We have created 5 stand-alone animated clips for the National Maritime Museum to help illuminate objects in the museum's collection. Students visiting the museum can now get their hands on tablet PC's and carry them around the gallery snapping photos of objects that interest them… 5 lucky objects trigger our animations, which shed more light on subjects such as slavery, trade across India, and the use of ships in early intercontinental trade. Here we present all 5 clips (in case you're not a student, or visiting the museum any time soon!)…

Created for BBC Learning, and broadcast on BBC2, here is a cluster of short clips animated in cut-out and featuring re-created period artwork.

'The Charles Dickens Show' is a spoof daytime show in which the celebrated author interviews A-list guests like reformers Lord Shaftsbury and Dr Thomas Barnardo, introduces a gritty video diary made by a youngster whose home is the workhouse, and vents his spleen on the issue of child labour. Meanwhile, in the kitchen Mrs Beeton is on hand to rustle up the finest Victorian cuisine, and even Her Majesty Queen Victoria and her Consort Prince Albert take their places on Charles' sofa of historical chat to discuss Christmas. Live from the nineteenth century and packed with insight into Victorian life that is either hilarious or poignant, The Charles Dickens Show will leave young viewers speechless. Apart from the words, "I want some more."

Our animation is sprinkled throughout the four shows, so we present here a brief montage.

This is director Gergely Wootsch's first animated film, but it's a corker! It's about obsessive behaviour, or the narrow line between chaos and order, dream and awake, childhood trauma and spaghetti…

The soon to be released animated feature film 'A Liar's Autobiography' has been a major project here at Beakus' studio in London. We have created 10 minutes of the film which is derived from the autobiography of Monty Python's Graham Chapman, and will be screening on American TV in early 2012, before getting a cinema release here in the UK.

Two directors – Matthias Hoegg and Dan Chester – helmed two teams to put the animation together in 2D and 3D, with the final footage being composited for 3D stereoscopic projection. Sadly it's all tightly under the production companies hat at the moment so we can't show you much but for a bunch of stills taken from our work-in-progress.

But we are dead excited by the imminent release. Our section is voiced, posthumously, by Graham himself and also by Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones. We follow Graham as he tries to negotiate heady days in Hollywood, full of excess and star inanity.

Check back for updates!

Leo Bridle has created these action-packed bumpers for Nickelodeon and Weetabix 'Spoonsize'. Each 10-second bumper shows just what can happen when you munch on the mini cereal, taking in power boating, skating, motorbiking and hangliding…

Beakus were asked by fimmaker Mike Paterson to create three unique videos for the National Maritime Museum's 'Old Weather' project. The aim is to promote the campaign to crowdsource volunteers to transcribe the weather recordings in hundreds of old ship's log books. The data will feed in and augment existing data of weather patterns through the ages, helping to build up a more reliable forecast for times ahead.

The three films we created are 'Crowdsourcing', 'Sea Observations' (seen here), and 'Weather Reconstructions'. We used a variety of styles and techniques from pared-back motion graphics to 3D CGI and motion-tracking.

In this movie we explain why measurements taken at sea are so useful in developing weather patterns across the globe and on land. Using a mix of 3D and 2D animation the info-graphics clearly illustrate our interviewees message.

We have been working hard on two new installments of time-travelling Eric's animation series for the BBC 'Day In The Life'. The first, 'Victorians', is online at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/handsonhistory/victorians.shtml

This is the fifth episode, and Eric is joined by his younger sister Mona in travelling back to the Victorian Workhouse where the intrepid duo are put to work in the mills, down the pits and up the chimneys… It's a rough old life, and the food's appalling. Still, they get out of it alive and learn plenty on the way. Go see the animation on the BBC's site, or below, if you're click-lazy.

For the past couple of months director Leo Bridle has been creating a series of nine 40-second animations for the British Library. A major new portal on their website, 'Playtimes: A Century of Children's Games and Rhymes', launched a few days back by Michael Rosen, aims to preserve children’s games and songs as an important aspect of our national culture and explore how they continue to be a part of the lives of children living in the age of computer games and the internet. Leo's animations form the backbone to the new web portal, illustrating all the different types of games children play. Below we present a fun edit!

Leo held workshops at two schools, in London and Sheffield, to brainstorm the content for the nine films, and create the artwork and soundtracks. Back in the studio we animated the kids drawings to bring their stories to life over a ten week period. Below we feature a selection of artwork created by the kids. To watch the nine films in full, visit http://www.bl.uk/learning/langlit/playground/kidszone.html.

Here is the third of four lovely sequences for CBeebies by Matthias Hoegg. George just loves watching chicks hatch at school in Spring.. They can get in to trouble, but are generally quite well behaved – the chicks, not George..

Here is the fourth of four lovely sequences for CBeebies by Sarah Orenstein. Mia can't wait till Spring, when she can cuddle up to animals on the farm, and play 'pin the snout on the pig' when the farmer's not looking…!