Why Employees Are Not Engaging With Internal Comms
If you’re honest with yourself – really honest – the content published on your internal communications channel is boring. Communication defines a workplace culture. Effective internal comms ensures the organisation is working together as a single cell trying to evolve and multiply.
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Scientists Show How Virtual Reality Helps The Brain
The human brain is only able to retain a small percentage of information – even less when the student is not stimulated. As a result, the best method of learning in the current paradigm is repetition. Virtual Reality technology can enable more effective learning at a lower cost and in less time than many traditional learning methods.
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Is Web AR Transforming Banking Services?
Investment banks are well-positioned to drive the adoption of immersive technologies by enhancing customer experience on digital platforms. Not only is VR and AR beneficial for financial institutions, it’s also a solution for your business clients.
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Gamification Is Transforming The Workplace
There is no doubt that technology and animated programs are transforming business models. One of the latest strategies for large companies is to introduce gamification into the workplace.
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Engaging Youth With VR Training
As the old axiom indicates, youth are the future of industry. But what will the world look like in years to come if today’s companies cannot engage the decision-makers of the future?
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Liven Up Internal Comms With Animated Explainer Videos
When you launch a new product, your employees need to understand the features and benefits better than your customers. Engaging and informative content has become a primary focus in marketing.
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Sprint Workshops: Designing Innovation Through Animation
If you had a superpower, what would it be? Ours is to see into the future. We can actually do this. And we can do it for you too! How does developing an animated prototype in a sprint workshop sound?
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Why Employee Wellbeing Is Important For Success
In recent years, a spate of digital healthcare apps have been introduced to help HR officials manage the health and wellbeing of employees. This new breed of wellness apps are not only designed to deliver benefits for employees, but also employers. Can VR and AR impact wellbeing of employees and others?
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Whiteboard Animations Explaining Business Strategies
Animated whiteboards can be used to educate audiences about your products, company, brand and strategy. You can even use them to explain mergers, acquisitions or organisational changes. However, do you know what a whiteboard animation is and it’s advantages?
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Will Chatbots Make Your Team More Efficient?
Chatbots are already proving their worth for basic tasks – and they have much more potential to offer forward-thinking enterprises. The scope to improve the operational efficiency of your office and dramatically streamline both internal and external communications is huge. However, will chatbots make your teams streamline work processes better and more efficient?
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How Can You Integrate VR Into Your LMS?
Integrating virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) technologies into learning management systems (LMS) gives businesses an opportunity to measure the capability of employees and identify where improvements can be made. Do you know how many benefits there are when integrating VR/ AR with a LMS?
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How Digital Animation Is Transforming Businesses
Struggling to engage your audience? Here are 3 ways digital animation is having a positive impact on businesses of all sizes…
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How Using Machine Learning Can Add Value to Your Internal Operations
Machine learning (ML) is getting a lot of headlines in the news. Not only is artificial intelligence becoming more advanced, it is also being used by more organisations to make significant improvements to their internal operations.
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The Power Of Videos In Search Ranking
It’s no secret that consumers love video content. The number of online videos views accumulates exponentially year-on-year. Google acknowledges the power of video by consistently ranking this media where it is most visible in search results.
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What Can VR Do For Your Business?
Putting VR technology to practical business use provides advantages that have never been available in the past. And because the technology is so versatile, you can produce anything your imagination allows you to. Or in other words, whatever environment you need to help your business thrive.
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Using VR and 360 Video at Events
Virtual Reality (VR) and 360 video are exciting new technologies that are rapidly changing the way we interact content. They provide a much more immersive experience for viewers, and the possibilities are endless.
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Experience API: The Advanced eLearning Tool To Increase Engagement
Corporate training is moving into the eLearning space, it is not always easy for trainers to easily identify areas of weaknesses in employees. However, with advanced tools that can track quantifiable data on dedicated training platforms – such as Experience API – trainers and trainees will achieve much more, much faster.
