Animation Videos

Are you an organisation looking for an animation video?

Animation videos are engaging, impactful, and built to inspire action

Animation is one of the most effective ways to explain complex ideas, tell compelling stories, and engage audiences. Whether you’re launching a campaign, promoting your organisation, or sharing real impact stories, animation helps you cut through the noise and connect with people in a way that sticks.

At Neck of the Woods Films, we create bespoke animated films that bring your message to life—helping businesses, social enterprises, and charities educate, inspire, and drive change.

Types of animations

Campaign Animations

Perfect for: Awareness campaigns, social impact initiatives, and advocacy videos

A campaign animation is a powerful way to raise awareness, inspire action, and reach new audiences. Whether you’re highlighting an important issue, pushing for change, or encouraging public engagement, animation allows you to tell your story in a way that’s both emotive and impactful.

Why it works:

Simplifies complex issues for wider audiences
Highly shareable across social media & digital platforms
Emotionally engaging without relying on live-action footage

Promotional Animations

Perfect for: Brand storytelling, company overviews, and product promotions

Your organisation has a story worth telling—but are you telling it effectively? Promotional animations showcase who you are, what you stand for, and why people should work with you. These films are ideal for introducing your brand, explaining your mission, or promoting services in a way that’s clear, engaging, and memorable.

Why it works:

Captures attention in a crowded digital space
Strengthens brand identity with unique visuals & motion design
Versatile content for websites, presentations, and social media

Explainer Animations

Perfect for: Simplifying complex concepts, product demos, and training content

Some ideas are hard to explain—animation makes them easy to understand. An explainer animation uses motion graphics, illustrations, and sound to turn complicated topics into clear, digestible content. Whether you’re breaking down a new process, product, or policy, animation ensures your audience gets it—fast.

Why it works:

Makes complex ideas accessible with clear visuals
Increases engagement compared to text-heavy content
Enhances learning & retention for training and education

Case Study Animations

Perfect for: Impact storytelling, testimonials, and safeguarding identities

Human stories move people—it’s that simple. Case study animations bring real experiences to life, helping businesses and organisations showcase their impact without requiring people to appear on camera. This is particularly useful when safeguarding identities, making it ideal for sensitive stories or confidential case studies.

Why it works:

Protects privacy while still sharing powerful stories
Builds trust by showing the real-world impact of your work
Emotionally compelling without live-action footage

Why choose animation?

Highly engaging – Motion and visuals keep audiences hooked

Easily adaptable – Works across websites, social media, events & more

Cost-effective – No need for on-location filming

Timeless content – Avoids the need for frequent reshoots

Whether you need a campaign animation, promotional video, or explainer animation, we create films that bring your message to life.

Showreel

We’ve worked with organisations of all shapes and sizes, from large national charities like GamCare, Drinkaware and National Oceanography Centre to educational institutes like the University of Southampton and Bath Spa University. We’ve made animations to share crucial information, films for national campaigns and personal case studies. Check our showreel for a sample of our work.

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Case Study Animation

Safer London work with young Londoners to make sure that they can live lives safe from exploitation, violence and criminality. The charity has countless stories of the young people they’ve supported and the traumatic circumstances that have seen them referred to Safer London. Sharing these stories is important.

The difficulty is, how can these stories be safely shared? Safer London tasked us with creating case study animations that did just that.

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Explainer Animation

The National Oceanography Centre we’re approaching the 20th anniversary of its AMOC (Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation) research.

To mark this milestone, they wanted to create an animated film that would serve as an educational tool for new audiences. The goal was to draw attention to the research, showcase the key impacts of the project, and highlight why continuing this research is essential.

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Campaign Animation

North Somerset Council (NSC) has developed the Physical Activity Strategy 2023-2028, a framework designed to improve health and wellbeing, reduce health inequalities, and increase physical activity levels across the region.

To help communicate this vision, NSC sought a film that would outline their outcomes and action plan and explain why physical activity matters.

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Promotional Animation

BearFace Theatre CIC use Applied Theatre methods to inspire positive change and conflict resolution.

They developed a new educational programme called Choices aimed at raising awareness of the difficult challenges faced by individuals impacted by the criminal justice system while providing insight into making safer choices.

We created a short animation that would highlight these topics in a way that felt authentic and accessible.

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Animated Explainer

GamCare is the leading provider of information, advice and support for anyone affected by gambling harms.

They developed a new online programme to help individuals better manage and mitigate the harms associated with gambling.

We created a series of animations to explain each of the four key learning modules.

