Educational & Explainer Videos

Here is how this works in practice. Ireland's educational-content production gains from one of the world's deepest indie 2D animation industries. Cartoon Saloon in Kilkenny (founded by Tomm Moore. Nora Twomey. Paul Young in 1999) holds an extraordinary four Best Animated Feature Oscar nominations: The Secret of Kells (2009), Song of the Sea (2014), The Breadwinner (2017), and Wolfwalkers (2020). Brown Bag Films Dublin (Doc McStuffins, Octonauts — now part of 9 Story Media). Boulder Media (Disney/Nickelodeon partner — Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends). JAM Media (RTÉ Jr children's animation).

Here is the short of it. Studio Brown Dog, Geronimo Productions, and Salty Dog Pictures round out the studio bench. That animation depth feeds directly into explainer-video and edutainment briefs. We can route motion-graphics-heavy explainers through the same Cintiq-and-Toon-Boom-Harmony pipelines that Cartoon Saloon uses for top broadcast animation, then deliver in the budget tiers that corporate explainer briefs need. Animation Ireland (the industry body) provides the working network for studio-to-studio outsourcing.

Here is the breakdown. On the live-action educational side we shoot at Trinity College Dublin (the Long Room, the Arts Block, the Berkeley Library. Ireland's oldest university, founded 1592), UCD Belfield. DCU Glasnevin. Maynooth University, NUI Galway, University College Cork, the Royal College of Surgeons (RCSI), and Queen's University Belfast for academic explainer content, MOOC production, and lecture-capture work. K–12 educational content runs through the RTÉ Jr commissioning slate, TG4's Cúla4 children's strand (Irish-language. Hugely important for Gaeltacht and Gaelscoil immersion programming), and the Department of Education's Scoilnet digital-learning sites.

Here is what that looks like on the ground. Corporate training and onboarding video lands with the same multinational EMEA HQ cluster we cover in the corporate-video category. LinkedIn Learning. Coursera (which has its EMEA office in Dublin). The L&D teams at the major tech and pharma sites. Bilingual EN / Irish pipelines run as standard — Foras na Gaeilge funds Irish-language educational content, and the Official Languages Act needs bilingual provision for state-funded materials. Motion-graphics finishing happens at Dublin studios (Piranha Bar, Quirky Motion, Salty Dog) with delivery in MP4 H.264 web-optimised.

SCORM-compliant LMS packages, and broadcast HD/4K masters where the content is destined for RTÉ Jr or TG4 linear.