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Proof we're not bluffing

Here’s the evidence. Brand pieces so bold they’ve been asked to tone it down, demos that could teach a goldfish cloud computing, and digital events that made audiences put down their @#$% phones. Every video here was built to grab attention, spark curiosity, and lodge itself in memory like a souvenir you’re strangely attached to. We’re talking craft, care, and the occasional flourish made purely to amuse ourselves. Proof we’re not bluffing—because who has time to fake this many good videos without winning an award or two?

December 2022
Microsoft Security
Microsoft Incident Response: Recovery explainer
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Earlshall
A recovery-focused message on regaining control after compromise—complete adversary eviction, hardened privileged identities, and a faster zero-trust journey powered by global 24/7 expertise.

This animation is about getting your organization back—fully back—after a cyberattack. It introduces dedicated global teams that work 24/7/365 “as long as it takes,” especially when adversaries remain persistent and complete eviction is required. The message reframes compromise recovery as a chance to harden and modernize your digital estate: secure the assets that carry the highest business impact and risk, remove adversaries’ access to put you back in control, deploy tools to detect future threats, and strengthen protections by segmenting and hardening privileged identities—accelerating a zero-trust journey instead of merely limping back to normal.

We produced this with a recovery-first tone—steady, practical, and forward-looking. The structure keeps the viewer oriented: regain control, evict, harden, modernize. Visually, we prioritized clarity over spectacle; sonically, we kept the VO clean and the transitions purposeful so the message feels trustworthy and actionable. Final delivery included closed captions, audio description, and thumbnails—ready for any audience that needs reassurance and a plan.

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December 2022
Microsoft Security
Microsoft Incident Response: Resilience explainer
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Earlshall
A proactive resilience message—IR planning, compromise assessments, workshops, and threat briefings—powered by Microsoft threat intelligence and 43 trillion daily signals to help organizations prepare.

This animation makes the “before the fire” case for cyber resilience: modern security needs proactive prep, not just heroic scrambling. It introduces a global team of incident responders, data scientists, and researchers with 1,000+ years of combined experience, operating 24/7/365 across 77 countries. It calls out why resilience matters (most organizations have weathered compromise, and the cost hits reputation and bottom line), then spotlights what “prepared” looks like: an incident response plan, continuous compromise assessment using Microsoft security technology and threat intelligence (including 43 trillion daily signals helping prevent 70+ billion attacks annually), bespoke security-posture workshops, and customized threat briefings for emerging actors and indicators of compromise.

We built this as a steady, confidence-building piece—less panic, more preparedness. The story is structured to move from stakes to solutions without melodrama, with visuals that keep big numbers and big concepts easy to absorb. We paired professional voiceover with music that stays supportive, animated the beats so the takeaways land cleanly, and polished the sound so it feels calm and authoritative. Final delivery included closed captions, audio description, and thumbnails—ready to deploy wherever you’re rallying teams around resilience.

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December 2022
Microsoft Security
Microsoft Incident Response: Response explainer
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Earlshall
A calm, crisis-ready overview of incident response—scope, containment, eviction, and recovery—with a 24/7 global team helping customers take back control.

This animation focuses on the moment things go sideways—and what “help” should look like when it does. It spotlights incident response teams that have supported companies and governments since 2008 through some of the largest cyberattacks on record, emphasizing speed and partnership: evaluate scope, contain the attack, and restore critical systems. It walks through the response arc—investigate to establish the attack lifecycle and adversary activity, rapidly deploy countermeasures to contain malware and evict attackers, then restore systems and shore up defenses—so customers can regain confidence and get back to business.

We produced this like a guided handoff in a crisis—clear steps, no fluff, and momentum that matches the stakes. The pacing is designed to reinforce urgency without turning into chaos, with voiceover that stays steady, visuals that keep the workflow easy to follow, and sound finishing that makes each transition feel intentional. Delivered with closed captions, audio description, and thumbnails—so the message stays usable anywhere it needs to show up.

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December 2022
Microsoft Security
Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting explainer
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Earlshall
A real-world story of Defender Experts for Hunting stopping an adversary-in-the-middle BEC campaign—correlating signals, notifying customers, and sharing hunting queries. aka.ms/DefenderExpertsforHunting.

This animation shows how Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting uses chip-to-cloud signals across Microsoft 365 Defender to find and validate threats—then tells a specific story: a large-scale adversary-in-the-middle attack that led to a business email compromise campaign. It explains how attackers proxy traffic between a user and a legitimate site, steal credentials, intercept session cookies, and gain access even with MFA enabled. From there, the BEC campaign escalates into mailbox access, data enumeration, mailbox rules, payment fraud, and more—while Microsoft 365 Defender surfaces clues like unusual sign-ins, impossible travel, and suspicious inbox manipulation. The payoff: Defender Experts correlates cross-domain signals, notifies customers with full context and remediation steps, shares the hunting queries used, and feeds intelligence back to improve protection at scale—closing with aka.ms/DefenderExpertsforHunting.

