Animations for Veritasium

Physics simulations, math visualisations, and explainer graphics for one of the world's largest science channels.

I worked with Derek Muller and the Veritasium team from 2019 to 2025. It all started with an email I sent Derek as a fan trying to help grow the channel and it ended up being 6 really cool years of working together.

I started making mostly vector-based animation in After Effects, and I would usually take care of the whole animation process from storyboarding to illustration, rigging, animation and compositing.

As we worked more and more together, I started to make more technically challenging animations.

At the start it was certainly intimidating, not having a science background at all and having to understand and break down complex math and physics concepts. I have to be honest impostor syndrome hit more than once.

However I've always had an intense drive for learning, and a genuine interest in science, maths and physics. I wanted to take the challenge on because I knew it would teach me so much more about these topics.

It ended up paying off, the learning process was hard but very fulfilling and I got to show concepts in ways they had never been shown before.

The comment above is about the Micromouse video. For this one I programmed a Python script to run simulations on mazes, then export them as CSV and import into Cavalry to animate.

This was the point I started to switch workflows: After Effects was getting too small for what I wanted to make so I would start looking for solutions in other places.

Cavalry replaced AE as my daily driver as I found it to be much better for processing large or complex vector-based rigs. Plus this also allowed me to include programming more often, which meant I could do so much more.

I'm very grateful to have worked for this channel, and with such brilliant people.