Case study · Alexforbes
Ten stories.
One animated learning world.
How StoryLabDigital adapted financial-literacy stories into the complete ten-episode Save Squad series.
Independent Creative Studio
Ideas worth
remembering.
We help businesses, brands and agencies turn complex ideas into stories people understand and remember. Work that earns attention instead of asking for it.
The specialist creative studio of 40 Plus Consulting ↗
001A note on curiosity
Question everything.
Especially the obvious.
Most businesses do not need more content. They need something worth remembering. We do not begin with cameras or software. We begin with curiosity.
Quill · Employee #1
Collected the questions. Misplaced the answers. Kept the coffee.
Quill's Special Showcase
Save Squad.
Ten stories. One animated learning world. The project Quill keeps pointing at when someone asks what StoryLabDigital can do.
Ten stories.
002How we think
The medium changes.
The thinking does not.
01
Curiosity creates better business.
02
Ideas before deliverables.
03
Different on purpose.
04
AI amplifies creativity. It does not replace it.
05
Partnerships over transactions.
002.5What we make
Different formats.
One standard.
Film, animation and AI-assisted production. The medium changes depending on the idea. The bar does not.
01
Film & campaign content
Brand films and campaigns built around a question worth asking, not a brief worth filling.
02
Animated learning
Complex material turned into series people actually finish. Save Squad is ten episodes and counting.
03
Explainers & awareness content
Cyber-awareness, reform, internal comms. Made to land, not just inform.
04
AI-assisted production
Concept art, avatars, voice-over, rapid content. Faster, without the craft going missing.
Not sure which of these fits? Neither do most people, until we talk.
Start a conversation003Selected work
Work that refuses
to disappear quietly.
Film, animation, AI-assisted production and learning built around the idea, not the format.
004Questions we ask
Great work starts
with better questions.
Instead of: What video do you need?
We ask: What should people remember?
Instead of: What should we make?
We ask: Why does this deserve to exist?
Instead of: What is the deliverable?
We ask: What is the opportunity?
005Proof
Trusted to think.
Trusted to deliver.
The person behind the work
Led by Chris.
StoryLabDigital combines more than 25 years of experience across business, technology, operations and digital delivery with hands-on creative production. Clients work directly with the person shaping the idea and steering the delivery.
006Field Notes
Not a brochure.
A point of view.
Issue 001 explores attention, curiosity and why different is not a visual style. It is a decision.
007Client voices
Better than another
“great service” badge.
“What impressed us most was not just the final product, but the way Chris approached every challenge. StoryLabDigital feels less like an external service provider and more like an extension of your team.”
“Working with Chris and StoryLabDigital has been an absolute game changer. The ability to take complex ideas and turn them into engaging visual stories is something truly unique.”
The SLD Lab
You bring the strange idea.
We build the thing.
On-demand images, short video, voice-over and avatars, no retainer required.
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Let's build something worth remembering.
Bring the problem, the half formed thought or the idea that has been sitting in your head longer than it should.