Animation Services for Manchester Businesses

What this page covers: Educational Voice works with Manchester businesses on 2D animation projects, delivering remotely from our Belfast studio. This page covers what we do for Manchester clients, what to expect on pricing, and how the remote process works.

Who this is for: Marketing managers, brand owners and business decision-makers in Manchester considering professional 2D animation for explainer videos, training content or corporate communications.

Key takeaway: Manchester businesses don’t need a local studio to get strong animation results. A remote workflow with an established specialist gets the same outcome without the higher day rates that come with commissioning locally.

• Educational Voice has produced over 3,300 educational animations for LearningMole.
• Professional 2D animation typically costs £1,500 to £15,000+ depending on length and complexity.
• Most projects, including those for Manchester clients, complete in four to eight weeks from brief to delivery.

Educational Voice is a Belfast-based 2D animation studio that works with businesses across the UK, including a growing number of clients in Manchester. Founded by Michelle Connolly, a former primary school teacher, the studio focuses on one thing: making complex ideas clear through animation. That focus applies just as well to a Manchester manufacturing brief as it does to an educational project for a school in Belfast.

Manchester has no shortage of animation agencies and video production companies of its own. What it doesn’t always have is a specialist studio built entirely around 2D animation, with the production discipline that comes from doing one thing well rather than offering video, photography, animation and design as a mixed bag of services. That’s the gap the studio fills for businesses across the UK, Northern Ireland and Ireland.

Working with Manchester Businesses

The studio works with Manchester businesses in exactly the same way it works with clients anywhere else in the UK: through a structured, remote-first process built around clear briefing and thorough review stages. There’s no assumption that a business needs to be within driving distance of a studio to get a well-produced animation. The production itself, from script through to final render, happens in the studio’s own pipeline regardless of where the client is based.

What changes for a Manchester client isn’t the process, it’s the flexibility. Manchester’s business calendar runs on the same UK working week as Belfast’s, so scheduling calls, sending review links and turning around feedback all happen without time zone friction. Clients get 2D animation services built by a team that specialises in nothing else, at a pace that fits around a normal working week.

Businesses that come to us from Manchester are usually looking for one of three things: an explainer video for a website or sales process, training content for staff, or a short animation to support a marketing campaign. The brief varies, but the underlying requirement is consistent: take something complicated and make it easy to follow within 60 to 90 seconds.

Sectors We Serve in Manchester

Manchester’s business base spans financial services, education and training providers, healthcare organisations, manufacturing and retail, and we have worked across most of these sectors for UK clients. The sector shapes the tone and detail of the brief far more than it shapes the production process itself.

Financial services clients tend to need animation that explains a product or a regulatory change clearly, without oversimplifying anything that carries compliance weight. Manufacturing clients more often want a process explained visually, showing how something is made or how a system works, which is difficult to communicate through text or photography alone. Healthcare-adjacent organisations need content that’s accurate first and engaging second, since getting a detail wrong isn’t an option.

Education and training providers make up a large part of the studio’s work more generally. The studio’s founding project was producing educational content for LearningMole, and that experience, over 3,300 animations and counting, carries directly into corporate training and e-learning briefs. A business in Manchester building an onboarding module or a compliance course benefits from a studio that has spent years learning how people actually absorb animated explanations, rather than one that treats training content as an afterthought.

Retail and consumer-facing businesses in Manchester typically use sales animation for product explainers and short-form marketing content, often designed to work without sound for social platforms. That’s a different brief again, but it draws on the same underlying skill: knowing what to show, what to leave out, and how to pace a message so it lands in the time available. A 15-second cut for a social feed and a 90-second version for a product page can come from the same core animation, which keeps production costs down when a retail client needs several formats from one project.

How the Remote Process Works

The remote process works because every stage of animation production is naturally suited to digital collaboration. Nothing about briefing, scripting, storyboarding or reviewing footage requires anyone to be in the same room, which is one reason animation studios were working this way well before remote work became standard practice elsewhere.

