hand-drawn explainer videos

Montage of hand-drawn illustrations and animated scenes created by Ian David Marsden for the Men Harvesting Wisdom explainer video, including men in reflective life moments, a threshold doorway, blacksmith metaphor, heroic dimensions wheel, book cover and project emblem.

Men Harvesting Wisdom — Hand-Drawn 4K Explainer Video for a Transformational Self-Leadership Platform

Men Harvesting Wisdom — Hand-Drawn 4K Explainer Video for a Transformational Self-Leadership Platform Men Harvesting Wisdom — The 10 Heroic Dimensions of Transformational Self-Leadership is a book, teaching framework and wider personal-development platform created by J. H. Parker. It offers men a practical structure for navigating change, transition, responsibility and […]

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Characters stand around the Earth as hearts and sunshine surround them, from kindness explainer video.

The Science of Kindness — Hand-Drawn Explainer Film for 52 Lives and The School of Kindness

The Science of Kindness — Hand-Drawn Explainer Film for 52 Lives and The School of Kindness For the UK charity 52 Lives and its educational initiative The School of Kindness, I created The Science of Kindness, a fully hand-drawn explainer film introducing children to the neuroscience, emotional effects and social

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Titelbild für ein handgezeichnetes Erklärvideo zur Sondernutzungsplanung und zum Planungs- und Baugesetz St. Gallen mit Pinsel, rotem Kreuz und Häuserlandschaft.

Handgezeichnetes Erklärvideo für Planungs- und Baugesetz in St. Gallen

Handgezeichnetes Erklärvideo für Planungs- und Baugesetz in St. Gallen Für ein Erklärvideo-Projekt im Bereich Planungs- und Baugesetz, Raumplanung und Sondernutzung im Kanton St. Gallen entwickelte ich eine Serie von handgezeichneten Illustrationen, Character Designs und animierten Szenen im Stil von Business Illustration, Business Comics und visueller Kommunikation. Der Auftrag entstand für

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Illustrated Explainer Video for Graph Database Workflows

Illustrated Explainer Video for Graph Database Workflows For Elephant Bird Consulting, I created a custom illustrated explainer video to help explain a graph database workflow: from initial client requirements to architecture, database administration and developer implementation. The project was commissioned by Tom Geudens, a graph database specialist and O’Reilly author,

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Featured image for Dräger’s infection prevention and control campaign, showing a Roy Lichtenstein–inspired comic scene of a smiling retro housewife with floating food packaging above the title “IPC | Prevention and Control.”

Dräger Global — Illustrated Healthcare Communication Campaign for Infection Prevention and Control

Dräger Global — Illustrated Healthcare Communication Campaign for Infection Prevention and Control For Dräger Global, I created a series of large-format illustrated campaign posters and short animated visual pieces for an international communication initiative on infection prevention and control in hospital environments. The project sits at the intersection of healthcare

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Screenshot of Ian David Marsden’s LinkedIn profile header showing illustrator, creative director and visual storytelling profile based in France.

Let’s connect on Linkedin

LinkedIn Profile Updated — 75+ Projects Across Illustration, Branding, UX/UI, Animation & Visual Storytelling A searchable archive of client work, career history, and selected case studies My LinkedIn profile is now fully updated and includes more than 75 detailed project entries spanning two decades of international work across illustration, character

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Caveman child and sabre-tooth tiger in dopamine explainer by Ian David Marsden

Explainer Video Full Pipeline, One Creator: A Studio Model for Clear Visual Communication

Explainer Video Full Pipeline, One Creator: A Studio Model for Clear Visual Communication When the UK charity 52 Lives commissioned me to create a hand-drawn explainer video for its School of Kindness initiative, the task was not simply to animate a script. The real challenge was translation: how to turn

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Animated eCards for GMX, WEB.DE and mail.com designed by Ian David Marsden – branded greeting card illustration with characters

Animated eCards for GMX, WEB.DE and mail.com

Animated eCards for GMX, WEB.DE and mail.com This page presents a large series of hand-drawn animated eCards created for 1&1 Mail & Media Applications SE, including GMX, WEB.DE and mail.com. The illustrated digital greetings were used across major email platforms and reached a very large European audience. The project combined

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Illustrated scenes from the HairLoss.com animated awareness campaign created by Ian David Marsden, covering topics like alopecia, cancer recovery, and trichotillomania.

Hair is Important — Animated Awareness Campaign for HairLoss.com

Hair is Important — Animated Awareness Campaign for HairLoss.com Hair is Important was an animated awareness campaign created for HairLoss.com, addressing the emotional and psychological impact of hair loss through a series of short illustrated films. The campaign explored subjects including alopecia, trichotillomania, androgenetic hair loss, cancer-related hair loss, self-image,

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Hand-Drawn Christmas Timelapse Card – Marsden Illustration

Hand-Drawn Holiday Animation – Timelapse Christmas Card by Ian David Marsden Creative Project · December 2023 · Location: Claret (Occitanie, France) This festive project was my personal holiday card for 2023 — a fully hand-illustrated timelapse video combining storytelling, character design, and animated drawing techniques. Featuring Santa Claus, the Grinch,

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Handgezeichnetes Erklärvideo für Zürich Gym – Europameister Frank Müller

Handgezeichnetes Erklärvideo für Zürich Gym – Europameister Frank Müller Für das Zürich Gym entwickelte ich ein vollständig handgezeichnetes Erklärvideo, das die besonderen Vorteile des Studios in einer klaren, sympathischen und markengerechten Form vermittelt. Das Projekt verbindet Character Design, Business Illustration, Cartoon-Storytelling, 2D-Animation und visuelle Kommunikation für ein Premium-Fitnessstudio in Zürich.

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Illustrated elderly man in red outfit holding mushroom, forest background, video thumbnail.

Explainer Whiteboard Videos for Vital Mushrooms – Hawlik Gesundheitsprodukte GmbH

Vital Mushroom Video Series from Harvest to Production for Hawlik Gesundheitsprodukte GmbH I had the great pleasure of adapting a series of texts for Hawlik Gesundheitsprodukte GmbH about the harvesting and production phases of their high-quality vital mushroom products and adapt them to short videos with elegant water color illustrations

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Hand drawing characters and globe on whiteboard with Custom Whiteboard Animation text above.

Whiteboard Explainer Video for “All Stars Project”

Whiteboard Explainer Video elements storyboarded, illustrated and produced by Marsden Illustrationwww.marsdenillustration.com Client: Max Curious, New York Cityfor “All Stars Project”2016 I create custom storyboards, and illustrate and produce motion graphics and whiteboardand explainer videos for clients in Europe and the United States. I speak English, German and French but videos can

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Group of people clinking glasses at a dining table with waiter and chandelier above.

Ausgezeichnet: Dfreeeze Whiteboard Video ist Top Kampagne 2014  

Ausgezeichnete Whiteboard-Kampagne für dfreeeze App von digades Top-Auszeichnung für animierte Werbekampagne: Die gezeichnete und animierte Whiteboard-Kampagne zur dfreeeze Smartphone-App von digades GmbH wurde zur “sit & watch Top Kampagne 2014” gekürt. Ich hatte große Freude daran, als Charakterdesigner, Illustrator und Whiteboard-Video-Produzent mit dem Team von digades an dieser erfolgreichen Werbekampagne

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