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The organisations we create animation for

We work with change makers to create animated films about positive change, human achievement and social impact. It may be the story of a youth programme, or the hero film that spearheads a vital fundraising campaign. If you’re looking to change the world in some way, you need these stories to be told well. Non-profits make our world better every day, but they aren’t always the best at telling these stories. We’re a full service video agency that helps charities, non profits and educators do just that.

Arts and culture
Museums and external learning
Schools, colleges and universities
Hospitals, hospices and care facilities
Healthcare and NHS
Outreach programmes
Human and animal welfare charities
Human rights and social justice
Environmental protection and conservation
Research organisations
Foundations

How we craft your animation

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Brief

If you’re looking to create an animation that really connects with people, then having a detailed and open briefing process is the best place to start. We ask questions, challenge you and learn as much as we can about your organisation and your brief.
Proposal

We love this part of the process, It’s the first opportunity in a project to think big and get creative. We take all of our thoughts, ideas and interpretations of a project and combine them into an easy to understand document for you to mull over.
Planning

We’re planners by nature, which we use to our advantage when it comes to making your animation. We don’t always strictly follow a concrete plan, but creating one in the first place means we can all be on the same page and pulling in the same creative direction.
Creation

This is what we live for; the part where we get to film, edit and animate your story. All of the thinking and planning culminates in the creation of an animation video that you can be proud to share with your audience.
Delivery

The project has come to an end, sign-off has been given and we deliver your film in an upload-friendly format. But your journey is just starting! Now you get to share the project with the people who matter most.

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Looking to produce an animation video?

Here are some frequently asked questions we hear.

How much does it cost?

The cost of an animation will vary depending on the style of animation you are looking to make. There are various stages of the animation process that can have an impact on the price including the complexity of the illustration, motion, the length of the film and whether it needs a professional voiceover artist.
How long does it take to produce?

Similarly to the price, the amount of time it will take to produce your animation video can depend on the requirements of the video. This is something that we will discuss with you in the kick-off meeting to ensure your deadline and timescales for the project are achievable. Generally speaking we start with the end date for the project. From here we can work backwards to check feasibility, create milestones and plot this into a project timeline.
What information do you need to be able to provide a quote?

The more we know about your organisation, your service users and the animation you’re looking to create the better. If you’re unsure about which direction you’re looking to go in with your animation, then get in touch and we can work with you to help shape your ideas. Our favourite way to work all of this out is to have a briefing call with you. We use this as an opportunity to get to know you better. The information that we learn here can also feed into our proposal.
Do you offer any special rates or discounts?

We offer 20% off for charities and non-profit organisations on our video production and animation services.
Do you offer any other services?

Alongside our animation services, we also offer video production services, illustration, design and podcast creation. Looking for something a bit different? We have a long list of friends and collaborators who can help with web design, branding & marketing and photography for your charity. Drop us a message and we’ll see how we can help.

We’re proud of our work, as are our clients.

We worked with Neck of the Woods to create a new, signature video for our charity and also social cuts from this. They were an absolute pleasure to work with from the very start and their professionalism and passion ensured that the end results were brilliant.

Future First
We had the absolute pleasure of working with NOTW Films back in September and the experience will stay with us for a lifetime. From the very beginning of our project, they were nothing short of incredible and really took our very basic idea and turned it into something special. After a few positive planning meetings, they came to film and blew us away. It's safe to say every single member of our team who met them fell in love and we're all now individually plotting how we can work with them constantly going forward. The film they created surpassed all of our expectations and left us speechless.

The Renewal Programme
"Our experience of working with NOTW is very positive, from the start they understood what we wanted to get out of the project and were empathetic to our cause. They guided us through the process with ease and we loved having them with us. They were honest in their approach and directed us with their knowledge on what would work best for the films we wanted to produce. The team are amazing, professional, compassionate and the films they produced for us really showcase who we are and we are really proud of them."

York Road Project
Working with Neck of the Woods Films is a delight. From the proposal and pre-production stage, all the way through to adding the final touches to the films, they are incredibly patient and ardent.
They passionately take on all elements of the project, engrossing themselves in the films and the work informing them. Neck of the Woods bring the perfect balance of experience, vision and trust of the client to deliver on projects that exceed our expectations.

Centre for Ageing Better
"We work with at risk targeted groups and vulnerable communities and every time we book the services of Neck of the Woods we have absolute trust and confidence in their ability to provide honest, professional and high quality production. They are a dream to work with, flexible to our needs, communication is always clear and they actively listen to our visions. Their ability to work sensitively and stealthily where appropriate is a skill we massively respect."

Bearface Theatre

Recent projects

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Powerful animated stories

Are you an organisation looking for an animation video?