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A collaboration between scientists, animators and artists.

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2025 is Fusion Animation’s 15th birthday! Fusion Animation was founded in 2010. Since then, the Fusion team has established a world-leading, high end animation studio that works with some of the biggest and most innovative names in the pharmaceutical and biotech industries.

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We've brought together brilliant film makers and technicians with huge experience in both communications and science.

With more than 250 pharmaceutical and healthcare animations under our belt, we’ve put in the reps to become an industry leader in medical animation. Our track record speaks for itself — delivering accuracy, creativity, and expertise to every project we take on.

Why work with us?

Medical Animation Specialists

We work exclusively on medical and pharmaceutical animations. It's a complex area that demands specialists, not generalists.

Cinematic Quality, Cutting-Edge Technology

We understand how crucial it is to be at the cutting edge. For us, that means using the latest technology used from feature films research labs to ensure your film is the best it can be.

Direct Access to Senior Talent

You'll work directly with scientific experts and senior animators, ensuring clear communication and timely, on-budget delivery—without getting lost in a big agency pipeline.

Consistently Compliant Deliverables

We understand the strict regulations around medical content and know how to push creative boundaries while not falling foul of compliance.

Scientific Precision + Peace of Mind

Fusion has 15+ years of medical animation expertise, ensuring every animation is scientifically accurate giving you confidence in both the content and process.

Masters of our craft

Our people have been selected for their huge breadth of experience and our team has delivered films across a wide range of areas.

OUR TEAM

Fiona Day

BSc (Hons)

Director

Niall Earley

BSc (Hons)

Scientific Art Director

Pauls Kalnenieks

BSc

Animation Director

Vanessa Lane

PhD

Medical Director

Sara Bakalchuk

MSc

Scientific 3D Animator

Ben Delahunt

BA (Hons)

2D Designer

Fin Belcher

BSc

Junior Animator

Ben Delahunt

Ben uses his Graphic Communication and Illustration degree to add hard-working design principles to complement the scientific scripts for our 2D animations. He’s a champion of the belief that good design is versatile; it can exist anywhere. If left to his own devices, Ben would like to turn title sequences into an artform.

Fin Belcher

An experienced digital creative with over 10 years working in dynamic and collaborative environments, delivering hundreds of diverse and quality projects to many high-profile clients.

Multimedia

BSc (Hons)

University of Gloucestershire

Fin's Bachelor of Science in Multimedia equipped him with a bedrock of design and development skills to bring digital experiences to life, encompassing the study of digital arts, technology, science, and the intersections between them.

Sara Bakalchuk

Sara is a highly qualified 3D artist and animator, who has been creating cutting edge CGI visualisations and simulations in the medical animation field since 2019. As a neuroscience major, with a masters in Medical Visualisation, Sara is highly knowledgeable in both the scientific and artistic aspects of medical animation. She utilises these skills to create both visually compelling, and scientifically accurate animations.

MSc Medical Visualisation, Univ. of Glasgow (Distinction)
BSc Neuroscience, Wesleyan University

This program combined practical anatomy teaching and cadaveric dissection, with 3D digital reconstruction, interaction and visualisation. This course also incorporated training with multiple digital interaction technologies including virtual and augmented reality, stereographic 3D and haptic devices. — This course covered a wide breadth of topics, spanning the biology, physiology and chemistry departments. I also did practical laboratory research focused on brain imaging and anatomy.

Pauls Kalnenieks

Pauls is one of the industry’s leading creatives. He is renowned for stunning visuals and intricately crafted animation. He has vast experience of scientific visualisation, having worked at National Space Centre creating immersive cgi experiences for VR and planetariums.

Computer Animation & Visual Effects

BSc

University of Bradford

Main focus was on character and technical animation, but I really enjoyed learning 3D modelling and lighting / rendering / compositing. I was working to become a well-rounded generalist.

Vanessa Lane

Vanessa has been working in senior roles within the medical communications world for over 20 years. Having worked both in the US and UK, she also brings international experience to the team.

BSc (Hons) in Human Physiology

MPhil/ PhD in Pathology

Cambridge University

She has produced a wide range of global and regional medical education materials, including a range of scripts and storyboards for mechanism of disease and mechanism of action videos.

Niall Earley

As a qualified biomedical scientist and an experienced CG artist, Niall is in the unique position to fuse cutting edge scientific research with beautiful CG imagery. Niall's work to engage the public with scientific research has been recognised worldwide and he ensures the Fusion team creates stunning yet accurate animations.

Biomedical Science

BSc

Oxford Brookes

Especially enjoyed molecular biology and cellular pathology. Specialised in the function of extra cellular vesicles and their function as carriers for biomarkers in cancer during final year. Dissertation focusing on effective public communication of the research surrounding this.

Fiona Day

Fiona has worked in advertising for 15 years and in healthcare communications for over 10. The combined communications and scientific background means she can ensure we’re telling our client’s scientific story in a compelling and accurate way.

Physiology

BSc (Hons)

University of Edinburgh

Honours in Neuroendocrinology

Particularly enjoyed modules studying parasitology (and developed a fascination with nematode worms). Dissertation in Sport and Exercise Physiology looking into the link between exercise interventions and diet.

OUR CLIENTS

“Again: fantastic video. Thanks!”

Chief Medical Advisor, Lundbeck

“The video is very high quality and we are very impressed by the quality of your work..... as we discussed earlier, we are really happy with the animation, great work!”

Global Brand Manager, Unilever

“The 2 modules are: AMAZING!! I was really impressed by the quality of your work. Everything was crystal clear, very informative, precise, etc. ...... the next time somebody presents this movie or slides it will be a triumph!! GREAT WORK!!”

Professor, Immunology & Microbial Science. The Scripps Research Institute. Medical Advisor, Novartis

“Thanks, it all looks great! Thanks to everyone on the team for your hard work.”

Senior Publishing Manager, Springer Nature

“We were really happy with the work and our collaboration with you. You really have a good team - all your different skills enabled the different projects to swiftly move forward with high satisfaction on our side. Thanks again!”

International Project Manager, OM Pharma

“….thanks to you and the team for delivering a great animation and with such a smooth process!”

Account Director, PharmaGenesis

“The video looks really great!!! We really love it. We shared the video internally and there were many great comments. Thank you so much.”

Specialist, CDO Business Team | Samsung Biologics

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