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3 things your agency doesn’t want to tell you about VR…
VR is not only for gaming and making films pop to life. Organisations are using VR technology to create real-world training programs for employees and marketers provide customers with fully-immersive experiences. Even if you don’t know much about virtual reality or the technology, you probably know enough about VR to recognize its potential. But what should your business expect from virtual reality, and is the technology worthy of all the hype?
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Internal Communications: Show The Bigger Picture
For your vision to become a reality, you have to find a way of communicating your masterplan to a board of directors, staff and customers. In the past, you had to rely on written documents, graphs, images and rousing speeches. But was the message received?
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The Power of Explainer Animation
Animation explainer videos enable businesses to penetrate the minds and memories of customers. Visual content is an effective way of selling products, ideas, and philosophies, together with providing customers with a broader understanding of what lies at the heart of your brand.
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VR Technology for Medicine talk – Innovate UK
Our MD, Jamie Denham, spoke about “VR Technology for Medicine” at the Knowledge Transfer Network’s 9th Intelligent Imaging event in Glasgow. Imaging as the most information rich sensing technology is one of the most important technology widely utilised across human society and industries, from entertainment, healthcare, security, agriculture to transport, energy and space, etc.
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Are You Using The Best Media For Your Business?
What is the best mode of media for your business increases the potential for businesses to engage your audience and aggregate your marketing efforts? Take a look here to see which applications can boost your business through immersive and innovative media spectrum’s.
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VR – The New Paradigm For Training Corporate Employees
Virtual reality provides innovative ways to engage staff. Today’s employees value opportunities to learn about their jobs and grow into a role with the company they choose to work for.
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How Virtual Reality Puts Mental Health Practitioners In The Shoes Of Patients
The emergence of virtual reality (VR) provides users with the opportunity to have new experiences. For mental health practitioners, VR is the gateway into the world of patients suffering from mental health issues such as anxiety disorders and phobias.
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What To Expect When You Work On An Animation With Sliced Bread
If you’ve never worked with an animation studio before you would be forgiven for being a little unsure about what the animation process is, and how it all works. Do you want to know exactly what to expect if you work on an animation project with Sliced Bread Animation?
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What is involved in making a 90 second character explainer animation?
So, you want to get a message to your employees, colleagues or customers that grabs their attention and is informative? Here at Sliced Bread we have proven knowledge of how video and animation campaigns can drive viewer engagement.
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Storyboarding
In both film and animation production, there are several stages of development which contribute to producing a high-end quality product. Right at beginning of this process, before a single frame of animation is produced, there should be the storyboarding stage, this allows you to plot out the main action that goes on and to convey the correct emotion and/or message in the scene.
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Fix VR Playback On Mobile Devices (Tutorial)
Stuck on how to fix VR playback on mobile devices? Follow our step by Step tutorial (video) on how to solve your problems.
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Animating Corporate Characters
Are your internal communications failing to connect with your workforce? Using characters can help break down the barrier between a company and their employees as they can identify with the characters on a emotional level. It gives them an instant connection with what they are viewing and the information being communicated.
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Quality animation and its price tag…
Do you have to work with a shoestring budget and still want experienced animators to bring your message to life? It can be done, read more to find out how.
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How to Bring Messages to Life without a Voice-Over
Voice-overs can be great for telling the story of your business, but they aren’t the only way your animation can explain its purpose.
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Inside The Virtual Valve – A VR Show Reflection
On the 20th – 22nd April 2017, we exhibited at the VR Show at the Business Design Centre in London. It was a chance for us to show the production methods we use when building for VR.
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Virtual Valve VR Production Showcase at the Virtual Reality Show: 20th – 22nd April 2017
Read about how our MD, Jamie Denham presented at the Virtual Reality Show London back in April 2017, showcasing our production process on the multi-award winning Virtual Valve project, and also talking about our learnings whilst working on VR projects.
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Get your Marketing Moving with Kinetic Typography Animation
Okay, it’s safe to say we are firm believers in the potential of animation in your marketing mix. However, when it actually comes to designing your animation, how do you know what works best for your business?
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Intern blog – Sera Meijer
Want to find out what an internship looks like at Sliced Bread? Read more to find out Sera story and what she got up to!
