Animation Services

2D Animation Services

Familiarise you audience with your products, services or ideas with 2D character animation.

Why should you include 2D animation in your brand strategy?

Did you know that marketers produce over 2.5 quintillion bytes of content every day? With digital, mobile and social media eventually becoming an indispensable part of our everyday life, cutting through the digital noise with content that stands out is more critical than ever.

2D animation is an excellent medium to capture your audience attention and engage them in your brand communications. 2D animation is widely used to produce explainer videos, onboarding materials and social media content to help you win your audience within seconds.

Animation puts your customer’s challenges at the heart of the story with unique characters, which helps your prospects to visualise how your product can change their life. Highly creative and bespoke characters used in your 2D animation can help your customers relate to your brand and your business much better than most marketing campaigns can. With a unique storyline and engaging 2D graphics, a character-based animation is a top choice for internal and external communication specialists that want to take their brand strategy to a whole new level.

2D Character-based social video produced by Nibble

Bring your brand story to life with 2D animation production services from Nibble Video

At Nibble, we work with brave marketing professionals looking to take their brand communication to new heights. We provide end-to-end 2D animation services for businesses of all sizes to enhance their communication with highly engaging content.

We turn lengthy written content into a 2D character-based animated video that engages, entertains and fascinates your prospects – something that is hardly achievable using words-only. Our creative team of top industry animation experts will help translate your message into tailor-made, character-based 2D animation that is beautiful and effective.

Contact us today for a no-obligation chat about your animation needs!

2D Video Examples from Nibble

Babylon Health

A series of stylised 2D character based explainer films for Babylon Health

Liberis

Working with Challenge Marketing to create a quirky 2D chararcter based social campaign for their client Liberis

CHG Meridian

A stylised 2D character based explainer film for CHG Meridian

Hartpury University

A fun 2D character based Christmas short for Hatpury University

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Figures to Tell Your CEO

Why Do You Need 2D Animation?

59%

of executives say they would rather watch a video than read text.

68%

of prospects state that they prefer to learn about a product from a video.

70%

of consumers say that they have shared a brand’s video.

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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.

Resources

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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