Financial Conduct Authority
CHECK IT’S REAL
In 2024, fraudsters in the UK stole over £1.17 billion – often by posing as fake companies. So, the Financial Conduct Authority created ‘The Firm Checker’, a tool that checks if a company’s real, regulated, and offering what they should be. So to launch it, we gave Brits a wake-up call. Or more accurately, a wake-up slap.
MEET EMIL
Seven feet of pure, animatronic charisma. We built him because, well, the world clearly needed a life-sized mechanical seal that can slap some sense into us gullible humans. Designed, sculpted, and engineered with far too much love (and trial and error), Emil now stands proudly as our most expressive teammate, and seal-ification of the FCA Firm Checker.
Senior Art Director: Billie Gurr
Senior Copywriter: Tom Lander
Director: Thomas Ormond
Creative Partner: Guy Bradbury
Production Company: ProdCo
Post/VFX: Magic Numbers
Seal Build: Millenium FX
