#animation for elearning

Take on the omnipresent attention-deficit disorder, overload of information, never-ending to-do list, and lack of interest, with animation-based training.

“The Brain Lady” Dr. Susan Weinschenk argues that there are four essential reasons we are drawn to video:

#1: We pay attention to faces. #2: We listen to voices. #3: We mirror the emotions of the other. #4: We pay attention to movement.

This must come as no surprise, considering the number of videos published and watched on Youtube (everyday, people consume millions of hours of videos, generating billions of views). For long, experts have predicted that video will make for the most effective marketing content in the coming years.

Making high-quality animation doesn’t mean you have to perfect every frame to Disney standards – rather, it’s about moulding every story the right way to meet your communication needs.

At Hornbill FX, we have a clear demarcation between quality and grade. We don’t confuse the two, we tell our customers not to confuse the two, and now, we are telling you!

The grade of an animation film is the technical excellence of it — frames per second, immaculate squash and stretch, accurate follow through and overlapping action and the like. Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is a very high-grade film. In fact, it uses all 12 principles of animation, and is theoretically very strong.

Excited by the magic of animation? So are we! We’ve put together the basics of what goes into making an animation film. Animation might have gone digital today, but 2D animation still involves drawing images (sometimes on paper, often on tablets) and putting them together in quick succession without digital models or virtual landscapes. Let’s look at a standard animation studio process:

Design the Characters: We first sketch the key characters to show how they will look in the front view, the profile view and in the 3/4th view.

Design the Set: Next is to imagine the environment in which our characters will exist and thrive.

Create Concept art: Sketches of the character with the background are drawn based on the description in the script.

Make a Storyboard: Like all good animators, we use a visual script to help us visualize your eLearning animation, organize and edit them.

Record Audio: Once the storyboard is approved, based on your specifications, we pick voices and record the content. At this point, a written script evolves the outline of the 2D or 3D character.