We produced this as a mini cyber-thriller with a practical ending—because “here’s the attack” is only useful if “here’s what to do next” shows up on time. We shaped the narrative around cause-and-effect, then used animation timing to keep the escalation clear without turning it into acronym soup. Voiceover stays calm, visuals keep the thread unbroken, and sound design adds momentum without stealing clarity. Final delivery included closed captions, audio description, and thumbnails—so the story and the guidance travel well.

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October 2022
Windows
Microsoft Technical Takeoff title sequence
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Tor
At Honeycutt Inc., we partnered with Microsoft to create the Microsoft Technical Takeoff Title Sequence, delivering bold motion design that energizes their global skilling event. Our animated intro celebrates developer innovation, spotlighting Microsoft’s commitment to technical learning, engineering excellence, and community engagement.

We turn brand visuals into something that moves, pops, and occasionally dances on its own. You bring the vision; we bring pixels that behave… mostly. We start by diving into your brand—colors, fonts, icons, and personality quirks. From there, we craft a creative concept and design system that feels unmistakably you—a toolkit ready for video, social, and anywhere else your story lives. Once the concept is approved, we build the full graphics package: motion graphics, transitions, overlays, lower thirds, and any custom assets your team needs. Every element is designed to be flexible, polished, and playful, so your brand can shine without breaking a sweat. We walk you through a near-final review, tweak based on notes, and deliver the complete package—ready to drop into projects, presentations, and campaigns.

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October 2022
Microsoft 365
Microsoft Syntex employee explainer
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Skenfrith
See Microsoft Syntex in action—content AI in Teams and SharePoint that extracts metadata, applies retention automatically, and generates documents from templates in minutes.

This video frames Microsoft Syntex as content AI that quietly does the tedious work while you get on with the important stuff—inside the Microsoft 365 apps you already live in. It walks through Syntex in Microsoft Teams and SharePoint, automatically understanding documents as they’re uploaded, extracting metadata, and applying retention without manual entry. It also spotlights document generation: creating new files such as contracts, invoices, or letters using templates and metadata that was extracted, entered, or pulled from other sources—turning “start from scratch” into “start from smart.”

We built this as a clarity-first film with a friendly, practical cadence: preproduction locks the narrative, production stays focused, and post makes it feel effortless. After the line cut, we tighten the edit, finesse the audio, and polish the finish so every beat lands cleanly. Then we ship the full set of deliverables—captions, audio description, thumbnails—because your rollout should be blissfully un-dramatic.

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October 2022
Microsoft 365
Microsoft Syntex BDM explainer
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Skenfrith
A business-focused look at Microsoft Syntex—content AI in Teams and SharePoint that extracts metadata, generates documents from templates, and strengthens retention and compliance.

This brand film introduces Microsoft Syntex as Microsoft’s content AI solution—built to help organizations understand, assemble, discover, and reuse content inside everyday Microsoft 365 workflows. It highlights Syntex working across Microsoft Teams and SharePoint to automatically understand documents as they land in a library, extract key metadata, and remove the need for manual tagging. It also shows Syntex generating new documents—like contracts, invoices, and letters—using templates plus extracted metadata, then connecting high volumes of content as reusable knowledge in Search and applications. The story closes on governance, calling out analytics, security, and automated retention and compliance to manage content across its lifecycle.

We produced it end-to-end as a crisp, business-forward brand film: story and scripting first, visuals planned with intention, then a post pipeline that keeps the message tight and polished. We start with a line cut that proves the narrative works, then make it shine with refined pacing, color, and sound design. Finally, we deliver the launch-ready bundle—closed captions, audio description, and thumbnails—so the piece is ready to publish everywhere without last-minute chaos.

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October 2022
Microsoft 365
Microsoft Syntex ITDM explainer
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Skenfrith
An IT leader view of Microsoft Syntex—content AI for Teams and SharePoint that extracts metadata, boosts discovery, and enforces security with sensitivity and retention labels.

This brand film presents Microsoft Syntex as a content AI layer for Microsoft 365 that’s built to scale—especially for teams who care about order, governance, and not letting information roam the halls unsupervised. It highlights Syntex across Microsoft Teams and SharePoint to understand documents, extract metadata as content enters a library, and index large volumes of files so knowledge shows up where it’s needed—in Search, in apps, and as reusable organizational intelligence. For IT leaders, it leans into control: Syntex enforces security and compliance using automatically applied sensitivity and retention labels, tying content automation directly to risk reduction.

We produced it as a structured, IT-ready brand film: message architecture in preproduction, clean execution in production, and a post workflow that delivers a confident, modern finish. We validate the story with a line cut first, then refine pacing, color processing, and sound design until it feels premium and precise. We also deliver the full accessibility and launch package—closed captions, audio description, and thumbnails—so the video is ready to deploy at enterprise speed.

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September 2022
Microsoft Viva
Microsoft Viva: Press briefing
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Kentchurch
A fast, research-backed preview of Microsoft Viva innovations—Goals, Pulse, Engage, Amplify, Learning, and AI Answers—plus the September 22 virtual broadcast lineup.