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Top 10 reasons for using animation in your business communication and marketing
Let’s find out more about the 10 reasons for using animation in your business communication and marketing.
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Do you have trouble finding the best way of communicating with your employees?
Communication within business is vital to success, whether that’s between you and your consumer, you and your shareholders, or you and your employees. If we communicate effectively we can improve productivity, moral, efficiency.
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How Animation Drives Social Engagement
We know our social channels need to look good, and host interesting content, but the question for most people is: how do we effectively engage with our viewers and followers?
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How storytelling can benefit your business
‘Storytelling’ is often thought of as a buzzword from decades ago, but is vital to understand the positive impact it can have when used in the workplace, or in your business’ marketing. People are attracted to stories – we are social creatures and crave that connection, whether we realise it or not. But where do you start?
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How animation can improve your SEO
How animation can be used to improve your search engine optimization. As consumers demand more video content from their online usage, search engines will rank your website higher when it features an animation video. But is your business making the most of one of the effective elements out there today to improve your SEO?
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Why using an animated character helps communication
Communication is crucial, regardless of whether your audience is your workforce, or your customers. Why not add an animated character or mascot to your advertising, or e-learning programme?
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Does humour improve corporate communication?
We are more likely to discuss something funny or shocking that we have seen with our colleagues, as videos of this nature are inherently more interesting to us. Discussing what they have seen is a positive way of actively engaging with the information.
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Why Should You Use Animation To Illustrate Medical Devices?
Animation is fast becoming the go-to technique to illustrate medical devices and processes because it is a clear and easy way to communicate a product’s benefits.
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Business uses for augmented reality
Usually the first thing people think of when asked about augmented reality is its uses within the gaming industry, however we are now seeing more and more companies prove that AR is also a really useful tool for business and retail.
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The Benefits of Using Animation for Training
There are as many ways to implement a training program as there are things to train—but not all are equally effective. Animation is an extremely efficient, effective, and enjoyable tool for teaching. Find out why here!
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Listen! We need to talk about sound
When producing video, games or learning content, is sound a key part to your process, or is it an after thought?
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How using Google Cardboard can benefit your business
A lot of the time when people assume the virtual reality is used exclusively for video gaming, however this is not the case. VR is a powerful tool when used for business, especially when it comes to selling or marketing a product
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5-ways animation can improve your corporate communications…
Have you been thinking about delving into animation for your corporate communications, but not quite ready to take the plunge? Well here are 5 ways that your communications will massively benefit by coming to Sliced Bread Animation!
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5 learnings from working on an Oculus Virtual Reality Project
5 things we discovered and learnt from whilst working on an Oculus Virtual Reality Project.
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Diabetes Voyager wins at the RX Club Awards
Congratulations to our clients Emotive, RX Club award winners for Oculus Rift project – Diabetes Voyager. Diabetes Voyager is an educational, 360 degree, virtual reality experience created to highlight the challenges faced by HCPs in diabetes management.
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Sliced Bread features on Hiscox’s Small Business Stars blog
Managing Director, Jamie Denham, recently featured on the Hiscox’s Small Business Stars blog, which is dedicated portal providing top tips and inspiration for small business owners.
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More hand drawn whiteboard explainer videos for Kuoni
Following on from the success of the Kuoni Universe we recently completed another 5 hand drawn whiteboard explainer videos as part of Kuoni’s Annual Report collateral. Click here to view all 5 animations.
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Mechanism-of-Action (MoA) medical animation
With this type of 3D animation, viewers can see for themselves how it interacts with the complex mechanisms of the body, providing a virtual insight into how advances in pharmaceutical research really works.
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Animation – how much?
Its a question we get asked quite a lot, especially as animation can often perceived to be the most expensive part of the video production process.
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Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while…
Engaging content can be created quite quickly; games, apps, websites and banners can all be generate in days, not weeks if its needed.
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Coca Cola launch The Neverending Dance of Happiness Game for Facebook and Android
Coca Cola also spreads some summer happiness through another app called ‘The Never-ending dance of happiness’, with which you can test your dance moves on several music-genres.
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