How To Make Animated Social Media Posts

If you want to create animated social media posts to grow your business, you’re in the right place! Video Igniter’s FAQ about creating animated social media posts answers all of the questions we receive about how to create and use this kind of content to grow your business. In this FAQ, we cover:

1). How to create animated social media posts

2). Why businesses use animated social media posts to grow their business

3). How long does it take to create animated social media posts

4). What does it cost to make animated social media posts

… and more!

Examples of Animated Social Media Posts You Can Get From Video Igniter

Video Igniter can create any kind of 2D or 3D animated video for you. Check out our animation portfolio here. Request access to our demo reels and price sheet here.

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Are you looking for an example of a different style of animation? Send us a message to let us know what kind of animation example you want to see and we will follow up with relevant production samples.

 

How to create animated social media posts

1. Pick a Producer

Who is going to be making the content? Either you can make the content or you can hire someone to create it for you.

If you want to create the animated social media posts yourself, check out services like Canva and Powtoon. They have libraries of pre-created content that you can layer together and add text & motion elements before exporting animated video posts for your social media.

On the other hand, if you don’t want to create the animated social media posts yourself, you can hire an animation studio, freelancer or Video Igniter to create them for you. Here are some animated video production resources that will help you pick the right producer for your project:

• How to hire an animator?
• 9 Things to Look For When Hiring An Animator.
• How to outsource an animated video project?
• Pros and Cons of Different Animation Styles
• What goes into production cost of an animated video?
• Learn about the types of online animated video makers.
• What’s the difference between hiring an animation studio, a freelance animator and Video Igniter?
• What is Video Igniter Animation?

2. Kick Off Call/Questionnaire

Once you’ve picked out a producer for your animated social media posts, your producer will schedule a kick off call, send you a questionnaire or both. This is your opportunity to communicate important details like:

What do you want to say?

Who are you trying to reach with your content?

What sort of visual style do you want to use?

What aspect ratio should your producer use? Square? Vertical? Horizontal?

Do you want to include text overlays so that people can understand what the voiceover narrator is saying, even if they don’t have the sound turned on?

3. Develop The Concept

Now that we understand what kind of content you want to create, we will develop a script or an outline for all of the content you want to create. In many cases, this will come in the form of a voiceover script with annotations explaining what sorts of visuals will accompany each part of your script. Sometimes, animated videos won’t have a voiceover; in this case, we will just provide a written description of the visuals.

You will get an opportunity to review all the scripts and visual concepts and share your feedback. We’ll incorporate your revisions and let you review the content again before approving it for production.

4. Conceptualize the visuals

Next, it’s time to create specific instructions for the production team so that they know what to create. Usually this is called the storyboard phase of production.

The storyboard includes a rough mockup of the visuals and a description of the motion design. This way we can get everything on paper and run it by you for your feedback before the animators and designers spend time creating your animated social media posts.

5. Create the illustrations

The first time we create an animated social media post, we’ll spend a little extra time creating the concept art. This is where we develop the custom visual style for your animated social media posts.

Our art director will review your branding, style references and storyboard. Then, they’ll select a key scene from the storyboard and design it using one or more original visual styles.

Share your honest feedback with the art director. They will work with you to refine your preferred visual concept until you love it!

After the concept art is approved, we’ll develop custom illustrations for each of your posts and run them by you for review before you approve them for production.

6. Record the voiceover

If your videos include a voiceover, we’ll audition multiple voiceover artists and let you pick your favorite audition. Then, we’ll have the selected voiceover artist record the scripts for all of the animated social media posts that have been approved by your team.

You get to review the full voiceover and request revisions before approving it for production.

7. Pick out some music

Music is a great touch to enhance the presentation of your animated social media posts. We’ll select a few options for you to consider. You pick out your favorite and we’ll handle the licensing so that you can legally use the music in your animated social posts.