This brand film is a preview from Seth Patton (GM, Microsoft Viva) teeing up Microsoft’s September 22 virtual broadcast on employee experience—featuring Satya Nadella, LinkedIn CEO Ryan Roslansky, and Jared Spataro. It frames three “urgent pivots” from the Work Trend Index research (productivity paranoia, the need for human connection, and re-skilling to retain talent), then lands on the product news: Viva Goals (OKRs in the flow of work with integrations like Microsoft Teams, Azure DevOps, Power BI, Project, and Planner), Viva Pulse (confidential, template-driven feedback surveys in Teams), Leadership Corner in Viva Engage, Viva Amplify for multi-channel internal comms with writing guidance and metrics, deeper Viva Learning integration with LinkedIn Learning Hub, and Answers—an AI-powered internal Q&A experience. It also nods to Viva Sales (general availability October 3) and a new Viva Connections home experience as a one-stop shop for Viva.

We produced this as an end-to-end brand film with the unglamorous superpower clients actually care about: making a complex message feel effortless. That starts with preproduction that locks the narrative arc and visual plan, continues with production that stays organized and upbeat (yes, everyone gets fed), and finishes in post where we tighten pacing, polish the edit, dial in color, and craft sound that makes the whole piece feel confidently premium. Then we deliver the full launch bundle—closed captions, audio description, and thumbnails.

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August 2022
Microsoft 365
Microsoft Endpoint Manager explainer
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Muncaster
A quick, relatable guide to managing frontline devices with Microsoft Endpoint Manager—quiet time, maintenance windows, remote troubleshooting, and one portal for every platform.

Frontline workers don’t all work the same way—and this animation makes that painfully clear (in a helpful way). It walks through common frontline roles and device patterns: task-based floor workers using shared mobile devices, customer-facing floor workers using shared mobile devices plus shared stationary PCs for POS and data entry, customer service professionals sharing stationary PCs across shifts, and managers/sales pros using dedicated PCs. The takeaway is that IT needs one way to manage devices and protect data across all these scenarios, and the solution is Microsoft Endpoint Manager. It highlights specific capabilities: enable quiet time to mute work notifications when workers are off the clock, schedule maintenance windows to update devices outside work hours, remotely view/troubleshoot/fix devices, and manage mobile, PCs, AR/VR headsets, and virtual machines from the all-in-one Endpoint Manager portal.

We produced this as a short, scenario-driven explainer designed to make a multi-persona environment feel simple to support. We built the script around real frontline patterns so the audience immediately recognizes themselves, then used clean, readable animation beats to connect each persona to the Endpoint Manager capabilities that solve their problems. Professional voiceover, upbeat music, and tight sound finishing keep it energetic and clear—then we delivered the full rollout bundle: closed captions, audio description, and thumbnails, so it’s ready to perform wherever frontline and IT audiences are watching.

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June 2022
Microsoft Viva
Microsoft Viva + ServiceNow demo
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Bring ServiceNow into Viva Connections in Teams—view tasks, open items, and launch Employee Center right where employees work, reducing support friction across HR and IT.

This demo shows how Microsoft Viva Connections brings your intranet into Microsoft Teams—and how pairing it with ServiceNow keeps employees moving instead of wandering the halls looking for “the right place to click.” It introduces the ServiceNow Adaptive Card extension in Viva Connections, where users can quickly view their task list by selecting “View my Tasks,” open individual tasks directly in the ServiceNow app, and jump into the ServiceNow Employee Center by selecting “Visit Employee Center”—all without leaving Teams. It closes with the setup path: install and deploy Employee Center or Employee Center Pro, IT Service Management for Microsoft Teams, or HR Service Delivery for Microsoft Teams, plus the Microsoft Viva Connections Integration from the ServiceNow Store.

We produced this as a brisk, value-forward demo—planned to highlight the “why” (employees get answers and complete tasks where they already work) while clearly showing the “how” with clean screen capture and confident narration. The editing keeps the flow tight and the interface readable, so viewers can immediately picture this in their own org: fewer support detours, faster task completion across HR and IT, and a Teams experience that feels more like a well-run studio than a junk drawer of tabs. Final delivery includes closed captions, audio description, and thumbnails.

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June 2022
Windows
Windows Autopatch explainer
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Ardgowan
Meet Windows Autopatch—an automated service that keeps Windows, Office, Edge, and Teams current, reduces vulnerability gaps, and helps IT teams reclaim time.

Managing enterprise IT has a long to-do list and an even longer memory for mistakes—so this explainer frames Windows Autopatch as the “make it simpler” button. It introduces Windows Autopatch as an intelligent automated service that keeps Windows, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Edge, and Microsoft Teams current, helping reduce the vulnerability gap while delivering new features. It also notes that Autopatch is included with Windows E3 and higher licensing, and encourages enrolling your tenant.

We produced this as a punchy, story-forward explainer: concise messaging, confident pacing, and a clean delivery that makes the value proposition land fast. It’s built to help audiences understand “why Autopatch” in one sitting—then immediately feel ready to take the next step, with the whole package delivered alongside captions, audio description, and thumbnails.

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