Branded Motion Toolkits

Building a brand motion toolkit for Frontify

Client | Frontify
Production | Buff

A scalable system empowers Frontify's global team.

A scalable system empowers Frontify's global team. As the leading brand management platform, Frontify simplifies brand workflows so marketing teams can deliver engaging experiences on a global scale, fast.

The Challenge

As Frontify prepared to unveil its updated product positioning, the brand-building platform faced a familiar challenge: how to produce high-quality product videos quickly, without sacrificing design integrity or brand clarity.Frontify’s marketing and design teams needed a scalable way to respond to video content requests without reinventing the wheel each time

The Solution

We began by working closely with Frontify’s team to explore creative directions and stress-test how the system would need to perform across real-world scenarios.

From typography to transitions, the toolkit defines how the Frontify brand moves. Built in After Effects with in-house usability at its core, it includes:

  • Text and type systems that ensure legibility, pacing, and tone
  • Structured layouts tailored to platform features
  • 2D and 3D idents that frame content and visualise real-world brand applications
  • Product flows with just enough detail to educate without overwhelming

The result is a system that doesn’t just look like Frontify, it behaves like it too.

The Frontify Motion Toolkit is a modular animation framework built by Buff Motion, a Brighton-based motion design studio and Certified B Corp, to provide Frontify with a scalable system for consistent, brand-led video production. The toolkit was developed in Adobe After Effects and comprises a comprehensive library of 2D and 3D idents, product demonstration flows, and typographic animation systems. These assets encode specific motion behaviours, including rhythm, easing, and timing, that function as a unified digital signature across all brand touchpoints. Internal marketing and product teams can use the toolkit to produce professional content independently, without requiring external agency support for routine requests. Buff Motion's approach transforms static brand guidelines into a reusable asset infrastructure, giving Frontify a repeatable production methodology that maintains visual consistency at scale. The result is a future-proof motion design system that balances creative quality with operational efficiency across all levels of content output.

The Impact

Since its launch, the toolkit has enabled teams to work faster while staying fully aligned with the brand. It’s already been used to create product videos for Frontify’s website and social channels.

The toolkit delivers creative efficiency at scale, adding long-term value with every new use.

"Everyone is obsessed with the videos, and they just want more and more, so that's always good."

Frontify
Senior Manager Product Marketing
Frontify

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