Animated Onboarding Videos

Create a memorable onboarding experience with an animated video.

What is an animated onboarding video?

To make sure that the onboarding process is as memorable as possible, many businesses decide to leverage the power of animation. As most companies follow strict policies, it’s easy for new starters to get lost while reviewing them manually. With animation, you can easily turn daunting written manuals into an engaging video that will allow your new starters to understand the rules and comply with them.

Thanks to colourful illustrations and engaging narratives, animated onboarding videos are proven to be more effective and memorable. Because they use custom made images rather than live footage, animated onboarding videos can be easily tailored to meet different requirements such as the narrative language (which can be beneficial for international corporations).

Onboarding videos are one of the most effective ways of training new employees and customers. From the HR perspective, onboarding videos are an excellent tool to communicate the company’s culture, policies and provide a glimpse of what to expect. When it comes to business, animated videos can help SaaS companies and Customer Success Executives onboard and educate new customers without engaging a sales rep.

Work by Nibble

Animated Onboarding Video for Fresh Air Fitness

Deliver a memorable onboarding experience with animated videos

At Nibble, we create personalised onboarding video content for brands big and small. We possess the best of resources – on technical and creative fronts – to produce animated training and educational videos that can make learning more fun and interesting.

As a full-service animation studio, we offer you the entire suite of creative services needed to create a compelling animated onboarding video. From developing custom characters and a storyline that resonates with your audience to the final project delivery, Nibble Video is the only UK-based animation studio you need to achieve your training goals.

Frequently Asked Questions

Everything You Need to Know About Animated Onboarding Videos from Nibble

IS NIBBLE AN ANIMATION AGENCY?
- Yes, it is! We're a UK-based, full-service animation studio. Under one roof, we bring together artists and commercial experts, enabling you to enjoy a seamless animation production experience.
HOW MUCH DOES IT COST TO PRODUCE THE ANIMATED ONBOARDING VIDEO WITH NIBBLE?
- At Nibble, we don’t believe in a one-fits-all approach. The final cost of the animation video varies and is based on several factors, such as video length or animation style used. Contact our team today to get a no-obligation project estimate!
HOW QUICKLY CAN YOU PRODUCE AN ONBOARDING VIDEO?
- It takes around two weeks to produce an onboarding video with Nibble, although it all depends individually on the project. Drop us a line today for a no-obligation chat and we'll be happy to advise!
WHAT’S THE ANIMATION PRODUCTION PROCESS LOOKS LIKE?
- At Nibble, we pride ourselves on a genuinely collaborative yet straightforward approach. We begin the proceedings by conducting an initial discussion to understand your goals and how you would like to reach them. Once we have a clear idea of what you’d like to achieve with your video, our scriptwriters and designers will furnish a few ideas after detailed group discussions. When one of these ideas reaches approval with you, it will be further refined by our creative team before being passed on to our animators. Upon completion, we will deliver an explainer video that delivers your on-brand messaging, giving your viewers an interesting, engaging and, most importantly, memorable explanation. To make the process as transparent as possible, you’ll be able to follow each stage of the process via our custom Project Portal.
HOW ORIGINAL IS YOUR WORK?
- All onboarding videos coming out of the Nibble studio are 100% original and tailor-made for your business. We work with the most talented animation artists in the industry, developing custom characters and engaging stories that best fit your brand needs.
ANIMATION AGENCY VS FREELANCE ARTISTS – WHO SHOULD I USE?
- While working with freelancers/in-house artists might be more cost-effective at first, it can become costly and difficult to manage as you progress. Nibble is a full-service animation studio, which means that we take the project management burden off your shoulders. By bringing together all artists required to complete the animation project (concept artists, character designers, animators, scriptwriters and voice-over artists etc.) under one roof, we can deliver a seamless and cost-efficient experience for our busy clients.
WHY SHOULD I TRUST NIBBLE?
- Our team consists of talented artists and seasoned commercial specialists, which is a perfect combination if you’re looking for an animation studio that would deliver a beautiful animation and help you maximise its ROI. We take pride in creating artistic, unique animated video content that tick all the commercial objectives. Don’t just take our word for it – contact us today to explore our portfolio of bespoke animations crafted for business.
WHAT’S YOUR PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE?
- We’ve been very fortunate to work with many companies, big and small, striving to exceed their marketing objectives with animation. Some fantastic brands we are proud to support include NHS, Samsung, Fujitsu and Babylon Health.

Animated Onboarding Videos Examples from Nibble

Fresh Air Fitness

A series of 3D product explainer films for Fresh Air Fitness

NHS

An isometric 2D character based communications film for the NHS Local Care Record programme

Diabetes UK

A stylised 2D character based internal communications film for Diabetes UK

Talent Deck

A stylised 2D character based service and platform explainer film for Talent Deck

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How Do We Produce An Animated Onboarding Video?

