Mackinnon & Saunders  

Mackinnon & Saunders design and build high quality animation puppets, models and maquettes. 

Their clients past and present include studios such as Disney, Warner Brothers, Twentieth Century Fox aswell as British studios like Chapman Entertainment, HOT Animation, Cosgrove Hall and Aardman Animations to name but a few.

Mackinnon & Saunders (M&S), approached us in November 2003 to develop their first website. They wanted the site to act as an online portfolio of their work. Because M&S design and make puppets their site was obviously going to be very visually orientated. We therefore designed a navigation method which relied on thumbnail images of each pieces of work.

Because the images used on the site tended to be protected, copyright proved to be a real issue. We helped M&S by incorporating a system into their site which allowed them to superimpose the copyright details of every picture over the image in a subtle and unintrusive manner.

The bespoke administration system also allows M&S to add new work as and when its has been completed. A very simple publish / unpublish system also allowed us to add much of the content before permission was granted. This meant once permission was approved M&S could make the content visible with the click of a button.

The images on the site are included with a flash based slide show. This allows the site administrator to add multiple images to each page, the images will then slowly dissolved between each other on the site.

Mackinnon & Saunders website has now been successfully running since January 2004 and gets a good number of visits.

You can visit the site by clicking on the link below:

www.mackinnonandsaunders.com