Here's the science part...
Explaining the physiological mechanism of sleep apnoea, getting into the nitty-gritty of "good" and "bad" cholesterol, and number-
crunching the nutritional values in a weekly food shop can be a bit tricky without a helpful visual aid.
So, when Channel 4's Secrets of Your Big Shop, helmed by
Dr Michael Mosley, needed an animation studio to produce
8 minutes of content across all four episodes to make the
science-y parts a little easier to digest, we were happy to step up.
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