Animate turns your team into short movie makers for the day. The challenge is simple: dream up an idea, create clay characters and sets, and produce your own stop-motion animation.

It’s an imaginative, hands-on and refreshingly different activity: separating it from traditional corporate team building activities. Expect plenty of ideas, laughter, and friendly competition as each team tries to create a film worthy of the final premiere.

Teams within your group will start with a blank canvas and a big creative challenge. Throughout the day you’ll work to develop a story, sketch out a storyboard, build characters and scenery, and then bring everything to life frame by frame.

There’s plenty happening at once, so everyone can get stuck in. These lively team building experiences are all about sharing ideas, making quick decisions, and creating something brilliant together.

Animate can run for two to six hours, making it easy to fit around our event plans. Choose a shorter session for a fast-paced creative challenge or give your teams longer to develop more ambitious productions. Either way, the countdown adds excitement and keeps everyone focused on getting their masterpiece ready for its premiere.

We recommend our Animate activity for groups of 10 to 300 participants. That makes it a great choice for everything from smaller company away days to large corporate events. Our guests work in production teams, helping to keep the experience interactive even when there is a larger group of people involved.

Not at all. There’s no expectation that anyone arrives as the next award-winning animator, artist, or filmmaker.

Part of the fun is discovering what your team can create together. Our team building workshops like Animate give different personalities and skills a chance to shine, from imaginative storytellers to practical problem-solvers.

No previous animation experience is required. The technology we work with is designed to be easy to use, so our budding filmmakers can quickly concentrate on the enjoyable part: creating characters, building scenes, and getting them moving.

There really is something for everyone. Each team needs scriptwriters, set designers, model makers, camera operators, and people to think about music, sound effects, and lighting.

Prefer working with the practical equipment? Perfect. Want to take charge of the big creative vision? Go for it. This variety makes Animate one of those team building experiences where everyone can find a way to contribute.

There’s no limits to your creativity. Funny, strange, and wonderfully unexpected ideas are all a welcome part of the experience!

Of course! Our mini-movies can easily incorporate company, conference, or business themes of your choosing.

This transforms the activity into more than simply making a funny film. Teams can explore messages and ideas creatively, making Animate particularly appealing for organisations looking for corporate team building activities with a connection to their wider event objectives.

That works too. Animate can be delivered without a strict company theme, leaving your teams free to take their stories in almost any direction.

Sometimes, giving people that creative freedom produces the funniest and most memorable results.

Producing a mini-movie requires your team to share ideas, agree on a plan, divide responsibilities, and work towards the same deadline: strengthening collaboration and teamwork in a relaxed, supportive environment.

There may be different opinions along the way, but that’s part of the challenge. Collaboration and compromise happen naturally because everyone wants the finished movie to look fantastic.

Yes, the Animate activity works brilliantly at an away-day event because it takes colleagues away from their everyday routines and gives them something completely different to tackle together.

For businesses seeking corporate team building activities that combine creativity with genuine interaction, this experience offers an entertaining change of pace.

The Animate activity takes place indoors, so our creative plans don’t need to depend on sunshine making an appearance, and can’t be ruined by the weather.

That makes it particularly convenient for year-round events and gives organisers one less thing to worry about.

At Firebird Events, we’ll provide iPads featuring easy-to-use animation technology alongside modelling clay, paint, and canvasses.

We provide the equipment and instructions so your teams can concentrate on creating rather than worrying about bringing specialist equipment. Just arrive ready to share your ideas and get hands-on.

Everything happens one tiny movement at a time. Characters are adjusted, photographed and moved again until individual frames combine to create smooth motion.

It takes concentration, but seeing our clay creations come to life at the special end-of-day premiere makes all that effort worthwhile.

Then comes the moment everyone has been waiting for: the premiere. Our team at Firebird Events will edit the mini-movies together on the same day, usually within an hour, before bringing our guests back to watch the finished productions.

Animate mixes creativity, technology, teamwork, and friendly competition without taking itself too seriously. Unlike some team building workshops, there’s no need to be the fastest, strongest, or loudest person in the room to make an impact.

A shared experience, plenty of talking points, and the satisfaction of seeing your ideas become a fun mini-movie on the big screen.

For companies searching for unique team building experiences that encourage your teams to communicate, experiment, and laugh together, Animate ticks plenty of boxes.

For further information about our Animate activity, or any of the many other amazing corporate team building activities we offer at Firebird Events, please get in touch with our team today!