Kick-Off
Script
Storyboards
Artwork
Animation
Sound
Voiceover
Screen Record
Interactivity
Delivery

Creative Kick-Off Session

The kick-off is a chance to gather all the creative brains within the project team together before production begins. We believe in having as much face-to-face time as possible, whether that’s at our studio, your office, or even via videoconference. As well as creative discussions around how the story or style treatment will best engage with the audience, we’ll also discuss practical topics like what the key deliverables will be, what the main call to action is and what project success will look like.

Go To Script

Scriptwriting

Once we fully understand your message, we’ll start to draft a script. This might mean starting from scratch, or honing and developing a script you already have. The voiceover script is accompanied by a written shot-by-shot description of what the viewer will see on screen and this helps to provide a mental picture of the action before we start producing the storyboards. This ‘shooting script’ might also include reference images or animated gifs which help to explain the action.

Go To Storyboard

Storyboards

The storyboards are a grid of deliberately rough sketched individual artwork panels (or images). They show all of the shots in your video, and the order in which they’ll appear. Each panel is accompanied by the voiceover that will feature during that shot, as well as notes which explain the action. In some cases, we might also produce an animatic. An animatic is a video version of the storyboards and might include an animation test, a dummy voiceover as well as sample sound design and music.

Go To Artwork

Artwork

Once the storyboards have been approved, we’ll create all of the artwork layouts. We’ll typically start with proof of concept art which we call a ‘style frame’ and/or character designs. This ensures you can be involved in developing the final design style. Alongside the storyboards, the style frame will give you a really good sense for what the final film will look like. Once the artwork is approved, we’ll get to work producing all the layouts. These are essentially a polished version of the storyboards in the final design style.

Go To Animation

Animation

Once you’re happy with the artwork layouts, we get to the most exciting part of the process. For 2D vector ‘cutout’ animation, our artist will rig the characters bodies, giving them an adjustable bone structure which allows them to pose the character like a puppet. Alternatively, the artist may animate tradigitally – imagine old-school Disney frame-by-frame animation, but in a computer. Cutout animation is a more cost-effective approach whilst traditional animation offers greater fluidity of animation.

Go To Sound

Sound Design

Although we have access to some award-winning composers, in the majority of cases we’ll source and present customised stock music track options. We aren’t restricted to using royalty-free music and our fixed fee music costs are inclusive of all necessary usage licences. The Producer will provide a series of music alternatives which are based on your preferences and, once you’re happy, we’ll combine this with the voiceover to form a soundtrack that sounds as amazing as your video looks.

Go To Voiceover

Studio VO Recording

All of our voiceover is studio recorded by professional voice artists and actors and the fixed price quoted is inclusive of the studio, Producer, and Sound Engineer costs, as well as the artists’ record and usage fee. You can even conference into the recording session to help direct the voice artist. Once recorded, the Sound Engineer will clean up the voiceover and a Sound Designer from Nibble will edit the audio. This voiceover is combined with the music to form the soundtrack that the animation is timed to.

Go To Screen Recording

Screen Recording

In order to showcase the features and functionality in your software or app demo, we’ll need to produce a high-resolution screen recording. Specialist software allows us full control over the speed and fluidity of mouse movements as well as clicks and transitions. It also offers us the ability to pan across and zoom in and out of the screen or application sections that require focus. Finally, our motion designers will apply necessary titles, annotations or callouts to ensure your recording is as slick and professional as possible.

Go To Interactivity

Interactivity

Once the video is complete, we use specialist software to implement the interactive video features. As well as standard in-video hyperlinking, other popular interactive features include hotspots (automatically tracking an object allowing viewers to interact with it at any point) and branching (where the viewer is given various options which allow them to interact with and guide their own tailored narrative). We also give you access to in-depth video analytics which will allow you to measure video performance.

Go To Delivery

Delivery

Once approved it’s time to deliver your video. The final files are sent digitally and encrypted with password protection for security. Your video can be supplied in any standard or high definition format, and in any standard file format you need (i.e. .WMV/.AVI, MPEG, H264 or .MOV). If it’s helpful, Nibble’s video experts are also on hand to support you in promoting your video – devising video marketing strategies that will ensure your video is seen by as many of the right type of viewer as possible.

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Figures to Tell Your CEO

Why Do You Need Onboarding Videos?

91%

of people have watched a video to understand how to use a physical product better.

95%

Viewers retain 95% of a message when they watch it through video.

72%

of consumers use video to learn about a product instead of reading the text in a user’s manual.

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Doing this project with Nibble has been a dream come true for me. You have done a tremendous job and really applied your enormous talent very effectively. Producing a cartoon is something I wanted to do for years but it wouldn't have been so much fun if I had worked with anyone else.

Jessica Mitchell Managing Director, Portfolio Partners
Working with Nibble has been amazing. They’re such a creative team and always come back to us with great ideas even on tight timelines. We were really impressed with the video they made for us & look forward to working together again!

Nancy Coburn Marketing & Content Manager, Disney Music
Following the first training session I delivered using the video, I was told "that’s the most engaged I have ever been". As a result of our experience with Nibble Video, I would whole heartedly recommend them.

Yinka Williams Director of IG, Guy's & St. Thomas NHS Foundation Trust

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