excellence for All-Sky Astrophysics (CAASTRO)
ARC Centre of Excellence in Future Low-Energy Electronics Technologies (FLEET)
Colorado School of Mines
CSIRO
Australian Centre for Infrastructure Durability (ACID), Deakin University
Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) via SBS
GE healthcare via Phosworks
Human Variome Project
Imagine Intelligent Materials
Intelligent Polymer Research Institute (IPRI)/ARC Centre for Electromaterials Science, Wollongong University
IntelliMedical Technologies
Institute for Frontier Materials (IFM), Deakin University
John Hopkins University
Korn Technologies
Melbourne Centre for Nanofabrication (MCN)
Melbourne Health
Melbourne Museum, Museum Victoria
Melbourne Planetarium, Museum Victoria
Micro/Nanophysics Research Laboratory (MNRL), Monash university
Monash Vision Group, Monash university
NanoVic
National ICT Australia (NICTA)
National Measurement Institute (NMI)
PolyActiva
Precise Value
Precedence Health
RMIT University
Swinburne University
TRAJAN Biomedical/SGE
University of Ballarat
University of Melbourne
Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing (VPAC)
V3 Alliance
