How Animation and Visual Tools Deliver Enablement Results for Your Team

Training gives people knowledge, but enablement helps them use it to perform better, increase revenue, and lower risk. For complex tasks, clear visuals and animation make it easier to move from understanding to taking reliable action.

The problem

Many programs measure attendance and completion, but not real change at work. In high-stakes or technical jobs, knowledge alone rarely changes results. Enablement is the ongoing system that closes this gap.

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Definitions that matter

Training: Events or materials that teach.

Enablement: Providing role-specific content and timely support to help people improve performance where it counts.

Three reasons visuals and animation matter

1. Visuals combined with narration help people build practical skills more quickly and use them at work.
2. When visual and verbal explanations are used together, they help everyone develop a shared understanding. This is especially important for complex processes.
3. Designs with worked examples and guided animation are more likely to help people apply what they learn on the job.

The business case for enablement

Enablement delivers the results leaders want. When people become competent more quickly, they become productive sooner. Better performance on the job leads to higher sales and better service. Fewer mistakes mean lower operating and compliance costs. Creative work that focuses on real decision points helps achieve these outcomes.

What Broken Pencil Studios delivers

We make clear, reusable creative assets that fit easily into your learning and communication programs. Our five main services are:

• Explainer Videos: Animated videos focused on specific roles that make decisions easier and help people understand faster.
• Creative Services Subscription: Ongoing creative work, both static and animated, so your assets stay up to date and can grow as your needs change.
• Learning, Training, and R & D: Creative services for universities and researchers, including research communication, educational media, pilot content, and visuals that make complex ideas clearer.
• 3D Animation: Technical 3D visuals that make it easier to inspect and explain complex systems.
• Marketing and Advertising: Storytelling to engage both internal teams and external customers, fostering support and driving the adoption of your initiatives.

Broken Pencil Studios focuses on quality, clarity, and making sure your team can reuse assets where they will have the most impact.

Design patterns that produce usable creative value

• Role-based explainers that map directly to decision points.

• Animated worked examples that show correct flow and common failures.

• Scenario simulations for practice in realistic contexts.

• Short learning modules and searchable visual job aids for just-in-time use.

• Living creative assets that are revised and reused, not archived.

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