[5] He laid the foundation for the band's visuals and remains influential;[6] his graphic style is evident, for example, in the large-scale digital animations used in Roger Waters' The Wall concert projections.

In 1974, the band commissioned animations of "Speak to Me" (the cardiogram and prism), "Time" (the flying clocks), and "On the Run" (twin towers explosion) to visualise The Dark Side of the Moon.

Escher-inspired animations for Mike Oldfield's 1980 In Concert tour and The Oriental Nightfish for Paul and Linda McCartney,[1] which received a Short Film Palme d'Or nomination at Cannes.

[7] His Camden studio became world-famous for its ground-breaking visuals, and in 1980 Emes was cited as Britain's foremost animator, his achievements celebrated in a retrospective at the National Film Theatre (1980).

[8] The interpretive film by Emes starred Rupert Everett, Ute Lemper and Marianne Faithful, and included sequences of the Marching Hammers projected onto the remains of the Berlin Wall.

[11] Television movies include the episode "The Yob" (1988) for The Comic Strip starring Keith Allen,[12] The Munsters' Scary Little Christmas[13] produced by John Landis, and Deadly Summer (1997).