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Story-based animationfor programmes, learning and HR.

Short animated stories your staff recognise. The finished project at kickoff. What changes for each team at go-live. The moment a policy matters. Then the same story goes into your Rise 360 courses.

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For IT programmes and projects

One picture of the finished project.Before the build starts.

A big rollout touches thousands of people. Departments with different priorities and different constraints, and some that don’t talk to each other. A 120-page project document doesn’t land with any of them.

A two-minute story does. It follows one person through their Monday after go-live, so every stakeholder, in every office, pictures the same finished project.

  1. 01Kickoff story

    The finished project as a short animated story, played at kickoff and sent to everyone who wasn’t in the room.

  2. 02Go-live stories

    What changes on Monday, told for each department, from the same story.

  3. 03Story-based e-learning for the rollout

    For the months of a big rollout, such as an SAP move before mainstream maintenance for its older ERP ends in 2027. I work alongside your team, by the day.

“They all understood it. It changed the way they delivered the project.”
Project manager, healthcare IT kickoff, 2018. A two-minute story replaced a 40-page PowerPoint.

Project work inside 28 organisations, including BP, IBM, Microsoft, Sonic Healthcare, Queensland Police and Petro-Canada.

Programme work

Kickoff and go-live.Healthcare, aged care, mining, IT.

IT programmesMining

SAP go-live Monday

A maintenance planner can’t raise a work order on go-live Monday. Then the same project starts with the end.

IT programmesHospital

Go-live night

A hospital system goes live at midnight. At 2 am, a night nurse can’t find the medication screen.

In productionKickoff: the finished programmeCartoon
IT programmes

A whole programme, department by department, as one person’s first week after go-live.

Earlier client work

Kickoff and change videos for clients. Made with the tools of the time. Same method.

IT programmesEarlier client work

Stakeholders flew in from across Australia. A two-minute story of one patient took the place of a 40-page PowerPoint.

IT programmesEarlier client work

The change programme, explained to 2,500 aged-care staff.

IT programmesEarlier client work

A whole delivery project, explained in under a minute.

For learning and HR teams

Your team builds the course.I make the story that goes in it.

Most corporate e-learning tells, then tests: the steps, a quiz, 100%. Staff click Next until it says complete, and the job looks the same on Monday.

A story shows someone like them on a real day: the wrong way, then the right way. Then it’s their turn, in a situation they haven’t seen.

Fits what you already use. Each story comes as a captioned video, ready to drop into a Rise 360 lesson, Storyline or your LMS. Or I build the Rise 360 lesson around it and publish it to SCORM.

  1. 01A single story

    One moment that matters, for one course.

  2. 02A story series

    The same characters through a whole course or induction.

  3. 03Alongside your team, by the day

    While your designers rebuild a course library around story.

Across 37 studies, stories were understood and remembered better than explanations. Mar, Li, Nguyen & Ta, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 2021

Residents’ rights · Lesson 3 of 6Story, then your turn

Joan is slow to choose this morning, and you’re behind. What do you do?

A story, then their turn. Try it.

Learning work

Training and HR.Someone like your staff, a real moment.

Learning and HRAged care

The moment the rules matter

Staff passed the compliance quiz. Then a busy morning, and the moment the slides never showed them.

Learning and HROnboarding

Teams working together

HR, IT and Facilities each did their part. On Monday, the new starter had no laptop and no pass.

In productionA story lesson for Rise 360Cartoon
Learning and HR

A story, then their turn, built into a Rise 360 lesson.

Earlier client work

Go-live training for 2,500 staff. Made with the tools of the time. Same method.

Learning and HREarlier client work

The new visit-scheduling software on iPad and web, shown the way staff would use it.

Prices

Prices, up front.The script and storyboard are always included.

All prices exclude GST. After one conversation you get a fixed quote, so the price doesn’t move.

Story video

Up to 90 seconds. A kickoff story, a go-live story, or a moment for a course.

from A$6,500+ GST

Kickoff story, 2–3 minutes

The finished project told through one person’s day. 3–5 minutes: from A$13,900.

from A$9,900+ GST

A series from one story

A go-live cut for each department, or the same characters through a course.

30% offeach video after the first

Story-based Rise 360 lesson

I build the lesson around the story and publish it to SCORM. About 15 minutes; 30 minutes: A$19,500.

from A$12,500+ GST

Alongside your team

For the months of a rollout or a course rebuild, in Rise 360 or your own tools.

A$1,200+ GST a day

How a video gets made

We talk. I write it.You see every scene before it moves.

Shown with a real one: SAP go-live Monday, made for programmes facing the 2027 deadline.

01

We talk

An hour on a call. I read your documents and website first, so we start on what matters.

The brief: thousands of people at a mine site move to new SAP screens on one Monday. Show them that Monday before it happens.

02

I write the story

One person, one day, the old way and the new. You sign off the script.

Meet Sam. He plans maintenance at a mine site. Twelve years in the old screens. He can raise a work order with his eyes shut. On go-live Monday, he can’t find it. The crew is waiting.

03

You see every scene

Every scene as a still frame. You sign them off before anything is animated.

Scene 3: Sam at his old screen
Scene 4: Sam lost on go-live Monday
Scene 5: the crew waiting by the truck

Scenes 3, 4 and 5, signed off as stills

04

Then it moves

Animation, a professional voice, music and captions. Versions for your website and LinkedIn.

Usually about three weeks from our first conversation. A Quick explainer takes about a week.

Questions

The short answers.Ask me anything else.

What does it cost?

Small businesses: fixed-price packages from A$1,950 + GST, on the small business page. Corporates: a story video up to 90 seconds starts at A$6,500 + GST, and the full list is on the corporate page.

How long does it take?

About a week for a Quick explainer. About three weeks for a story video, depending on how quickly the script and the scenes are signed off.

Is it made with AI?

The scenes and the animation are made with AI tools, from a script and a storyboard you sign off. The story comes from our conversation, and nothing is animated until you’ve approved every scene.

Will it work in our LMS or Rise 360?

Yes. Each story comes as a captioned video for a Rise 360 lesson, Storyline or any LMS. If you’d rather, I build the Rise 360 lesson too and publish it to SCORM.

What do you need from me?

An hour’s conversation, your website or documents, and quick sign-offs on the script and the storyboard.

Who owns the finished video?

You do. Use it on your website, LinkedIn, intranet, LMS and in presentations.

Contact

Start a conversation.Tell me what you need, and when.

A line or two is enough. I’ll come back to you by email.

Prefer LinkedIn? Message Ken McHardie on LinkedIn.