Factory of the Future - Game Introduction Explanimation

Factory of the Future is a workshop game Enversed made with Brainport Industries. Teams play on touchscreens combined with physical game pieces, trying to make a fictional factory futureproof by choosing the right Industry 4.0 technologies. New players need to understand the four roles, how a round works and what happens in each phase before they start, so the game needed a short explainer with English voice-over.

I got static Illustrator artwork, a loose storyboard and the script, and the motion was up to me. I split the artwork into layers so every element could move on its own, then animated the whole video in After Effects, from introducing the game to walking through the four roles and explaining the rounds and phases. Because the storyboard was deliberately loose, I decided the timing, transitions and how each scene builds up, shaping it all around the voice-over.

The finished video is a 2-minute 2D animation with English voice-over, covering the roles, rounds and phases, ready to play at the start of a session.

It's built into the game itself, so new players see it before their first session. I also had an unusual amount of creative freedom on this one, and turning someone else's static illustrations into natural-feeling motion was a good exercise.