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Do you have a passion for innovation and discovery, and want to visualize your ideas?

We work with companies, researchers, publishers and organizations to create stunning, accurate science illustrations. We can help your colleagues, subscribers and potential funders/investors see, share and support your vision. With Nicolle Fuller’s degree in biochemistry, her hands-on lab work, a science illustration graduate certificate, and 15 years of work experience, she is uniquely equipped to translate complex processes into compelling illustrations. We are excited to learn more about your work, and how we can visualize your story. This is an introductory guide, and we will help you finalize your pricing based on your project needs.

Suggested Services per Industry

 

Tech & Bio TechExhibitsScientist & LabsPublications

 

Tech & Bio Tech

The melding of the biologist's and engineer's expertise is leading to next generation unmanned flying robots. By studying the flying finesse of swallows, scientists are learning how to create helpful drones that are able to maneuver in potentially dangerous spaces for missions like forest fire reconnaissance or search and rescue amid buildings of disaster areas.

Are you a bio-tech start-up company with a big vision, but you’re ahead of the curve and potential investors just don’t seem to get it (yet!)? Or an established tech company that needs to keep current in the competitive marketplace? We can help! Using dynamic illustrations, graphics, and presentations, we will grab investors attention and tell your story in a way that captures the excitement and promise of your technology.

Tech base-licensing includes non-exclusive Corporate use: slide-decks, corporate digital use (company website, and company social media accounts), and internal use. Other uses, such as advertising, may incur additional fees.

 
Storyboard Art
Custom, hand-drawn art to garner buy-in before you create the full animation. We will work with your team to create storyboard art from your script, when you’re on a tight deadline. This cost is included if you are working with SayoStudio for a full 3D animation.
 
Slide Deck and/or
Company Website Illustration
Illustrations to tell your technology story. How does your technology work? Tell your story with detailed backgrounds to contextualize the science.
 
 
Presentation Art Integration
Share your presentation files (Powerpoint, Keynote, InDesign) over our secure file system. We will insert the artwork into your design and create editable labels.
Design Suite
Choose between a cohesive website design OR a presentation design. Our design team will incorporate your custom art into the website or presentation design, and even format your graphs and figures!
Looping GIF
Simple looping GIF animation in an approachable, hand-drawn style, but with the scientific details important to your story.

  • Grab their attention with a looping GIF. Great for social media engagement!

3D Animation Highlight
A ~10 second rotating animation of your key technology. Cost includes custom 3D model creation to highlight your science.

  • Highlight your story with a zoom-in or rotating view of your 3D subject.

3D Animation Story
30-90 sec. multi-scene animation for science storytelling, including storyboard development based on provided script, and 3D models sourcing and creation.

  • Tell your science story with a 30-90 second, multi-scene animation.



Sample Work

> See Case Studies

Exhibits

Whether you represent a museum, a national park or conference exhibitors, we create science illustrations that draw visitors in, invite them to stay and return with friends in tow; all while learning about your scientific story. We will help bring your vision to life and create a dynamic, memorable, cohesive experience that everyone will remember and talk about.

Exhibit base-licensing includes non-exclusive exhibit printing/display for the life of the exhibit. Accompanying digital uses are negotiable. Other uses, such as merchandise, may incur additional fees.

Small Exhibit Illustration
Artwork created that is detailed enough to be viewed at large scale, usually between 2ft and 6ft. Illustrations needing conceptual innovation to tell the story with detailed backgrounds to contextualize the science.
 
Epic Exhibit & Mural Illustrations
Complex art, created at high resolution for murals 6ft and over (the largest yet was 56ft wide!). Need a full-scale trade-show illustrated backdrop? Or a landscape showing a forest food web? Or an entry-way mural of your technology?
 
 
Looping GIF
Simple looping GIF animation in an approachable, hand-drawn style, but with the scientific details important to your story.

  • Grab their attention with a looping GIF. Great for social media engagement!
3D Animation Highlight
A ~10 second rotating animation of your key technology. Cost includes custom 3D model creation to highlight your science.

