Animated training videos teach employees a skill, a process or a policy through character animation, whiteboard, infographic motion graphics or 3D. The 19 examples below are all Broadcast2World productions, grouped by training goal: behaviour and soft skills, onboarding, sales enablement, safety, compliance, internal L&D and product training. Custom animated training videos from Broadcast2World start at $2,400 for 60 seconds, with the script, storyboard, voiceover and animation included.
Employee training videos work best when the learner forgets they are being trained. Every example here is our own work, so for each one we can show you the video, tell you why we chose its animation style, name the story device that made it stick, and suggest what you can borrow for your own corporate training videos. Together they cover onboarding new employees, customer service, sales, safety, compliance and product training.
The guide also covers the types of training videos teams use most, how to make them, and what they cost. If you are ready to brief a studio, see our animated training video production service.
How we picked these animated training videos
01One learning goal
Each video teaches one skill, process or policy, and teaches it clearly.
02A learner they recognise
The story starts in a moment the audience has lived through.
03Style matched to the lesson
The animation style was chosen for what the learner needs to see.
04Used by real teams
Every video was rolled out to employees, customers or partners.
Animation styles for corporate training videos, by goal
The right style depends on what the learner has to do after watching. Here is how the styles in this guide line up with training goals. You can see more of each in our guide to animation styles.
Press play on any video to watch it here. Each card explains why the style fits, the story device at work, and one idea to try in your own training.
Behaviour and soft skills training videos
Customer service, sales conversations, inclusion and people management all come down to how someone behaves in a moment. Character animation lets learners watch that moment and see themselves in it. For more in this category, see our customer service training video examples.
01
NHA PersonAbility: soft skills for healthcare staff
Customer serviceCharacter animation
Made for: National Healthcareer AssociationAudience: Healthcare students and new staff
A technically strong student argues with colleagues and draws patient complaints about rudeness and delays. The video names that gap and introduces NHA's PersonAbility program as the way to close it. In healthcare, the same approach powers clinical onboarding and compliance training. See how we make healthcare staff training videos.
Why this style
Soft skills live in faces, tone and body language. A character lets learners watch the moment go wrong and recognise themselves in it without feeling singled out.
The story device
A problem portrait specific enough to believe and broad enough that most learners have seen it happen.
Try this in your training
Open with a mistake your team already recognises, then show the better way.
02
OYO Rooms: first meeting with a hotel owner
Sales conversationsCharacter animation
Made for: OYO RoomsAudience: Business development managersLength: 2:58
A business development manager meets an interested, fast-moving hotel owner. The video plays the conversation line by line: the introduction, the referral, then questions about the owner's story and the property before any pitch.
Why this style
Conversations are learned by watching them. Animated role play lets every new manager replay the same meeting, word for word, as often as they need.
The story device
One owner personality per video, so the advice fits the person across the table.
Try this in your training
Script the real lines your best people use, and build one video per customer type.
03
Zoo Content: diversity, equity and inclusion
DEI trainingCharacter animation
Made for: Zoo ContentAudience: All employeesLength: 3:36
Opens with a question: "When you hear the word diversity, what comes to mind for you?" It then builds the DEI framework through three lenses: personal identity, team relationships and organizational impact.
Why this style
A stylised cast lets every learner see someone like them, and a gentle visual world keeps a sensitive topic open for discussion.
The story device
A mosaic metaphor makes diversity visual and welcoming from the first minute.
Try this in your training
Start with a question learners answer in their own heads before you teach anything.
04
Zoo Content: manager training on go-to performers
Leadership trainingCharacter animation
Made for: Zoo ContentAudience: People leadersLength: 2:38
Managers rely on a few people they trust. The video asks viewers to guess how many go-to performers a typical team of ten has, then reveals the usual answer: about two, or 20%. From there it unpacks what those people do and how to grow more of them.
Why this style
Character animation turns an abstract management idea into a team the viewer can count, person by person.
The story device
A guess-then-reveal moment that makes managers look at their own team.
Try this in your training
Ask learners to predict the answer before you give it. The surprise is what they remember.
Employee onboarding training videos
Onboarding videos carry a new person from the first day to feeling part of the team. A named character, a clear path and a familiar visual style do most of the work. For software teams, see our SaaS customer onboarding video examples.
05
Redzone: new hire onboarding on the plant floor
New hire onboardingCharacter animation
Made for: RedzoneAudience: Manufacturing plant leadersLength: 1:36
Opens on a hard truth: onboarding is slow, cookie cutter and run by one training coordinator, so new hires feel alone. Then we meet Jessie, who gets a digital training plan, a buddy, on-demand job training and recognition for her ideas, until she wants to learn more and become a quality inspector. For more work with plants and industrial teams, see our manufacturing video production.
