About animation

As a full-service 2D animation production company, Northern Media creates bespoke 2D animations that bring your ideas to life and help your brand connect with its audience. Our in-house 2D animators work closely with our graphic design team to produce impactful, engaging visuals tailored to your message and marketing goals.

Whether you need animated content for social media, a campaign or your website, our 2D animation services offer a creative and memorable way to communicate with your customers. Flexible, expressive and cost-effective, 2D animation is a powerful tool for enhancing your brand and elevating your content.

How We Do It

Briefing

We begin by understanding your objectives, story, audience, deadlines and budget. This information shapes the script, style frames and overall creative direction.

Script & Storyboard

Whether you write your own script or prefer our help, we collaborate with you to shape the narrative. You can then review, amend and sign off the script and storyboard.

Style Frames

Working to your brand guidelines, we create key style frames that show how the animation will look. These frames include notes and visual details to help you understand the concept clearly.

Animation

Once the script, style frames and voice-over are approved, we begin animating. This stage can take several weeks depending on the length and complexity of the project.

Voice-over

We can source a voice that suits your brand and budget, or work with your chosen artist. If recording internally, high-quality audio is essential for a polished result.

Audio Mix

We refine the voice-over, add sound effects where needed and mix in the agreed music or backing track to enhance the final animation.

Final Delivery

Your completed animation is exported in the formats you need and delivered ready for use.


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Why Choose Northern Media for Design

  • In-house 2D animators working as part of an experienced graphics and creative team
  • Bespoke animations tailored to your brand, audience and goals
  • Fast turnaround compared to 3D animation, which is ideal for tight deadlines
  • Versatile formats suitable for social media, presentations, websites and campaigns
  • A collaborative process that keeps you involved at every stage
  • Clear communication, transparent timelines and high creative standards

Animation Case Studies

Explore the animation projects we have worked on.

A Dynamic Product Launch Animation

Lewden sought to effectively showcase the features and benefits of their newly launched range of industrial plugs and sockets.

  • 2D Animation

  • Graphic Design

Driving Engagement and Innovation with Dynamic Animation 

We produced an animated video designed to highlight the Pallet Lid’s key features and advantages for Loadhog, a leading innovator in sustainable packaging solutions.

  • 2D Animation

  • Graphic Design

Social Media to Increase Brand Awareness for Microform

Microform approached us to develop a LinkedIn strategy targeting their key customers, building their profile, credibility and brand awareness with creative, industry-focused content.

  • Graphic Design

  • Social Media

Video Creation for Wakefield Council 

We worked closely with the Public Health team at Wakefield Council to create videos and animations to address the barriers and stigma associated with mental health.

  • 2D Animation

  • Graphic Design
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Lets get started

Fill out our contact form and one of our team will be in touch to discuss your animation project.

The Advantages of 2D Animation

2D animation offers a flexible, eye-catching format that works across many platforms and styles. Unlike live-action video, it isn’t limited by location, props or casting and compared to 3D animation, it is usually faster and more cost-effective to produce.

It supports a wide range of artistic styles and is ideal for storytelling, emotive messaging and brand-led content. Whether you want to simplify a complex idea or create something visually memorable, 2D animation delivers strong impact in a straightforward format.

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Meet the Design Team

Jess

Creative Lead

As Creative Lead, Jess combines hands-on design with project management to deliver visually compelling and strategic solutions. Whether designing or overseeing, Jess ensures every creative output is functional, impactful, and aligned with business goals.

Rory

Senior Digital Designer

Rory specialises in digital design; websites, branding and social media, creating intuitive concepts and compelling visuals that engage users and drive success.

Dom

Junior Graphic Designer

Dom is a highly creative Junior Graphic Designer with a focus on branding, social media, and email marketing design. Dom delivers engaging and effective designs that attract audiences across platforms.

FAQs

2D animation brings characters, graphics or scenes to life by creating movement in a two-dimensional space. Animators produce a sequence of drawings or digital frames which, when played together, create the illusion of motion.

2D animations are created by developing a concept, storyboarding the scenes, producing artwork and animating each element using 2D computer animation techniques. This process combines timing, character movement and visual storytelling to form a complete animation.

2D animation is created on a flat plane with height and width, while 3D animation includes depth, creating more realistic or dimensional visuals. 3D animation requires more time and resources, whereas 2D is typically faster, more expressive and ideal for stylistic or narrative-driven content.

What our clients say?

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01924 367 105

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