Animation for Internal Communications

Re-engage the workforce and help them confidently navigate the new processes and procedures with animated content.

Why is animation essential for internal communications?

The positive experience associated with the onboarding process can make or break your company’s reputation. If you’re training new employees, you want them to understand your company’s policy and procedures to follow correctly. If you’re onboarding new clients, you want to ensure that they are confident with your product so they can make the most of it. By adding video to the onboarding process, you can make it more memorable and streamlined.

Animation is a real gamechanger for turning static documents and manuals into engaging, easy-to-follow content. An animated video is a great way to tell a story about your audience’s challenges and how your product can help solve them. If used for training, an onboarding video can help your staff visualise the difficulties that might occur during their time at their company and explain how to handle them.

Why choose animation over live footage when it comes to producing an onboarding video

Animating your onboarding and training videos allow you to be more flexible with their content. Animation has the power to illustrate even the most complex ideas and processes in an engaging way. Using visual aids to educate your clients and staff will help them retain more information – which is especially important for health and safety tutorials and companies that work with complex technologies.

By choosing animation to produce your next training video, you can also diminish the cost of the overall video production. Animated onboarding videos can be easily tailored to different language requirements without reshooting the entire video. You can also enjoy animated content for longer (live videos tend to become outdated quickly), making it a profitable, long-term investment.

How can Nibble Animation Studios help?

At Nibble, we’re passionate about telling engaging stories. We’ve been working with the most prominent brands globally, including NHS, Talent Deck and The Health & Care Professions Council (HCPC), to produce animated videos for internal communications that educate and entertain.

We’re specialists in character-based 2D animation, 3D animation and whiteboard animated videos. Our multi-disciplinary team takes full ownership of the animation video production process, from writing an initial script to the final project delivery. With our extensive experience in high-performing onboarding and training videos, be reassured you will be in good hands!

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Onboarding & Training Videos by Nibble

The Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)

A series of 2D cutout chararcter training films for The Health and Care Professions Council

Talent Deck

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

NHS

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

Fresh Air Fitness

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

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Figures to Tell Your CEO

Reasons to Add Animation to Your Onboarding Process

91%

of users watch a video to understand how to use a physical product.

69%

of managers describe onboarding as time-consuming.

70%

a structured onboarding improves productivity by over 70%.

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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 Storyboards

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 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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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