  • Highlight your story with a zoom-in or rotating view of your 3D subject.
3D Animation Story
30-90 sec. multi-scene animation for science storytelling, including storyboard development based on provided script, and 3D models sourcing and creation.

  • Tell your science story with a 30-90 seconds, multi-scene animation.


Sample Work

> See Case Studies

Scientists & Labs

Are you a scientist devoted to understanding the nuances of your subject and seeking the next ground-breaking discovery, but know you have to communicate your findings to succeed? Or are you a University Communicator trying to help your researchers get the attention (and yes, funding) that they deserve? It can be hard to prioritize professional graphics when confronting the already significant costs of publishing manuscripts, but in the competitive academic landscape, an illustration that captures your science is essential to set your lab apart. As an award winning illustrator with a science background, Nicolle Fuller will help you visually communicate the excitement of your research and garner the well-deserved respect from colleagues, editors and grant-referees.

Base academic licensing includes journal submission**, presentations, laboratory website, and your university press releases. (**journal publication is included in this use IF the journal allows for non-exclusive licensing).

Diagrams and Figures
A step-by-step process with minimal background (diagram). Cost depends on the details needed in each step, and the realism of rendering.
 
Journal Cover or Complex Realistic 3D diagrams 
Artwork for cover art submission, feature art for press releases, or more realistic 3D diagrams. Illustrations needing conceptual innovation to tell the story with detailed backgrounds to contextualize the science.
 
Epic Ecology Landscapes to Complex Signaling Pathway Illustrations
Illustrations of complex systems and interactions, whether it’s a food web with many species, or a signaling pathway in the cell. This is the illustration that makes you go WOW!
 
 
Looping GIF
Simple looping GIF animation in an approachable, hand-drawn style, but with the scientific details important to your story.

  • Grab their attention with a looping GIF. Great for social media engagement!
3D Animation Highlight
A ~10 second rotating animation of your key technology. Cost includes custom 3D model creation to highlight your science.

  • Highlight your story with a zoom-in or rotating view of your 3D subject.
3D Animation Story
30-90 sec. multi-scene animation for science storytelling, including storyboard development based on provided script, and 3D models sourcing and creation.

  • Tell your science story with a 30-90 seconds, multi-scene animation.


Sample Work

> See Case Studies

Publishers

Are you are a publisher looking for eye-catching graphics to grab your audience’s attention? Whether you need a feature editorial art piece for your University magazine, an immersive infographic for your textbook, or a newsstand stop-and-look-at-me cover, we create illustrations that your readers will want to share.

Publisher base-licensing includes non-exclusive publication first-time use in print and digital edition, and publisher social media accounts for publication promotion. 

 
Spot Illustration
A single subject that is created to use as a highlight image in publications, websites, etc. If you need a single subject detailed enough to print large, please see the next tier.
Half-Page or Simple Full-Page
Illustrations
A single subject that is high-resolution for up-close viewing, -OR- a step-by-step process with minimal background (diagram).
Detailed Full-Page,
Cover & Conceptual Illustrations
We will work with your design team to help conceptualize complicated subjects, offering ideas where requested to cooperatively make a stunning piece that sells your publication.
Feature 2-Page Spreads
Artwork with many points of focus, that really make you go Wow! Need to show your technology in the detailed future? Or show your health innovation‘s impact on multiple scales of the body?
 
Looping GIF
Simple looping GIF animation in an approachable, hand-drawn style, but with the scientific details important to your story.

  • Grab their attention with a looping GIF. Great for social media engagement!
3D Animation Highlight
A ~10 second rotating animation of your key technology. Cost includes custom 3D model creation to highlight your science.

  • Highlight your story with a zoom-in or rotating view of your 3D subject.
3D Animation Story
30-90 sec. multi-scene animation for science storytelling, including storyboard development based on provided script, and 3D models sourcing and creation.

  • Tell your science story with a 30-90 seconds, multi-scene animation.


Sample Work

> See Case Studies