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Sample project · 2D animation

Understanding Asthma: What's Happening in Your Airways

A friendly 2D patient-education piece that follows Maya through what happens in her airways during asthma, and how each kind of inhaler helps.

  • Format · 2D animation
  • Type · Patient education
  • Length · About 1 minute
  • Audience · Patients and caregivers

This is an AnatoArc sample project, made to show our approach. It is not client work and is not medical advice.

The brief

Plain language, one clear picture

Patients are often told to use two inhalers without ever seeing why. This sample shows, in plain language, what happens inside an airway during asthma and what each medicine does about it.

A recurring character, Maya, keeps it personal and makes it easy to turn into a series: triggers, inhaler technique, action plans and more.

How we built it

Warm and simple on the surface, precise underneath.

01

Plain-language script

Short sentences and everyday words, written to be understood on the first listen.

02

Character and style sheet

Maya and the visual style are designed once, so every scene, and every future video, stays consistent.

03

Matched before-and-after frames

The airway is drawn healthy, during a flare and after quick relief, then animated between the matched frames.

04

Voice, labels and music

A warm narrator, a short on-screen label for each scene, and a gentle music bed.

Inside the video

Common asthma triggers
Common asthma triggers
Inside an airway during a flare: swelling, mucus and tight muscles
Inside an airway during a flare: swelling, mucus and tight muscles
A daily controller inhaler calms swelling over time
A daily controller inhaler calms swelling over time

Details that matter

The small decisions a medical, legal and regulatory reviewer will look for.

  • Each inhaler does its own job. The quick-relief inhaler relaxes the muscles. The video deliberately shows the swelling still there, because a reliever doesn't treat it.
  • "If your doctor prescribes." Treatment is framed around the patient's own clinician, and the video ends on making an asthma action plan.
  • General-information disclaimer. A clear not-medical-advice line is on every labeled frame.
  • Ready to become a series. A reusable character and style sheet keep future episodes on brand.

Want one like this?

What a project like this includes

  • Plain-language script and storyboard
  • Character and style sheet you can reuse across a series
  • 2D animation with professional narration and music
  • On-screen labels, captions and your branding
  • Two rounds of revisions

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