8. Animate

Now that everything is approved, we can start animating your social media posts! We’ll send you each one as we finish the first draft. Review the animations with your team and send us your feedback. We’ll incorporate your edits and send you the final draft(s).

9. Post

When the animated posts are ready, syndicate your videos across your social media channels.

10. Repeat

Social media success comes from consistently posting quality content. When you work with an animated video production company to create short social media clips, you’re typically engaging with them to help you consistently post 1-2+ animated posts each week.

You can save time and money by producing multiple videos at once. You can develop and approve a bunch of ideas and have our team produce them sequentially so that you always have a few new animations ready to post each week. Or, you can work with our team on an on-demand basis, making requests for specific new pieces of content when you want them.

Why do businesses use animated social media posts to grow their business?

Get People’s Attention

Animated content stands out from all the oceans of live-action video content that pervade the internet and social media apps. By creating your content in animated form, you increase the odds of catching someone’s eye long enough for them to watch your short animated social media post.

Animation has also been shown to hold attention longer than live action content. Animation also helps people remember new information longer. All important things to keep in mind when creating social media content. If you want people to pay attention and remember your content longer, consider making animated versions of your most popular pieces of educational content.

How long does it take to make animated social media posts?

The initial set up for animated social media posts can take a few days or weeks. During this time, we’re learning what your goals are, understanding who your target audience is, and developing a script, storyboard and concept art to present your messages.

After we’ve figured out the core messages and the visual design, we can very quickly create new posts using your custom branded visual style. Typically, when we make this kind of content, we get into a cadence of producing 1-5 new pieces for your social media channels each week.

Most clips under 15 seconds can be created in a few days to a week – but we also know some companies want to produce content quicker than that. That’s why we offer rush delivery animation!

Contact our production team to let us know how quickly you want to be able to produce short animated videos and we’ll develop a custom production pipeline to help you rapidly develop multiple custom animated posts within 12-48 hrs.

What does it cost to create animated posts for social media?

It depends on the quantity and length of the content. Many animation studios won’t work with you if you just want to create one 15-second animation; it’s a lot of work and conversations for just one short animated video. If you do want to make just one piece of short content (under 30 seconds) we can still help you but the cost might be equivalent to creating a slightly longer 20 or 30 second clip.

What works best is to create multiple pieces of animated content for your social media. After all, you’re not planning on just posting one thing on social media and calling it quits, right?

We recommend ordering up 2 or more +10 second animated social media posts per week for the best pricing. Visit this page to access our newest price sheet.

How long should my animated social media posts be?

In many cases, animated social media posts are usually 5-15 seconds, 30 seconds or 60 seconds long. It all depends what your goal is.

If you just want to get someone’s attention, be quick. 15 seconds or less.

If you want to introduce something new, a 30 second explainer video is a good amount of time to show something new and get people interested in learning more.

Otherwise, if your goal is to explain something in depth, you can make your video 60 seconds or longer.

Still have questions about animated social media posts?

Do you have a question about animated social media posts that wasn’t addressed in this FAQ? Use this form to send us your question and we’ll follow up with an answer. We’ll also post the question and answer to this page so other people can benefit from the knowledge.

What is Video Igniter Animation?

Video Igniter Animation is an online animated video production service. By working with our team online, you can get your custom animated video produced faster and for less than hiring a brick and mortar animation studio.

We can help you create any kind of 2D animated video or 3D animation you can imagine. Check out our animated video portfolio!

Need help syndicating your animated video? Ask us about video promotion!

Do you want to create an animated cryptocurrency video or an animated blockchain explainer video that explains how your technology works? We can help with that too.

Watch our explainer video on our home page to learn more about how we can help you create an animated video. For examples of the kinds of animation our team can produce, check out the demo reel below:

 

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“I am beyond satisfied with my experience with Video Igniter. The first drafts of the work were almost exactly what I had in my head when developing the concept. After that each step along the way was seamless until arriving at a perfect finished product. And all this at a tremendous value. Anyone who has considered creating a marketing video should check out Video Igniter.”

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