Can you think of 100 different uses for a sock? How would you cope with glasses that turn everything upside down? What’s your emotional intelligence? Can you create a work of art in 10 minutes?

BBC2’s Horizon takes seven people who are some of the highest flyers in their field: a musical prodigy, a quantum physicist, an artist, a dramatist, an RAF fighter pilot, a chess grandmaster and a Wall Street trader, and puts them through a battery of tests to measure their intelligence. Who is the most intelligent?

The Ronin was commissioned by BBC2’s Horizon series to create a set of animated cards that would introduce each of the 7 contestants during the one hour program. Using Steve Chiu’s original illustrations the cards were created in Illustrator and then taken into photoshop and animated in After Effects. Horizon – Battle of the Brains airs on BBC2 Tuesday 17th April 2007 at 21.00. Watch for the animated movies on the main Ronin site in the near future.