A typical project starts with a briefing call to establish the goal, audience and any brand guidelines. From there, we draft a script, which the client reviews and refines before any visual work begins. Once the script is signed off, a storyboard sets out how each scene will look, followed by style frames that establish the visual direction. Each stage is shared through a review link, so feedback is specific and tied to exact frames or lines rather than general impressions.

Animation and audio production follow once the storyboard and style are approved. The finished piece goes through a review round before final files are delivered in whatever format the client needs, whether that’s a straightforward web-ready file or multiple cuts for different platforms. Clients working with our Belfast HQ from Manchester generally find the process no different to working with a local supplier, and often faster, since there’s no lost time on travel or in-person meetings that could just as easily be a fifteen-minute call.

“Distance has never been the thing that determines whether an animation project goes well. A clear brief and a studio that reviews things properly at every stage matters far more than where either party happens to be sitting.”Michelle Connolly, Founder and Director, Educational Voice

Pricing Expectations

Pricing for animation services in Manchester follows the same structure as any other project, since the studio doesn’t apply regional rates. A simple 60 to 90-second explainer with a clean graphic style typically starts around £1,500. Projects involving character animation, original environments or a longer running time cost more, and complex or multi-part productions can run into five figures.

What determines the price is scope, not location: length, complexity, how much original design work is needed, and whether professional voiceover and music licensing are included. A Manchester client asking for a straightforward product explainer will generally pay the same as a client anywhere else in the UK asking for the same thing. For a fuller breakdown of what drives animation pricing, see what animation costs in the UK.

Businesses used to sourcing creative services locally sometimes assume a Belfast studio will be cheaper simply because of where it’s based. That’s not really the driver here. The advantage of working with us from Manchester isn’t a discount tied to geography, it’s access to a specialist studio without the overheads that come with a large, generalist agency, which tends to keep quotes proportionate to the work involved rather than inflated by agency structure.

Examples of Our Work

Educational Voice’s production history runs to well over 3,300 educational animations for LearningMole, alongside a growing body of corporate and commercial work produced for clients across the UK. That volume matters less as a headline number and more as evidence of range: the studio has produced animation for subjects that are genuinely difficult to explain, which is good preparation for whatever a Manchester business brings to the table.

Rather than list individual projects here, the clearest way to judge fit is to look at our portfolio, which includes examples across explainer videos, training content and sector-specific animation. It’s worth checking for projects in a similar sector or with a similar communication challenge to your own, since that gives a more useful sense of what to expect than a general studio reel.

If you’re weighing up several studios for a Manchester project, it’s also worth reading how to choose an animation company, which sets out the questions worth asking before committing to a supplier, regardless of where that studio happens to be based.

Beyond Manchester

Manchester is one of a number of UK cities where the studio works with clients remotely from its Belfast base, alongside businesses across London, the wider North West, and further afield. The studio’s UK animation services page covers the full picture of where and how the studio works across the UK, if you’re comparing options across more than one location or checking whether the same approach applies to a business based elsewhere.

The consistency across locations is deliberate. A Manchester client and a London client working with us on a similar brief go through the same process, get the same level of script and storyboard review, and can expect the same production standard. Location changes very little about how the studio actually works.

How to Start a Manchester Project With Us

Starting a project doesn’t require a finished script or a firm budget figure. A short description of the problem the animation needs to solve, who will watch it, and roughly where it will be used (website, social media, internal training platform) is enough to begin a conversation. From there, we can give an honest view of what’s achievable and what it’s likely to cost.

The first call is a no-obligation conversation, not a sales pitch. Manchester businesses that come prepared with a clear problem statement, even a rough one, tend to get a faster and more useful first response than those that lead with a format request like “we want a 90-second animated video,” since a format alone doesn’t tell the studio what the animation actually needs to achieve. If you’re still deciding between studios, it’s worth asking any supplier the same questions: how they handle revisions, what happens if a brief changes mid-project, and how many rounds of feedback are built into the price before extra charges apply.

Get a Quote for Your Manchester Project

Educational Voice works with Manchester businesses through our Belfast studio. Same UK contract, same quality, regional pricing instead of Manchester rates. Get a quote.

FAQs