External industry example · Grocery · 100,000+ employees
Whole Foods Market: Animated training made 75% faster than filming in store.
Every training film meant staging a store, hiding price tags, booking actors and crews.
Not a Probbit project. Results are reported by the cited sources and have not been independently audited by Probbit.
Reported by the source below. Not a Probbit project.
Whole Foods MarketAnimated training made 75% faster than filming in store.
- Challenge
- Every training film meant staging a store, hiding price tags, booking actors and crews.
- What they changed
- Animation replaced live action, with a custom character per role.
- Training approach
- Reusable scenes and shared assets; one microlearning series ran to 23 videos.
- Impact
- Three to five days became one
- More engagement than print; figures not published
Source: Vyond case study
Probbit’s production perspective
How could you apply this idea?
Animation is useful when a visual convention can explain several related topics. Define how a character, symbol or colour represents an action before commissioning a series, then reuse that convention while keeping the instruction specific to each module.
- What must the animation explain that a static slide does not?
- Which visual conventions should remain consistent across the library?
- What review and update work belongs in the production comparison?
What the result does not establish. Reported production-time comparisons depend on the original workflow and scope. They are not a delivery commitment for a new project.
Our planning suggestions are separate from the source-reported programme and results above.
Photo: Carol M. Highsmith, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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