Why this style
Following one new hire turns an onboarding system into a human story plant leaders can feel.
The story device
Before and after, told through Jessie's first weeks.
Try this in your training
Give your new hire a name and a first-week worry, then show your program answering it.
06
Kyriba: customer onboarding series
Customer onboardingWhiteboard animation
Made for: KyribaAudience: New enterprise customersLength: 3:24
Walks new enterprise customers through the platform and what to expect across implementation and support. It shares the visual language of Kyriba's internal sales series, so the story feels continuous when a customer moves from sales to onboarding.
Why this style
Whiteboard builds a process one step at a time, which suits implementation timelines and hand-offs.
The story device
One visual language across the whole customer journey.
Try this in your training
Design onboarding videos as a series so every step looks and sounds familiar.
Sales enablement training videos
Sales teams need to understand a change fast and explain it the same way to every customer. These two show how a clear structure and real words help.
07
Kyriba: pricing and packaging sales enablement
Sales enablementWhiteboard animation
Made for: KyribaAudience: Global sales teamLength: 3:29
Prepares the entire sales organization to explain and sell a move from seat-based to bank-account-based pricing, with three packages (Essential, Advanced and Premier) and usage-based components. It is part of a three-video series delivered together. Kyriba's team wrote the scripts, and we built one visual system for all three videos on a tight timeline.
Why this style
Pricing logic is a chain of cause and effect, the same challenge we solve in finance video production. Whiteboard lets the hand draw each link as the voiceover explains it.
The story device
It answers the three questions a salesperson asks, in order: why is this changing, what exactly is changing, and what does it mean for my targets?
Try this in your training
Add a scratch voiceover to the first animation draft. Kyriba's reviewer told us it was hard to give feedback without one.
08
Clif Bar: street marketing team training
Field team trainingWhiteboard animation
Made for: Clif BarAudience: Field marketing team
Covers body language for sampling (walk with confidence, make eye contact, hand over a sample), the exact words to use in different situations, and how to prepare before a shift at train stations, stadiums and stores.
Why this style
Whiteboard keeps the focus on the behaviour and the script, as in our whiteboard explainer videos, with simple drawings that make each tip easy to recall on the street.
The story device
Real lines to say, so the team leaves knowing exactly what to do.
Try this in your training
Give your team the actual language. People who know what to say act with more confidence.
Made for: A utility contractorAudience: Field crews and equipment operatorsLength: 3:15
"Worker Beware, Worker Be Ready" promises to keep things short, clear and worth the crew's time, then hands over to a host character who explains electricity as invisible, silent and unforgiving. Dump trucks, lifted loads and excavation all come close to overhead lines, and most contacts happen because something small was missed.
Why this style
A host character delivers a serious message with warmth, which is how we approach utility and public sector videos, and it keeps a crew watching a topic they have heard many times.
The story device
A friendly guide plus everyday job site moments where a small miss becomes a big risk.
Try this in your training
Name the small mistake behind the big incident, and show it in a scene your crews know.
10
University of San Francisco: data security for staff
Cyber security trainingCharacter animation
Made for: University of San FranciscoAudience: Faculty, staff and executives
Drives adoption of data loss prevention across the university. It opens on shared ground, that we all live online, raises the stakes with how attackers target sensitive data like Social Security and card numbers, and explains the new safeguard with a low fuel indicator analogy. Much like a construction invoice template turns a complex billing process into something easy to follow, the analogy makes an abstract safeguard easy to grasp.
Why this style
Character animation puts a face on a quiet, technical risk and keeps the tone helpful.
The story device
An everyday analogy, the low fuel light, for a technical safeguard.
Try this in your training
Name the worry learners may have about a new security tool, and answer it inside the video. More in our cyber security video production.
Compliance and policy training videos
Compliance training works when people understand the reason behind a rule and can picture where it applies. Our guide on how to create compliance training videos covers the planning side.
11
Hub International: wage and hour compliance
Policy complianceInfographic motion graphics
Made for: Hub InternationalAudience: Employers and managersLength: 1:15
"For your employees, every minute on and off the clock counts." The video explains when work after clocking out can be paid time, and grounds it in a real ruling where an employer had to pay for the time an employee spent taking out the trash and locking up.
Why this style
Infographic motion graphics keep a legal policy clean and structured, with icons and type carrying each rule.
The story device
One small, real case that makes the policy easy to remember.
Try this in your training
Anchor every compliance rule in a concrete example your managers could face this week.
