The Challenge
Mind had been through a re-brand about a year before contacting us. As an organisation, they understood the importance of animation and could see the value in creating more animated content, but they didn’t have clear guidance on how their brand should appear in motion. They were looking for consistency across their animated content and wanted to include animation as part of their brand guidelines. One of the key considerations was the local service providers known as local Minds, who make up part of the wider organisation and have the need to commission their own area-specific content. We needed to approach the guidelines with all users, projects and budgets catered for.
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The Solution
We began by conducting a thorough investigation of the animation requirements across the organisation including running focus groups and interviews with Mind’s stakeholders. We came to understand that these varied dramatically depending on the activities of the team. We carried out an audit of Mind’s existing animations and researched content being created by similar brands and charities. We reviewed the findings and created a report with recommendations for the contents of the guidelines, as well as an indication of some animation styles to explore.
It was clear that there needed to be flexibility to allow for different teams' requirements. There were a number of factors that guided this: content, tone, budget and production lead time being the main drivers. We identified an example selection of scenes from a range of typical Mind content and produced them in a series of animation styles. This included creating new animated assets and a library of original characters. These were reviewed by Mind and a panel of people with lived experience of various mental health issues. With their feedback, these were refined and finalised.
Guidelines
The final stage was to write the animation guidelines and deliver these alongside the examples we had created. We also delivered a toolkit of animated assets for Mind to edit and use, or share with future motion suppliers.
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