The mechanism your audience cannot see is the one they will not fund.
Extracellular vesicles. Nano-antibody platforms. Enhancer landscapes. mTOR signalling cascades. The biological mechanisms at the heart of the most promising life sciences research are, by definition, invisible to the naked eye and inaccessible to non-specialist audiences — including many of the people responsible for funding, evaluating, and communicating them.
Motion design and scientific animation close this gap. Not by simplifying the science into metaphor, but by giving it a visual grammar that makes it legible — to an investor in a pitch meeting, to a journalist at a press conference, to a patient advocacy group, to an EU evaluator reviewing a dissemination deliverable, or to a general public audience engaging with science for the first time.
Every video begins with a structured brief developed in close collaboration with the scientific team. We identify the core mechanism or narrative to communicate, define the target audience and their level of prior knowledge, and construct a storyboard that maps the visual logic of the explanation before a single frame is produced. This upstream investment is what guarantees scientific accuracy at the end of the process.
Production of animated explainer videos using motion design and scientific illustration techniques — from schematic pathway animations to fully rendered 3D molecular mechanisms. Visual language is calibrated to the audience: technically precise for expert peers, accessible and engaging for the general public.
Documentary-style video production for research centres, consortia, and organisations — combining interview formats, lab footage, drone shooting, and motion design sequences. Produced in French and English, with post-production including subtitles, voiceover, and music.
Mobile production adapted to your events across Europe — consortium annual meetings, doctoral training events, scientific congresses, and pitch sessions. KOM brings its production infrastructure to you.
For Horizon Europe projects, production of the public engagement video deliverable required by your DEC plan — compliant with EU visual identity guidelines, adapted for multilingual distribution across social media, the project website, and public engagement events.
Short-format video assets produced in support of Module 5 (Investor Pitch Coaching) — explainer clips designed to be embedded in pitch decks and data rooms, giving investors a visual entry point into a complex technological proposition before the scientific slides begin.
One format. Four audiences.
KOM produces explainer videos that are simultaneously scientifically accurate and visually compelling. This dual standard — rigour and accessibility, precision and impact — is what distinguishes scientific animation produced by a specialist agency from anything a generalist production house can deliver.
Academic researchers and research centres
You have produced results that deserve a wider audience — beyond the journal article, beyond the conference poster. A well-produced video turns a research milestone into a public communication asset that serves multiple purposes simultaneously: institutional visibility, donor engagement, media coverage, and recruitment.
Horizon Europe project coordinators
Your dissemination plan includes a video deliverable. KOM has produced video content for multiple active MSCA Doctoral Networks and research consortia — from consortium presentation films shot at annual events to motion design animations explaining the scientific programme to a public audience. We know what EU evaluators expect, and we deliver it.
Doctoral networks and PhD training programmes
The Pitch your PhD in 180 seconds format — developed in collaboration with doctoral networks including ENHPATHY — trains doctoral candidates to communicate their research with clarity and confidence to non-specialist audiences. KOM supports both the coaching and the video production dimensions of this exercise.
Deeptech SAS
Your technology is difficult to explain in two sentences. A sixty-second motion design animation — embedded in your pitch deck, your website, and your investor one-pager — gives a venture capital investor or a BPI evaluator an immediate visual understanding of what your platform does and why it matters. It is not a luxury. It is part of the pitch.
Fifty years of science, told in one film — a case study.
Cancer Research Center of Marseille
The Cancer Research Centre of Marseille is affiliated with Inserm, CNRS, Aix-Marseille University, and Institut Paoli-Calmettes, and brings together nearly 450 people across 21 research teams and 18 technological platforms. A pioneer in oncology research for over half a century, the CRCM commissioned KOM to mark its fiftieth anniversary with a video that would capture the depth and continuity of its scientific mission. The brief presented a specific challenge: how to compress five decades of cancer research — across fundamental biology, translational medicine, and clinical innovation — into a coherent, emotionally resonant narrative, without reducing it to a catalogue of achievements.
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