12
UNICEF: risk management training
Operational complianceCharacter animation
Made for: UNICEFAudience: Global staff
Explains risk to a diverse global workforce through escalating scenes: a table in a room, the same table outside, then a rope between two buildings. Likelihood and impact become clear before any framework appears, and a tightrope walker ties it to how operational risk is managed. See more of our nonprofit video production. UNICEF's team wrote the script, so our work was finding visual metaphors that every office would read the same way.
Why this style
Animation builds a metaphor step by step and raises the stakes in seconds, which suits an abstract framework.
The story device
Escalation: the same action becomes riskier with each scene.
Try this in your training
Teach the feeling of a concept first, then give it a name.
Internal L&D and workplace culture videos
Learning and development teams also need videos that launch programs, explain strategy and build culture. Our internal communication video examples show more of this side of training. These work because they speak to people before they list anything.
13
Frontier Economics: L&D strategy
L&D communicationWhiteboard animation
Made for: Frontier EconomicsAudience: All staff
Shares the firm's learning and development vision, three-year strategy and objectives, from 2019 through COVID, when an 85% delivery rate was kept through a hybrid approach, to the rollout of its first LMS. The L&D team is introduced by name. Frontier's team shared a rough script draft, and the final video ran about a minute and a half longer than first planned, with the client's approval.
Why this style
Whiteboard suits a strategy story: the plan grows on screen as the narrator explains it.
The story device
Naming the people behind the program turns an announcement into a relationship.
Try this in your training
Introduce the team behind your program. Learners engage with people they know.
14
Caribbean Development Bank: employee wellbeing
Employee wellbeingCharacter animation
Made for: Caribbean Development BankAudience: All staff
Introduces the bank's Mind Body Balance program. It opens with belonging, "Do you know that you are valued and vitally important to us?", then walks through support for the mind (an employee assistance program, learning and burnout sessions) and the body (wellness clinics, a redesigned restaurant and a fitness center), plus balance. The bank shared it across kiosks, email, collaboration hubs and gamification platforms.
Why this style
Character animation brings warmth to a people program and lets staff picture themselves using it.
The story device
Feeling valued comes before the list of benefits.
Try this in your training
Open with why the program exists for your people, then explain how to use it.
15
Takamol: iAppreciate employee recognition
Recognition programWhiteboard animation
Made for: TakamolAudience: All employeesLength: 2:04
Explains a peer recognition program by separating two kinds of effort at work: the task-focused effort of client calls, meetings and discussions, and the second kind of effort people put in beyond their assigned tasks, which is easy to miss.
Why this style
Whiteboard draws a simple framework the viewer can repeat to a colleague.
The story device
Naming an effort that often goes unseen, so peers know what to recognise.
Try this in your training
Show people exactly which behaviour you want them to notice and reward.
Product and equipment training videos
Product training needs learners to see how something works inside and in use. For step-by-step formats, see our tutorial video examples. Motion graphics carry the explanation, with 3D elements where the product needs depth.
16
Thermo Fisher Scientific: instrument training
Product trainingMotion graphics with 3D
Made for: Thermo Fisher ScientificAudience: Commercial team and lab buyers
One video serves conference presentations, an email campaign and internal commercial team training. It animates the chemistry at a molecular level, with magnetic beads binding DNA, so the team understands the science they are selling.
Why this style
3D elements show the product's inner workings at the scale the team needs to understand.
The story device
One production, three audiences.
Try this in your training
Plan product training videos to double as sales content from the start.
17
3Flow: fume hood retrofit training
Technical product trainingMotion graphics with 3D
Made for: 3FlowAudience: Sales team and lab managers
Fume hood airflow can account for up to 85% of a lab's energy use. The retrofit installs in under three hours, cuts energy use by 30 to 40% and extends hood life, at a fraction of the $20,000+ cost of a replacement. Each component is explained through its benefit.
Why this style
Animated cutaways show the airflow and components inside the hood, which makes the retrofit easy to follow.
The story device
Every feature is tied to a buyer concern: cost, energy and disruption.
Try this in your training
List three reasons someone would say no, then answer each one in the video.
18
BD: touchless catheter kit clinical training
Clinical procedure trainingMotion graphics with 3D
Made for: Becton DickinsonAudience: Clinicians
Walks through the full procedure for the BD Touchless Plus catheter kit for male and female patients, the specimen collection protocol and key technique notes, such as stopping at the flange base and keeping the collection bag at the right height.
Why this style
3D lets clinicians see each step from the angle that matters.
The story device
Critical steps shown close up, in order.
Try this in your training
If a step is easy to get wrong, slow it down and show it from the best angle.
