If you're on our site, chances are you need to get a message across to your colleagues, customers, team members or - maybe you're just looking for a little "infotainment" for yourself. Whatever brought you here today, we are here to help! Whether you're hosting a webinar, group chat, email blast or any other virtual meeting, we can help bring pictures to your words with a 321 Fast Draw Live Virtual Illustrator . Simply organize a meeting as you normally would, and our staff of brilliant visualists will join your meeting and transform ideas into memorable illustrations - in real time via video conference. If you'd like, we can organize the technical side of things by setting up the web conferencing meeting with the platform of your choice (like Zoom , Explain Everything , or GoToMeeting ). Attendees are engaged. Communication is clear. Creativity and outside the box thinking is supercharged. Plus, the final illustration is instantly availa...

As most of us hunker down in one spot trying to conduct, and possibly salvage, our businesses during the Covid-19 pandemic, we thought you might enjoy a few "pearls of wisdom" from some of the world's leading entrepreneurs. Over the last ten years, we've been producing whiteboard animations for the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation "Sketchbook" series, and highlighting these individuals has never grown old. Here's our top 5 sketchbook picks from our Kauffman playlist: 5) Kauffman Sketchbook "Visionaries" by 321 Fast Draw The two "visionaries" and co-founders of Warby Parker, Dave Gilboa and Neil Blumenthal, explain their entrepreneurial journey into the business of eyewear. 4) Kauffman Sketchbook "Cracking the Code of Success" by 321 Fast Draw Amy Wilkinson, author of The Creator's Code , in which she interviews the world's most creative entrepreneurs on what they have learned from starting up their...

We're Open! If you're on our site, chances are you need to get a message across to your colleagues, customers, team members or - maybe you're just looking for a little "infotainment" for yourself. Whatever brought you here today, we are here to help. In this time of uncertainty, we know how important it is to stay connected and informed. Whether you're hosting a webinar, group chat, email blast or any other virtual meeting, we can help bring pictures to your words. We provide live illustrations for your virtual meetings! Click here for more info. That's what we're here for - so give us a try and stay safe! Visit our website at www.321fastdraw.com Follow 321 Fast Draw on Facebook Follow 321 Fast Draw on Twitter Follow 321 Fast Draw on Instagram Follow 321 Fast Draw on LinkedIn

"I'm very sorry to be asking you this... this is probably not possible... but we would need the video by Friday..." said the producer of SC Reportajes latest video segment. "...Is that possible?" he asked. "...And also, we would need one version in English and one version in Spanish." Then he paused. It was Tuesday afternoon and our creative team had gathered for a conference call for a new project. Everyone in the room looked at each other and shook their heads in agreement. "That is possible... We can definitely deliver that for you." replied 321 creative director Ken. The next morning our illustrators and graphic artists bustled into the studio ready to rock n' roll. We started with pencil sketches and delivered a video storyboard pitching our initial concepts. After a quick approval from the client, we were off to the races in production. Raw sketch from 321 Fast Draw illustration room Professional wrestler and Mixe...

Our home base was recently featured in a news story on Business First AM . Virtual, Augmented and Immersive Reality is set for explosive growth, and reporter Diane Moca got a first hand look at how 321 Next Reality and 321 Fast Draw use these types of innovative technologies in the office. After trying the headset on and speaking with our staff, Moca explains how companies are using AR/VR for training as well as relaxation in the office with Virtual Reality mini-vacations. If you've never heard of a VR mini-vacation, read our previous post here . We're excited to see what the future holds as this technology develops and expands! Watch the full Business First AM segment in below: Visit our website at www.321fastdraw.com Follow 321 Fast Draw on Facebook Follow 321 Fast Draw on Twitter Follow 321 Fast Draw on Instagram Follow 321 Fast Draw on LinkedIn

321 Fast Draw and its new mixed reality division, 321 Next Reality , recently welcomed 25 mid-level professionals and entrepreneurs from sub-Saharan Africa as part of the Nelson Mandela Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) . This 6-week program, coordinated through Northwestern University's African Studies department , exposes these professionals to various companies, innovation hubs and nonprofit organizations throughout Chicago. We started by showing the group The Potato Caper, one of our favorite hybrid 2D animation videos. You can watch that video here ! Th e next stop was to our storyboarding studio. This is where the magic really happens! Our creative directors and illustrators stop in here to get their creative juices flowing, and develop the unique storylines you see in our animations. Finally, our AR/VR division shared some games and virtual environments from our newest immersive reality developments. Many of our YALI guests participated by putting on...

A client of ours - a large packaging company - wanted to make a big splash to announce an international merger. They wanted it to be fun, irreverent, and colorful. The idea we pitched? Dancing packages! 321 Fast Draw Studio: Initial Storyboard Drawings for Client Pitch So... how did we do it? We could have gone 3D all the way along with integrating motion capture technology to animate complicated dance sequences...but we didn’t have the time or budget for that. So we opted for a more novel approach. Using a motorized lazy susan, we filmed high-resolution digital stills of each package spinning in a complete 360 degree circle. In addition to filming the products, we designed some of the packaging labels! Then we used After Effects to key out the background and exported the spin as a QuickTime video with alpha (animation codec). Next, using the puppeting tool in Adobe After Effects, our talented animators were able to choreograph simple dance moves and used the ti...