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How To Make An Explainer Video

How To Make An Explainer Video

When done well, the ingredients in an explainer video combine to create powerful animations that inform, entertain, inspire and stay with viewers. In this post, we look at how they are made.

5 Essential Tips for Choosing the Right Explainer Video Company

5 Essential Tips for Choosing the Right Explainer Video Company

Whiteboard videos can be a powerful way of telling your story, but their effectiveness very much depends on their quality. When picking the right whiteboard video production company, there are some essential steps and considerations.

Demystifying Explainer Videos: Engaging, Educational, and Effective

Demystifying Explainer Videos: Engaging, Educational, and Effective

As visual aids go, whiteboards are like old friends. Whiteboard videos have developed from them, making ideas and messages understandable, clear, engaging and memorable.

The Whiteboard Animation Process: Taking Your Message From Idea to Explainer Video

The Whiteboard Animation Process: Taking Your Message From Idea to Explainer Video

We’re here to help you navigate the whiteboard animation production process and in this blog, we’ll take you through the steps. 

Whiteboard Animation for Education: How It’s Used and Why It’s Effective

Whiteboard Animation for Education: How It’s Used and Why It’s Effective

Whether you found remote learning to be a dream or a disaster, some aspects of it could be here to stay. One of these aspects is whiteboard animations in education. It’s something that has been explaining ideas since the early 2000s and could be the extra teaching assistant you’ve been looking for.

Introducing Pure Scribe: Brilliantly simple Whiteboard Animations

Introducing Pure Scribe: Brilliantly simple Whiteboard Animations

Our new Pure Scribe product has a punchy and direct style. From its short 60-90 second length to the simple but high-impact motion graphics options, this product is beautifully simple.

Ideas, Animation and Society

Ideas, Animation and Society

This year the RSA have won in the Webby Awards’ animation category for their RSA Shorts series. To celebrate this achievement, we asked the RSA’s Mairi Ryan and Abi Stephenson about the series and sharing ideas more broadly.

Ideas, Animation and the Creative Process

Ideas, Animation and the Creative Process

The RSA has won a Webby Award for their RSA Shorts series, which has been running since 2012. We asked Animator and co-founder of Superdoodle Katy Ross about the experience of creating RSA Shorts.

Whiteboard Animations by Cognitive, Staff Favourites Part 1

Whiteboard Animations by Cognitive, Staff Favourites Part 1

It’s hard to work on so many whiteboard animations and not develop a few personal favourites. We put some of our team on the spot to get theirs.

What is Whiteboard Animation? The 9 techniques that make it work

What is Whiteboard Animation? The 9 techniques that make it work

Whiteboard animation is able to create powerful, engaging, memorable and bespoke films. This blog post looks at the nine techniques that allow whiteboard animation to work so well.

Why does whiteboard animation work so well?

Why does whiteboard animation work so well?

Senior Creative Kayle McLeish talks about what makes Whiteboard Animation such an effective tool for creatives that make explainer films, comparing it to a Swiss Army Knife.

Why Whiteboard animations make great explainer videos

Why Whiteboard animations make great explainer videos

At Cognitive, we are passionate about visual storytelling and helping our clients tell more engaging stories. We pioneered whiteboard animation and still lead the way in setting the highest standards in visual storytelling. Read the blog to find why we think whiteboard animation is so effective.

Behind the scenes of our latest film for #ForestProud

Behind the scenes of our latest film for #ForestProud

Continuing our series of animated explainer videos for the North American Forest Partnership, we explore ‘Wildfire’; the effects it has on the forest and what can be done by local communities to manage it.