19
Oncor: outage map walkthrough
Tool trainingScreen-based motion graphics
Made for: OncorAudience: Customers, media and support staffLength: 0:53
Walks through every feature of Oncor's outage map in the order a user meets them: the three headline numbers, the difference between outages and customers affected, zip code and county search, restoration estimates, the radar layer and the app download.
Why this style
Screen-based motion graphics guide the eye to each part of the interface as it is explained.
The story device
It follows the user's eyes, step by step.
Try this in your training
Order a tool walkthrough by the user's journey, from first glance to last tap.
Why animation works for employee training videos
Animation gives a training team control over every detail of the lesson, and every animated training video we make starts from one learning goal. Four strengths show up again and again in the examples above.
01Learners see themselves
A character can be anyone on your team, in any role, office or country.
02Ideas become visible
Pricing logic, risk, data flows and molecules can all be drawn, built and moved.
03The lesson stays consistent
Every office hears the same message, and a scene can be updated when a policy changes.
04It travels well
New voiceovers and subtitles localise a video, and short cuts fit LMS modules and phones.
Good training videos also lift employee engagement, because people respond to stories about people like them.
How much do animated training videos cost?
At Broadcast2World, custom animated training videos start at $2,400 for 60 seconds, and a 90-second Premium video is about $4,500. The script, storyboard, voiceover and animation are included, the same as our explainer video production, and payment is split 50% at the start and 50% on delivery. Planning a series helps too, because the characters, style and music designed for the first video carry into the rest. For a full breakdown, see our explainer video cost guide.
How to make training videos employees remember
01Pick one learning goal per video
If a lesson has five goals, plan five short videos.
02Name the learner and the moment
Jessie's first weeks at Redzone and the OYO owner meeting work because they are specific.
03Choose the style by goal
Use the style guide above to match the animation to the lesson.
04Script the real words
Clif Bar and OYO give their teams lines they can use the same day.
05Plan the cuts early
Short versions for LMS modules, intranet pages and phones are easier to plan in than to add later.
06Test it with real people, then update
A panel review before a wide rollout shows you what to sharpen.
07Make it interactive where it helps
Interactive elements, quizzes and scenario-based learning keep engagement up at scale.
Test with real people. After a utility contractor's worker safety video was finalised in May, the company had worker and utility panels review it. The feedback was very positive overall, and the panels suggested a few edits, which we made as a short update.
Review with the voice in place. On the Kyriba series, the reviewer asked for the voiceover to be added before giving animation feedback, because the timing and tone were hard to judge without it.
Expect late copy changes. Kyriba's leadership later updated numbers and naming in the script, so build in a final copy check before the last render.
Make the series look like one family. For Oncor's storm safety kit video, the team asked for a revised 30-second script, a choice of voiceover artists and an end frame matching its existing power restoration video.
Frequently Asked Questions
What are animated training videos?
Animated training videos teach employees a skill, process or policy through animation such as character animation, whiteboard, infographic motion graphics or 3D. Companies use them for onboarding, customer service, sales enablement, safety, compliance and product training, because one video can be shared with every team and updated when the content changes.
What are good examples of animated employee training videos?
Examples in this guide include NHA's PersonAbility soft skills video, Redzone's new hire onboarding story, Kyriba's pricing and packaging sales enablement series, UNICEF's risk management training, Hub International's wage and hour compliance video and BD's clinical procedure training. All 19 are Broadcast2World productions.
Which animation style is best for corporate training videos?
Match the style to the training goal. Character animation suits soft skills, customer service, onboarding and compliance scenarios. Whiteboard suits processes, pricing changes and strategy. Infographic motion graphics suit policies, benefits and data. Motion graphics with 3D elements suit equipment, lab and clinical product training.
How long should an employee training video be?
Most examples here run from about one to four minutes. Aim for 60 to 120 seconds per learning goal, and split a longer program into a short series that fits LMS modules and mobile viewing.
How much does an animated training video cost?
Broadcast2World's custom animated training videos start at $2,400 for 60 seconds, and a 90-second Premium video is about $4,500, with the script, storyboard, voiceover and animation included. Style, length and the number of videos in a series shape the final price.
How long does it take to make an animated training video?
A custom 60-second animated training video from Broadcast2World usually takes about 2 to 3 weeks. Longer videos, 3D elements and multi-video series take more time.
Can animated training videos be updated later?
Yes. Every scene is built from design files, so a line, a screen or a policy detail can be changed without remaking the video. One utility contractor in this guide updated its worker safety video after panel reviews with a short edit.
Can you make training videos in other languages?
Yes. Animated videos localise well: we can record new voiceovers, swap on-screen text and add subtitles, so one training video can serve teams in several countries.
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