Iulia
She / her. Iulia is Rusty Monkey’s animation, illustration and 3D expert. Responsible for making everything beautiful, she also dabbles in graphic design and UX design. Among her credits is an animated music video for local parody heavy metal band Evil Scarecrow. A talented artist, she showcases her work on her Instagram channel. She usually spends most of her time in some random corner of the house with a drawing tablet and a pen, scribbling away. Cat obsessed. Professional house plant killer. Autumn lover. Maker of things.
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Projects by Iulia
Animation - NHS
The NHS is a Government-funded medical and health care service that everyone living in the UK can access cost-free. We were asked by the North East Yorkshire Primary Care Transformation team to create an animation that will explain the role of Social Prescribers within the NHS to the general public. The animation had to be accessible, inclusive and informative.
Branding - Little Leap
Little Leap are just starting out and finding their feet (pun intended!). After changing their company name to be more customer friendly, they also needed a new brand identity that appealed to both children and their busy, eco-conscious parents.
Video production - Barnsley Premier Leisure - Calypso Cove
The goal of the project was to create a fun, engaging advert for Sky Ads that showcased Calypso Cove’s pirate-themed waterpark.
Branding - Caia
An exciting project to create a brand for this new restaurant and bar in Notting Hill, capturing the essence of a destination venue, which combines retro themes with the chic and metropolitan vibes of this iconic area in London. With sleek typography and a muted palette, we created a canvas upon which eclectic layers of cultural aesthetics can be built.
Marketing - EPAL Pallets
EPAL was in need of a brand refresh and a new engaging LinkedIn marketing campaign to boost their online presence and followers. We helped them by re-branding them, creating a range of advertising assets ( including animations and individual infographics) and then developed a content plan and an advertising campaign.
Graphic design - Luxfer Gas Cylinders
Helping Luxfer Gas Cylinders bring their products to life with engaging animations and hands-on demonstrations resulting in a space where people can learn and connect.
Animation - CIM Software
'The videos are unique, creative and totally different to a lot of the other explainer videos you see online. The communication throughout the project was brilliant and nothing was ever too much trouble'
Animation - Straple
We created this simple but effective motion graphic animation to introduce Gravita's new product, Straple. The goal was to demonstrate the top level benefits of the product using an inspiring soundbed and eyecatching animation. The animation was used to launch Straple to the global market.
Graphic design - NACCC
NACCC always put the welfare of the children at the forefront of their work. We created lovable and relatable animal characters in a storybook format to help communicate the role of contact centres to children whose parents are separating.
Graphic design - CDA
CDA Kitchens produce high-end kitchen appliances for an aspirational market. They came to us asking for help with a kitchen retail brochure refresh as part of their ongoing marketing retainer. We produced new versions of the brochure each year.
Animation - Spurgeons
Spurgeons are a charity organisation that offer support to children and families across the UK who have been affected by domestic abuse or imprisonment, and are struggling to cope. We created lovable and relatable characters in a series of animations to help educate parents and children about the difficult emotions that they might be going through.
Animation - NACCC
NACCC (the National Association of Child Contact Centres) is a charity that works hard to provide a national network of contact centres for families going through divorce and separation. They asked us to create some animated characters to help children understand the process. The characters are designed to be entertaining, informative and comforting.
Animation - Evil Scarecrow
Evil Scarecrow’s live show has been captivating and surprising audiences for many years. From the local pub to the main stage at Bloodstock Festival, it has grown bigger, louder and sillier with each year of success. We created a 2D, hand drawn animated music video for the Brother Pain ballad for them.
Photography - Select Living Group
Select Living group needed product photography to use on their website to help customers choose which products best suits their garden and needs.
3D - Mainline Mouldings
Mainline Picture Frame Mouldings is a family‑run wholesale specialist based near Nottingham in England, established in 1996. They supply an extensive range of framing materials—including wood and their own sustainable “Polcore” extruded mouldings made from 80–95 % recycled polystyrene, alongside mountboards, glazing, backing boards, adhesives, and framing equipment.
3D - Select Living Group
Select Living Group is a Nottingham-based company specialising in premium composite decking and outdoor living solutions, offering UK-wide supply and installation services. Our job was to create realistic renders of their new Pergola products for their product launch, as photographing them in nice weather and lovely gardens proved a challenge.
Animation - Luxfer Gas Cylinders
Luxfer is a leading producer of highly engineered advanced materials that help to protect lives, keep the environment cleaner, and make industry more efficient. We were tasked with creating a 3D animation that would explain how bus hydrogen systems work.
Fun stuff - Luisa's Vegan Chocolate x Rusty Monkey
The goal of this project was to raise brand awareness among our existing customers, and to demonstrate our in-house services (such as illustration, photography, video and design). But more importantly, we want to support small independent businesses.
Fun stuff - Zero Six Brew x Rusty Monkey
For our beer-loving customers, we worked with local indie brewery Zero Six Brew to create two iconic ales.
Video production - Spirit Health
Spirit Health are a healthcare service provider. We helped them with their educational material, creating video presentations for a course designed to help patients cope with type 2 diabetes. This was part of a bigger project where we helped them with branding, portal design and app development.
Fun stuff - Rusty Monkey
A 3D model with interchangeable textures and parts, that could be posed and animated to serve any wild ideas the marketing team might have.
Video production - CCDC
This brand video communicates the passion and dedication of CCDC's team, whose work in crystallographic data has contributed to important scientific breakthroughs such as the development of new medicines. We used the unique architecture of their building and filmed multiple speakers reading a script to create this textured short film.
Fun stuff - Tony Chocolonely x Rusty Monkey
We discovered that Tony’s Chocolonely offers a personalised bar service where you can design the front label of your chocolate bars. We couldn’t resist the opportunity to showcase our illustrators' and designers' brilliance, and challenged them to create something that was Rusty Monkey-fied.
Graphic design - Avila Herbals
Avila Herbals require packaging that reflects their brand and sets them apart from any other ‘typical’ hemp product. They required these designs for both the physical packaging and as images on their website.
3D - Avila Herbals
Avila Herbals is known as a hemp vitamins and supplements company from America who believed in using their scientific knowledge and passion for discovery to help promote healthy, happy, stress-free lifestyles.
3D - CDA
We stepped in to create a full set of high-fidelity 3D renders that showed the stand exactly as it would appear in the real world. Using layout plans, brand guidelines and appliance details, we built a realistic 3D space complete with proper materials, lighting and finishes. These visuals gave CDA everything they needed to sense-check the design, share it with partners and make confident decisions early on.
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